Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1892-11-11

1ebs0 JNYt I*2uCJs H1UWS INV 0S41SVAsA4
6ealth Is distributed ID tho different
sectioSs 81 THIS country. az couiss
these totals are not perfect fos pur
nosca az comparIeon. as thu assess
msut laws differ ID the yarlOuaSlates
bot the Louisville Courier,Jonrnal
claims that with q few provisos they
nGfye we'll cnOlixh To give one D fall
idea III the relative f::thes df p6yertj
tf thU sections Ono di tho must Ind
pDftant 10 the ptotisos u In regard
% lllind!k where the State board 81
Rehabilitation estimates that tn 1890
hsecs6rneiit REPRESENTS only dnc.lourth
The true value III this property. Thi9
estimate Ii Upheld BY the fact that
the as3eSsment Oh Illinois Is but little
mdrS than onc.th1rd that OF Chic,
and Il considerably less than that OF
indiana. although Illinois inas the
great city or Chicago within her Cor
dcrs ard possesses d population nearly
double that or Indiana. Ia Massa.
chu sets the assessment Is lixely 10
DO q little high 10 compared with
that o. other staies, as property there
Ia rated at pretty nearly it's trGo
value.
Tho aaurcs Indicate that the
wealth III the county lies niore large.
" In the East than had even lHes
generally supposed, nltlsnu@h 1t wss
universally kitowi that tile I'll L. 4.
cause u greater aye, was TIE richer
section.
Massachusetts, though one Of the
smallest States In size and but the
sixth In population. is tho third in
assessed wealth, falling less than 20
per cent. behind Pennsylvania, w,ilc
New York, with a population nca "
three times a, great, exceeds her only
60 per cent. Her assessment is
greater than Tint of Ohio. I :
than four times that OF Kentucky,
six times that OF Tennessee, more
than fourteen times that Ut South
Carolina and nearly three times that
Of Missouri. !.
More than Onc-third OF the assessed
wealth Of the United States Is in the
three states Of New York, Pennsy..
tania and Massachusetts, and nearly
onc-half OF it Is In the FIVE States OF
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
setts, Ohio and California. The as
easement OF California, though that
State is only about forty years old,
exceeds that OF any other state except
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu.
sctts and Ohio. though Illinois would
no far ahead Of her IL prOpcrty there
were n~ronerlv assessed.
The six Now England States. with
about one.thirtieth OF the Iopula.
ton Of the Union. contain onc.seyenth
Of the assessed wealth, Massachusetts
with one-thirtieth Of the population
having on~e-elcycnth az n assessed
wealth. The fifteen state, that were
formerly slnyehoIdinv contain about
% nor cent. az The assessed wealth
md about III pcr cent. OF the popula.
tion az the Union. What was tho
old Northwest Territory. which Great
britain cndcayored to hold, now the
Ave States az Ohio. Indiana. Illinois
N chipan. and WISCONSIN. contains
Diner cent. Of the POPULATION and q
mr cent. OF the assessed wea' tn,
Illinois being given her propcr assess.
,ncnt. about cnual to that OF Ohio.
Some OF the FAR western States, be.
aides California. are rising rapidly Ii.
the scale ar wealth. Thus the as.
sessment of Washington or Colorado
IL larger than that Of South Carolina
or Wee Ni-rsrs~ -. A~l.Aneas. In
fact, the assessment Of Washington
exceeds that OF Nebraska, but we
must take into consideration thai
values are placed ON a much higher
scale In the new and Western State.
than In the old and Eastern States
1t Is safe to say that the newer Z
State is the mor Inflated its assess
ment IL. There is also another i'm
portant item To be taken into con
sideratfon in estimating the relative
wealth OF East and West. A larg'
portion OF the West Is owned In TIL
East, while very little OF the Eas
belongs to the West.