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VALUES OF FOREIGN COINS, OCTOBER 1, 1900-(Continued).

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Coins.

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Gold: 10 and 20 crowns.

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Gold: peso. Silver: peso and divisions.

Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 francs. Silver: 5 francs.
Gold: 25, 50, 100, 250 and 500 piasters.

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Gold: 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 bolivars. Silver: 5 bolivars.

*The coins of silver standard countries are valued by their pure silver contents, at the average market price of silver for the three months preceding the date on which these values were fixed.

†The "British dollar" has the same legal value as the Mexican dollar in Hong-Kong, the Straits Settlements and Labuan. The sovereign is the standard coin of India, but the rupee is the money of account, current at 15 to the sovereign.

PRODUCTS AND INDUSTRIES OF THE UNITED STATES.

The following table, compiled from the Census statistics of 1890, shows how the States rank in the more, important products
and industries. The statistics collected under the last census had not been compiled when The Tribune Almanac went to press.

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2 Butter, 2Cheese, 1 Wool, Apples, Cotton, Sugar, Tobacco,

Milk, gallons. pounds.

19,853,000 55,508,687|14,548,435 | 1,297,033 709,225 115,203 14,891,356 54,325,673 15,724,144 |21,427,293 111,191,186 26,776,704 4,598,941 19,680,791 3,282,086] 2,253,432 54,413,822 7,196,095 1,055,692 10,699,362 2,026,498| 3,674,486 5,056,790 867,195 25,200,435 53,234,508 14,483,323 | 1,302,256 5,085,863 1,078, 103] 30,498,277 367,269,464 |57,121, 486| 20,362,516 200,510,797 48,477, 766| 30,491,541 486,961,411 72,893, 079 30,214,456 201,608,099 46,117,076] ....... 21,412,229 118,497,289 29,038, 406

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9,544,219 12,881,927 2,089,774 6,179,925 57,969,791 15,593,315 4,952,390 46,601,218 9,999, 602 2,998,282 82,571,924 8,358,703 14,785,636 224,537,488150, 197,481 18,663,645 182,968,973 34,766,409 17,572,547 50,893,371 12,988,637 30,780,290 193,931,103 43,108,521 1,964,197 6,038,096 1,062,185 21,598,444 144,768,268 27,818,078

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11,512 9,335,551 463,831 791,534 1,172,935

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265,718 2,557,823

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AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.

Total acreage, yield and value of principal farm products of the United States.

1899.

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Number.

Totals

*Tons.

201,159,983

$2,296,170,410

Number and value of live stock on farms and ranches in the U. S. January 1.

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MINERAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1898 AND 1899.

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MINERAL PRODUCTS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1898 AND 1899-(Continued).

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1By "spot" value is meant value at the point of production. 2 Long tons are tons of 2,240 avoirdupois pounds; short tons are tons of 2,000 avoirdupois pounds. Iron ore 1892: 16,296,666 long tons; value at mines: $33,204,896. 1893: 11,587,629 long tons; value at mines: $19,265,973. 1894: 11,879,679 long tons; value at mines: $13,577,325. 1895: 15,957,614 long tons; value at mines: $18,219, 684. 1896: 16,005,449 long tons; value at mines: $22,788,069. 1897: 17,518,046 long tons; value at mines: $18,953,221. 1898: 19,433,716 long tons; value at mines: $22,060,887. 1899: 24,683,173 long tons; value at mines: $34,999,077. Figures of production furnished by the Bureau of the Mint, Treasury Department; coining value, $1.2929 per troy ounce; commercial value 1895, $36,445,000; 1896, $39,655,000; 1897, $32,316,000; 1898, $32,118,420; 1899, $32,858,700. Figures of production furnished by the Bureau of the Mint, Treasury Department; coining value, $20.6718 per troy ounce. Including copper made from imported pyrites. The product from domestic ores only. 8Of 762 avoirdupois pounds net. Includes antimony smelted from imported ores, in 1899, 83 per cent. 10Including nickel in copper-nickel alloy, and in exported ore and matte. 11Including brown coal and lignite, and anthracite mined elsewhere than in Pennsylvania. 12Of 42 gallons. 13Of 300 pounds for natural cement, and 400 pounds for artificial Portland. 14Not including limestone for iron flux, or grindstones. 15Of 280 pounds net. The reduced price in 1893 is due to omitting cost of packages. 18Including metallic paints, ochre, umber, venetian red, sienna, ground soapstone, ground slate, and mineral black. 17Including building sand, glass sand, iron ore used as flux in lead smelting, tin ore, nitrate of soda, carbonate of soda, sulphate of soda, and alum clays used by paper manufacturers. *Crystalline, pounds. Amorphous, tons. Sheet, pounds. **Scrap, tons.

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