The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-07-20
In Ninety Other Cities of More
Than 10000 Population, How
ever, Excess of Revenues Is
Nearly s27. OOO, 900.

aggregated N-,tN ,NN-,'"t OF Ntt.tN
per capita. N~inetv-siN cities, or ~
per cenS of the total number, are OPP
Grating under the commission form
of government These facts, together
with many others of u related char
actcr. are brought out Ia - report IA
titled ~"F1nanciHl statistics of cities
having a population Of over 10000.
1917" soon To- bee issued by Director
sam l.. Roger. 81 the bureau 81 the
census. department ut h
report. which was compiled under the
direction Of Ma Statke VI Grogan
chief statistician for statistics ~ state
and cities, gives detailed datn In r'.
spect of the revenues, h eNpcudI.
lures. the assessments, the taxes,
the indebtcdn,-s and assets of the .lF
American cities each Of which. ON IN"
medal date 81 is last fiscal year ter
minating prior to July /. 1915, had
an estimated population OF more than
8 10000.
The aggregate population Of the"
.lg cities Is estimated at 80. $50. 0ur
or more than g. per cent of the total
population Of the country Ton cities
are estimated 90 have more than
800. 600 population each. II from
800, 900 to 500. 900. g. from 100. 600
To- 500, 900; s. from 10000 to loo. 600
and 81 from 2n,p0D 70 10000.
Revenues.
The total revenues of the 2lH cities
during the year were tl.065.531.lt2.
or f32.0i per capita the aggregate
payments for expenses and interest
SNgl,i91.S15 or S2tto per capita,
and the aggregate outlays. &.N6,'23.-
800, or ss.sl per capita.
Of the total revenues. S~5i2.ae".s7S,
~ almost 20 per cent. represented re-
I ccipts from various Kinds 81 taxes
Tho bulk Of thu amount. $3.50 TO- s3i,
was derived from the general prop
orty taN," made up ~ taxes on real
and personal property. OF the ro-
maindcr. the largest Item, S3G,9ii.
7g7. was contributed by taxes on tho
liquor traffic. This amoun was smal-
Ter than the corresponding sums re-
ported for the fiscal years 1915 and
! 1916 sac sos $50 and t3S. o2t,iis. re-
spectivcIy- although the total num-
Der Of cities covered hy the inquiry
has been increasing from year 20
year.
Next 10 tiNes. the largest sourc" ot
revenue was found In the earnings Of
public service enterprises, which
amour ted TO tl0G.l5s.1S3 This SUM
is considerably more than double th"
amount Of payments for expenses OF
public service enterprises, $iGd2iiSl.
The bulk OF the earnings of these en-
terprisrs came from water supply
systems. from which the receipts ar-
gregnted ts3,s5s,440
Another important source Of roy"-
nuo consists of special assessments
and special charges-lcvied mainly 10
defray the cost OF outlays-which
amounted to sS3 1885
Expenditures.
An examination ~ the per capita
figures Tor the cities covered by tho
report brings out the somewhat sun
prising TACT that although the per
capita expenditures FOR net govern
mental costs la individual cities vary
greatly. there IN little difference in
the averages for the several size
groups ~ cities having fewer than
400. 600 inhabitants. Tho average Tor
the 81 elites hi wing from 10000 Co
30. - Inhabitants was SSH, for thn
- citie- .f 10000 to 100000. t-l
and Ton the Is cities of 10000 'o
2O1. UOu tHl 80. 20 the larger cities
huwcv,r. considerably higher figures
are shown $3.50 furt tn" 500, 'u"-
SOC. 0Uu r.pup. and t3N.i' for IN"
] group having more than 10000" ln-
: habi,auf. cnch. hut the difference.
between these figures nnd those Ton
the u'l. three groups are ia" lu
part Co. ,rr fact that per capitu ~
Is cNp,r.ftires nre included in tn,
figure ..r such of the larger cities
as or, mated in counties. rms mas
been y..u IN order To provide a iatr
hash u, gumparability In the cas-" OF
the larger tiles. In some OF which tho
functiur .fsuaIly pertaining to coun-
ties a.. u~i.chargod by the muni'i
pahu' While other az" situated "'
,ouut., nd are dependent upon
count, LIMITATIONS In TINS r'Hp'' q
The report shows, under principal
heads. fnr amounts "i county r'N'-
nnrt .'nI .psts M incindr"'
uuuuirison of the Inquiries Tor 'h'
no rtU .n regard !" "h''h da'n '''
ryniI,... fur earlier years as iar h"'N
~ AGO.. .hows that the per capl''
governmental cost payments m
orcar." rom t24Gi in mat wear ''
sas Cd. 100 lai5. or about 90 per cent
ThI. ...-,,se appears mainly In the
iout foo. rxpenscs Of general depart
mrnt. and interest. the former haV-
inr aI..rced from si3.=i 10 Si''3,
ana f.. after from 81 oG to - 66.
III, p, .,pi,a expenditure for out
la,t .u. permanent improvements
wen ..n slighth greater IN 1877
lhur Ion .sog-ss.6S In IA" la'"r year
a. ur.. ..t kSg8 in the earlier, and
the IN. ugure shows q decline from
siut, Isla to sssl in l'le The
pei ..... expenses OF public service
cntsI. Increased moderately
IRON $40 In 1903 to siae IN 1917.
Tho. however, are less
,h.r bad. :. great as the net reve.