American Industry by Editor

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Dec 27, 1870

American Industry.

By Editor

We design to present in the REVIEW, from time to time, such reliable facts as may come into our possession relative to the wonderful growth and development of our own nation. To this end, we ask our readers to forward to this Office any facts of this nature which may at any time come to their knowledge. It is not necessary that we comment on these facts. All who understand our application of the last symbol in the thirteenth of Revelation, will see at once their bearing. Bro. Canright forwards the following statistics showing the marvelous development of American Industry, clipped from the Union Hand-Book, of 1870:—

At the annual fair of the New England Agricultural Society, held at Portland, Maine, last week, Dr. Loring delivered an address, in which we find some interesting facts and figures pertaining to the marvelous advance which the nation has made in wealth and population. We quote: “A colonial dependency less than a century ago, it has risen to the rank of an independent nation; has increased in population from 5,500,000 to 40,000,000; has fought successfully three foreign wars, and one civil war; has raised the value of real estate of the Union from $50,000,000 to nearly $10,000,000,000; is producing 115,000,000 lbs. of wool, 1,332,000,000 bushels of grain—being of corn, 768,320,000 bushels; of wheat, 218,870,000 bushels; of rye, 23,490,000 bushels; of oats, 275,098,000 bushels; of barley, 235,727,000 bushels; of buckwheat, 21,350,000 bushels; besides 67,783,000 bushels of potatoes, 232,724,000 pounds of tobacco, and 2,300,000 bales of cotton. The increase in the value of agricultural lands since 1860 has been, in the New-England States, from 17 to 20 per cent, and in the most prosperous Western States, from 170 to 175 per cent. The growth of manufactures has been not less remarkable and interesting. In 1860, California produced manufactured articles to the amount of $68,253,228; Connecticut, $83,000,000; Delaware, $10,000,000; Illinois, in 1865, $63,356,013; Indiana, in 1860, $43,250,000; Maine, $6,235,623; Massachusetts, in 1865, $249,260,700; Missouri, in 1860, $41,783,651; New Hampshire, $37,586,453; Wisconsin, in 1867, $27,840,467; and the aggregate of the Union was $1,150,000,000. Of the means of communication and transportation, it is sufficient to say that nearly $2,000,000,000 are invested in railroads, connecting the Atlantic with the Pacific, and in the populous States intersecting every county, and in some counties almost every town.”