census report. Among the larger items of our debts, as far as officially reported, are the following: National debt of the United States (U.
S. Census, 1890 $ 891,960,104
State and Municipal debt (U. S. Census,
1890) 1,135,210,442
Railway bonds on 171, 866 miles railway,
1892 (Poor's Manual, '93) 5,463,611,204
The average farm and home debt shown
by tabulation of partial returns from
counties distributed throughout the
Union, is $1,288 for farm and $924 for
homes. If this average holds good for
the United States, there is an existing
debt in force, on the farms and homes
of the United States occupied by owner
(R. B. Porter, Supt. nth Census, in
North American Review, Vol. 153,
page 618) of. 2,500,000,000
Mortgaged Indebtedness of Business
Realty, Street Railways, Manufactories
and Business enterprise (estimated from
partial reports of i ith Census) 5,000,000,000
Loans from 3,773 National Banks (Sta- tistical Abstracts of the United States ) 2,153,769, 806 Loans from 5,579 State, Saving, Stock
and Private Banks and Trust Com- panies (Statistical Abstracts of the
United States) 2,201,764,292
��If the same progressive ratio of increase is added to these figures that maintained from 1880 to 1890, over 5,000 million should now be added to the items above given.
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