16 THE FISCAL PROBLEM IN MISSOURI 
Minnesota, Illinois, and Ohio. The net expenditures of 
Minnesota were 3.29, larger than those of Missouri; of Illi- 
nois, 86.7% larger; and of Ohio, 11.2%, larger. 
The ratios of the expenditures of the eight other states to 
those of Missouri are presented in the last column of Table 3. 
These ratios show that the net expenditures of Missouri for 
the six-year period were considerably more than the com- 
bined net expenditures of Kansas and Nebraska. The same 
is true of the combined expenditutes of Oklahoma and 
Arkansas and of other combinations of two states. 
Probably the most significant comparison on the basis of 
the data in Table 3 is between the capital expenditures of the 
several states and those of Missouri for the six-year period. 
Only one state, Illinois, had larger capital expenditures than 
Missouri, and none of the other states expended 75% as 
much for capital purposes. The capital expenditures of 
Ohio, a state having a much larger population and greater 
wealth, were only a little more than three fifths as large as 
those of Missouri. The capital ratios in Table 3 are highly 
instructive and show conclusively that the capital expendi- 
tures of Missouri during the period were much larger than 
those of other states of comparable population and wealth. 
In Table 4 the maintenance, capital, and net total ex- 
penditures of the several states are presented on a per 
capita basis. In 1928 the net expenditures of Missouri 
amounted to $10.76 per capita, a smaller amount than for 
any other state in the group except Ohio. Minnesota showed 
the highest per capita net expenditures, $18.95. In 1927 
the per capita net expenditures of Missouri were $12.21, 
while in 1925 and 1926 they were $14.40 and $13.79, respec- 
tively, and in those years the net expenditures of the state on 
a per capita basis were exceeded only by Minnesota. The 
decline in the figures for Missouri after 1925 is largely attrib- 
atable to the decrease in highway expenditures. 
Per capita expenditures in Missouri for maintenance in 
1928 amounted to $6.77, a smaller amount than in any state 
except Illinois. Although Missouri’s per capita expenditures 
for maintenance were higher in both 1923 and 1924 than in 
the later years, the difference was not great. The variations 
from year to year in Missouri have been much less than for