The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1917-05-11
A GLIMPSE AT OUR MARVELLOUS WEALTH.

paper correspondent in the world lis to travel the country and
study our farms, our mines. and industrial empire generally,
with the view of correctly estimating our national preparedness.
From his initial letter we CLEAN the following. facts:
If all the land on the globe could be punched together
and divided up into l6O-acre tracts, ten acres out of every
tract would belong to Uncle Sam. Our wealth is now placed
at 1920, 600, O00, 900, or onefourth of the wealth of all the
world. This wealth if divided among the families of this coun-
try would be $4,000, counting five to each family and, if in
vested at 5 per cent, would yield $500 per year for every family
for all time to come. On the basis of our NATIONAL wealth, our
new war indebtedness at a per cent land the money is being
borrowed by Uncle Sam at less than 4 per cent? amounts to only
$1.4O for each citizen, of 81 per year to each family.
The crops produced BY Uncle Sans people last year
amounted to $14,0O0, 600, 900, of which more than one billion
was from cotton and a very nearly equal amount from wheat.
Our 1916 grain crop exceeded 5000, 900 900 bushels
enough to give every man, woman and child in this country,
60 bushels. Of the grain crop, nearly half was corn, the best
al-round food ration for man.
We have more than $4,000, 900, 900 worth of live stock of
which our domestic animals are more than, 100000, 900. If
our farm animals were rounded up and divided, every family
in the United States would have five hogs, three cattle, two
sheep and horse. In addition to this there are the geese,
turkeys, chickens, guineas and ducks and four million mules to
spare.
Our mineral resources are greater than any other country
on the globe and we are now digging out minerals at the rate
of 50, 400, 600, 900 a year. We lead the world In copper and zinc,
minerals of very great value in war. Last year our copper
output amounted to $3.50, OOO, 900 and our zinc output to $113,-
900, 900. The zinc last year brought in more than our gold
mines and the copper six times the value of our silver mined
this excess value being on account of war demands for these
two metals. We have coal in 80 states, and if our coal fields
could all be brought together they would make a coal bed
seven times the size of the coal fields of all Europe and would
equal 35 times the area of Great Britain. We are now supply
ing the world with 40 per cent of it's coal and have enough left
in the earth to run us 1000 years. We mined last year 90 tons
for every family, its value exceeding $500, 600, ooO.,
So far we have furnished 60 per cent of the petroleum
used by all the world and a nation is now regarded as strong
or weak in proportion to its supply of this mineral. Here
again we outdistance the world.
Our farms and our mines are only the basis of our great
manufacturing industry. Our manufacturing industry is the
marvel of the world. Our investments in manufacturing ex-
coed $22, OOO, 900, 900, Of which the output is more than $685.
900, 900, 900. We have 500, 900 hands at work in the lumber
industry and more than $4,000 engaged in work in our cotton
mills "* .. : -~-sva4 ., t.- -.
The waterfalls of the Nation are marvels of energy. Gov
eminent officials claim that we have 50 100000 horses, standing
unused in stables in the water falls of this country. Engineers
claim that this sixty millions of horse power in our water falls,
is equal to the energy produced by 400, 600 900 tons of coal;
that it would furnish power enough to run all the factories, all
the street cars, light all the houses and heat all the homes in the
United States. The waste in the non-use of our waterfalls
amounts to more than 5000, 600, 900 annually.
Notwithstanding the prodigality of waste in our forests,
we still have enough to make a plank walk 80 feed wide and
one inch thick that will reach from the earth to the sun, 1OO,-
600. 1000 miles away. Our railroads have trackage enough to
reach ten times around the earth at the equator; our domestic
commerce surpasses that of any other country in the world and
last year our foreign trade amounted to the almost incompre-
hensible figure of SIS, 500, 000, 900.
These figures startle the human mind but a moments re-
Election forces this thought from every serious, right thinking
person: "Oh, God, how excellent is thy name in all the earth
and what wonderful provision hast thou made for man. We
should love and worship him for his provision for our temporal
welfare even if He had not made a far greater and better home
for His children beyond the grave, where sooner or later all
must CO."
Only a great people could have wrought out of this country
what has been developed.
The Lord lead the children of Israel into the Promised
Land, where milk and honey flowed, but that land did not sur
pass ours. 1t is appalling, almost, to contemplate the response
bilties that rest upon us as a people because of Gods lavish
gifts to us.
AN OVERDOSE OF ADVICE.
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