The United States Light-House Establishment. THE following are the members of the Light-House Board: Oscars. Straus, Secretary of Commerce and Labor and ex-officio President of the Board. Col. Walter S. Franklin, Baltimore, Md. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, Carnegie Foundation, New York, Col. Daniel W. Lockwood, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., New York. Rear-Admiral Albert Ross, U. S. N., Washington, D. C. Lieut. Col. Harry F. Hodges, Corps of Engineers, U. S. A., Washington, D. C. Comd'r. J. M. Helm, U. S. N., Naval Secretary, Washington, D. C. Lieut.-Col. Thomas L. Casey, Corps of Engineers, U. s. A., Engineer Secretary, Washington, D. C. The establishment is divided into sixteen districts, each in charge of an inspector and engineer, the former being navy and the latter army officers. The Board has supervision of all administrative duties relating to the construction and maintenance of light-houses, light-vessels, beacons, fogsignals, buoys, and their appendages, and has charge of all records and property appertaining to the establishment. The United States Government Printing Office. The Public Printer has charge of all business relating to the public printing and binding. He appoints the officers and employees of the Government Printing Office, and purchases all necessary machinery and material. The foreman of printing has charge of all matter which is to be printed. His department consists of the following divisions: The document, job, specification, press, folding, stereotype, and Congressional Record rooms, as well as the various branch offices. The Superintendent of Documents has general supervision of the distribution of all public documents, excepting those printed for the use of the two Houses of Congress and the Executive Departments. He is required to prepare a comprehensive index of public documents and consolidated index of Congressional documents, and is authorized to sell at cost any public document in his charge the distribution of which is not specifically directed. The following are the official heads of the several departments: Public Printer, Charles A. Stillings; Chief Clerk, Henry T. Brian; Foreman of Printing, Charles E. Young; Foreman of Binding, Harry F. Ashion; Foreman in Charge of Congressional Record, John R. Berg; Superintendent of Documents, William L. Post. United States Secret Service. The Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department is under the direction of John E. Wilkie, chief of the division. The service is principally engaged in detecting and prosecuting makers and dealers in counterfeit paper money and coin, although its operations include the detection of all violations of the laws of the United States. Details are also furnished for the protection of the President of the United States, and in the frequent journeyings of the present President he is always accompanied by one or more secret service men. The arrests of counterfeiters number about 400 annually; other arrests are for bribery, Impersonating United States Government officers, perjury, and violating Sections 5,392, 5,414, 5,415, 5,424, 5,432, 5,438, 5,440, 5,450 and 5,479 of the United States Revised Statutes, State. MOTTOES AND POPULAR NAMES OF THE STATES—Continued., Translation. Popular Name Popular Name of People. Motto. Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin were named from their principal rivers. Carolina from Charles IX. of France; Georgia from George II.; Louisiana from Louis XIV. of France; Maryland from Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I.; New York from the Duke of York, afterward James II.; Virginia from Queen Elizabeth, the virgin queen; Pennsylvania from William Penn, and Delaware from Lord Delaware. Dakota, Massachusetts, and Texas took their names from Indian tribes, and Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, and Wyoming were derived from Indian words, "IN COD WE TRUST" "In God We Trust" first appeared on the copper two-cent issue of 1864, and was the first use of the word "God" in any Government act. The sentence was introduced by James Pollock, Director of the Mint, with the approval of Secretary of the Treasury Solomon P. Chase. It appeared on the 1866 issue of the double eagle, eagle, half-eagle, silver dollar, half dollar, and nickel five-cent piece, in lieu of the long existing motto of "E Pluribus Unum." In the Trade Dollar issue (1873) both mottoes were retained, "In God We Trust" appearing on the obverse.-Townsend. Building and Loan Associations. THE following statistics of local Building and Loan Associations in the United States were reported at the last annual meeting of the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations, The returns are for 1906-07: 15,316 1,699,714 $673,129,198 The following was the statement of receipts and expenditures by local associations in 1906: Receipts: Weekly dues, $167,346, 676; paid-up stock. $12,625, 500; deposits, $39,433,496: loans repaid, $143,951,964; interest, $39,601,780; premium, $3.157,704; fines, 8505, 020; pass books and initiation, 733,608: borrowed money, 843, 639,044; real estate sold, $7,511,508; miscellaneous receipts, $13, 210, 260; total, $494,286,996. Disbursements: Pass book loans, $12,258, 696; mortgage loans, $197,244,864; stock withdrawals, $145,764, 720: paid-up stock