Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-12
ONE MISSING RETURN
Is Delaying the Issuance of an Inn
portant Census Bulletin.
CARNEGIE REFUSES TO ANSWER
Any Questions Save Those Upon the Popu-
lation Schedule.
PRAISE FOR SPECIAL AGENT WEEKS
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TRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT.
WASHINGTON, August 11.-Dr. David
T. Day, who is in charge of the division of
mines and mining in the census Office, said
to-day that he fully expected to complete
the whole of the work entrusted to him by
the end of October. If this Is done his
division will be far ahead of any Of the
other divisions, and will have made record
greatly better than that of any branch OF
any previous census.
He says that he is justified in this ex-
pectation by the progress already made in
all parts of the territory he has under his
control, and by the fact that he considers
that he has working for him by far the most
efficient force of special agents ever en-
ployed in a similar capacity. He was
especially emphatic in his praise OF Mr..
Weeks, of Pittsburg, who has assigned to
him petroleum, natural gas and manganese,
in the division of mines and mining and
glass, in the division of manufactures.
PRAISE FOR WEEKS.
DR.. Day said that Mr.. Weeks was un-
doubtedly the best expert in these special
ties in the country. He is the only man
who has ever made a collection of the statis-
tics of natural gas, which, by the way, was
not discovered at the time of the census of
1880.
Over 95 per cent Of the statistics relating
to coal mining have already been collected,
and special agents are now out in the field
making the concluding researches in this
direction. Out in Ohio and some
parts OF Iowa there are a number of places
in which there is coal cropping out of the
ground, and the usual processes Of mining
are not necessary to get at 1t. In these
places there are men who get out few
carloads of the fuel at time and sell it to
the neighboring farmers. Their output
probably does not exceed few hundred
tons q year, but each of these places
must be visited and the returns Of the
coal production there collected.
This is the difficult part of the work and
the part that takes time. All the returns
for the large mines are already in and will
show very large increase of production for
last year over those for 1879. DR.. Day is
the authority for the statement that Penn
sylvania will rank first among the States of
the Union in the value Of her mineral pro-
ductions.
RATHER CLOSE SECONDS.
She will, however, be pushed closely by
both Colorado and Montana, where the pro-
duction Of gold and silver largely increases
the value Of their mineral returns. Penn
sylvanis produces remarkably large num-
Der of marketable minerals, as we'll as q
large number which occur in that State in
such small quantities as not to attract capi-
tai and are therefore not mined.
DR.. Days division will shortly issue q
bulletin on the producing of manganese in
this country. 1t is all complete with the
exception of one return. When that is in
the bulletin will be published The missing
return is that of the firm of Messrs. Carnegie
& Co., Of Pittsburg. These gentlemen have
refused to furnish the information required
of them with regard to any of the census
inquiries with the exception of those upon
the population schedule. When shown the
law upon the subject they have responded
that that only applied to corporations.
HThere will be no difficulty in getting the
Information required through another chan
mel, and, in fact, the Carnegie Company is
perfectly we'll aware that the giving of it
would neither help nor injure them, and it
is perfectly willing that DR.. Days agent
should obtain the result sought with regard
to their establishment, but they desire for
some reason to be in position to say that
they themselves did not furnish the infor-
nation. At present it is not the desire of
the Census Office to push the issue thus
raised, and no legal action is likely to re-
suit, at least for some time. LIGHTNER.