UNITED STATES OP AMERICA. (PATENTS PUBLIC LANDS COMMERCE.) 



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8,017 widows of soldiers of the Mexican War; 

 277,965 army invalids, 87,046 army widows, 

 634 army nurses, 4,360 navy invalids, and 

 2,263 navy widows pensioned under the general 

 laws on account of services after March 4, 1861 ; 

 426,118 army invalids, 148,201 army widows, 15,- 

 953 navy invalids, and 6,977 navy widows pen- 

 sioned under the act of June 27, 1899; and 6,282 

 army invalids, 2,727 army widows, 329 navy in- 

 valids, and 127 navy widows of the war with 

 Spain; total number of pensioners, 999,446. The 

 amounts paid out during the year in pensions 

 were $136,742,567 to 994,751 pensioners in the 

 States and Territories, $11,845 to 86 pensioners in 

 the insular possessions, and $646,329 to 4,695 

 pensioners outside of the United States. 



Patents. During the year ending Dec. 31, 

 1901, there were 43,973 applications for mechan- 

 ical patents, 2,361 for design patents, 2,410 for 

 trade-marks, 1,064 for registration of labels, 233 

 for registration of prints, and 115 for reissues 

 of patents. The number of patents issued was 

 27,292; reissued, 81; trade-marks registered, 

 1,928; labels, 878; prints, 878. The number of 

 patents that expired was 19,147. There were 

 8,360 applications allowed that awaited the pay- 

 ment of fees, and 4,111 were forfeited for non-pay- 

 ment. There were granted under international 

 treaties 1,045 patents to Germans, 986 to Eng- 

 lishmen, 376 to Canadians, 306 to French cit- 

 izens, 156 to Austro-Hungarians, 56 to Swiss cit- 

 izens, 55 to Scots, 54 to Belgians, 53 to Swedes, 37 

 to Italians, 35 to Victorians, 29 to Russians, 

 25 to Irishmen, 25 to New Zealanders, 20 to cit- 

 izens of New South Wales, 20 to Norwegians, 19 

 to Netherlanders, 11 to Mexicans, 9 to Trans- 

 vaalers, 8 to South Australians, Argentinians, 

 and Queenslanders severally, and 37 to other for- 

 eigners. 



Public Lands. Out of a total surface of 

 1,809,539,849 acres in the United States and 

 Alaska 1,119,910,456 acres had been surveyed up 

 to June 30, 1902, and 689,629,384 acres remained 

 unsurveyed, including 368,100,311 acres in 

 Alaska, mountain areas, unsurveyed lakes, and 

 rivers, private land claims, unsurveyed school 

 lands and Indian and other reservations. The 

 area of surveyed public lands vacant and sub- 

 ject to entry and settlement on July 1, 1902, was 

 391,979,307 acres, and of unsurveyed lands 591,- 

 576,169 acres; total, 893,955,476 acres. During 

 the fiscal year railroad selections amounted to 

 4,848,846 acres; road selections, 156,132 acres; 

 State selections, 2,508 acres. No lands were en- 

 tered under the homestead and timber-culture 

 acts. The forest reserves covered 4,909,880 acres 

 in Alaska, 6,740.410 acres in Arizona, 8,784,009 

 acres In California, 3,113,180 acres in Colorado, 

 4,147,200 acres in Idaho, 7,427,320 acres in Mon- 

 tana, 208,902 acres in Nebraska, 3.258,080 acres 

 in New Mexico, 57,120 acres in Oklahoma, 4,596,- 

 760 acres in Oregon, 1,177,120 acres in South 

 Dakota, 1,029,760 acres in Utah, 7,036,000 acres 

 in Washington, and 7,690,024 acres in Wyoming. 



Commerce and Production. The total value 

 of foreign merchandise imported into the United 

 States during the year ending June 30, 1902, was 

 $003,320.948, compared with $823,172,165 in 1901. 

