The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-09-28
FARM STATISTICS.
Land Ownership and Debt in Kan
saS and Arkansas.
RECENT CENSUS OFFICE BULLETINS.
Over Two-Thirds of the Farmers In Kansas
Own Their Farms-Troops to Be
Massed Near Railway
Centers.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25. i Bulletins
have been issued from the census office
showing land ownership and debt in
the states of Kansas and Arkansas.
The figures for Kansas are more in
teresting than any others, because it
has been pointed out as the state
where the debts and mortgages are
more burdensome than all others.
The bulletins show that of
the farms in Kansas BLOB
per cent. are hired and 6s.97 per
cent. are owned by persons cultivating
them. OF the farms 55.5 per cent. are
incumbered by mortgages. The mort
cages on farms amount to S73. 779, 2S3,
which is 1899 per cent. of their value.
This debt bears an average rate of in
terest of s. - per cent; the average an
nual interest charge to each family
owning an incumbered farm being S92.
Each of the incumbered farms are
worth on the average of S3,219, and
subject to debt of 81, 126.
Corresponding facts for homes are
that 1885 per cent. of home families
hire and 50.15 per cent. own their
iiplhCS- GiidJ Va HOLHt-OW Hing
60. 81 per cent. own free of incumbrance
and GIG per cent. with incumbrance.
In 100 home families, on an average so
hire their homes. 20 own with incum-
brance and 80 without incumbrance
The debt on owned homes aggregates
S20.330.95l. or 1925 per cent. of their
value. and bears interest at an average
rate of S. - per cent, so that the an
nual amount of interest on each home
averages 500. The average debt of
$500 incumbers each home, which has
an average value of S2,2O2.
In the cities in the state in the class
of those having a population of 5000
to 100. 1000, So IL per cent. of home fami-
lies hire and Abs per cent. own their
homes and of homecoming families
1927 per cent. own without incum-
brance and 10 per cent own free of
incumbrance. In 100 home families on
the average are found So that hire
their homes, Is that own with in
cJImbyance and 81 that own with
out incumbrance Liens on owned
homes are 36.6S per cent. of value
of those subject to lien. Several aver
ages show that the rate of interest is
500 per cent; the value of each owned
and incum bered home is s.. O61: lien on
same, 81, 1913. and yearly interest charge
on each home, 500. Real estate pur-
chase and improvements. when not as
ISOLATED with other objects, caused 7.O2
per cent. of farm families to incur 52.O1
per cent. of farm debt and 1874 per
cent. of home families to incur 53.O6
per cent. of home debt.
The aggregate number of families in
the State is 297.35S of whom III, 143 oc-
cupy farms, ISLES own homes or
farms. of which number 9O.271 are in
numbered; of the 1928 families out |
side the farms G3.297 own homes and |
IS, 500 of them are unincumbered. Fam
lilies renting homes number 62,916, |
renting farms, 53,114.
In ARkansaS SO. "a per cent. of the farms |
are owned and %. 81 per cent. are owned |
free of incumbrance. On the owned |
farms there are membranes amount
ing to S., Or, 3i5, which is Ass per cent.
of their value. The average interest |
charge is O. 30 per cent. OF the homes,
49, % per cent are owned anu OF LneIn
Df. 10 per cent. are free of incumbrance.
CONCENTRATING TIE ARMY.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25-The concen-
tration of regular army forces near
great railway centers for the purpose
Of maintaining respect of all classes
for the laws of the United States, which
has been ordered to take place the
first of October, is clearly shown in the
and arrangement of the
department of the east, which includes
the country east of Michigan,
Indiana, Missouri and Texas While
over two-tnirds of the entire strength
IF the army will continue at stations
vest of this line, more than 1000 regu-
ars will be under marching orders
rom headquarters on Governors
island, New York, when Gen. Miles
succeeds Gen. Howard in November
The center of this strength will
De near New York city, but the
orce along the Canadian border
will be considerably augmented and
he secondary centers of Washington,
cincinnati and Atlanta will be within
,asy reach of any external menace or
domestic disturbance.