Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — Mikado’s Large Income. [ARTICLE]

Mikado’s Large Income.

The yearly allowance of the Mikado, which is at the same time that of the whole imperichl family, is now $1,500,000. Beside; he hM the Yearly income of $500,000 from the interest on the $10,000,000 which was given to him from die war indemnity received from China ten years ago; of $250,000 from his private estates, which amount to $5,000,000 or more; of $500,000 from the forests, covering an area of 5,124,873 acres and valued at $512,487,300, at $lO an acre; in all, $1,250,000. Thus his yearly net income amounts to $2,750,000. There are in all sixty members of the imperial family, inclusive of eleven married and four widowed princesses, who are members of the royal family by marriage.