COTTON MANUFACTURING IN EUROPE, THE UNITED STATES AND INDIA. The following table gives the estimated number of spindles in the cotton mills of the United States, Europe and India, at the end of the seasons named: Exports. Europe Cent. Am. & 1901-02. EXPORTS OF DOMESTIC COTTON MANUFACTURES. 1900-01. | 1899-00. | 1898-99, Exports. 1901-02. | 1900-01. 1899-00, 1898-99. 2,447,845 2,725,506 2,012,641 1,544,363|| All others.. 4,114,026 3,735,951| 5,163,132| 3,860,169 2,820,781 2,566,536| 2,691,992 2,759,164 Total year 32,108,302 20,272,418 24,003,087 23,560,914 W. Ind es 3,160,012 3,301,933 3,250,753 2,858,686 South Am.. 3,070,045 3,321,494 2,079,791 2,693,967 1st 6 mos... 14,340,749 8,570,412 11,850,740 10,558.725 Chinese Em. 16,495,248 4,620,998| 8,804,778| 9,844,565 2d 6 mos... 17,767,613/11,702,006/12,152,347|13,002,189 Wool. The only States which show any considerable actual increase in the number of sheep since 1901 are Montana and Wyoming. In the former the increase is 555,000 and in the latter 1,036,000. The number of sheep east of the Mississippi continues to steadily decline. Most of the territorial States have reached the limit of their production. The situation offers little encouragement that we are likely to have a domestic supply of wool equal to the domestic requirements. STATISTICS OF WOOL IN THE UNITED STATES. (Prepared for The American Almanac by W. J. Battison, of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers, Boston, Mass.) *Estimated by the United States Department of Agriculture. Estimated by the United States Association of Wool Manufacturers. FLEECE AND PULLED WOOL WASHED AND IN THE GREASE, IN POUNDS. The estimates of wool production for fifteen years have been as follows, together with the scoured wool equivalents for the same period: WOOL SUPPLY, 1888-1902.-DOMESTIC PRODUCTION AND IMPORTS LESS EXPORTS, IN POUNDS. Fiscal year ending June 30. All Wools. Fine Wools. 1,686,818,840 337,363,768 2,070,423,829 414,084,766 1,582,374,537 316,479,907 From January 1, 1902, to October 31 there were shipped from Boston 235,579,718 pounds of wool. RECEIPTS OF WOOL IN BOSTON, IN BALES, 1899-1902. The figures in the following table, showing the number of pounds of wool imported into Boston, New York and Philadelphia, represent about 98.5 per cent of the total quantity imported into all ports of the United States. Some idea of the extent of the beet sugar industry in the United States may be gained by a study of the following tables, which give the locations of the factories and the capacity of each, in tons. With the extension of irrigation in the West hitherto unproductive land will very likely be used almost entirely for the cultivation of sugar beets and within a few years the number of factories in this country will be doubled. The beet sugar industry had its origin in the Western States and its development has been largely in that section. Sugar beets can be grown in almost any sort of soil, except where the subsoil is hard. The cost of production is from $30 to $40 an acre, and the beets should sell at about $4 a ton at the factories. World's Sugar Production. The following table, compiled by the Agricultural Department, shows the world's production for the periods named: PRODUCTION OF SUGAR FOR YEAR 1901-1902 BY THE PRINCIPAL SUGAR PRODUCING COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD. IMPORTS OF SUGAR, COFFEE AND TEA INTO THE UNITED STATES FROM 1830 TO 1902, INCLUSIVE, AND THE PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION OF EACH. The Census in a nutshell. 587 The following tables, embracing all the important features of the 1900 census, have been specially prepared for The American Almanac from the statistics collected by the United States Census Bureau: POPULATION TABLE NO. 1-SEX, GENERAL NATIVITY AND COLOR. Indian. 3 265 229,536 281 26,480 177 66 11,045 45,753 10,151 15,377 1,437 153 9 22 358 19 4,226 16 243 52,500 382 2,130 102 593 798 3 587 6,354 9,182 2,203 130 11,343 3,322 5,216 22 West Virginia.. Wisconsin Wyoming 2 Includes 2,499 persons of mixed parentage, that is, of native Indian and Russian parentage 2 Includes all persons in the military and naval service of the United States (civilian employes, etc.), stationed abroad, not credited to any State or Territory. POPULATION TABLE NO. 2-AGE AND EDUCATIONAL STATISTICS. |