Show UT LT UTAH'S UTH'S HS H'S BONDED I INDEBTEDNESS 1880 PER PEn CAPITA Utah has a bonded bonded d debt bt of or which means means that every man maim mm woman and child In n the state slate o owes 0 vea on an average of While the majority of of states have lia-e been increasing ing their bonded indebtedness ed that thai of ot Utah ha has re remained ai ed stationary C for r seY several ral r years s. a-s. These facts are arc brought out in a wide nation-wide survey j just st c completed by The Bank of America r ca New e Y York which r reveals repeals yeal t that at the l state stale ta e govern govern- m ts of of the Uni United d States have a total bonded debt of or r 1575 per capita l I Nearly arlY half this outstanding debt has 1 been en Inc incurred 1 red within 1 the past live five ye years pears years and past two years ealS I alone mo more more e than n worth of new been bean issued while I some worth have been retired Higl Highway way an and 1 bridge c construction is is' responsible for per peer percent cent nt Ol off the total indebtedness indebtedness h ess The he Bank of 1 I America statisticians have found Ac Ac- 58 worth of if bonds c outstandIng have been issued tar for this purpose which Is significant In view of the comparatively recent large s scale large ale bu building of or roads Soldiers Soldiers' Soldiers Soldiers' Soldiers Soldiers' Sol Sol- diers' diers bonuses bonuses' account for account for or per cent of tie tae Ie total outstanding debt while wa waterways eway and harbors harbors' comes third in the list Hat of purposes for bond issues with a total of or 01 per Ier cent Only 19 per cen cent of of oC the the total debt represents expenditure flit lor edu educational edu- edu u purposes t New York states state's debt o of Is the largest of any s slate ate in the Union North Carolina ranks lanks second with a debt of and Illinois third with wilh Florida Nebraska Keni Kentucky ky and Wisconsin Wiscon ln have no bonded bonded debt The highest per capita capila debt of state slate state in ill the Union Is is that t of or South Dakota amounting to S or ar nearly five and a half times limes the Ihs thea av- av a av average v- v 1 for the nation Oregon is second with wilh p per r capita capila North orth Carolina with wilh North orth Dakota nakata fourth o rth with with wilh and Delaware Del Delaware aware aware are with wilh a per capila debt of The rhe Pacific group group comprising sing f r Oregon an and California Cali have the highest st p per r capita ap d debt l t o or of any section The Bank o of America I i j i finds fluids in grouping its fig figi figures ies' ies ing to the geographical ai areas areas as i of or tale die country Us Its debt deti p par per inhabitant il ll it is 2593 more than Ol one one C and find a 11 half f I l times s the average for the the- nation nation- At Att Atthe Atthe t the o opposite end I of the country country- New Egland Epland ranks ranks' se second h having ving aper a 1 aper per capita d debt bt of of 2231 The The west wesl north central division Minnesota t Iowa Missouri Nol North t Dakota South D Dakota kota Nebraska and Kansas has line hasa linea I a per capita debt of 2224 lc l the Middle l and timid S South th Atlantic ic states stales have ha a debt per vel person of ot 2008 I anil and ami 1814 1514 respectively re pe wel Below Delow the thc av average rage for the country y yas as as a whole are arc the mountain states stareS having a debt of of 1109 1109 the tle east east st north central l east south central cen cil- cil and ald west south uth c central al with wilh All but two of th the g geo- geo geographical o graphical gr IJ ical increased groups gr groups groups' u s i increased c d. d lh iI debts within the pas past two Iwo years ears dc decreases decreases de de- i creases ases b being I g recorded corded only jy by jY th thee the west nest south central t and and mountain divisions I to |