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The United States Bureau of the Census has just published Bulletin 21, presenting the results of an extended inquiry in regard to the commercial value of railway operating property in the United States. This inquiry was conducted by the Bureau of the Census, with the coöperation of the Interstate Commerce Commission,

STATE, TERRITORY, OR DISTRICT.

United States..

Alabama

Alaska

Arizona

Arkansas

California ,

Colorado

Connecticut

Delaware

District of Columbia Florida

Georgia

Idaho

Illinois

Indian Territory

Indiana

Iowa

Kansas

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maine

Maryland

Massachusetts

Michigan

Minnesota

Mississippi

Missouri

Montana

Nebraska

Nevada

New Hampshire

New Jersey

New Mexico

New York

North Carolina

North Dakota

Ohio

Oklahoma

Oregon

Pennsylvania

Rhode Island

South Carolina

South Dakota

Tennessee

Texas

Utah

Vermont

Virginia

Washington

West Virginia

Wisconsin.:

Wyoming

Commercial value of railway operating prop- erty as of June 30, 1904.

• $11,244,852,000

150,211,000 100,000 68,356,000 124,626,000 350,694,000

198 261,000 105,369,000

17,285,000 5,578,000

80,467,000

156,603,000 91,877,000

805,057,000 79,405,000

375,541,000

344,847.000 356,356,ooo

• 55-77 2 ,ooo

123,401.000 80,146,000

132,342,000 250,052,000 277,597.ooo 466,734,000 107,884,000

309,768,000 196, tog, 000 263,170,000 43,745,000 79,786,000

• 33^,56S,ooo

86,400,000

• 898,222,000

113,146,000 123.390,000

689,797,000 78,668,000 75,661,000 1,420,608,000

25,719,000 75,500,000 49,646,000 131,166,000

237,718,000 90,325,000 37,311,000

211,315,000

182.837,000 201,799,000 284,510,000 100,307,000

Per cent of total

for United States.

1-336 0.001 0.608 1. 109 3- 119

1.764 o.937 0.154 0.049 0.716

1.392 0.817 7.159 0.706 3-34°

3.067

3- 159 1.385 1.097 0-713

1. 177

2 2?4

2.469

4- 151 0.959

2.755 1.745 2.340

0- 389 0.709

2.966 0.768 7.988 1.006 1.097

6.134 0.700 0.673 12.633

0.229 0.671 0.441 1. 167

2. 1 14 0.803 0332 1.879

1.626

1- 795 2.530 0.892

Rank

of state.

LATEST REPORTFD VALUE AS ASSESSED FOR PUR- POSES OF TAXATION.

I905

1904 I904 1904

Dec. 31, 1903 Sept. 30, 1904

June 30, 1904 1904

1903 1904 1904

Jan.

1904

1904 IQ04 1904 1904

June 30, 1904

June

1902

1903 1904 1904 1904 1904

1904 1904 1903 1904 1904

1901 1905

1904 1903 1904 1903

1904 1904

Dec, 1902 June 30, 1904

1904 1904 1904 1904

$53,926,026

6,667,349 34,709,023 92,378,550

49,492,135 120,493,648

2,486,024 21,817,478

63,105,8:0 10,115,378 425,709,055

165,^63,367

57,535,i6o 60,093,534 77,658,040 29,044,195

196,795,000

29,847,640

97,916,869 36,7^9,827 46,082,853 13,778,049- 22,625,000

231,655,525 8,511,538

229,582,064 69,480,974 22,160,304

133,858,945 11,936,317

15,832,003 29,467.716 i4,.^54.93o 58,536,566

95,209,785 20,682,461 27,344,020 63,269,623

26,066,949 28,771,358 218,024,900 7,498,232

• Exclusive of Jersey City ferries of the Periwsylvauia Railroad system. The value of this ferry property is

5,698,000.