Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1885-04-14
4 RHINE OF INFORMATION.
THE TEyTH CENSUS OF THE
UNITED STATES.
A MASS OF statistics Costing
Ei;lions to Compile.

The APPEAL has just received
from Washington two volumes.
One relates to the population OF
the United States, and the other to
its agriculture and manufacturing
industries. The work on popn!s-
ton contains 961 pages exclusive OF
maps. Each page contains about
100 square inches of finely printed
matter. The statistics give the
population of every town and
county in the United States, and
then by maps illustrates the diver
sity of population in such way
that the whole of the United States
can be taken in at glance. For
instance, the illustration Of the
density of the population is in
brown. A section Of country con-
tanning 100000 to the square mile
is printed this color, this takes in
the big cities, another plate prints
$4,000 to the mile, the next $4,000,
and SO on down, until FIVE persons
to the square mile are represented
by a pale brown tint. When such
a map receives about twenty separ-
ate impressions the hue increases
in darkness with the population,
and a single glance at such a map
gives the result Of years Of patient
investigation and statistical work
costing millions Of dollars.
The rainfall is illustrated in
blue. The country north of the
Gulf, Mississippi and Alabama has
the mose, Florida next, then a thin
strip along the sea line of the Pa
ci6c coast and Nevada is represent
ed as having the least Of all, or be-
low FIVE inches a year. This was
the showing in $780,. and now the
Nevada rainfall has increased to rs
inches.
The foreign population as CON-
pared with the native, the black
with the white, and the Irish and
German respectively are shown in
the same way. Over one hundred
maps, each one marvel Of artistic
work, represent the various phases
of the population, and the tables
are printed alongside the maps.
The occupations Of all are given
in alphabetical order.
TIE LADIES.
These tables show some peculiar
things For instance, there are
2SS female journalists in the Uni
ted States, 1920 actresses under fif-
teen years of age, 1882 female
physicians, Is who practice dentis-
try, 25 who plead as lawyers, %
keep livery stables, "a act as sex
tons, II are engaged as detectives,
IS are down as designers and in
venters and 165 preach the gospel
The census also enumerates females
BARRIERS 1902, beside 122 engaged
in stock-raising and 534, 900 engaged
as agricultural laborers, "a herd
| stock and 125 are engaged in max
ing turpentine, 76 carry newspa-
pers, AL are in the railroading
business, 1871 are telegraphers,
| 1908 keep saloons, 1873 run steam
| boats, 1874 keep grocery stores, 50
are undertakes, 1000 make shoes,
81 make beer, 1873 are down as car
riage and wagon makers, 1875 are
down as gunsmiths, 374 make rails,
TIC are ragpickers and 451 take
photographs. These occupations
do not represent over one-tenth OF
the occupation in which women are
engaged, but only the trades and
professions are enumerated in this
| article, in which women are not
supposed to be generally engaged.
One woman is put down as horse
breaker, all of which goes to show
, that woman can enter about any
trade or profession she wants to, it
she has the ability.
| NEVADA.
This State has g., 233 persons en-
gagged in regular occupations, OF
which 4,18O are connected with az
ricutural work, 1873 are in pro
fessional and personal service,
4,44e in trade and 1921 in manu-
featuring. Fishermen and oyster
men are down as II, although a
good many will be puzzled to know
where the oyster beds are worked
The mines are down as 6,647
The railroads give $50 men ano