Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1911 — Private Fortunes of Sweden. [ARTICLE]

Private Fortunes of Sweden.

By order of the secretary of the treasury a careful Investigation was made of the value of all estates of deceased persons for the years 1906-1901, and a calculation based on these figures was worked out, indicating the approximate value of the total of the private fortunes in Bweden, says Consul General E. D. Winslow, Stockholm. The result of this investigation gave the citizens of the kingdom credit for t 5,197,000,000,000 divided among 1,238,600 estates, viz: In the provinces, V 022,300 estate, aggregating $1480,000,000,000; in the cities. 216,200 estates, aggregating $1,017,000,000,000; the private estates in Stockholm were estimated at $482,000,000,000. The average assets for each individual for the kingdom were $402; for the provinces. $260, and for the cities, $760, except Stockholm, where the fortunes were estimated at $1,425 for each citizen.