The debt per capita is as high as the cost of current administration relatively to other cities.
On the 18th of January 1906 the currency in circulation amounted to $502,420,485, which is more than $95 per capita.
Had the expenses of all the small towns and rural communities been included, the total would be in excess of $20 gold, or £4, per capita.
The running expenses per capita in 1900 were $35.23; more than twice the average of 86 leading cities of the country (New York, $23.92; Chicago, $11.62).
In 1900 Rhode Island ranked 17th among the states in the value of its manufactured products, but led all of the states in the value per capita ($430).
