The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1917-07-09
Geuefat Statistics
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By K. MeSHANE
Louisiana was admitted into the
Union in 1872. With a gross area Of
4s,506 square miles, Of which
45.409 represent land surface, it
rank. thirtieths in size among the
states. Its inhabitants in 1900. mum
hersd, 1881, 84,.. in. 1870, 1,656,3SS.
and its estimated population in 1914
was 1,773.00O. In total population
Louisian1 ranked twenty-fourth in
1910 and in density Of population it
ranked twenty-senventh, with S6.5
inhabitants per square mile. tho cor
responding figure for 1900 being
3O.4. The urban population in 1910
--that il the population residing in
incorporated places having 1880 in
habitapts Or nore-waa 4se,516. or
30 per. cent. Of. the, total .. against
26.5 Per cent. in 1900. There were in
the state: in 1914 xix eities-Alexan-
dria,- Baton. Rouge. Lake, Charles,
Monroe. New Orleans and Shreve-
port-each having an estimated pop
ulation of more than 10000. These
cities, whose :. aggregate population
formed .25.4 per. cent of: the estima-
ted total population Of Louisiana in
that year, reported 32.5 per cent Of
the value of the states manufaetur-
ed products. New Orleans alone,
with an estimated population Of
100000, or 2O.4 per cent of the TO-
tai for Louisiana, produced 27.3 per
cent of the states manufactured
products, as measured by value.
The steam-railway mileage in
1914 was 5,72O, and the electric
railway mileage in 1912 was 1919.
Excellent facilities for water trans
portation are provided by the Miss
issippi River ports on the Gulf of
Mexico, and an especially well-de-
veloped canal system.
Agriculture is the leading indus
try. The total value of all farm
crops grown in 1909 amounted to
$77,336,143, the leading ones being
cotton (including cotton seed),
sugar cane and corn, valued at $780,
274,747, $17,752,537, and S16,4SO,-
322, respectively. The states pro-
Guction of cotton from the growth
of 1914 was 449,458 equivalent to
50O-pound bales, or 2.S per cent of
the total in the United States.
According to the annual report of
the United States Geological Sur
very, Louisiana led all other states
in the production Of sulphur in 1914,
ranked fifth in the output of salt,
and contributed an important part
of the total production of petroleum
and natural gas. The salt deposits
are extensive and of unusual purity.
The sulphur deposits are extraordi-
nary and the sulphur mines of the
state divide with those of Sicily the
control Of the worlds market of this
product.
The value of merchandise export
ed from the port Of New Orleans in
the fiscal year 1914 was $685. $780,
961, and the value of merchandise
through the same port in
that year was $50, S82, 621.
Importance and Growth of Manu-
The natural resources of Louisi-
ana which are of great Importance,
have q marked influence on the es-
ard growth Of many in
5ustries. Some Of the materials used
in manufacture-such as timber,
sugar cane, cotton, and rice-are
produced in large quantities. Lum-
her alone supplied the raw material
I0r almost one-fourth of the total
products, as measured by value; and
cotton, sugar cane, and rec together
constituted the raw materials for
about one-third of the total
Louisiana's manufactured pro-
iucts in 1914 were valued at $685.
12,648, and the average number of
wage earners employed in its manu-
featuring industries was 1865. In
hat year Louisiana ranked twenty
first among the states in the former
'espeet and twenty-second in the lat
;er; the corresponding ranking in
1909 was nineteenth and twenty
Inst, respectively. The output of
Manufactured products IN Louisiana
n 1914 represented II per cent of
he total for the United States, as
peasured BY value; ne correspond
nc proportions for 1909. and 1904
we're IL per esht md Is POI cent,