Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1901 — Wealth of the United States. [ARTICLE]

Wealth of the United States.

Wealth of t lie United States is computed every ten years from the census returns. The total wealth in 1850 was put at $7,135,780,228, or S3OB per capita. and iu 1870 at $30,008,518,507, or S7BO per capita. This amount rose in 1880 to $43,042,000,000, or SB7O per capita. and again in 1800 to $05,037,001,197 or $1,030 per capita. Expert statisticians estimate that the amount for 1900 will he nt least SIK),000,000,000, or nearly $1,200 per capita. When it is considered that the latter amount represents accumulated savings of SO,OOO, or nearly four times the average of 1850, for every family of five persons, it Is evident that the world is growing rich at an rate under tho operation of machine production.—World’s Work.