NUMBER OF PENSION CLAIMS, PENSIONERS AND DISBURSEMENTS, 1861-1897.

Beginning with 1893 the total number of applications filed and the total number of claims allowed include army nurses and survivors and widows of Indian wars.

DISBURSEMENTS, 1897.

Amount disbursed at United States pension agencies during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897:

In addition to the above there was disbursed during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1897, the following sum, chargeable to the appropriation for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896: Fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $193,682.64.

STATE PENSIONS TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS.-1897.

PENSIONERS DROPPED.

267

Pensioners of the various classes dropped from the rolls during the year, with the cause, and the number of each class on the rolls June 30, 1897.

Total number of children on the rolls: General law, 19,511; act June 27, 1890, 46,358. Total minors, 65,869.

STATE PENSIONS TO CONFEDERATE VETERANS, 1897.

Compiled from official information by Gov. William Y. Atkinson of Georgia, and published in his message to the legislature, Oct. 27, 1897.

MINERAL PRODUCTION OF THE UNITED STATES, 1895 AND 1896. (Compiled for the Mineral Industry by Richard P. Rothwell.)

STATISTICS OF AGRICULTURE.

THE WHEAT CROP OF THE WORLD.

(Prepared by Henry Hyde, Statistician, Department of Agriculture.)

UNMANUFACTURED WOOL IMPORTED INTO THE UNITED STATES.

Quantities from the leading countries of supply during the five years ended June 30, 1896.