Total.. Central America States. Chand.... 1,330,100,000 $6,888,900,000 $2,139,000,000 $1,121,200,000 $3, 260, 200, 000 $4,132,000,000 7,400,000 7,400,000 62,900,000 43 157 13 38 15 38 350,000,000 350,000,000 1 06 1 06 $5 18 $2.45 83.10 $10.73 NOTE.-The value of the monetary stock of silver-standard countries has been changed to conform to the decline in silver values. The monetary stock of Mexico and other countries where the Mexican dollar circulates is given in Mexican dollars at bullion value. WORLD'S PRODUCTION OF GOLD AND SILVER FOR THE CALENDAR YEAR, 1906. Canada..... 581,657 12,023,900 8,588.665 5,800,000 Ecuador. 14,233 294,200 13,592 $269,300 516,700 9, 200 Africa. 6,553,484 135,472,500 702,464 475.500 Brazil. 116.243 Australasia.. 3,985,684 82.391,400 14, 237.248 9,637,000 Venezuela. 1,223 Russia. 943.058 19,494,700 168, 183 112,500 British Guiana.. 77,770 2,403,000 25.300 1,607,700 Austria-Hungary. 123,617 2,255,400 1,692, 119 1.145,400 French Guiana. 89,955 1,859, 700 Germany. ..... 3,890 80.400 5,698,433 3,855,900 Peru.. 40, 102 829,000 7,404,238 5.011.900 Italy.......... 1,993 41,200 672,449 455, 200 Central America. 92,432 1,910,700 1,670, 159 1.130,500 Spain......... 4,064,532 2,751,200 Japan.. 156,016 3,225, 100 2,451,357 1,659,300 Greece........ 829,025 561,200 China. 88,961 1,839,000 Turkey. 28) 6,000 37,874 25,600 Korea .... France 890,555 602,800 India. Great Britain.. 1.414 29,200 137.216 92,900 British East Indies.. Total (inc. o'rs).. 19,361,864 Production 1907: Gold, fine ounces, 19,854,875; value, $410,436,600: silver, fine ounces, 184,948,867, value $122,090,0 0. 2,096, 300 $400, 245, 300 165,640, 640 $112,120,500 PART VII. WISCONSIN-HISTORICAL SKETCH. TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT. STATE GOVERNMENT. MEMBERS OF WISCONSIN LEGISLATURES. COURTS AND COURT COMMISSIONERS. BANK EXAMINER'S REPORT. COUNTY OFFICERS. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETIES OF WISCONSIN. RAILROAD MILEAGE. POLITICAL PARTIES AND PLATFORMS. THE EVOLUTION OF WISCONSIN. (BY REUBEN GOLF THWAITES, SECRETARY AND SUPERINTENDENT OF STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF WISCONSIN) 1. Spanish Dominion-1512-1634 Because of carly discoveries by her navigators and inland explorers, Spain laid a general but undefined claim to the greater part of the wilderness of North America, to which the name Florida was given. It should be understood, however, that within this vast territory there were few if any Spaniards nearer Wisconsin than the Gulf of Mexico and the lower reaches of the Mississippi. The kings of Spain laying claim to nebulous Wisconsin, were: Ferdinand V, 1512-16; Charles I, 1516-56; Philip II, 1556-98; Philip III, 15981621; ar Philip IV, 1621-65. II. French Dominion-1634-1760 In 1604 the French arrived in Nova Scotia, and in 1608 founded Quebec as the capital of New France. l'enetrating the continent by means of the St. Lawrence and Ottawa rivers and the Great Lakes, they gradually claimed the inland water systems, on the ground of discovery by their adventurous furtraders and missionaries. They did not, however, reach the Northwest until 1634, up to which year the Spanish claim to the region was practically undisputed. In 1634, the explorer Jean Nicolet, sent out by Champlain, then governor of New France, entered what is now Wisconsin, and introduced the French furtrade to our savages. Thereafter, until the downfall of New France in 1760, Wisconsin was an acknowledged part of that colony-save that for a time the part of our state lying south of the mouth of Wisconsin River was claimed by the French colony of Louisiana. The French kings during this period were Louis XIII, 1610-43; Louis XIV, 1643-1715; and Louis XV, 1715-74. All white persons then in Wisconsin, also (nominally) all the savages within our borders, were subjects of these monarchs. The governors chosen for New France were as follows: 1608-35-Samuel de Champlain 1635-36-Marc Antoine de Brasdefer de Chasteaufort, ad interim 1636-48-Charles Huault de Montmagny 1648-51-Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge 1656-57-Charles de Lauson de Charny, ad interim 1651-56-Jean de Lauson 1C57-58-Louis d'Ailleboust de Coulonge, ad interim 1658-61-Pierre de Voyer, vicomte d'Argenson 1661-63-Pierre du Bois, baron d'Avaugour 1663-65-Augustin de Saffray, chevalier de Mézy |