Evening journal., 1899-06-27
POSTAL REVENUES
Standing of the Different states with
Respect 90 Average Con-
trfbutions.

The total postal receipts of the United
States for this year-a record breaker
are estimated at S1O0,O00,000. Last year
they were Ss7 100000, New York con-
tributing the largest item of the total,
Sls,000,O0o, and Alaska the smallest,
$4,000.
New York collects in postal revenues
more money in a year than does any
other state, Illinois coming second;
but in the number of post offices New
York is largely exceeded by Pennsyl-
rania, which has 5,10O to 3,7O0 in New
York, and Ohio, with 3,400, is not very
far behind. There is published in
Washington "A table showing the aver
age amount contributed by each inhab-
liant of each state to the postal rev
enues. This constitutes a pretty fair
gauge of the intellectual development
and activity in each state. At the head
OF the list is Massachusetts, with an
average last yedr OF $3.50 per inhab-
liant. Next follows New York with
S2.27, then the District Of Columbia
with s2.16, Colorado with S1.03 and Con-
necticut with $l.SO. Thirty-third in re-
spect TO the number of post offices, Col
orado is fourth among the states in re-
spect 10 the average amount of collec-
tisns for postage. They amounted to
S02600O last year, and viii certainly
exceed S1,O00,000 this year. 1t is OBJ
servabe that all the Pacific states ap-
pear TO pay for n large amount of cor
rcspondence. California, twenty-tirst
in the number of post Offices, is sixth
among the states and territories in the
per capita collection. Nevada, forty
seventh among the states in the number
of post Offices, is eighth in the number
Of collections, the seventh state on the
list being Vermont
The postal collections in Illinois
amount approximately TO $3.50 per cap
ita a year, and the other states with
the same amount of collections per cap
ita are Rhode Island, Montana, New
Hampshire, Maine and North Dakota,
the New England and the northwestern
states having in this particular many
points OF resemblance. Pennsylvania
collects about $1.3O per capita, New Jer-
sey $1.25, and Wyoming, Michigan,
y
about the same amount. Missouri,
Iowa, Oregon, Idaho and Kansas, four
agricultural states, contribute an aver
age of between $102 and S1.14 TO the
postal revenues for each inhabitant.
4 With present population of probably
i 55,000,00o, the contribution of 81 of
postal revenue each would represent a
total of S75,00O,O0O, or S12,OOO,CO0 less
than was taken in last year. The pres
ent average is about S1.33 per capita.
Two states widelyseparate and differ
ing from each other in all essential par
ticulars Of business, Utah and Wiscon-
y sin, collect identically the same amount
II per capita in postal revenue in year.
Utah has 331 post Offices; Wisconsin
mas nearly 1900; but the per capita col
lections of the two states are the same,
07 cents per year per inhabitant. Ne
braska and Florida have the same coll
lections per capita; so have South Da-
kota and the Indian Territory. Della
ware collects s5 cents per capita from
its 172 post offices, and Indiana, which
has 1900 post Offices, collects rs cents.
Virginia, fourth among the states in
the number OF post offices (it has 3,36O),
collects 6s cents, Oklahoma G5, West
Virginia GA, Louisiana 65, Texas 81, Ten
nessee So, Georgia SO and Kentucky 49,.
Kentucky stands very low among the
states in its contribution to the postal
revenues, collecting in year about the
same amount as the state Of Kansas
and less than half as much per capita.
s Kentucky has $500 post Offices, 1000
{ more than Massachusetts,, but for every
y dollar Of postal revenues collected in
Kentucky, Massachusetts collects IS.
Next below Kentucky is Alaska with
= only 3s post offices, but an average rev
= cnue per inhabitant of 43 cents year.
r After Alaslra is North Carolina, then
o Arkansas, then Alabama with an aver
e age of 35 cents, then Mississippi with
6 an average of 81 cents, though il has
1900 post Offices, and finally the fifty
first and last on the list of states and
territories, South Carolina, with an
y average collection Of only 25 cents per
y inhabitant.-N. y. sun.