COTTON CROP OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 50 YEARS. NOTE. The average net weight per bale is 440 lbs. Cotton Goods Manufactured in the United States. The following table exhibits the estimated cotton manufactures of the U. S. for the year ending July 1, 1875, the relative number of bales of cotton used, and number of mills and spindles engaged in the manufacture, North and South. [From the Commercial and Financial Chronicle, New York.] PRODUCTION OF PIG IRON IN THE SIX YEARS, 1872 TO 1877, BY STATES. [Statistics collected from the manufacturers by The American Iron and Steel Association.] Ohio. Pennsylvania. 278 113 166 131 147 1,401,497 1,389,573 1,213,133 107 38 62 49 58 399,743 406,029 New York. 425,001 291,155 296.818 326,721 100,222 123,506 136,662 85,552 75,817 Illinois. 78,627 55,796 87,946 960,894 1,009,613 1,153,356 415,893 403,277 400.398 266,431 181,620 230.442 114.805 95,177 82,216 59,717 68,223 73,565 49,762 54,168 61,358 102,341 90,150 Kentucky 19 15 67,396 Alabama.. West Virginia. 20,796 23,056 Maryland.. 18 63,031 55,986 19,876 26,959 Tennessee 42,454 43,134 48,7701 Wisconsin.. 65,036 74,148 Indiana.. 39,221 22.081 Connecticut Georgia. Virginia 29,985 716 236 476 270 446 2,854,558 2,868,278 2,689,413 2,266,581 2,093,236 2,314,585 Area of the Coal Fields of the United States, and Annual Production. TABLE SHOWING THE MILEAGE, CAPITAL, COST, AND REVENUE OF ALL THE RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1878. [From Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1879.1 TABLE SHOWING THE MILEAGE, CAPITAL, COST, AND REVENUE OF ALL THE RAILROADS OF THE UNITED STATES FOR 1878.-(Concluded.) [From Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1879.] COMPARATIVE STATISTICS OF AMERICAN RAILWAYS 1871-1878. [From Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States for 1879.] $ $ $ $ $ $ 1871 44,614 2,664,627,645 403,329,208 141,746,404 294,430,322 108,898,886 56,456,681 1872 57,523 3,159,423,057 465,241,055 165,754,373 340,931,785 132,309,270 64,418,157 1873 66,237 3,784,543,034 526,419,935 183,810,562 389,035,508 137,384,427 67,120,709 1874 69,273 4,221,763,594 520,466,016 189,570,958 379,466,935 140,999,081 67,042,942 1875 71,759 4,415,631,630 503,065.505 185,506,438 363,960,234 139,105,271 74,294,208 1876 73,508 4,468,591,935 497,257,959 186,452,752 361,137,376 136,120,583 68,039,668 1877 74,112 4,568,597,248 472,909,272 170,976,697 342,859,222 130,050,050 58,566,312 1878 78,960 4,589,948,793 490,103,351 187,575,167 365,466,061 124,637,290 53,629,368 NOTE.-No comprehensive figures of the business of the railways in the United States are attainable prior to the above. And even these tables are the fruit of private enterprise, in compiling from the official annual reports of each road the results of the traffic as shown above. No department of the Federal Government has been clothed with authority to require returns of railway operations, nor are there State officers charged with such duties except in a very few of the States. SUMMARY STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES RAILWAYS IN 1878. FOR each 100 miles of railroad in the United States there are 27.0 miles of second track, sidings, etc.; 20.1 locomotives; 15.2 passenger cars; 4.7 baggage, mail, and express cars; and 513.8 freight cars of all kinds. The capital stock aggregates to each 100 miles, $2,921,507. Funded debt to each 100 miles, $2,848,308. Floating debt to each 100 miles, $225,464. Total cost of construction and equipment, each 100 miles, $5,154,310; equal to about $51,543 per mile of completed road. Gross earnings per mile, $6,380.94. Operating expenses per mile, $4,074. Interest paid on bonds per mile, $1,248.04. Dividends paid on stock per mile, $663.47. Ratio of interest paid to total funded debt, 4.07 per cent. Ratio of dividends to aggregate capital stock, 2.34 per cent. In 1871, with only two-thirds as many miles of railroads in operation, and a little more than one-half the capital stock, the dividends aggregated $56,456,681, equalling 4.19 per cent of the capital then invested. Statement showing the Number of Miles of Railroad constructed each Year in the United States, from 1830 to the close of 1878. [From Poor's Railroad Manual for 1879.] |