Tooele Transcript Bulletin | 1906-12-28 | Page 5 | Wealthiest in the World

wealthiest in the world the figures lecent ly made public by the census authorities at washington place the aggregate wealth of the united stales real and personal in 1904 at inasmuch Inas as aa present methods ol of ascertaining facts and of computing results are tar far better than ever before it may be as burned isumer that these figures are fairly accurate mcgrate taking them as reliable and using the ratio ot of increase SP ap piled to preceding computations the wealth of the country now mould be allt this puts the united states wholly by itself sais the troy news with possessions valued at double doable ol of its nearest competitor and d far distancing other great na lions statistics of this sort relating to foreign countries are largely con lecture jecture but the highest figures given by those recognized as authorities are ILS 93 follows great britain 58 france too ger wany daany 45 russia 35 BOO italy 18 and spain 12 not only la is the united states the richest country in a the world but its wealth Is increase lag ing more rapidly than that of any clither