The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1871-06-22
Statistics of American Journalism.

Cny, contains ceftaln thDleS vi slatiStlcS
which have been compiled with care,
and can be relied upon as substantially
correct. They cover u held Of research
which no statistician has ever before
touched upon, and furnish food for re-
Election and wonderment. The follow
ing are a few of the many facts which a
study of these tables reveal:
The whole number of periodicals is
sued in the United States is 1888, with
70 to be added for the Territories and
253 are printed in the Dominion Of Can
ada, and 20 in the British Colonies, ma
king Il grand total of 6,43S, of which 637
are daily, 1lS tri-weekly, l29 semi-weck-
", 1912 weekly, 81 bi-weekly, 100 semi
monthly, 715 monthly, II %bi-monthly
and 81 aro issued quarterly. New York
has the largest number of publications,
1914, of which 81 are printed in New
York City, and Nevada has the smallest
number issued in any State-only 10.
Nevada has more daily than weekly pa
pers, and is unique in this rGSpect, every
other State having from three to twelve
times rs many weeklies as dailies. Tri-
weekly papers are more common in the
South than scmi-weeklies, while in the
Northern States the facts are reversed.
The largest number of daily papers
published in any State is 80, in New
York. Pennsylvania is second, with 81.
Next Comes Illinois, with SO, and Cali
fornia has "a, being the fourth on the
list. Delaware and Florida have each |
daily paper. Kansas has as many as
Vermont, West Virginia, Mississippi and
Arkansas combined. Nebraska and Ne
yada have each more dulles than either
Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina,
Vermont, West Virginia, Arkansas, Del
aware, Florida, Maine, or Mississippi,
OF the 70 publications issued regu-
lnrly in the Territories 10 nre daily and
50 weekly, 3 tri-weekly, 1 semi-weekly,
/ appears monthly, l semi-monthly, and
| bi-weekly,
The papers of New York State have
the largest circulation, averaging 7,4ll
each issue. Massachusetts, is second,
with 500 average; then comes the Dis
trict of Columbia with 1923. Nevada
has the smallest average circulation, only
SIG, while Florida averages GIG, Arkan-
SIS $50, Texas 701, and Mississippi 753.
The average circulation Of all daily pa
rers published is 2,717, of the wceklics
1888, and of the monthlies 4,081, The
average edition of all the papers printed
is 1912, which, multiplied by 6,43S, the
entire number of publications, gives H.
$685. 0G us the number Of copies iii which
an advertisement would appear if in
serted unCe in all. The same advertise
ment, if continued one year, would be
printed the enormous number of 1,499,-
922,216 times. The total number OF
publications printed in mn entire year
in North Carolina will supply only four
copies to each Inhabitant, equivalent to
one paper to every soul once in three
months. Mississippi, Florida, and Ar
kansas do but little better, furnishing 5
copies per year. Alabama, Minnesota,
South Carolina, Texas and West Virgin
il all print less than enough to give each
inhabitant n paper once i'll five weeks,
while California gives 81 copies per year,
exceeding every other State except New
York, which prints ll3 copies per year
for every soul within its borders. AS
New York papers circulate everywhere,
while those of California do not go very
much out of the State, it is evident that
the papers issued there have a better
local support than i'll amy 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. Massa-
chusetts has IL to thirty square miles,
and Rhode Island one to so; then comes
New York with one to 81; Connecticut
has one to 60, New Jersey one to 63,
Texas one to 2,3I5, Florida one to 1858;
while in the Territories one newspaper
spreads its circulation over no less than
14,4G5 square miles.
There are 5l8 papers in the United
States which print more than 5000 cop
les each issue, and II which print more
than 100000. The New York Weekly
has the largest circulation given; among
the political mediums the New York
Weekly Tribune takes the lead, and
among the agricultural weeklios Moore's
Rural Ncw-Yorker stands first. The
New York Independent is the largest
paper and has the largest circulation Of
any religious paper. Nearly 1000 pa
pers are printed on the auxiliary plan
that is, on sheets purchased from New
York, Chicago and other c%cntcrs, witt
one side already printed, This number
has more than doubled within IL year
More than 1000 new newspapers have
been established since the first of March
1870, and the number of new ones an
nounced since January LIST, 1871, ha'
averaged nearly four per day. TIT
number of suspensions il about one
fourth as large as that of the new ISSUES
announced. Messrs. Geo. 7. Rowell 4
Co, assert that the number of newspa
pers issued has fully doubled within 81!
years.
in looking over the publications de
voted to specialities, Tor class publica
tons we find the religious largely pre-
dominate over any ether class, whicl
shows the interest the public press take
in the moral and religious welfare ofth'
country. There are in the United State
233 publications advocating evangelical
or sectarian ideas, with % in the Do
mlinion of Canada, with ono either il
the territories or colonies. Of this nun
Der New York City has Al, PHILADELPHIA
%, Boston q, while Florida, Kansas
~ NJ y. 49,. ,,l,nAi. II,