This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... Reducing that to pounds, -at 440 pounds to the bale, we have a total of 3,969,563,840 pounds. At eleven cents per pound the total value of their annual crop would be $436,652,022. It is evidently nearer the truth to say that the overflowed lands, if protected and cultivated as carefully a3 the farm lands of New Jersey ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ... Reducing that to pounds, -at 440 pounds to the bale, we have a total of 3,969,563,840 pounds. At eleven cents per pound the total value of their annual crop would be $436,652,022. It is evidently nearer the truth to say that the overflowed lands, if protected and cultivated as carefully a3 the farm lands of New Jersey, would produce on an average at least one bale to every acre. It is an assertion which any planter familiar with the wonderful fertility, depth, and inexhaustibility of the alluvial soil will readily indorse. At that rate the Delta of the Mississippi would produce each year 23,727,168 bales worth, at 440 pounds to the bale, and at 11 cents per pound, $1,148,394,931. This is an annual yield fifty-three times more valuable than the annual contri The Silver Country, by A. D. Anderson, chap. ii. f Sec U. S. Census. butions to the wealth of the country by the gold mines of California, which, from 1866 to 1876, averaged each year $21,462,850. It is seventeen times more valuable than the combined annual products of gold and silver of the whole United States, which, from 1866 to 1877, averaged $66,097,500. It is seven times more valuable than the annual yield of gold and silver of the whole world, which, from 1866 to 1876, averaged 33,034,500, or $159,886,980. Contrast with the Netherlands. The history of the protection and development of the Netherlands (low countries, ) an exact parallel in formation to the alluvial lands of the Mississippi Valley, proves very clearly that we have not over-estimated the importance of the subject. The United Kingdom of the Netherlands contains but 12,680 square miles, and North and South Holland, two of the eleven subdivisions of the same, but 2,209 square miles. The whole of the Netherlands are made-land having..
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