The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-24
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STATISTICS OF AMERICAN JOURNALISM
The following interesting statistics and tables
of American journalism are selected from the
October quarterly, 1871, of the Advertisers
Gazette, published by George ?. Roweu q Co.,
of New York City. By careful comparison
with official and private data, shese statistics
are found to be; in the main, correct and to be
relied upon as furnishing the latest results OBJ
tainable of the present condition of American
journalism:
The whole number of periodicals issued in
the United States is 5,9SS, with IS to be added
for the Territories, and 35S are printed in the
Dominion of Canada, and % in the British
Colonies, making grand total Of 6,43S, OF
which 637 sre daily, 118 tri-weekly, 129 semi
weekly, 4,642 weekly, 81 bi-weekly, 100 semi
monthly, 7l6 monthly, IA bi-monthly, and 62
are issued quarterly. New York has the largest
number of publications, S94, 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 papers,
and is unique in this respect, every other State
having from three to twelve times as many
weekhes as dailies. Tri-weekly papers are
while in the Northern States the facts are re-
versed.
The largest number Of daily papers pub
lished in any State is SO, in New York. Penn
sylvania is second, with 81. Next comes, Illi-
nois, with 38, and California has "a, being the
fourth on the list. Delaware and Florida have
each one daily paper. Kansas has as many as
Vermont, West Virginia, Mississippi and Ar
kansas combined. Nebraska and Nevada have
each more dailies than either Oregon, Rhode
Island, South Carolina, Vermont, West Vir-
ginia, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida, Maine, or
Mississippi.
Of the rs publications issued regularly in
the Territories, 13 are daily and so weekly, 3
tri-weekly, semi-weekly, appears monthly,
semi-monthly, and bi-weekly.
The papers of New York State have the
largest circulation, averaging AL each issue.
Massachusetts is second. with 5,709 average /;
then comes the District of Columbia with 1928.
Nevada has the smallest average circulation,
only SIG, while Florida averages GIG, Arkansas
$50, Texas 701, and Mississippi 1853. The av.
erage circulation of all daily papers published
is 2,7l7, of the weeklies 1885, and of the
monthlies 4,081. The average edition of all
the papers printed is 1892, which, multiplied
by CABS, the entire number of publications,
gives 11,s5S,796 as the number of copies in
which an advertisement would appear if in
serted once in. all The same advertisement, if
continued one year, would be printed the enor-
nous number of 1 1,499,922,219 times. The
total number of publications printed in an en-
tire 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 Arkansas do but little
better, furnishing but s copies per year. Ala
5ama, Minnesota, South Carolina, Texas and
West Virginia all print less than enough to
give each inhabitant paper once in FIVE weeks,
while California gives 50 copies per year, ex-
ceeding every other State except New York,
which prints 113 copies per year for every soul
within its borders. AS New York papers cir
culste everywhere, while those of California do
not 60 very much out of the State, it is evident
that the papers issued there have better local
support than in any other State of the Ameri-
can Union.
In the District of Columbia we find that one
newspaper is published for every three square
miles Of territory. Massachusetts, has one to
so square miles, and Rhode Island one to 50 /;
then comes New York with one to 81; Con-
necticut has one to 60, New Jersey one to SO,
Texas one to 2,345, Florida one to 1888; while
in the Territories une newspaper spreads its
circulation over nc less than Il, ,465 square
miles.
There are 54S papers in the United States
which print more than 5000 copies each issue,
and IL 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 weeklies Moore's Rural
New. Yorker stands first. The New York In
dependent is the largest paper and has the
largest circulation of any religious paper
Nearly 1000 papers are printed on the auxilia-
~ plan-that is, on sheets purchased from
New York, Chicago, and other centers, with
one side already printed. This number has
more than doubled within one year. More
than 1000 new newspapers have been estab-
lished since tho LIST of March; 1870, and the
number of new ones announced since January
1, 1871, has averaged nearly four per day. The
number of suspensions is about one-fourth as
large as that of the new issues announced. The
number of newspapers issued has fully doubled
within six years.
In looking over the publications devoted to
specialities Tor class publications. we find the
religious largely predominate 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 United States 2S3
publications advocating evangelical or sectarian
ideas, with % in the Dominion of Canada,
with none either in the Territories or colonies.
OF this number New York City has A, Phila-
delphia %, Boston 81, while Florida, Kansas,
Nevada, and New jersey are entirely unrepre-
scented.
The farmers, horticulturists and stock-raisers
have their interests represented by an agricul-
tural press numbering no less than 1O6 publi-
cations, many of which are gotten up at great
expense, and are very extensively circulated.
The medical profession enlightens its menu
bers through the columns of 72 publications, of
which are weeklies, so monthlies, semi
monthlies, 8 bi-monthlies, and II quarterlies
Nearly, if not all, the schools of medicine
have their representative organs. which circu-
lates among its admirers and il criticised Sc
verely by its contemporaries whose views differ
while there are number that furnish intelli-
gence of interest to all medical men, as we'll as
the general reader, without taking sides for or