Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1895-01-10
WEALTH rs in LAND.
CONSTITUTES go PER CENT. OF
THE COUNTRY'S ASSETS.
Interesting Report Of the Census Blu
reau Has Been Made Public-Percent-
age Of Farm and Home Owners Com
pared with Different Nationa1ities.
FiUures ARC of Interest.

The Census Office has made pubic re-
port showing that the owners of farms
and homes, regarded as substantially rhe
landowners of the United States, own
more than 90 per cent. of the wealth IT
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, 25 per cent; of the Indians, 60, 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 Indians, DC;
and of the 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 Chi
nese and Japanese.
The results for farm properties show
that ~ per cent. of the whites are OWL
ers, 21 of the negroes, 20 of those of mixed
blood, 20 Of the Indians. and over 10 per
cent. of the Chinese and japanese, while
for home 80 per cent. of the whites are
owners, more than 10 of the negroes, %
Of those OF mixed blood, 53 of the Indians,
and IA of the Chinese and japanese. The
white farmowners who are free from
mortgage are II per cent. Of all white
owners; negroes, 90; those of mixed par
entage, 80; Indians, 95; and Chinese and
japanese, 81. The corresponding figures
for homes are nearly the same.
In the fifty-eight cities of 10000 popu-
lation and over almost 20 per cent. of the
white proprietors are owners, and not
quite 8 per cent. of the negroes.
For farms and homes 53 per cent. of
the native proprietors are owners; from
Austria-Hungary, Al per cent. from Can
ada and Newfoundland (English), II;
from Canada and Newfoundland Frenc!),
81; Wales and England, 1G; France, IL;
Germany, 50; Ireland, A; Italy, 10; Nor
way, Sweden and Denmark, 81; Russia,
and Poland, 81; Scotland, 45, and from
all other countries, over AZ per cent.
The native farm proprietors are exceed
ed in ownership by the natives of all IF
these countries except Italy, whose per-
centage for native owners is 60 and for
the Italians 6S. The highest percentag &c
Is 81, for the Irish. Ownership is more
prevalent among native than among for
eign-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 percent
age representing the ownership of homes
for places of birth is II, for the Italians.
The ownership of homes in the fifty
eight principal cities is nearly as great
among the foreign born as among the ma
tives. Among the native home proprie-
tors in these cities % per cent. are owners
The highest percentage is 80, for the Ger
mans, and the lowest 6, for the Italians.
The result of the inquiry as to nativity
of parents of the white native farm and
home proprietors shows that for farms
and homes So per cent. of the proprietors
have both parents native born and owners
and 43 per cent. those who have one or
both parents foreign born. The percent.
ages for farm owners having both pa
rents native born is 90 and in the case OF
homes AZ per cent. The total for both
sexes and for farms and homes shows
that of the proprietars under % years OF
age 20 per cent. are owners; from % to "G
years, % per cent; from 30 to "a years
81 per cent; from .35 to 80 years, AZ pei
cent; 40 to Al years, 40 per cent; 45 Ia
40 years, 53 per cent; 80 to "a years, ~
per cent. 55 to SO years, 63 per cent. and
60 years and over, 90 per cent. Percent.
ages are generally somewhat higher fol
women than for men. Farm ownership
is more prevalent at all ages than home
ownership. Almost 35 per cent. of farm
proprietors under % years of age are own.
ers and the percentage increases with age
up to S3 per cent for owners of GO years
and over. Among home proprietors OF
less than % years of age 13 per cent. are
owners and the percentage increases with
out interruption to 58 per cent. for own.
ers 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
46. The women exceed the men also In
the ffty-eight principal cities, where of
the male home proprietors % per cent. are
owners and of the female 81 per cent.
One reason for the difference between the
figures for the two sexes Is the custom
that makes the husband instead of the
wife the head of the family. The owner
ship of farms and homes is divided be-
tween the two sexes in the proportion of
SO per cent. to the males and IL to the
females. Slightly more than one-quarter
of the 2,92S,671 owned homes of the
United States are owned by women and
about one-tenth of the 3,142,746 owned