. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. Africa had an influence. Othercircumstances conspired to stimulate this movement ofrecovery. Two years of exceptional agricultural pros-perity occurred; of wheat in particular, the world producedin 1905 a crop larger by nearly 100,000,000 bushels thanever before harvested, and in 1906 the yield was 100,000,000larger still. Prior to 1902, the worlds largest wheat yieldhad been 2,900,000,000 bushels; the crop of 1906 was3,400,000,000; yet such was the magnitude of con
. The progress of the Empire State a work devoted to the historical, financial, industrial, and literary development of New York. Africa had an influence. Othercircumstances conspired to stimulate this movement ofrecovery. Two years of exceptional agricultural pros-perity occurred; of wheat in particular, the world producedin 1905 a crop larger by nearly 100,000,000 bushels thanever before harvested, and in 1906 the yield was 100,000,000larger still. Prior to 1902, the worlds largest wheat yieldhad been 2,900,000,000 bushels; the crop of 1906 was3,400,000,000; yet such was the magnitude of consumptionthat English experts estimated the second of these figuresto have been only 1,440,000 bushels beyond the worldsactual requirements for the season. In the United States,despite the signs of diminishing productive capacity in 1904,the wheat crops of 1905 and 1906 surpassed all precedentexcept the great wheat year 1901; the corn crop estab-lished a new maximum yield in each of these two years;the cotton yield of 1905 was the third largest in our agri-cultural history and that of 1906 was only a trifle below JOHN STANTON Was conspicuous in copper industry; born in Bristol, England,February 25, 1830; mining engineer and expert. Developedmines in Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Tennessee, andirior region. Was president of the Wolverine, Mohawk,and Baltic, and treasurer of the Atlantic & Central Mining Co.,and stockholder in practically all the Lake Superior mining andcopper companies. Director in several coal companies, and oneof the founders of the New York Metal Exchange in 1876, ofwhich he was president two years. President of the EngineersClub; member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers,the Lake Superior Mining Institute, and the North of EnglandInstitute of Mining & Mechanical Engineers. Died February23, 1906. THE ERA OF INDUSTRIAL EXPANSION 171 Notwithstanding this bounty of nature, prices and costof living rose with greater rapidity than at a
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