UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 



widows of the war with Mexico, and 2,718 sur- 

 vivors and 4,237 widow pensioners of the Indian 

 wars. 



The number of applications filed during the year 

 ending June 30, 1896, was 1,862 for invalids of the 

 army, 6,101 for army widows, 420 for naval invalids, 

 and 264 for widows of the navy. The number of 

 claims allowed for both army and navy during the 

 year was 3,864 for invalids and 3,912 for widows, 

 etc. There were 8 claims allowed to widows of the 

 War of 1812, and 64 to survivors and 522 to widows 

 of the Mexican War. The total number of appli- 

 cations filed was 33,749, and the total of claims al- 

 lowed 40,374. The disbursements during the year 

 were $139,280,078, making the total disbursements 

 for pensions from 1861 to 1896, inclusive, $1.997.- 

 515,154. The pensioners were distributed among 

 the States and Territories as follow: Alabama, 

 3,925; Alaska, 28; Arizona, 559; Arkansas. 10,- 

 014; California, 15,308; Colorado, 6,247; Connecti- 

 cut, 11,837; Delaware, 2,709 ; District of Columbia, 

 8,236; Florida, 3.145 ; Georgia, 3,854 ; Idaho. 1,070; 

 Illinois, 68,688 ; Indiana, 68,836; Indian Territory, 

 2,488 ; Iowa. 37,798 ; Kansas, 42,433 : Kentucky, 28,- 

 457; Louisiana, 4,431 ; Maine, 20,717 : Maryland, 12,- 

 683; Massachusetts, 38,340: Michigan. 45,335; Min- 

 nesota, 16,194; Mississippi, 3.796; Missouri, 53,812; 

 Montana, 1,213 ; Nebraska, 16,625 ; Nevada, 273 ; New 

 Hampshire, 9,169 ; New Jersey, 20,017 : New Mexico, 

 1.200; New York, 87,006; North Carolina, 3,954; 

 North Dakota, 1,677; Ohio, 103,921; Oklahoma, 

 4,959; Oregon, 4,577 ; Pennsylvania, 98,837 ; Rhode 

 Island, 4,402 ; South Carolina, 2,669 ; South Dakota, 

 4,702: Tennessee. 17,918; Texas, 7,863; Utah, 766; 

 Vermont, 9,734 : Virginia, 8,139; Washington, 4,963; 

 West Virginia, 12,932; Wisconsin, 27,775; Wyoming, 

 666 ; foreign countries, 3,781 ; total, 970,678. 



Public Lands. During the year ending June 

 30, 1896, the homestead entries embraced 4,830,915 

 acres, and entries under the timber-culture act 1,226 

 acres. The area of surveyed land vacant and sub- 

 ject to entry on June 30, 1896, was 316.651,861 acres, 

 and of unsurveyed land 283,388,810 acres; total, 

 600,040,671 acre's. This is exclusive of Alaska, 

 which has an area of 369,529,600 acres, and of mili- 

 tary and Indian reservations, reservoir sites, and 

 timber reservations, and tracts covered by selec- 

 tions, filed claims, claims under adjudication, and 

 railroad grants. The total area surveyed in all the 

 States and Territories prior to June 30, 1895. was 

 1,042,844,034 acres, and the estimated area of un- 

 surveyed public lands, inclusive of Indian and other 

 public reservations, private claims, unsurveyed rail- 

 road, swamp, and other grants, arid, mountain, and 

 lake areas not yet surveyed, and the whole of Alaska, 

 was 763.671,54i8 acres. Under the act of March 3, 

 1891, authorizing the President to make public for- 

 est reservations, 17 such areas were set apart, em- 

 bracing 17,500.000 acres in Colorado, New Mexico, 

 California, Arizona, Wyoming, Oregon, and Wash- 

 ington. 



Patent Office. The number of applications filed 

 during the calendar year 1895 was 45,513, including 

 39,145 applications for patents, 1,463 for design pat- 

 ents, 72 for reissues, 2,112 for registration of trade 

 marks, 293 for registration of labels, 13 for regis- 

 tration of prints, and 2,415 caveats. The number 

 of patents granted in 1895 was 22,057 ; trade marks 

 registered, 1.829 ; prints registered, 3 ; total, 23,889. 

