The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-07-20
WEALTH OF VERMONT.

The superintendent OF the census has pup
lished Statistical atlas" of the United
States, showing the distribution of wealth,
population, minerals, industry, etc., ETC.,
throughout the country, as well as the pro-
gress made during the century. The plan
adopted may be illustrated by reference
to the "map" showing the distribution of
wealth. A map of the United States is
colored with five different tints of the
same color, tie portion left uncolored in
dicating a state of wealth Of less than one
hundred and seventy-five dollars to each
inhabitant. The lightest tint indicates a
wealth of from one hundred and seventy
five to three hundred and twenty-five dol
from three hundred and twenty-five to five
hundred and fifty dollars the third from
five hundred and fifty to eight hundred and
fifty dollars the fourth from eight hun
bred and fifty to thirteen hundred dollars;
and the fifth, or darkest, from thirteen
hundred dollars and upwards. So that by
mere glance, the relative situation of one
part of the country to another in popula-
ton, wealth, taxation, Indebtedness, agri-
cultural, mining, or manufacturing pro-
ducts, sickness, and kinds of diseases, etc. +,
etc., may be at once ascertaned. Let us
look, for moment, at the distribution of
wealth in reference, especially to Vermont.
In ten of the northern states--Vermont,
New Hampshire, Massachusetts,, Rhode Is
land, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware, Ohio and Indiana-the
color indicates that there is no county in
which the individual wealth will not aver
age at least from one hundred and seventy
five to eight hundred and fifty dollars per
inhabitant. Vermont, considering her in
land posltion-we refer particularly to that
portion in and around Rutland county
compares favorably with the remainder of
the Union. The most wealthy states are
New York Massachusetts and Connecticut,
the average wealth per capita being from
fourteen hundred and forty-one to fourteen
hundred and eighty lone dollars. When we
remember that the commerce of Europe
"sifts principally through them leaving
golden sediment in it's PASSAGE" how
much more prosperous are they than Yer
mont, with an average per capita wealth of
from eight hundred and fifty to thirteen
hundred dollars
When we look at debt and taxation, the
result is still more favorable to Vermont
The public debt of New York, not includ-
ing her proportion of the national debt, is
one hundred and fifty-nine millions of dol
lars, and her taxation is at the rate of
eleven dollars and six cents for each in
habitant. The debt of Massachusetts is
sixty-nine millions of dollars, with tax
of seventeen dollars and ten cents per
capita. That of Vermont was some three
and half million of dollars with taxa
ton of some nine dollars and fifty cents
to each inhabitant. These, it must be re-
membered, are the figures for 1870, the in
debtedness of Vermont having been largely
decreased since that time, the state debt
being then reported at one million twenty
five hundred dollars while now it is only
some three hundred thousand dollars and
the county, town and village Indebtedness,
as well as the rate of taxation, has been
decreased in like proportion, while the
other states mentioned show an aggregate
increase both of debt and taxation. The
average of individual debt, per capita, in
Vermont is from five to ten dollars, but
this is deducted from the average persona
wealth leaving that at the figures stated
Leaving the industrial statistics unit
another day, we may ask if Vermont is MOI
good state to stay in as well as to be borr
in?