Show LIFE INSURANCE PAYMENTS Tho extent of the American life insurance In-surance payments Is so great as to be beyond nil ordinary computation Thun for 1001 there was paid last year the enormous sum of 217102630 This year there la estimated aa distributed among 9333 places the sum of 23d09331 for 1002 In the main this sum represents repre-sents payments In settlement of death claims or matured endowment policies Summarizing1 the payments from all sources tho following exhibit for 103 la J made Claims paid in tho Unltod State r United States possessions and Canada 2Ij 3n Dividend payments Connecticut Tonort 5IIS Cash surrender values Connecticut Connecti-cut report 252C1CC3 Clnlmn paid In foreign countries coun-tries estimated lwtoO000 Annuities miniated 5000000 ClulniB dividends and surren der values paid by companies not reporting to the Connecticut Connecti-cut Insurance department 1CO HOOOGM Grand total 320160352 The dispatches this morning give some of the details of the payments made In the several cities The distribution dis-tribution by groups of States for a period pe-riod oC four years shows New York State to be the greatest beneficiary with 47900000 Pennsylvania next with 24100000 then Massachusetts with 16600000 Jlllnoln with 12700000 Ohio with 12200000 New Jersey with 11000000 and so on none other coming com-ing beyond seven figures Tho figures used nre for the year 1902 The distribution distribu-tion for the Pacific States for four years Is giver as follows in millions of dollars California 47 tS 52 55 Oregon 06 06 OG 07 Washington OG 00 07 07 Wyoming 01 01 02 02 Idaho 01 01 02 02 Nevada 01 01 01 01 Utah 02 02 03 01 Arizona 02 01 02 03 Now Mexico 02 02 03 03 Montana 05 OG 06 07 Total 72 73 84 9 3 5 This latter table calls fresh attention to the life Insurance field hereabouts which Is to be utilised by the new home company which Mr Tyrce of Montana is organizing It was estimated when Mr Tyrees plan was under consideration consider-ation that the life Insurance business In this field would amount to about nine million dollars a year It Is seen by the above statement that for last year the payments on life Insurance Insur-ance account In this field amounted to 0200000 To ho sure a good deal more than that was originally sent away In order to secure the return of thin sum Mr Tyreea plan was endorsed by the Commercial club It Is seen how extcn j > Ive is the business to be covered Of course It would be of the highest advantage ad-vantage to have not only the sum returned re-turned kept at home all the time but also tho amounts over and above the returns Life Insurance Is indeed an enormous business It has accumulated accumu-lated tremendous stores of wealth In certain Eastern localities and caused the making of magnificent Improvements Improve-ments Tt Is i high time that this great business should be also made to serve local Interests while at the same time affording ample securityto those Insured In-sured |