Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-12-05

=, 1872.
THE WORK or THE CENSUS CON.
PLETED.
A Wonderful Compilation of Valuable
lnformatton- Maps Illustrative
General F. A. Walker, Superinten:
dent of the Census, has flushed his
work, and it is all passing through the
public printers hands. The first VOL
ume will be ready for distribution
within week after Congress assemblies,
and the other two volumes will rapidly
follow. Besides being in accuracy and
fulness fur more complete than those
that have preceded il, the last census
will be made very valuable by a re.
markable series of illustrative maps,
which have been prepared and will be
published in the report. The first VOL
ume-that of population-willc contain
in all twelve of these maps,
two of them being double
pages, four Of them single pages,
and the others having two on a page of
the ,etter-press. No. shows the gen.
eral density of population. 1t contains
four shades of dark color, and illus
trates in a strikingly objective fashion
the condition of the several sections in
this ragard. Two other maps show the
density of the total colored and foreign
populations, each of which are colored
in four or five shades. It is notable
that they are almost the antithesis of
each other, the colored predominaaing
| where the foreign born are few.
est. In the colored population map
! the entire New England coast, q
short distance above Boston, is uncol-
ored, being below the average on which
the shadings are indicated. while in
places indicated, which show considera-
ble settlements of this class. Four
small maps in this division indicate the
locality and density Of the German,
Irish, British-American, English and
Welsh, scandinavian and Chinese pop
ulation. These are instructive charts.
The other maps in this volume are of
special value, especially that on litter
acy, which is delineated in five dark
shades; The other, that of wealth,
illustrated by four shades of ya-
low or orange, is the antith-
esis of illiteracy, for the richest
regions and localities are exactly
those which dovetail with the highest
in the illiteracy way. One of the most
valuable maps is that termed the ttHis-
torical,'" accompanied, as it will be,
with twenty-five pages of accurate
statement relating to that to which it
refers. This map, to the general read.
er and student, will be of great interest.
A complete outline map of the United
is presented, defining State and Terri
torial lines, that of Alaska being on q
small and separate diagram. By shad.
ing and figures the eye sees at q glance
the original thirteen States and their
whole boundaries. then the Northwest
ern Territory, marked as the ces-
sion of 1873. This again shows
the territorial divisions made by Con-
gress and their designations. The next
division, indicated saliently by a dis
tinctive color, shows the Louisiana ces-
sion, made in 1808-twenty years later.
Then comes the Spanish .cession, con-
snmmated in 1919. Nearly thirty years
elapse, and we leap to the Pacific and
the lines of the Mexican cessions Of
184S are given. The Gadsden cession
of 1853 is also defined, and the Russian
of 1868 shows where we have tempora
rily stayed our fight among the ice
bergs. The second volume-that Of
vital statistics-will have nine maps
one, general map: ON mortality and
four smaller ones, showing the
density of mortality, from con.
sumption, intestinal diseases, those
from malaria proper, also typhoid and
typhoid-malaria. There are curious
evidences Of general laws discernible al
q glance in these charts-as, for in.
stance, the fact indicated by the shad'
ing that malaria and consumption art
locally the opposites of each other. A
series of very nicely defined maps,
which will serve to illustrate the sani
tary facts by the physical ones they il
lustrate, are also given. One is an ex
cellent rain map or chart, by
which it is easy to traet
the malarial influences another
showing the isothermal lines, which
illustrates consumption and similar
disorders; while the othersare a phys
ical map and the most complete geo
logical map of the United States eve
> made so far. The third volume-tha
of agriculture-will contain six maps
illustrating the growth and locale 9
the chief products, as corn, cotton
wheat, tobacco and dairy or the grass
region. Altogether these maps ar
among the most valuable results of th'
genius, sagacity, and industry, whicl
has presided over the taking and pre-
paration of the census of 1870.