Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1895-01-23
MANY HOME OWNERS,
Statistics from the Census Bu-
reau Prove 1t.
PERCENTAGE LOW In LARGE CITIES
There are But IS Per Cent Of White and
o Per Cent Of Colored People
Property Owners.

The census Office has made public
a report showing that the owners of
farms and homes. regarded as substan-
TALLY 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 II per cent; OF
mixed white and negro parentage %
per cent; of the Indians So, and of the
Chinese and Japanese IA per cent.
The white owners of farms and homes
that are free from mortgages form II
per cent. of all white owners; negroes,
80; of mixed parentage. 81; Indians.
90. and Chinese and Japanese. 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 Indians
and Chinese and Japanese.
The results for farm properties show
that 70 per cent. of the whites are own.
ers, 81 of the negroes, 30 Of those of
mixed blood. 10 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
10 of the negroes, 90 Of those Of mixed
blood. 53 OF the Indians, and IA of the
Chinese and Japanese. The white farm
owners who are free Of mortgage are
II per cent; negroes. 90; Of those of
mixed parentage. 80; Indians. SO. and
Chinese and Japanese, 81. The cor
responding figures for homes are nearly
the same.
In the fifty.eight cities of $4,000
population and over almost % per cent.
of the white occupiers are owners and
not quite per cent. of the negroes.
For farms and homes 81 per cent. of
the native occupiers are owners;
from Austria Hungary. Al per cent;
from Canada and Newfoundland brit
ish). AZ; from Canada and Newfound-
land (French). 81; Wales and England,
As; France. AZ; Germany. So; Ireland,
"A; Italy, 10; Norway, Sweden. and
Denmark, 81; Russia, and Poland, 81;
Scotland, 45; and from all other coun-
Tries over 4 per cenb.
The native farm occupiers are ex-
ceeded in ownership by the natives of
all these countries except Italy. The
percentage for native owners is SO and
for the Italians 68; and the highest
percentage is 81 for the Irish. Owner
ship is more prevalent among native
than among foreign born occupiers in
the case of homes than it is among
farm occupiers. Of the native occu.
piers of homes, Al per cent. are own
ers and the lowest percentage represent
ing the ownership of homes for places
of birth is 10 for the Italians.
The ownership of homes in the fifty
eight principal cities is nearly as great
among the foreign born as among the
natives. Among the native home occu-
piers in these cities 23 per cent. are
owners, the highest percentage being
80 for the Germans and the lowest
for the Italians.
The results of the inquiry as to the
nativity of parents of the white native
farm and home occupiers shows that
for farms and homes 90 per cent. of
the proprietors who have both parents
native born are owners and 43 per
cent. IF those who have one or both
parents foreign born. The percentages
for farm owners having both parents
native born is so and in the case of
homes 40 per cent. The total for both
sexes and for farms and homes shows
that of the occupiers under 25 years of
age 20 per cent. are owners; from 20
to 20 years, 80 per cent; from 80 to
"a years. 81 per cent; from 35 to 80
years. AZ per cent: 40 to a years. 40
per cent; 40 to 40. years. SO per cent.
90 to 81 years, 81 per cent; 90 to so
years, 63 per cent; and go years and
over, go per cent.
Percentages are generally somewhat
higher for women than for men. Farm
ownership is moro prevalent at all ages
than home ownership. Almost 35 per
cent. OF farm occupiers under % years
of age are owners, and the percentage
increases with age up to SO per cent.
for owners of go years and over.
Among home occupiers Of less than 25
years Of age 13 per cent. are owners,
and the percentage increases without
interruption to 5S per cent for owners
of 60 years and over.
Ownership is more prevalent among
women who are farm and home owners
and heads Of tenant families than
among men, the ownership of the
women being represented by 81 per
cent. and the men As. The women
exceed the men also in the fifty eight
principal cities, where of the male
home occupiers 23 per cent. are own
ers, and of the female 81 per cent.
One reason for the difference between
the figures for the two sexes is the GUS
tom that makes the husband instead of
the wife the head of the family. The
ownership Of the farms and homes is
divided between the two sexes in the
Of SO per cent. to the males
and II to the females Slightly more
than one-quarter Of the 2.92S.67l