 The total value of domestic exports was $1,355,- 

 481,861, compared with $1.460,462,806. Of the 

 imports the value of $56,366,711 was brought in 

 cars and other land vehicles, $102,188.002 in 

 American vessels, and $744,766.235 in foreign ves- 

 sels. Of the domestic exports the value of $115.- 

 967,630 was carried in land vehicles, $81,083,527 

 in American vessels, and $1,158,430,704 in for- 

 eign vessels. The total value of exports, domes- 

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tic and foreign, the foreign exports amounting 

 to $26,237,540, was $1,381,719,401; total foreign 

 trade in merchandise, $2,285,040,349, compared 

 with $2,310,937,156 in 1901 and $2,244,424,266 in 

 1900. Of the domestic exports in 1902 the value 

 of $851,460,312 represents agricultural, $39,075,999 

 mining, and $403,890,763 manufactured products, 

 the proportion being 62.81, 2.88, and 29.80 per 

 cent, respectively. The total value of imported 

 merchandise free of duty was $396,818,871 and of 

 dutiable merchandise $506,502,077. The values 

 of the various articles and classes of merchandise 

 imported in the fiscal year 1902 were as follow: 

 Chemicals, drugs, and dyes, free of duty, $3,748,- 

 670; coffee, $70,982,155; cotton, unmanufactured, 

 $11,712,170; fruits, including nuts, $8,883,426; 

 furs and fur-skins, undressed, $9,787,013; hides 

 and skins, other than fur-skins, free of duty, $40,- 

 532,579; india-rubber and gutta-percha, crude, 

 $25,652,977; paper stock, crude, $2,770,255; silk, 

 unmanufactured, $42,635,351; textile grasses and 

 fibrous vegetable substances, free of duty, $28,- 

 437,136; tin, $19,461,850; wood, unmanufactured, 

 free of duty, $7,578,065; breadstuffs, $2.034,357 ; 

 chemicals, drugs, dyes, and medicines, dutiable, 

 $23,974,952; cotton, manufactures of, $44,460,126; 

 earthen, stone, and chinaware, $9,680,156; flax, 

 hemp, jute, unmanufactured, $3,108,826; flax, 

 hemp, jute, manufactures of, $38,070,205; fruits, 

 including nuts, etc., $12,647,099; furs, manufac- 

 tures of, $5,836,588; glass and glassware, $6,013,- 

 963; hides and skins, other than fur-skins, duti- 

 able, $17,474,039; iron and steel, manufactures of, 

 $26,488,295; jewelry and precious stones, $19,778,- 

 934; leather, and manufactures of, $11,377,785; 

 metal, metal compositions, etc., dutiable, $6,223,- 

 383; silk, manufactures of, $32,640,242; sugar and 

 molasses and confectionery, $56,142,016; tea, 

 $9,390,128; tobacco leaf, $15,211,671; tobacco, 

 manufactures of, $2,494,822; vegetables, $7,039,- 

 835; wines, $8,921,138; wood and manufactures, 

 dutiable, $16,867,534; all other dutiable articles, 

 $130,625,913; all other articles free of duty, $144,- 

 274,460; total merchandise imports, $903,320,948. 



The values of the exports of merchandise, the 

 produce and manufacture of the United States 

 in 1902 were as follow: Agricultural implements, 

 $16,286,740; animals, $44,871,684; books, maps, 

 engravings, $3,997,977; breadstuffs, $213,134,344; 

 carriages, horse-cars, and cars, $9,872,516; chem- 

 icals, drugs, dyes, and medicines, $13,288,218; 

 clocks and watches, $2,144,490; coal, $20,765,461; 

 copper ore, $2,601,697; copper, manufactures of, 

 $41,218,373; cotton, unmanufactured, $290,651,- 

 819; cotton, manufactures of, $32,108.362; fibers, 

 vegetable and textile grasses, $4,575,219; fish, 

 $6,563,199; fruits, including nuts, $8,719.344; furs 

 and fur-skins, $5,030,204; hops, $1,550,657; iron 

 and steel, and manufactures of, $98,552,562; 

 leather, and manufactures of, $27,798,323; naval 

 stores, $11,733,562; oil-cake and oil-cake meal, 

 $19,943,198; oils, animal, $910,697; oils, mineral, 

 crude, $6,084,818; oils, refined or manufactured, 

 $66,218,004; oils, vegetable. $15,308,633; paper, 

 and manufactures of, $7,312,030; paraffin and 

 paraffin wax, $8,858,844; provisions, comprising 

 meat and dairy-products, $199,861,378; seeds, 

 $8,027,824; sugar and molasses, $3,237,329; tobac- 

 co, unmanufactured, $27,103.996; tobacco, manu- 

 factures of, $5.668,853; vegetables, $2,546,287; 

 wood, and manufactures of, $47,779,848 ; all other 

 articles, $82.506,670; total, domestic merchandise, 

 $1.355,481.861. 



The imports of raw sugar were 3,031,915,875 

 pounds, valued at $55,061.097; of hides and skins, 

 326.124,103 pounds, valued at $58.006.618; of 

 coffee, 1,091,004,252 pounds; of rubber and gutta- 



