Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1879 — Important to Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Important to Farmers.

In these days, wbeu a business man, be he merchant, farmer, or aughtelae,slta down and deliberately counts tbe cost of runntnir his business or fsrm, Insurance Is a very Important Item in his calculation, sod naturally be asks himself. Where will I and a company offering the best Inducements, oomblned with perfect security! Amongst the many annual reports made to Insurance departments, In compliance with law, by the various Insurance companies of our country, we would notice the twentieth annual statement of the American Insurance Company of Chicago, which shown a degree of solvency and volume of busluess most highly gratifying and satisfactory. In tne States of Illinois, Missouri and Indiana, tut cash receipts for premiums during the year 18T8 are In excess of any other company doing business In said Stales. Of the twelve compaqles/eportlng to the Illinois department whose prem'uin receipts exceed $75,1100 for 1878, the lollowing 1s tbe Ast in order of receipt-: American, of Chicago, rec’d 1201.823 #5 Home, “ Now York, •• 184.472 90 Aetna, " Hartford. “ 188,820 42 Hartford, “ Hartford, “ 162,060 87 Kockfora, " Rockford, " 182,866 60 PhcenU, “ New York. » 125.824 22 Trad era’, “ Chicago. “ 117.801 00 OwUnentai. « Fire Association, " Philadelphia, “ 91.476 99 Agricultural, ” Watertown. ” 83.986 62 Springfield, •’ Mass., “ 76,460 62 Wnen it Is understood that the American coniines Us business to the Insurance of dwell-ing-houses, private barns, their contents, farm troperty, chuiches and school-houses—writes no policies in any of the large elites, and Insures but 15,000 In any one risk—the Immense number of patrons of this old ‘‘farmei’s company” is clearly comi rebended. It has nearly 150,000 policies In force; has cash assets amounting to 6912,763 62; cash surplus, as regards policy-holders, 6502.356.13; has dona business twenty years, and we say, therefore, to our readers, most emphatically, the American Is a sale company In which to Insure your homes.