LIFE INSURANCE BY STATES.

The following tables show the business transacted in 1903 in the States named by the various life insurance companies. While not attempt. ing to analyze the business in individual States, the tables exhibit the amount of policies written, the premiums and losses of each company, and the amount of insurance in force at the beginning and close of the year. It is simply an exhibit of the volume of business in the various States and Territories, and conveys an approximate idea of the total business. A few States do not require this information, and in such cases we have applied to the companies for particulars, some of whom for reasons best known to themselves have declined to answer our inquiries. We give all the particulars we could glean from the resources at our command: