848 UNITED STATES CENSUS. 



UNITED STATES FINANCES. 



Group 4 comprises Virginia, West Virginia, 

 North Carolina, and South Carolina. 



Group 5 includes Kentucky, Tennessee, Miss- 

 issippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. 



Group 6 includes Illinois, northern peninsula 

 of Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North 

 Dakota, South Dakota, and Missouri. 



Group 7 includes Nebraska, Montana, and 

 Wyoming, and parts of North Dakota, South 

 Dakota, and Colorado. 



Group 8 includes Missouri south of Missouri 

 river, Arkansas, Kansas, Indian Territory, Col- 

 orado south of Denver, and New Mexico north 

 of Santa Fe. 



Group 9 includes Louisiana, Texas, and part 

 of New Mexico. 



Group 10 includes California, Oregon, Wash- 

 ington, Idaho, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, and part 

 of New Mexico. 



UNITED STATES, FINANCES OF THE. 



The receipts and expenditures of the United 

 States for the year ending June 80, 1891, com- 

 pared with those of the year previous, may be 

 classified and compared as follows : 



On the Great Lakes. In a bulletin on freight 

 traffic the tonnage has been divided into four 

 classes, viz. : Products of agriculture, products 

 of mines and quarries, other products, manu- 

 factures, miscellaneous merchandise, and other 

 commodities. The products of mines and quar- 

 ries give 54-22 per cent, of the total shipping 

 industry, lumber gives 23-84 per cent., and the 

 products of agriculture, 16'50 per cent., leaving 

 the miscellaneous carriage small. The excess of 

 shipments over receipts in the class of mines 

 and quarries was 854,800 tons, and of agricult- 

 ure 366.330 tons, while the excess of receipts 

 of lumber was 1,508,859 tons, and of manufact- 

 ures and miscellaneous merchandise, 377,554 

 tons. Including all the traffic on the Great Lakes, 

 689,158 tons of all classes of merchandise were 

 received in excess of shipments. 



The average distance for which freight on the 

 Great Lakes is carried is 566 miles. From this it 

 .appears that the total ton mileage on the Great 

 Lakes for the season of 1889 amounts to 15.518,- 

 360,000 ton miles. The aggregate ton mileage 

 of railways for the year ending June 30, 1889, 

 was 68.727.223,146. 



Floating Equipment. The number of vessels 

 on the Great Lakes Dec. 31, 1889, was 2,784; the 

 gross tonnage 924,472, and the net tonnage 780,- 

 119. The estimated carrying capacity of these 

 2,784 vessels was 1,254,271 tons, and 'the com- 

 mercial valuation was $48,809,750. 



The surplus revenues of the Government for 

 the year ending June 30, 1891, were $37,239,- 

 762.57, that amount being the excess of ordinary 

 receipts over ordinary payments, excluding pay- 

 ments on account of premiums on bonds pur- 

 chased. To this amount was added $54,207,- 

 975.75, deposited in the Treasury under the act 

 of July 14, 1890, for the redemption of national- 

 bank notes; $9,363,715, an additional amount 

 received during the year on same account ; $13,- 

 810- received for 4-per-cent. bonds issued for 

 interest accrued on refunding certificates convert- 

 ed during the year; and $34,132,372.16 taken 

 from the cash balance in the Treasury, mak- 

 ing a total of $134,947,635.48, which was expend- 

 ed for loans and redemption of national-bank 

 notes, as follows : 