withdrawals, $13,577,064; deposit withdrawals, $34,910, 172; expenses, $5.427,636; borrowed money, $43.601.832; interest, $1,100, 412; real estate purchased, $3 907,260; miscellaneous, $11,604,828; total, 8496,397,483. The officers of the League, elected at the annual meeting of 1907, are as follows: President, J. N. C. Shumway, Taylorsville, Ill.; First Vice-President, W. G. Weeks, New Iberia, La.; Second VicePresident, B. H. Jones, Boston, Mass.; Third Vice-President, Jay W. Sutton, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich.; Treasurer, Joseph K. Gamble, Philadelphia, Pa.; Secretary, H. F. Cellarius, Cincinnati, Ohio; Assistant Secretary, Addison B. Burk, Philadelphia, Pa. In 1893 there were 240 national building and loan associations in the United States, with total assets of $37,020,366. Since that date this class of associations has greatly decreased in numbers. On Jan. 1, 1907, they were approximately fifty in number, with estimated assets of $16,500,000. Production of Coal. AREA OF THE WORLD'S COAL-FIELDS, IN SQUARE MILES. CHINA and Japan, 200.000: United States, 194,000; India, 35,000; Russia, 27,000; Great Britain, 9,000; Germany, 3,600; France, 1,800; Belgium, Spain, and other countries, 1,400, Total, 471,800.' The coal-fields of China, Japan, Great Britain, Germany, Russia, and India contain apparently 303,000,000,000 tons, which is enough for 450 years at present rate of consumption. If to the above be added the coal-fields in the United States, Canada, and other countries, the supply will be found ample for 1,000 years. Improved machinery has greatly increased the yield per miner, and thus produced a fall in price to the advantage of all industries. The production of the principal countries in 1906 in metric tons of 2,205 pounds was: United States, 375,397, 204; United Kingdom, 251,050.809; Germany, () 193,533,259; Austria-Hungary, (a) 40, 850,000; France, 34,313,645: Belgium, 23.610,740 Russia, 16,990,000; Japan, 12.500.000: Australasia, 10,347, 259: India, 9,258, 466; Canada. 9,033,973; Spain, (a) 3.284,576; Sweden, 296, 980; South Africa, (b) 3,900,000; Italy, (a) 473,293; all other countries, (b) 5,500,000; total, partly estimated, 990, 502.793 metric tons. (a) Including lignite. (b) Estimated. COAL PRODUCTION IN THE UNITED STATES. 1906 (TONS OF 2,000 POUNDS). (a) Figures reported by the U.S. Geological Survey. (e) Estimated. () Fiscal year ending June 30. (g) Fiscal year ending June 30, 1906. Imports of coal into the United States for the calender yea 1906 amounted to 1,744, 507 short tons, of which 82,857 tons were classed as anthracite, 212,838 2 66 Total 145.076,950 1.12 Coal Sh. Tons...... 413,838.679 375,397,204 • Production is for calendar year preceding the fiscal year. + Export statistics for the fiscal years ending June 80. Residuum-tar, pitch, and all other from which the light bodies have been distilled, In 1898 this amounted to 19,973,604 gallons, In 1899 to 30,668,988 gallons, in 1900 to 16,629,186 gallons, in 1901 to 25,696,596 gallons, in 1902 to 50,309,510 gallons, in 1903 to 21,715,720 gallons, in 1904 to 22,560,570 gallons, in 1905 to 75,031,821 gallons. The above is compiled from the Report of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department. Over 5,000,000,000 gallons of petroleum, according to the office of the Geological Survey, are now produced annually in the world. Of this amount 2,500,000,000 are produced in the United States, 2,250,000,000 in Russia, and the remainder is distributed among a dozen countries, Austria producing 87,000,000; Sumatra, 72,000,000; Java, 30,000,000; Canada, 29,000,000; Germany, 15,000,000. The United States exported $75,612,000 and Russia $23,676,000 worth of mineral oil in 1990. Production of Copper, Tin, and Zinc. THE production of copper fu the world in 1906, stated in metric tous of 2204.6 lbs., was as follows United States, 416, 226; Spain and Portugal, 50,109; Chile, 26, 157; Japan, 40,528; Germany 20.665; Mexico, 62.690; Australasia, 36,830; South Africa, 6,645; Canada, 19, 106; other localities 36,312; total of the world, 715,268. The copper production of the United States in 1906 was distributed as follows (figures are in tons of 2,000 lbs.): Alaska, 4,350; Arizona, 131,600; California, 12, 210.5; Colorado, 4.782.5; Idaho, 4.746.5: Michigan, 112, 035.5; Montana, 149, 925; New Mexico, 3, 131; Utah, 24,856; Wyoming, 78; Southern States, 9, 410. 5; other States, 1.689.5; total productions, 458,810. The production of tin in the world in 1906, in long tons, was: England, 4.920; Straits Settlements, 58.438; Banka and Billiton, 11,250; Australasia, 6,888; Bolivia, 14,700; United States, none; total of the world. 96, 196. The production of zinc in the world in 1906, in metric tons, was as follows: Austria, 10,780; Belgium, 152,461; France, (c) 48.256; Germany, 205,691; Holland, 14,650; Italy, (d); Russia, 9.610; Spain, (e) 5,500; United Kingdom, 52,587, United States, 204,518; total of the world, 704.118. (c) An approximate separation of the total which is reported for France and Spain. (d) Included in Austria. The statistics of Production of Coal, Copper, Tin, and Zinc, and those of Pig Iron and Steel, which follow, were compiled for THE WORLD ALMANAC by The Mineral Industry" and the "Engineering and Mining Journal," Production of Pig Iron and Steel IN PRINCIPAL COUNTRIES IN METRIC TONS. |