The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-03-12
VEAL Is IN LAND.
1t Constitutes 90 Per Cent. of the Couu


1t Constitutes 30 Per Cent. of the Coun-
try's Assets.
Washington Corr. OF the Chicago Times.
The census office made public to-day a
report showing that the owners of farms
and homes, regarded as substantially the
land owners of the United States. own
more than 30 per cent. of the wealth of
the country. OF the white owners and
tenant heads more than 81 per cent. are
owners; of the negroes, more than IL per
cent; of mixed white and negro parent
age, % per cent. of the Indians, 90, and
of the Chinese and Japanese, IA. The
white owners of farms and homes that
are free from mortgage form II per cent.
of all white owners; of negroes, 80; of
those of mixed parentage, 81; of the In
dams, SO; and of the Chinese and Japa-
nese, 81 per cent. The percentages of
ownership are slightly higher for women
than for men, and free ownership is also
higher among women, except with the In
dams, Chinese and Japanese.
The results of farm properties show
that - per cent. of the whites are owners,
81 of the negroes, 30 of those of mixcd
blood, 20 of the Indians, and over 10 per
cent. of the Chinese and Japanese; while
for homes 80 per cent. of the whites are
owners, more than Is of the negroes, % of
those of mixed blood, 30 of the Indians,
and IA of the Chinese and Japanese. The
white farm owners who are free from
mortgage are Il per cent. of all white
owners; negroes, 80; those of mixed pa
rentage, 50; Indians, IS; and Chinese and
Japanese, 81. The corresponding figures
for homes are nearly the same.
In the So cities of $1,000 population and
over almost % per cent. of the white pro-
prietors are owners, and not quite per
cent. of the negroes.
For farms and homes So per cent. of
the native proprietors are owners; from
Austria Hungary, Al per cent; from
Canada and Newfoundland (French), 81;
Wales and England. 46; France, AZ; Ger
many, 50; Ireland. A; Italy, Is; Norway,
Sweden and Denmark, 81; Russia and
Poland, 81; Scotland. As, and from all
other countries over AZ per cent.
The native farm proprietors are ex-
ceeded in ownership by the natives of all
of these countries except Italy, whose
percentage for native owners is 60 and for
the Italians 60. The highest percentage
is 81, for the Irish. Ownership is more
prevalent among native than among
foreign-born proprietors in the case of
homes than it is among farm proprietors.
OF the native proprietors of homes Al per
cent. are owners, and the lowest per-
centagc representing the ownership of
homes for places of birth is Il, for the
Italians.
The ownership OF homes in the SO prin-
cipal cities is nearly as great among the
foreign born as among the natives. Among
the native home proprietors in these cities
23 per cent. are owners. The highest per-
fc FOR "a al
10 west 6, for the Italians.
The result of the inquiry as to nativity
of parents of the white native farm aud
home proprietors shows that for farms
and homes % per cent. of tho proprietors
have both parents native born and own
ers and i3 per cent. those who have one or
both parents foreign born. The per-
centages for farm owners having
both parents native born is 60 and
in the case of homes ~ per cent.
The total for both sexes and for farms
and homes shows that of tho propr.e-
tors under - years of age 20 per cent. a-e
owners; from % TO % years. % per cent:
from 30 to "a years, 81 per cent; from -
TO 80 years, ~ per cent. 40 TO Al years, ~
per cent; 45 To 40 years, 53 per cent; -
TO 81 years, 81 per cent; IS TO 50 years. 63
per cent, and so years and over. 60 per
cent. Percentages are generally some
what higher for women than for men.
Farm ownership is more prevalent at all
ages than home ownership. Almost b
per cent. of farm proprietors under %
years of age are owners. and the percent
age increases with age up to 50 per cent.
for owners of 60 years and over. Among
home proprietors of less than p years of
age IL per cent. are owners and the per-
centagc increases without interruption TO
y per cent. for owners of 60 years AMI
over.
Ownership is more prevalent among
women who are farm and home owners
and heads of tenan: families than among
men, the ownership of the women being
represented by 81 per cent, and the mon
81. The women exceed the men also IN
the . principal cities, where of the male
nome proprictors 3 per cent. are owners
and of the female 81 per cent. One rea-
son for the difference between the ii cures
for the two sexes Is the custom thar
makes the husband instead OF the wife the
head Of the family. The ownership of
farms and homes Is divided between the
Two SEXES IN proportion Of - per cent. to
the males and l. ~ the females. Slightly
moro tnau oue-quar.er OF the 2,D-s67I
owned homes OF Jh, Catcl States are
owned hy wancl AMI about ouc-,cnth of
the 5li2,5lD owned farms.
Brooklyn intends TO move the statuo ~