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Show A IHKIVS-r.iE MhYT OFTIIEHE- AOCUCES OF THE U.MTTD STATES. The history or these United Sta'cs present a picture of marvelous marvel-ous Interest to all students of human prepress. The patience md energy, tbo Industry and ability with which cur ieonle have worked cut tho present realization of the stupendous stupend-ous agricultural, commercial ami industrial resources of thlslmmensu1 couUucnt, ilu 1U fertllu territory, its magnificent rivers. Us inland seas ami Its arled climate?, connected con-nected by n splendid system of internal in-ternal communication, may well claim tlio attention of thu gravest hiitorlsc", Uiu must enlightened statesman, and of every one Interested In-terested in the progress of civillza-Uon. civillza-Uon. No fucli domain, so varied l Uimatt, by iirudutt?, by uiinenl riches, by forest and like, by wild heights and opulent plain, was evtr r1 veil ni the common heritage ofonuptop'c. The principal sources and re-oures of ou national poner, progrcsi aud pro'perity we hhall name auU consider in llie folioning orden , 1. (Xtmatc. The (Juoale of a country has rj much influence on thitlnrecter, the Fympathlt-s and theinJiijlrial tendencies of ILt in-hahlUu!5, in-hahlUu!5, as well a-t on the increase in-crease and decrease of its ij illation, illa-tion, a its ihyiical coullgurulioii. It will not. then, be am'.si tu lay soiiethiu? in this aUetch concerning thu climate of the United htate. Th geographical position of the American ecntiunt ins'ires to the United Btatta a mean temperature favorable to the greatest possible di-elotmtntof di-elotmtntof thu ph)Ical and intellectual in-tellectual inwtr of man. Various cauc conspire to produce the faorallf result". The first Is Hlo jue-e-nce of tile Gulf Stream, whhh incf-'autlv bears nlun u ith it a ijuaiitity ol warm and humid air, and thus ti-irts ti-irts a wwcrfiil iallutuce on the tcniptralurn of the circumjacent hind. TIiU currtnt, ixliiidiug alousr the coast from Florida to the UiUM of ZCev.foundl.iuJ, aho Li-comtsapoMerfal Li-comtsapoMerfal a;ent in neutral izinxthe efltcU of the masses of floating ico which drift from UalllnV liay. tVl:IiMit this most fortunate natural hicomei-on the const of Uio United bUtes tuult for a sreat jiartof Iheyeir be made the Icy lullucnce ot the north. Another cau whli.li equally con-tlibuti3 con-tlibuti3 1) rendir ILo illmateof the United btites temperate and salubrious salu-brious Is its nJmirabie lodmnphi-c-.il itatiins. Lnthroued between the warm and cold ocean?, it is a -o uateri.d by Large and mall rime, whlcii nlrcshani Ivlfy ell partRcf Its vast and varied ttrritory. In traeling from tle AUcnllcto tht l'.icillc tiic cllmitu represents almost all varl-tles of tcmperatuie and the sea'ous Ktutly glide Intj tatli other ith imperceptible uccesIon. Tims a valubrious clluute Is ton-serednuJ ton-serednuJ n physical conJitiou is furni'Ued favorable to the growth ef every product which min enn require. re-quire. 2. Thu S'Al. The United Males lead Iho world in lhe i-i&lon ot the most prodignily prodiictixe cf alL, Out of her :VW0,W njaare mll3ehchxallea't2,uJ0l03afpiare m 1 x of arablu laud. In IsSO.iotiliTOjs of the country, after fee Jing more than 0,000,0uo lniiabitant, furnishwl atnut W,-000,OX W,-000,OX buiheis of groin for export. Tiie corn, wheat, oats, liarley, rye, buckwheat nud iiotatocs wciu tliat jearrai'edon lu5,C07,7S0 acir, or 10 1,215 t'juare mile", rhi? nas le.-s than one-thlrtceutll of the nao'e area. China tupinrtsa population of mue than .IjOGOO.uOO ani liUBesscs considerable less than oue-halfofournrea. oue-halfofournrea. rifteca sixteenths of the Chln.se popalitlou are up-lotted up-lotted by tiioenlthaUoncf UiesDil. tint their lac l.U not ns available for ngilcultunl purpce c is cur. 1 hr y liae mare than SOO.OOOtmnre milts of barren niAintalcs and IiumlreJH of ti'jusm!s mote of ie-ert ianjs which defy all etTorts for their redemption on 1 !ai.rove-rren. !ai.rove-rren. Jt i eife locayttiat if all uur a nibble an 1 arable iar-d Were broJ iht tinder cultivation we Mould lie abundantly ab!