The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1880-01-29
The CENSUS OF 1880.

Gen. Walker, it Is said, IS making
vigorous preparations for the coming
census taking. He is busy with q
clerical force preparing for the work,
and were it entirely dIYested OF psrti.
san purposes, as is some times charged,
we might conclude that it Is to be
we'll done. 1t is said the superintend-
ent has completed arrangements with
Prof. Baird for a scientific investiga-
tion of the fisheries and fishing popula-
ton of the country, and early last
summer q number of experts and
skilled assistants, under able supervi-
sion, were placed In the field, and By
personal visitation the whole body of
social and industrial statistics of the
populations engaged in fishing along the
Atlantic coast, the northern lakes and
the western rivers, have been gathered,
while special agents have been en-
ployed to work up the habits and
haunts of fish. Hon. Clarence King,
director of the geological survey, has
been placed in charge of the investlga-
ton of the mining interests, and ex-
perts will canvass the whole field of
production of gold and silver and of
iron, copper, lead, the other non-pre-
cious metals and coal, and the report
will be complete and of high authority.
General W. P. Trowbridge, Professor
Of the Columbia College, has been sp-
pointed the general agent for the pur-
pose of obtaining statistics of power
and machinery employed in productive
industry. Fred 81. Wines, for ten
years the secretary of the Illinois
Board of Commissioners of Public
Charities, will have charge of the espe-
cial enumeration of the defective, de-
pendent and delinquent classes-the
deaf and dumb, blind, insane, idiotic,
the criminal and the paupers. The
collection and coordination of the
social statistics of cities has been en-
trusted tn Colonel George E. Warlng,
Jr., of Rhode Island, who has already
gathered a large amount of material.
The statistics IN regard to several
branches of manufacture have been
assigned to special agents, as follows
The manufacture of cotton, to DdwaId
Atkinson, of Boston; the manufacture
of wool, to George William Bond,
of Boston; the building stones of
the United States and the quarryine
industry, to Prof. j. s. Newberry, OF
New York; the manufactures of iron,
to James NJ. Swank, of Philadelphia
ship building, to John Lynch, of Port
land, Me. the manufactures of glass
and of coke, to j. Weeke, of Pitts
burg; the manufacture of silk, to w.
q. Wykoff, of New York the lumber
ing industry, to Prof. c. 8. Sargent, of
Brookline,. Mass. The suhj sct of
cotton culture has been intrusted to
Prof. E. W. Hilgard, of the UuiYersity
of Californis; that of the productions
of cereals to Prof. w 81. Brewer, of
the Sheffield Scientific school of Yale
College; that of forestry, to Prof. @.
8. Sargent, of Brcokline, Mass. that
of orchard fruits, tobacco and hops, to
]. R Dodge, of Washington, d. c.. 4;
and that of mos. production IN the
grazing states snd territories, to Clar-
ence Gordon, of N ,wburg, N. Y. Prof.
Hilgard is assisted by several emf
nent sgriculturists and geologists.
An investigation into the cul-
ture and production of cotton Is
being made under the supervision of
Mr.. Gordon. Vital statistics, though
attended with difficulties in procuring
them, not attended with taking the
census of older countries, will be IS
exhaustive as the nature of the case
will permit.