Mower County transcript., 1871-07-06
Statistics of American journalism.

for 1871, Just issued by Mcssrs. Geo
! Z. Rowrll 4 Co, proprict"rs of the Amer
lean Advertising Agency, of New York
City, contains certain tables of statistics
i which have been compiled with care, and
can be r, lied upon as substantially correct
They cover field of research which II"
s;atistician has before touched upon, and
! furnish food for reflection and wonder
,n>nt. The tn;lowing are few "f the
many !:,ct, F." l:ich Il study of these tables
reveal:
! Tho Whole number If periodicals issued
! in TIL United States is 1855, with 73 10 Dc
added for the Territories. and 353 are
printed in the Donrion Of Canada, and
20 in the British Colonies. makinga grand
total of 6 l:,S, Of which G:}7 are daily, 11S
hi~eckly, l29 scmi-wcckly, 4,643 week
ly, Fl weekly, 100 semi monthly, IT'S
monthly, IT bi monthly, and ~ are issued
quarterly. New York has the largest
number If publications, S9l, Of which 81
are printed in New York City, and Nevada
has the smallest number issued in any
Statr-orly Il. Nevada has more daily
than weekly papers, anI is unique in this
resp, ct, tvery other State having from
thr to twelve times as many wcek|ies rs
dHilic3. Tri-wcrkly papers are more COM
! mon in the South than semi Weeklies,
while in the Northl RI States the facts are
reversed.
The largest rumbcr Of daily capers pub
lished in any State is 80, in New York.
| PcnnsI lvan!a is second, with 81. Next
comes Illinois, with 80, and California has
81, being the fourth on the list Delaware
and Florida have each l daily paper.
Kansas has as many as Vermont, West
Virginia, Mississippi and Arkansas com
bin, d. N, braska and Nevada have each
more dailies than either Oregon, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Vermont, West
Virg ginia, Arkansas, Delaware. Florida,
Maine or Mississippi.
OF the 73 publications issued regularly
in tic Territories, 13 are daily and so
weekly, 3 tri weekly, 4 semi eekly, ap-
pearrs, monthly, semi monthly, and l bi-
weekly.
The papers of New York State have the
largest circulation, averaging 7,411 each
! issue. Massachusetts is second, with 500
average; then comes the District Of Co.
lumbia, with 4,323. Nevada has the small.
est average circulation, only SIG, while
Florida averages SIG, Arkansas $50, Texas
~, and Mississippi 1853. The average
circulation of all daily papers published is
2,717, Of the weeklcs 1903, and of the
monthlies 4,081 The average edition of
all the papers printed is 1912, which, mul-
tiplied by CABS, the entire number of pub
liCatlOns, gives II, ,S58, 796 as the number
OF copies IN which an advertisement would
appear if inserted oncc~in all. The same
advertisement, if continued one year,
would be printed the enormous number of
| 410, 922 ,210 times. The total number of
publications printed in an entire year in
North Carolina will supply only four cop
les to each inbabtant, equivalent to one
paper to every sonl once in three months.
Mississippi, Florida and Arkansas do but
little better, furnishing five copies per
year. Alabama, Minnesota, South Caro-
lima, Texas and West Virginia all print
less than enough to give each inhabitant
a paper once in five weeks, while Calfor-
MIA gives 81 copies per year, exceeding
every other State except New York, which
prints 1l3 copi per year for every soul
within its borders. AS New York papers
circulate every ywherc, while those OF Cali.
fprnia do not 90 very much out of the
State, it is evident that the papers issued
there have better local support than iu
any other State Of the American Union.
In the District OF Columbia we find that
one newspaper is published for every three
! square miles Of territory. Massachusetts
has one to 80 square miles, and Rhode Is
land one to SO; then comes New York
with one to 81; Connecticut has one to
60, New jersey one to G3, Texas Que to
3 34j, Florida one to 1903; while in the
Territories one newspaper spreads its cir
culatiOn over no less than l4,465 square
miles.
There are 5t8 newspapers in the United
States which prints more than 5000 copies
each issue, and II which print more than
10000. The Neao York Weekly has the
the largest circulation given; among the
political mediums the New York Weekly
Tribune takes the lead, and among the ag-
ricultural weeklics, Moore's Ru7ol N 10
Yorker stands first. The New York Inde
pendent is the largest paper and has the
largest circulation of any religious paper.
Nearly 1000 papers are printed on the
! auxiliary plan-that is, on sh. cts purchas-
ed from New York, Chicago and other
ccntcrs, with one side already printed
This number has more than doubled with
in one year More than 1000 new news
papers have been established since the first
Of March, $780, and the numb;r of new
{ mes announced since January 1st, 1871,
has averaged nearly four Ter day. The
number OF suspensions is about one. fourth
as large as that Of the new issues announc-
ed. Messrs. Geo. p. Rowell & Co, assert
that the number of news papers issued has
| fully doubled within six Years.
In looking over the publications devoted
to sptcialties, Tor class publicaions,) we
find the religious largely predominant over
| any other class, which shows the interest
the public press takes in the moral and
religious welfare Of the country There
are in the Unto1 States 2S3 publications
advocating evangelical and sectarian ideas,
with % in the Dominion of Canada, with
none either in the territories or colonies
OF this number New York City has ID,
Philadelphia %, Boston q, while Florida,
Kansas, Nevada and New Jersey are en-
tirely unreprescnted
The farmers, horticulturists and stock
raisers have their interests represented by
an agricultural press numbering no less
than 1OG publications, many Of which arc
gotten up at great expense, and arc very
extensively circulated.
The medical profession enlightens its
members through the columns of u pub
liCations, of which are weeklies, so
monthies. 3 semi nonthlits, 5 bi month
lies, and l quarterles.
Nearly, if not all, the schools of medi.
cine have their representative organ,
which circulatcs among its admirers and
is criticised severely by its cotemporarics,
whose views differ from it about the
healing OF the nations" while there are
number that furnish intelligence of in
terts to all medical men, as well as the
general reader, without taking sides for or
against any particular school of mcdi-
cine.
Most Of the colleges and many Of the
State Boards of Education have their
representative organ, besides several publ
cations that treat educational matters in q
general way Of this class we have "a in
the United States and in the Dominion
Of Canada They are mostly monthlics.
with an occasional weekly, bi weekly and
quarterly.
The large cities have their commercial
papers, which are nearly all issued
weekly
Insurance is discussed through the
medium Of 10 special publications. IL of
which arc issued monthly, and number
of them being noted for their superior
typographical appearance.
Freemasonry, temperance, odd-fellow-
ship, music, mechanics, law, sporting, real
estate, and woman's suffrage, have each
their rerres. ntatve organs many of which
are edited with ability, and have extensive
circulatio',s, and net large incomes to their
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