The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1907-03-30
NATIONS WEALTH
UNCLE SANS POCKET euLoes
WITH INCREASED HoLoiNoA
NO QUARTERS foa PANIC
Only One Parallel In History o. coun.
try, Which was from 1850
v, to 1860.

v, to 1860
washinston.-The total estimate O,
the national wealth In 1904 was slo7,-
l04,ls2,4lo. according to . special re-
port issued by the census bureau On
wealth. cebt and taxation. which rep
resents an increase In the four-year
period from 1900 TO 1904 OF $685.
ss5.es5
This advance In national wealth has
no parallel in the history OF the United
States except the decade from 1850 to
1850.
In 1850, when the hrst estimates Of
the national wealth were made. the
agures were only $7.135. 700 .225. the
most potent cause for the increase IN
the nations wealth from 1900 to 1904
It 10 stated, was the reaction from the
low prices OF the period Of depression
from 1893 to 1896. The annual in
crease Of wealth per family from 1890
to 1904 was $1s2.
The various forms into which the ma
TONS wealth is divided, with their val
uations, are as follows:
Real property and Improvements
taxed, $55 55,510,22s,057; real property
and improvements exempt, $6,s31, ,244,-
$40; livestock, $4,O73. 1872 farm i'm
plements and machinery, $s44,s99.s63;
manufacturing machinery. tools and
implements, $3.297,15+ $50; gold and
silver coin bullion. $1,99S, SOB. .3o3; rail
roads and their equipment, $l1.244,-
$4,000; street railways. $2,2l9 ,956,O0O;
telegraph systems 1927. 100000; tele-
phone systems, $5s5.s4o,ooo; Pullman
and private cars, 1928, 100000; ship
ping and canal, $s46,4s9; privately
owned waterworks, $275, 900: pri-
vately owned central electric light and
power stations, $3.50. .s51 .105; agricul-
ture products, s1,s99,375 ,652; manufac-
turing products, s7.4o9, ,29l,sss; i'm
ported merchandise, s495 .543. .6s5: min
ing products, s40S S.o66.7s7: clothing
and personal adornmonts. s. 800, ,000,-
600; furniture carriages and kindred
| property, $3.50, ,000,o 900.
The total public Indebtedness OF
continental United States in 1902 was
$27S9, 990.120 and the total per capita
Indebtedness was $3.50. The total in
debtedness for the national govern
ment for the same year was s925,ol1,-
637, and the per capita Indebtedness
| was s11oT The Indebtedness Of the
| United States government is its gross
| Indebtedness less cash in the treasury.
The total Indebtedness OF continen.
tai United States in 1890 was 81 ,9S9,3
112,s24, that OF the national govern
ment was 1851 .912,75z. and the per cap
itas were $31.76 and $3.50 respec.
lively. In 1902 the annual interest
charge on the public debt of continen-
tai United States is shown to have
been approximately $115.206.55S, or an
annual payment OF $1.46 for each indi-
vidual.
The assessed valuation Of property
subject to ad valorem taxation has In
creased from 1850 to the present time,
but it has not kept pace with the in
crease in the actual national wealth.
The total assessed valuation of prop
erty In 1902 was $35,23s. .316,s33, while
in 1890 it was only $25.473. .17S.41s. The
estimated true value of all property in
1902 was $97,S10,749,5 $50, against $65,-
037,091, ,oS5. The total levies of ad va
loren taxes was in 1902, 1924 1863
and the tax rate per 800 OF estimated
true value, "A cents.
| The net indebtedness OF the country
was slightly less at the close than at
the beginning Of the year. In the case
OF the national government. states and
territories and counties. the receipts
exceeded the payments, and at the
close OF the year the governments had
| smaller net Indebtedness than at the
beginning. In the case Of minor civil
divisions, and especially the large
cities, the situation was reversed. and
the payments for expenditures ex.
ceeded the revenue receipts. causing
Al increase In net Indebtedness.