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Show I WEALTH OF UNITED STATES. Census Bureau Says the Amount Is $107,10-1,192,410. Washington. Tho total estimate of tho nntlonnl wealth in 1004 was $107,-104,192,410, $107,-104,192,410, according to a special report re-port Issued by the census bureau on wealth, debt nnd taxation, which rep- resents nn Increase In tho four-year period from 1000 to 1001 of $18,5SC,-885,035. $18,5SC,-885,035. This advance in national wealth hns no palallcl In tho history of tho United States except tho decade de-cade from 1S50 to 1SC0. In 18D0, when tho first estimates of the national wealth wero made, tho figures wero only $7,135,780,228. Tho most jiotent causo for tho Increase In tho nation's wealth from 1000 to 1001, It Is stated, was tho reaction from the low prices of tho period of depression from 1803 to 180G. Tho unnual Incrcaso of wealth per family from 1890 to 1001 was $182. |