The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1884-06-18
The Tonth Census.


Now, four years after the date of the
tenth census of the United States. 10
begins to be possible to realize the
magnitude of the undertaking. IL is
| the most detailed and complete census
ever taken of any nation, and il is a
| census of the largest nation of which q
| census has ever been taken Therefore,
! IL is the greatest census ever compiled
| in the world.
The public is already pretty familiar
| with the compendium" of the census,
which has been published some time,
| and is the volume which will be of most
! gcneraluse. There were printed 1875, 900
copies of it, a huge octave volume
| seven or eight inches thick Ii contains
statistical tables of population, labor,
! products, illiteracy, etc., in great
J minuteness of detail.
The remainder of the census reports
are now being published as rapidly as
| the work can be done by the public
/ printer. They are in large quartO vol
umes of from 900 to 2,OOU pages each,
and they contain the special reports
| prepared by expert statistiCians and in
| vestigators in the various departments.
! The first of these, on population, the
second on manufacture, the third, on
| agriculture, the fourth, on railroad
| transportation, steam navigation, tele-
| graphs etc, and the fifth and sixth on
cotton, have all been issued in editions
| of $4,000 to 10000 each. The seventh
volume is ready for distribution, and is
| of more interest, just now, at least,
than any of its predecessors. 1t treats
of taxation, the national debt and other
public debts, and the wealth of the
nation in general. The eighth volume,
on forestry and the lumber interests,
will take more time for production,
owing to the large number of illustra-
tiOns that are being prepared for 1t.
The order of subjects for the remain
ing volumes has not yet been fully
determined. 1t is probable, however
that the ninth and tenth volumes will
be filled with miscellaneous reports.
Among them will be the very elaborate
census of shipbuilding prepared by Mr.
Henry Hall, Of the New York Tribune,
the report on newspapers and publish
ing-houses, by Mr.. North of the Utica
Herald, and the report on coke manu-
factures and wages, prepared by MIR.
Weeks, of Pittsburgh, editor of the Iron
Age. Other reports in these volumes
will be on petroleum and its products,
quarries and building stone, the seal
fisheries and M. Petroh's report and
romantic 81 of adventure in Alaska,
These subjects may be found so bulky
as to occupy three volumes instead of
two.
A subsequent volume will he devoted
to the life insurance report of Mr.. Kyle,
and an exhaustive report on fire insuT-
ance by an officer of the National Board
of Underwriters. Col George E. War"
ing of Newport, r. l., the well known
civil and sanitary engineer has pre-
pared a report on the social conditions
of nearly three hundred of the priuci-
{ pal cities of the country. 1t covers
their moral condition, sanitary cOndi-
tion, charitable and female institutions,
police and fire departments, societies
for prevention of cruelty, suppression Of
vice, etc, and many other topics. Two,
if not three volumes will be required
for these reports, which constitute prac-
tically municipal social encyclopedia
of the nation.
The water power reports of Prof.
Trowbridge will probably fill another
volume, and another will be devoted to
the gas, ice and water supplies Of cities.
Clarence Kings report on precious
metals, Raphael Pumpelly's on base
metals and Elliot Lord s on mining
laws and social conditions of mining
districts will be grouped in two vol
umes or possibly three. Industrial i'm
plements will be in the topics of a vol.
ume with nearly a thousand illustra-
ions.
In one volume will be bound reports
on sheep and WOOL hoes and fruit cul-
ture Within the compass of two or
three more will be reports on pumps
; and pumping engines, churches,
libraries, museums, schools and col
lepes, fisheries (bv Prof. Goode),
oysters (by ERNEST Ingersoll, of Con.
nectiCut), and paupers, idiots aud
criminals. Fittingly, the series will
end with reports, in one or two volumes,
on vital statistics and mortality, by
Surgeon Billings, u. S. A. There will
thus be probably twenty-fOur volumes
. / in all, besides the compendium.
The work of preparing the reports
f for publication is by no means yet com
i plete. Indeed, it viii probably require
q year and a half of hard work yet
should there happen nothing to delay
it, The work Of printing and binding
goes on as rapidly as possible, and if all
the reports were prepared in time and
there were no extraordinary delay, the
remaining eighteen volumes could be
, Hissued in about two years or two
wears and a quarter. This seems
like long time to wait, until
, 1886 and 1887 for the complete
census of 1880. But it is rather more
! rapid than the issue of the Encyclopedia
Britannica, which is a work of far less
technical magnitude than this. On
, completion the census reports, not in
cluding the "compendium," which is
, as big a book almost as a Webster
! Unabridged Dictionary" will consist
of twenty-four volumes, averaging
, /, 400 pages each, or about 38, 1906
closely printed pages - Washington
Cor Pittsburgh Dispatch.