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Show 1 ' i ' ' v' -. . y ' i. ; ... WAr:::i::GT0:r, tiarch . 3. The total to-tal estinats of the nationil wealth la 1804, waa $107,104,1E2,410, accorilng to epoclal report Issued today fcy the census tmrean, on weallh, deht and taxation, vhtch rcpresenta an Increase In the four-year period from 1900 to . 1904 of $18,CC3,S3,e35. , This advance In national wealth has no parallel In' the history of the United States except the decade from 1S30 to 1860. In 1850, when the first estimates of the'national wealth were made, the figures fig-ures were only $7,135,780,228. The most potent cause for the increase in the Nation's wealth from 1900 to 1904, it is stated, was the reaction from the low prices of the period of depression from 1893 to 1896. The annual increase of wealth per family from 1890 to. 1904 was $182. The various forms into which the Nation's wealth is divided, with their valuations, are as follows: Real property prop-erty and improvements taxed, $55,510,-228,057; $55,510,-228,057; real property and improvements improve-ments exempt. $8,831,244,570; live stock, $4,673,791,736; farm implements and machinery, $844,89,863; manufac- j turinj machinery, tools and implements, $3,297,754,180; gold and silver coin bullion, bul-lion, $1,993,603,303; railroads and their equipment, $11,244,752,000; street rail-wsvs, rail-wsvs, $7,290,966,000; telegraph systems, $227,400,000; telephone systems, $585,-840,000: $585,-840,000: Pullman and private cars, $123,000,000; shipping and canals, $846,469; privately owned water works, $275,000,000; privately owned central electric lighting and power stations, $562,851,105; agriculture products, $1,899,375,652; manufacturing products, $7,409,291,688; imported merchandise, $495,543,685; mining products. $408,-066,787; $408,-066,787; clothing and personal adorn ments, $2,500,000,000; furniture, carriages car-riages and kindred property, $5,750,-900,000. $5,750,-900,000. , . The total public indebtedness, of continental con-tinental United States in 1902, was $2,789,990,120; and the total per capita indebtedness was $35.50. The total in-1 debtednesa for the national Government I for the same year was $925,011,637 and the per capita indebtedness was $11.27. - In Great Britain the per capita indebtedness in-debtedness of all classes, national and local was 3.93 times that- of the United States, in France 4.86 and in Italy, 2.25. The total assessed valuation of property prop-erty in 1902 was $35,338,316,833, while in 1890 it was only $25,473,173,4181- The estimated true value of all property in 1902 was $97,810,749,590, against $65,-037,091,085. $65,-037,091,085. The total levies of ad valorem val-orem taxes waa ia 1902 was $724,736,-539, $724,736,-539, and the tax rate per $100 of estimated esti-mated true value, $.074. . |