Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — SHOWS GROWTH OF NATION [ARTICLE]

SHOWS GROWTH OF NATION

Comparison of Statistics for the Years 1858 and 1908. New York. June 4.—Among the peculiar facts cencerning the growth of the United States from 1858 to 1908, noted in the annual report of the New York Chamber of Commerce, soon to be issued, the following increases are observed: Population, 193 per cent; wealth of tho country. 563 per cent; public debt, 2.375 per cent; the per capita debt from $1.51 to $10.76; bank deposits, 8,460 per cent; receipts of the government. 1,186 per cent; war expenditures, 329 per cent; navy expenditures, 745 per cent; imports per capita, from $8.36 to $13.70; experts per capita, from $9.14 to $21.04, and the consumption of wines and liquors, 266 per cent, or from 6.42 to 23.25 per capita gallon.