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72 
POSTAL SAVINGS 
In general it is in the Southern States that the 
per capita deposits are smallest, and in the min 
ing and lumbering States of the West and the 
manufacturing States of the East that they are 
largest. The population of the Dakotas makes 
scant use of postal savings banks. 
Distribution of Deposits by Cities. 
Passing from the distribution of deposits by 
States to that by cities and towns, we find figures 
published by the Third Assistant Postmaster- 
General for the places having deposits of over 
Population 13 
(000 omitted) 
Per capita 
deposits 
8 
42 
13 
61 
6,334 
103 
260 
80 
546 
184 
116 
237 
206 
285 
89 
$33.75 
19.93 
17.10 
6.29 
4.61 
4.32 
4.08 
3.94 
3.41 
3.40 
3.39 
3.20 
3.14 
2.76 
2.78 
Bank 
1 
2 
3 
4 
5 
6 
7 
8 
9 
10 
11 
12 
13 
14 
15 
City 
Lead ville, Col. 
Butte, Mont. 
Ironwood, Mich. 
Pueblo, Col. 
New York City 
Tacoma, Wash. 
Portland, Oreg. 
Akron, O. 
Detroit, Mich. 
Toledo, O. 
Bridgeport, Conn. 
St. Paul, Minn. 
Columbus, O. 
Kansas City, Mo. 
Duluth, Minn. 
13 The populations used in compiling these per capita 
figures were in each case those for the latest date for which 
official estimates were available, and this means for all the 
cities except Leadville, Col., and Ironwood, Mich., the 
populations as of June 30, 1914; for the latter two cities 
the figures are for the census year 1910.