 The receipts during the year were $1,245,247, and 

 expenses $1,084,497; surplus of receipts over ex- 

 penditures, $160.750. The total number of appli- 

 cations filed since 1837 was 993,953, the number of 

 caveats filed was 105,144, and the number of pat- 

 ents issued was 566.013. 



Commerce. The total value of the imports and 

 exports of merchandise for the year ending June 



30, 1896, was $1,662,331,612. The values of the 

 merchandise imports and exports for the last ten 

 vears were as follow : 



1887 

 1888 

 1889 

 1890 

 1891 

 1892 



1894 



1895 

 18% ..... 



Imports. 



8692,319,768 



728,967,1 n 



7-1.1. i3i.6.-)2 

 7S9.3io..|r9 

 844.916.190 

 827.402.462 

 866.400.922 

 664,994,682 

 731.909.965 

 779,724,674 



Domestic 

 eiporis. 



$703,022,923 

 688,862,104 

 730.2*2.609 

 846,293,828 

 872,270,283 



1.015.732.01] 

 881,080,786 

 Hi9.2M4.937 

 793.892,699 

 863.200,48 



$13,160,288 

 12,092,403 



12.118.7(5) 

 12.534,856 

 12.210,527 

 14.54(1.137 

 10.634.109 

 22,986,636 

 14.145.560 

 19,406,451 



There was an excess of exports of $102,882,264 in 

 1896, compared with $75,568,200 in 1895. $237,145,- 

 950 in 1894, and an excess of imports of $18,735,728 

 in 1893. 



The values of the articles or classes of articles im- 

 ported in 1896 are given in the following table : 

 IMPORTS. 



Value. 



Agricultural implements 85.922 



Animals, free of duty 426,107 



Animals, dutiable 2,826,870 



Antimony 214,^290 



Articles, the produce of the United States, re- 

 turned 3,434,790 



Articles for the use of religious and educational 



institutions 423,091 



Articles specially imported 185.098 



Art works 4.81 li. SKI 



Asbestos 219,518 



Asphaltuin 242,714 



Bark, hemlock 214. '.152 



Beverages : 



Ginger ale 247.329 



All other 87.817 



Bismuth 107.506 



Blacking 137.61 1 



Bologna sausages 80.887 



Bolting cloths 2U7.461 



Bones, crude 157.946 



Bone and horn, manufactures of 164.813 



Books, maps, music, and engravings, free 2,015,404 



Books, maps, etc. . dutiable 1 .477,607 



Brass, and manufactures of 159,840 



Breadstuffs 2,780,814 



Bristles, crude 1,620 



Bristles, prepared 1,433,728 



Brushes 753.928 



Bun-stones 28.543 



Buttons and button forms 1.423,910 



Cement, Portland, Roman, and other hydraulic. 3,839.321 



Chalk 67.367 



Chemicals, drugs, and dyes: 



Alizarin colors and dyes 994.230 



Argal, or crude tartar 2,724,709 



Cinchona bark 165,699 



Coal-tar colors and dyes 3,072,915 



Cochineal 50,988 



Logwood 1,516.855 



Other dyewoods 114,978 



Extracts of dyewoods 282,689 



Glycerin 1.472.302 



Gum arabic 168.908 



Crude camphor 328,457 



Gambier or terra japoniea 1.108.611 



Shellac 1,210,802 



All other gums 4.105.333 



Indigo 1,673,170 



Licorice root 1,401.748 



Lime, chloride of 1.579,358 



Mineral waters, not artificial 543.744 



Opium, crude 683.347 



Opium, prepared 735.134 



Potash, chlorate of 453.999 



Potash, muriate of 1,380,939 



Potash, nitrate of 389,524 



Potash, all other 802,840 



Quinia. 786,887 



Soda, caustic 1.071.169 



Soda, nitrate of 3.870,724 



Sal soda and soda ash 2,035,404 



Soda, all other salts of 149,248 



Sulphur, crude '. . 1.930,293 



Sumac, ground 232.570 



Vanilla beans 1.013.608 



All other chemicals, drugs, and dyes 4,728.967 



Chicory root, raw, unground 210.C28 



Chicory root, roasted or prepared 15.84!) 



Chocolate 198.417 



Clays or earths 730,567 



