Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-06-30
STATISTICS OF
Development
Record Issued at Washington
on Country's Progress.
Special By United Press Wire.

Special bU United Press Wtre.
Washington, June 29:-Seven
hundred and fifty pages of solid fig
ures unaccompanied by text discus
sions other than explanatory notes,
form a rather undressing looking
volume issued by the Bureau of Sta
tistics of the Department of Com
merce and Labor, entitled Statistical
Abstract of the United Staes, yet this
annual volume, the thirty-third is
sue of which has just made its ap-
pearance, is called for by thousands
of people in every part of the United
States and in fact in every part of
the world. 1t tells Of the area, nat
ural resources, and population of
the country from the adoption of the
constitution to the present time; ag-
ri%culture, forestry, and fisheries;
manufacturing and mining indus
tries; occupations, labor and wages;
internal communication and trans
%portation, merchant marine and ship
ping; foreign commerce, internal
commerce, commerce of non-contigu-
Gus territories; prices, consumption
estimates, money, banking and in
surance; wealth and public finance;
the Civil Service, army, navy, pen
sions, Congressional apportionment,'
the Presidential elections; the sta
~tistical records of progress of the
United States from 1900 to 1910;
and closes with a few pages devoted
to commercial, financial, and none
tary statistics of the principal coun-
tries of the world. 1t is compiled by
the Bureau of Statistics, in part from
.iC NUN data Cf onJopoOroz o,I E,a1-
portation, in part from data gath
cred by other governmental organ
izations.
This annual publication original
ing with the Bureau of Statistics
thirty-three years ago, then a small
volume of $50 octave pages, has
grown with the growth of the coun-
try and the demands of the public
for additional information, to $50
pages in this the thirty-third number
just issued. Purely statistical, and
thus appealing only to those desiring
definite information in concrete
form, it presents many interesting
pictures of conditions past and pres
ent in the United States.
For instance the 100 pages de-
voted to the general subject of area,
natural resources, and population,
show the date of admission of each
state and territory, and their re-
spective areas, the land area unap-
propriated and unreserved, amount
ing in 1910 to II million acres, and
forming Al per cent of the total
land area of the country; sWamps
and overflow lands, rs million acres;
developed waterpoWers, 5 1-3 mil
lion horse power; estimated coal
supply by states and territories, es-
timated iron ore supply; the number
of farms irrigated, 1877, 900 in 1907,
and number of acres II million; the
various irrigation projects COM
menced and the respective area to
be reclaimed; population from 1890
by decennial years to the present
time, and population of states and
principal cities at each census; share
which persons of foreign birth form
of the population at various dates;
marriage and divorce statistics;
school population, enrolment, and
attendance of pupils, universities,
colleges and technical schools, with
students and Instructors; and tenn
perature and rainfall for various Sec
lions of the country.
The fifty pages devoted to agri-
culture, forestry and fisheries show
the number and acreage of farms by
decennial periods extending back to
1880, value of farm property by
states and territories amounting to
over 20 billion dollars in 1900, the
latest year for which complete sta
tistics are available; the production
of principal cereal crops and of other
farm products, including fruits, but
ter, wool and chickens; the wealth
produced on farms for a term of
years, showing a growth from 5 bill
lion dollars in 1900 to practically
9 billion in 1910; and numerous
other facts relating to the wonderful
development of the agriculture OF
the country for a long term of years.
The so pages devoted to manufac-
turing and mining industries show
the summary of manufactures by
principal industries in census years
from 1880 to 1905, the gross value
of manufactures having grown from
5 1-3 billion in 1880 to 10 billion in
1905; the production of iron ore,
pig iron, steel, tin plates, coal, gold
and silver; building operations in
principal cities; and numerous other
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