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UNITED STATES CENSUS. 



STATE AND CORPORATION CANALS. 



of employees. 61,018; number of passengers carried, 

 1,823,646,686 ; total cost, $335,663.915. 



Receipts and Expenditures, Street Railways. It 

 is reported, in a special census statement, that the ag- 

 gregate receipts from street railways, 1890, amounted 

 to $91,721,845 ; expenditures, $87,388,007. 



Insurance. Risks. In a table grouping fire, 

 ocean marine, and inland navigation and transpor- 

 tation insurance, the number of companies, 1889, is 

 given as 1,926 an increase of 279 over 1879. The 

 amount of risks in force, 1889, is shown as $18,691,- 

 434,190, being $8,406,781,334 greater than the sum 

 stated for the census year of the previous decade, 

 the per cent, of increase being 81'74. 



Assets. For the same group and the same year 

 (1889) the cash and available assets reached $328,- 

 588,080, an increase of 32'96 per cent, over 1879. 



Cash Liabilities. These amounted to $128,- 

 234,104, or 460-36 per cent, of increase during the 

 decade. 



Receipts in Cash. The receipts in cash of the 

 same group, 1889, aggregated $157,780,514, show- 

 ing a percentage of increase over 1879 of 65'06. 



Disbursements in Cash. These amounted to 

 $152,708,612 in 1889, being 68'37 per cent, greater 

 than in 1879. 



Life Insurance, Class A. The number of com- 

 panies, 1889, is reported as 60, only one more than 

 in 1879. 



Assets. The total assets, " as per books of com- 

 panies," exhibit $741,426,453 in 1889, being 68;43 

 per cent, more than was reported for the preceding 

 census period of 1879. 



Liabilities. The total liabilities, including capi- 

 tal, of life insurance companies, Class A, 1889, is re- 

 ported to be $649.997,234, or 74'38 per cent, greater 

 than in 1879. 



Income and Receipts. The percentage of in- 

 crease under this heading (1889 compared with 



1879) was 118'93, the amount in the former year 

 being $181,767,097. 



Disbursements. The total disbursements of the 

 life insurance companies. Class A, 1889, amounted 

 to $122,228,204, as against $76,089,138 in 1879, the 

 increase being equivalent to 61'61 per cent. 



Risks. The companies referred to in the last 5 

 paragraphs showed for 1889 (Dec. 31) the value 

 of risks in force to be $3,591,686,504. Their value 

 in 1879 (Dec. 31) aggregated $1,560,756,437. This, 

 would make the increase $2,030,930,067, or 130-12 

 per cent. 



Wealth, Debt, and Taxation. In a statement 

 concerning the true valuation what would be 

 deemed a fair selling price for the property at the 

 date of the census of real and personal property 

 in the United States, 1890, exclusive of Alaska, the 

 following aggregates are given under each sub- 

 heading : 



Real estate with improvements thereon $39,544,544,333: 



Live stock on farms, farm implements, and 



machinery 2,703,015,040- 



Mines and quarries, including product on 



hand 1,291,291,579- 



Gold and silver coin and bullion 1,158,774,948' 



Machinery of mills and product on hand, raw 



and manufactured 3,058,593,441 



Railroads and equipments, including street 



railroads 8.635,407,323 



Telegraphs, telephones, shipping, and canals 701,755,712' 



Miscellaneous 7,893,708,821 



Total $05,037,091, J 97' 



Receipts and Expenditures in Cities. An im- 

 portant exhibit in the census reports is that show- 

 ing the receipts and expenditures, schools included, 

 for cities having 50,000 inhabitants or more, 1890. 

 So valuable are the facts given likely to be for 

 future reference that it is deemed advisable to in- 

 clude in this article the groups of figures for the 25- 

 largest cities. An immense amount of correspond- 



