Evening journal., 1899-07-25
POSTAL REVENUES
Standing OF the Different States with
Respect 10 Average Con-
tributions.

The total postal receipts Of the. United
States for this year-a record breaker
are estimated at S100,0oO,000. Last year
they were Ss7,64O,O0o, New York con-
tributing the largest item of the total.
$4,000, 900, 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-
Vania, which has 500 to $500 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-
itant 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 year of $3.50 per inhab-
liant. Next follows New York with
1927, then the District of Columbia
with s2.16, Colorado with S1.93 and Con
secticut with s1so Thirty-third in 10
spect to the number ofpost sfiises, 90
-erado is fourth among the stetex in r.
spect to the average amount of eolles-
items for postage. They Amounted to
S926,000 last year, and win certainly
exceed sl,OOO,0oo this year. It is OBJ
servable that all the Pacific states ap-
pear to pay for a large amount of cor
respondence. California. twenty-frst
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 s.. so per cap
i ita 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 s1.3O per capita, New Jer-
sey $1.25, and Wyoming, Michigan
Maryland, Minnesota and Ohie have
about the same amount. Missouri
Iowa, Oregon, Idaho and Kansas, -four
/ agricultural states, contribute an aver
age of between S1.O2 and S1.14 to the
postal revenues for each iRhabitant
With a present population of probably
75,OO0,000, the contribution of 81 oil
postal revenue each would represent 9
total of S75,000,00O, or Sl2,00O.00O less
than was taken in last year. The pres
ent average is about si.s3 per capita
. Two states widely separated and differ
ing from each other in all essential par
ticulars of business, Utah and Wiscon
sin, collect identically the same amount
per capita in postal revenue i9 year
Utah has 331 post Offices; Wisconsin
mas nearly 200; but the per capita col
lections of the two states are the same
% cents per year per inhabitant. Ne
brasla and Florida have the same col
lections per capita; so have South Da
: kota and the Indian Territory. Della
ware collects SIS cents per capita from
its 172 post Offices, and Indiana, whicl
has 1900 post offices, collects rs cents
Virginia, fourth among the states il
{ the number of post Offices Gt has 3,360)
collects 6s cents, Oklahoma 65, Yves
Virginia Ga, Louisiana 65, Texas 81, Ten
nessee 55, Georgia 50 and Kentucky 4s
Kentucky stands very low among tn
states in its contribution TO the posta
revenues, collecting in year about tn
I same amount as the state of Kansa
5 and less than half as much per capita
e. Kentucky has $500 post offices, 200
] more than Massachusetts,, but for ever.
/ dollar of postal revenues collected Il
Kentucky, Massachusetts, collects 81
I Next below Kentucky is Alaska wit
only IS post offices, but an average reN
enue per inhabitant of As cents yeai
e. After Alaslsa is North Carolina, the
Arkansas, then Alabama with an aver
: age of 35 cents, then Mississippi wit
= an average of 81 cents, though it ha
l 1,S00 post Offices, and finally the fifty
j. first and last on the list of states an
). territories, South Carolina, with a
e average collection of only 25 cents pc
inhabitant.-N. Y Sun.