Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1899-06-03
ali5trllanrous 8eading.
POSTAL REVENUES.
Standing of the States With Respect to
Average. Contributions.

Standing of the States With Respect to
Average: Contributions.
New York Sum-. -..-g..s t..a.-....,--.- /.
The total postal receipts of the Uni
ted States for this year-a record
breaker-are estimated at S100,0OO,-
900. Last year they were SS7 $40, 900,
New York contributing the largest
item of the total-Sl5 900, ,OOO-and
Alaska the smallest, $4,000.
New York collects in postal reve-
nues more money in year than does
any other state. Illinois coming Sec
ond but in the number of postoffices
New York is largely exceeded by
PENNSYLVANIA, which has s, 100 to 8, ZOO
in New York and Ohio, with 3,40O, is
not very far behind. There is publish
ed in Washington table showing the
average amount contributed by each
inhabitant of each state to the postal
revenues. This constitutes pretty
fair gauge of the intellectual develop
ment and activity in each state. At
the head of the list is Massachusetts,
with an average last year Of $3.50 per
inhabitant. Next follows New York
with 1927, then the District of Colum-
bia with s2.16, Colorado with Sl.93
and Connecticut with S1.80. Thirty
third in respect to the number of post
Offices, Colorado is fourth among the
states in respect to the average amount
of collections for postage. They
amounted to s926,00O last year, and
will certainly exceed s1,00O,O00 this
year. 1t is observable that all the Pa.
cific states appear to pay for large
amount of correspondence. Califor-
MIA, 21st in the number of postoffces,
is sixth among the states and terrific
ries in the per capita collection. Ne
vada, 47th among the states in the
number of postoffices, 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
capita a wear, and the other states with
the same amount of collections per
capita are Rhode Island, Montana,
New Hampshire, Maine and North
Dakota, the New England and North
western States having in this particu-
lar many points of resemblance. Penn
svlvania collects about $1.30 per capita,
New Jersey S1.25 and Wyoming, Mich
igan, Maryland, Minnesota and Ohio
have about the same amount. Mis-
souri,, Iowa, Oregon, Idaho and Kan
sas, four agricultural states, contribute
an average of between S1.02 and Sl.l4
to the postal revenues for each inhab-
liant. With a present population of
probably 75,OOO,000, the contribution
of 81 of postal revenue would repre-
sent total of SIS 1000, 900, or S12,OOO,.
600 less than was taken in last year.
The present average is about Sl.S6 per
capita. Two states widely separated
and differing from each other offer in
all essential particulars of business,
Utah and Wisconsin, collect Identical.
ly the same amount per capita in postal
revenue in a year. Utah has 331 post
Offices; Wisconsin has nearly 1900 /;
but the per capita collections of the
two states are the same, 81 cents per
wear per inbabitant. Nebraska and
Florida have the same collection per
CAPITA; as have South Dakota and the
Indian Territory. Delaware collects
SIS cents per capita from its liz post
offices, Indiana has 2,2O0 postoffices,
and collects IS cents. Virginia,
fourth among the states in the number
Of postof6ces Git has 3,36O) collects
6S cents, Oklahoma 65, West Virginia
Ga, Louisiana IS, Texas 81, Tennessee
55, Georgia SO, and Kentucky 40.
Kentucky stands very low in its con-
tribution to the postal revenues, COL
lectiug in year about the same
amount as the state of Kansas and less
than half as much per capita. Ken
lucky has 2,2OO postoffices, 1000 more
than Massachusetts; but for every dol
lar of postal revenue collected in Ken
lucky, Massachusetts collects So. Next
below Kentucky is Alaska with only
38 postoffices, but an average revenue
per inhabitaut of 43 cents year. Al
ter Alaska is North Carolina, then Ar
kansas, then Alabama with an average
of 35 cents, then Mississippi with an
average of 81 cents, though it has l 800
postofices, and finally the ffty'hr
and last on the list Of states and ter.
ritories, South Carolina, with an aver
age collection of only 25 cents per in-
habitant.
THE LARGEST ORCHARD IN THE WORLD.
A letter from Chanute, Kan, says !: