The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-10-21
with s4.ss2, $50 for the necessary

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ground.
Missouri comes third with s9.914,
SOC spent in brick. and stone. and
structural iron work Then comes
Ohio with s9,s1I,s95; Massachusetts
with s9,sS2,14s Illinois with $3.50,
44s; California with ss,43I.14S, and
the District of Columbia with ss.063,
2S9. Tie latter however, includes the
original cost of the treasury depart
ment building which is put at s6,470,
oso.
The smallest amount spent in any
state or territory by the treas
ury department on its build
| ings is in Arizona where the total to
date only reaches the Insignificant
sum of 1868 for the maintenance of
the old custom house at Yuma Soon,
however, it is supposed, the govern
ment will build its first public build
ing in that territory for it has just
paid $4,000 for the site for post
office and court house at Phoenix,
although no appropriation has been
made for the building. With these
exceptions Arizona has been totally ne
elected.
Even Alaska has Jared better at the
public crib fer it has two custom
houses, one of which, at Mary Island,
cost to construct, sT,44S.43, and anoth-
er at Sand Point which cost s7,44S.42.
1t Is understood that the Mary Island
folks are so swelled with pride that
they scarcely condescend to speak to
the Sand Pointers on account of that
one cent difference in the cost of their
public building. To maintain these
and some structures which have been
taken over by the treasury department
s5S,944 has been expended, making the
total spent in Alaska s73,S41. In Ha
wall 1t has been s114,50S; In Porto
Rico s25,S44.
There are 522 of these public build
ings now in use in the United States.
In addition there are IA in course OF
erection and 263 authorized but not
yet commenced, making total of S99.
1t is interesting to note how the vast
amount Of money spent by the govern
ment to beautify the towns and to
house its public servants has been dis
tributed.
In New England, Connecticut got
s2,123.416; Maine, s2,54s,314 Massa-
ohusetts ss,ss2,14s; New Hampshire.
s724,739; Rode Island s1,4ss,32s and
Vermont ss7o,706, making an aggre-
gate of s17,6S3,652.
Central Atlantic: Delaware, $685.
063; District Of Columbia, s9,o63,23s;
New Jersey s1,7e4,965; New Nork.
$29, 160,179; and Pennsylvania s12,449e
767 making total of s53,116,213.
Southern: Alabama, s1,646.940;
Arkansas, s1,170,614; Florida, s1,62S,
O83; Georgia, s2,917,53S Kentucky, So,
ATS, 9S3; Louisiana s6.2sO,5 500; Mary
land. s4,2s9,s31: Mississippi, sS44,233;
Missouri. s9,914,s0G; North Carolina,
s1,649.263; South Carolina, s4,374,724;
Tennessee, s2,S4S, 300; Texas, s3,195,
SIT; Virginia, s2,S44,S46 and West
Virginia, s1,2so,2s7 a total of s47,36s,
OBS.
Middle West: Illinois, s9,530,449:
Indiana, s3,S66,597; Iowa. s3,36s,643;
Kansas, s1,463,740; Michigan, $3.50,
1876; Minnesota s3,503,s53; Nebraska,
s2,550,596; North Dakota, s372,26S;
OHIO, s9,911,8e5; Oklahoma, s104,3SS;
South Dakota, sS4,174 and Wisconsin
$3,231,447, a total of 42,305,241.
Mountain States: Colorado, s1,951,
6s9; Idaho, 1925, 40S; Montana, se77,
1894; Utah; sS1S,67G; Wyoming, 1868,
100 total of s2,431 1893.
Pacific States: California. s9.431,
14S; Nevada, s667,214; Oregon, s1,457,-
III and Washington, s1,75S,327, a
total of s13,313,s6o
Certainly in these figures there is
no basis for complaint from the South
that she has been neglected when the
pork barl'' was on tap