AGRICULTURE. 



AGRICULTURE. 



VALUATION OF TAXED PROPERTY. 

 In 1791, estimated , '.0,000,000 



1816, estimated 1,800,000,000 



1850, Official valuation 7,135,780,228 

 1860, " 16,159,616,068 



Showing an increase in the last decade alone 

 23,835,840, equal to 130 per cent, for 

 last 10 years. 



A very satisfactory explanation of this sud- 

 den and surprising development of prosperity 

 BS perhaps furnished by the completion of ca- 

 nals and railways on which the products of 

 vast tracts of fertile Western lands have been 

 brought to the sea-board. During the ten 

 years ending in 1860, the sum of $413,541,510 

 was expended within the interior central 

 group, known as the " food-exporting States," 

 in constructing 11,212 miles of railway. The 

 total number of miles of railroad in the U. S. 

 amount, in 1867, to 40,000. 



The public lands belonging to the govern- 



1790, 3,929,827, 



1800, 5,305,937, increase 35.02 per cent. 



1810, 7,239,814, " 36.45 



1820, 9,638,191, " 33.13 



1830, 12,866,020, " 33.49 



1840, 17,069,453, " 32.67 " 



1850, 23,191,876, " 35.87 " 



1860, 31,445.080, " 35.59 



The increase from foreign emigration has 



been a yearly average, for 40 years, of 126,- 



560, and for the 10 years previous to 1860 



270,761. 



Of 5,062,414 arrivals from foreign countries 



n 40 years, from 1820 to 1860, there were 



rom 



Ireland 967,366 



England 302,665 



Scotland 47,800 



tfales 7,935 



^^."".1,425,018^2,750,784 



