Show 5 WONDERFUL RESOURCES oF UNITED STATES'S STATES S 'S In la so many things thing the th United States States sl stands first that at times timea In making comparisons it must seem to the outside that the Yankees are a boastful people S First In Iron steel coal lead cement ment wheat com corn automobiles railroad mileage traffic financial rl first h-first first In almost er e every every thing This country Is wIth diversity diversity of resources lackIng only things peculiarly tropical America was first to lo develop pet pet- petroleum pet oleum and make mak use use or of o those hoc carbon hydro resources and aud has ept in the lead Today the th world Is being bein trans trant- formed ormed ormed by the th use us of oil and each t ear tAr sees new o oil fields opened opened but maintains its oil Last year all countries combined produced a little over one on billion barrels of ot oil 01 Of O that great Ert total a produced b bar bar- barrel r rel rela or almost three fourths I Mexico of late years has made g discoveries erles in oil but 1 In 94 24 that production was barrels barrell less than In 1921 nd l not one fifth of the yield of be b wells well of ot th United States Slates Russia with Its great treat Baker wells produced barrels Persia YIelded ed barrels and the East Indies s S Other producing co countries gave cave ea a yield not much much larger than any le ot or a dozen ot or the th fields fielda In this S 'S country 1 America is a country which has much more than its fair proportion of it the th wealth of ot the tb world u |