The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1906-11-22
MARYLAND WORTH
BILLION AND HALF.
Forthcoming Monograph of Census
Bureau Shows Great Growth
in Ia Years.

The total wealth of Maryland is
now more than one and a half bill
lion dollars. This entities the
State to the position of eighteenth
among the so States and Terri
tories of the United States and
makes Maryland lively rival of
Kentucky for seventeenth in rank.
The total wealth of Maryland in
1904 amounted to SI,5IJ4S8,I72,
and it then crossed the billion and
half line for the first time. Its
total wealth in 1900 was $751;
372958. In 1900 Maryland rank
ed eighteenth in wealth, and four
years later she had maintained this
position. In 1890 she ranked
nineteenth. Colorado stood in the
eighteenth place in 1890, but drop
ped to twenty-second place in
| 1900, and IS now twenty-frst.
These facts will be brought out
among many other interesting
features il a monograph which the
, United States Census Bureau is
about to issue on the subject of the
wealth Of the country, showing
the valuations by States and Ter
ritories, and under general group
ings showing analytically the dis
tribution of wealth.
This monograph will bring the
official estimate of national wealth
down to 1904, and finishing touches
are now being added to the task,
which has taken months of care.
full enumeration and calculation
uuder the direction of Mr.. lie
Grand Powers, chief statistician
of the Census Bureau.
An estimate of the wealth of the
country is made every 10 years,
during the course of the prepare
ton OF the decennial census. The
national wealth of the country in
1890 was S65,o37o9I,G97 Ten
years later it had grown to $685.
! 5G73o6,775. The monograph
about to be issued will show that
the total wealth of the country
had grown in 1904 to the stagger-
ing total of SIo7, Io4, I92,4Io. This
represents an increase of S42, o67,-
IoI, 2I3, or 81 per cent, during
the II years from 1890 to 1904.
Through the courtesy of census
officials access is afforded to these
tabulations, covering ruled pages
nearly one yard square, with a
multitudinous array of figures
ranging into the millions and bill
lions and showing by States and
Territories the wealth in realty,
live stock, farming implements,
gold and silver, manufacturing,
railroad and other properties.
These tables give the estimated
true value of the wealth in Mary
land as SI,5II,488,I72. This may
be divided into two general head
lngs, given as real property and
improvements, aggregating S9o4,-
469,755, and personal and other
property, aggregating S6o7, oI8,-
437. The personal and other
property comprises railroads, street
railways, telephones, telegraphs,
Pullman and private cars, ship
ping and canals, privately owned
waterworks, privately owned cleo
tric-light plants, live stock, farm
implements and machinery, manu-
featuring machinery, tools and i'm
plements, gold and silver coin and
bullion, clothing, furniture, car
riages, products of agriculture,
material of products of manufac-
turer, imported merchandise, pro-
ducts of mines and everything ex-
cept real estate.
The average value of the wealth
of Maryland for each acre of land
in the State, including city and
and country, is S237.57, and the
per capita average of the wealth
of the State is 81, 2I2.78. If the
wealth of the State were evenly
divided according to its population
each inhabitant would receive that
amount. The assessed value of
all property in Maryland, subject