-1 lo suprort one hundred million irople, and atlord millions of bushel of gralu for ex-jolt. ex-jolt. 3fr. lldwary Aikinson, (he great statistical niilhority, sa that "one hundred million ccu'd Lc sustained witiuut increasing llie area cf n single fana or adding one to their number." If thL Is true, then cumbers are inadequate to ex. prcrs the aetual ability of our oil to sustain huiuau life. Tiie principal cereal production of the United atalca for iome jiart Ia't were an follow: l "I . CentuitKq 1i:j.;i.1CI lea s,il IOM.i: Crn'ttt 1-Td 7lLSIIJIhS7.7tlJtt- Si.lv7.lif CtntnlS-(..7l3ilAPIiai.l7!Me7e; Lrtkels. BiuKe , HmtHtli. Ceninti'M -,167 011 li.i.Ma vizn Lrnras liJT- UJ-IJ-S- II Ixl-e 1771,-t Cental ll S.7.1,1iu lStl-.TC 9fZtsa t,mMim 4I.IUI1 .-aiu 1117.7 Agriculture slioul J "-tniul first in the order of national consideration, as It ever stands first in the order cf civilization. Tiie sgricultiirhU tf our country constitute 7,670, -533 if the 17,532,030 of there engaged in industrial occupation, and by con-seiiuencc con-seiiuencc lliey are over a third, and nearly a half of nil our sons of tell. Our agsregnle agricultural interest', as compared with the wealth of the whole country, sre equivalent to about to per rent. We tend abroad nutiusIIySIU7,-030,000 nutiusIIySIU7,-030,000 woitli cf animal and meat pio-aucLv$lb5,000,0'jO of brttulctuUK, 507,000,000 of cotton and cottonseed cotton-seed o!l,'100n,0i,0o'rIce,S7,0(0 of cheeie-nud nilscelhnecus article-, rounding up the craud asgregato of $.320,000,000. 3. Our Mineral licjaU. i'rom 1S70 to 1SS0 vo produced nc-.ri $300,000,o0-j worth of the prcciuus metido. At the present time we furnish fur-nish one-half of the gold aud silver of the wprld's supply. Our mineral proJuebiaru of ..mqualcd richness and variety. The retasrS.il ly rapid Increase from 1S7J to ISat) Immediately Immedi-ately gav6 us the leaf In mineral rroxlctie-i."'1r In tho production of Iron we !n-cresfed !n-cresfed within thu decade 110 per cent; In copper, CO per cent; in coal, 0 percent- Tho coal fields of I he country, reckoning tiie Permian and Tertiary coak, are estimated lo embrace nn area of over 090,000 pquare mllr. Of tho worliab'e.and valuable coal thu actual area is ofllcialjy glvtn as 192,000 square miles. XnlSS7 wo turned out .V-SS,071 tons of steel ingots nnd ,101,901 tons of Kleil rills. In both of these productions we were considerably in the lead of Ureal llritain. Thecombiicd mining industries of tho country now exceed those of Great Britain by about 3 per cent, and are greater than these of all continental con-tinental Europe. Aria, Africa, South America, Mexico and the ISrltlth Colonics collectively. And, then, to think that wo have scarcely scarce-ly commenced to develop ourmlner-al ourmlner-al resources. The precious rnetaU have been dlscotcred in rich quantities quan-tities In most of tho Stales and territories ter-ritories ot our Western empire. From tho time of tho first discovery of gold In tho West down to the pretent California lias produced about $I,C00,O0'3,(K)O of that inc-tal. The annual product Is now about eighteen to twintv-flvo million?. In twenty years Nevada produced $il545JuOO worth of tho precious metals. Thcproductionof CoIoraJo during tho twenty-four jcara preceding pre-ceding lSS? was S10T,0OJ,OO0. Montana, Mon-tana, alnce its settlement, twenty-five twenty-five i ears sgo, has produced about $200,000,000 In the precious and Dther metals. From 1832 to 1SS9, inclusive, in-clusive, the total production of tLe valuable metals In Idaho amounted Lo 167.720,002.52. Out of these rrondcrful natural resources have nrlsen our social and Industrial tenures te-nures to the chief of which we now call attention! I. AaMtiifchrM. The luocrcatj advantages which the Uniled Slates tijoyaaa tht principal miuuSictur- i ing nation of the world Is found In 1 our Inexhaustible supplir of coal ! ni.d a'miperaboundlne; iiu-mllty of law material ready at band. The ' growth of the manufactures ol tl United btates la one of tho manels of this industrial age. As w hive not sufliclent ace to discuss this phase, of the sutject we will simply simp-ly submit the statistical statement of our national progiess In tbH directioD. In 15oU the grass value of our manufactured products wasSl.Olt),-100.016; wasSl.Olt),-100.016; In 1800, S1,SS.3,SS1,G7C; in 1S70, SJJS2,333.4J, aud In IsSO, 5 3',579,19I. In like manner tho capital invested invest-ed in manufactures lias grown from S5S3,24-,S'il in IS. V) to Si,79J,272,C00 ill IS90, thus showing again of over InO r cent. In forty yean -A'cu i'urL Maituiul Exprtu. |
