Show MINI UU PRODUCTS FOIl 18So The total value of time mineral products of the United States for 1885 as given in ho advaneo sheets of a report prepared and shortly to bo issued b y tho United States Geological Survey will surprise many of our readers Statistical table aro dry reading for tho masses Hut It t Ie through and by them that the growth of a nation is gauged Historians am alatosmcn must ho familiar with their teachings in order to sustain their reputation repu-tation an specialists Tho ordinary citizen citi-zen who boasts of his country ought to bo able to hack up his assertions with figures and the merchant who deal with products In tho market place need to know something of the cost and vol limo of his Lommohtics The ribs of tho ship of State are tho useful and precious metals Without them tho raco would relapse into bar barium The process of resurrecting them from the place of their burial Is akin to creation Tho waste places of the earth smilo as they come forth to time sunlight and tho jocund bongs of labor keep time with tho throbs of the ponderous ponder-ous macluneri which wrests them from I darkness and tho grave and converts them into things of beauty and ministers of utility Tho surest guarinty of tho materia greatness and glory of this country lies in tho fact f that itt the infancy of tho country coun-try m the year 1835 tho estimated value of the metallic and non motalhe minera substances pro luec 1 in the United States amounted to tho enormous sum of 428 521350 Tho value of seine of the articles con tributing to this grand total we nolo as follows The totil value of coal of 1111 kinds is J159 019 r > G9 of gold and silver combine 1 411OJO i of pig iron ifOl 712 403 Of tho minor articles building stone figures at InOO1lJ 1 and lime at 20OOO000 |