Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1899-08-06
POSTAL REVENUES.
standing of the Different States with
Respect to Average Com
triDuti0ns.

lhetotal postal receipts of the United
States for this Sear-a record breaker
are estimated at 100000 Last wear
they were SS7,G40,oo0, New York con
tributing the largest item of the total,
S15,Oco,0O0, and Alaska the smallest,
$4,000.
New York collects in postal revenues
more money in year than docs any
other state, Illinois coming second;
but in the number of post Offices New
York is largely exceeded by PennsvI-
vania, which has $500 to 3,7oO in New
York, and Ohio, with 3,4oo, is not very
far behind. There is published in
Washington table showing the aver
age amount contributed by each inhab-
liant of each state to the postal rev
enues. This constitutes I; pretty fair
gauge OF the intellectual DEVELOPMENT
and activity in each state. At the head
OF the list is Massa chusetts, with an
average last year of 30 per inhab-
liant. Next follows New York with
S2.27, then the District of Columbia
with S2.16, Colorado with S1.o3 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-
spcct to the average amount of collec-
items for postage. They amounted to
S926,0oO last year, and Will certainly
exceed Sl,ooo,ooo this year. 1t is OBJ
servablc that all the Pacific states ar
pear to pay for n large amount of cor
rcspondencc. California, twenty-frst
III the number Of post offices, is sixth
among the states and territories in the
PCT 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 posta! collections in Illinois
amount approximately to $3.50 per cap
lta year, and the other states with
the same amount of collections per cap
lta 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 s1.3o per capita, New ,Tcr-
sey S1.25, and Wyoming, Michigan.
Maryland, Minnesota and Ohio have
about the same amount. Missouri.
Iowa, Oregon, Idaho and Kansas, four
age of between S1.O2 and Sill to The
postal revenues for each inhabitant.
With present population of probably
'a,oooooo, the contribution Of ST Of
postal revenue each would represent n
total OF S75,0o0,00o or $lo 900 GOO less
s3an was taken in last year The pres
ent averages is about S1.:.3 per capita.
Two states widely separated and iii fer
irg from each other in all essential par
tlculars of business, Utah and Wiscon-
SIN. collect identically the same amount
per capita IN postal revenue in a wear.
Utah has "3l post Offices: Wisconsin
mas nearly 1000; but the per capita col
lcctions Of the two states are the same.
- cents per year per inhnbitant Ne.
brs,ska and Florida have the same col
iections per capita; so have South Da-
kota and the Indian Territory. Della
ware collects IS cents Per capita from
Its l12 post offices, and Indiana. which
| has 1900 post offices, collects rs cents.
Virginia, fourth among the states in
the number Of post Offices Git has 5000,
collects GS cents, Oklahoma G5, West
Virginia 6A. Louisiana 63 Texas 81, Ten
nessce SIS, Georgia SO and Kentucky 40.
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.
kentucky has $500 post offices, 1000
more than Massachusetts, but for every
dollar of postal revenues collected in
kentucky, Massachusetts collects So.
Next below Kentucky is Alaska with
only 80 post Offices, but an average rev.
enue per inhabitant Of 4a cents a year.
After Alaska is North Carolina, then
Arkansas, then Alabama with an aver
age of 50 cents, then Mississippi with
an average Of 81 cents, though it has
1880 post Offices, and finally the fifty
first and last on the list of states and
territories, South Carolina, with an
average collection Of only 25 cents per
inhabitant.-N. Y. Sun.
The Value OF Iierotsm. &.