Tasre 10: Compinep ExpenDrrures oF St. Louis City, Kansas City, ST. JOSEPH, AND SPRINGFIELD,
1913, 1918, anp 1923-1928
Source: United States Bureau of the Census, Financial Statistics of Cities series

Character of Expenditure 1918 1923 Tron 1925 1926 1927 1 1928
General government: maintenance. $2,970,180 $4,747,796 $4,795,112 $4,939,324 $4,857,984 I $5,188,901 $5,401,147
capital. ... .. 5,383 10,002 14003 © 179,002 134918 1,000,229 | 2,148,642
total... ... 2.075.563 | 4757888 4,809,115 ' 5,118,326 4992907 6,189,130 | 7,549,789
maintenance. 6,277,340 | 9,526,998 10,238,076 10,818,369 , 11,743,417 13,080,278 12,464,311
capital. ..... 675.034 435214 304497 275000 524096 464,876 1,296,147
total...... 6952374 © 9.962012 10,542,573 11,093,478 | 12267513 13 545,154 ' 13,760,458
maintenance. 7,925,638 14,409,574 | 14,965,749 15,693,743 17,178,573 17,879,848 18,528,600
pn 1302386 3444669 4ASL853 5266078  5440,821 5895194 3,021,966
total...... 9.318.024 17.854243 ' 19.447,602 20,959,821 ' 22,619,394 23,775,042 ° 21,550,566
maintenance. 2,355,457 2,764,764 3,966,539 4,762,851 4,450,293 4,706,114 '  5271,133 4,515,496
capital. ..... 4183.83¢ 4627025 3,540,594 4,557.083 ' 6,389,450 | 5,856,594 10,921,623 10,537,206
total...... 6539292 7,391,789 7,507,133 ' 9,319,934 11,339,743 10,562,708 16,192,7% 15,052,702
maintenance. 3,847,175 4,630,723 6,865,244 ' 7,566,200 | 8,088,721 | 8212270 8,953,031 | 9,047,033
capital...... 4654404 1.594000 = 3047487 2160123 | 3354175 9,033,675 7,830,910 = 9,650,529
total. ..... 8.501579 ' 6,224,723 | 9912731 9,726,323 11.447.896 17,245945 16,783,941 | 18,697,562
maintenance. .! 251,322 | 404,752 | $60,912 | 613,954 | “wi 397,651) 396,001 | 415916
capital. ...... 4276 1800 «27.792 21,371 ‘ 1,128 1,035 685
total...... 255598 | 406,552 588,704 635325 |  44e248 398,779 397,036 | 416,601

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Net total:

9,363,195 14,973,397 40,077,06. 42,941,942 44436254 47,096,009 30,769,192 50,372,503
10,838,342 8,295,628 10,505,848 11,538,930 15,966,258 20,991,232 26,113,867 26,655,175
30,201,541 33260025 50,582,911 54,480,872 60,402,512 68,087,241 76883059 ' 77,027,678
2,507,473 | 2,563,836 | 3,469,348 4,317,153 3,932,251 | 4,004,121  42311,681 | 3,968,536
1027753 1.116221 420,121  1242,899 3,068,568 | 7,199,210 5,758,541 4,554,090
3,534,726 | 3,680,057 3,8%0460 5,560,052 7,000,819 | 11,223,331 10,070,222 | 8,522,626
[NtreSt. . .vovnrennrsnnennenn.. 1,578,224 | 1,742,149 | 2,044,808 | 2,329,062 | 2,078,727 | 3,522,972 | 4,031,996 | 5,066,902
Gross total, not including debt re- : |
demption. . .. © 314,491 | 38,691,231 | 56,517,188 | 62,369,986 ' 70,382,058 | 82,833,544 | 90.0877 | 90,617,206
1 Expenditures for these functions in 1913 are not comparable to those for the later vears. See Appendix B.