The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-07-09
THE TASK OF THE CENSUS BUREAU
NEARING COMPLETION.
An Interesting Review of the Work Done
More than Year Before the Final
Volumes Will be Issued.

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fore the latter part of next year, but
the bulk of the work is already done,
and the results obtained are being rap
idly put in shape for the printers. The
census office when it had obtained its
largest gro with was divided into TWEEN
ty-fve divisions, each one devoted to a
special branch of the census investi-
cation. or these the population di-
vision has all along been the greatest
and in most respects the most impor-
tant, but it has now practically con-
cluded it's portion of the work. The
general results obtained by the diyis
ion have already been given to the
country, but on July 81 all the figures
showing the population of the country
by minor civil divisions will be ready
for the tabulating machines, and will
be published Immediately afterward
On the same date 1900 clerks now en-
ployed in the div ision will be discharg-
ed, bee luse there is no other work for
them to do. Next in Importance to
the population are the divisions
of manufactures and agriculture,
and these will be the last to complete
their work. The manufactures divis
ion has about completed it's field
work, and the returns respecting the
most important products, such as iron
and steel, wooden goods, cotton, glass,
chemicals, pottery, silk, hats, caps,
newspapers and Others, are now being
tabulated in the office. About fifty
or sixty clerks will be retained to COM
plete the work and prepare it for pub
LEGATION. The final report will not be
completed until next year. The divis-
ion Of agriculture has so far been de-
voting itself to the compilation of
statistics relating to what are termed
local products, and this work has
been nearly finished, and a report
showing the production of tobacco,
sugar, rice, cotton and other products
confined to certain localities will be
ready in two weeks. The work on the
general Investigations regarding &C.
reals, cattle, and such general pro-
| ducts will be taken up, and about fifty
clerks will be employed to tabulate
the returns made by the enumerators.
In the other and smaller divisions of
the bureau the work is being finished
up now. and the greater part OF the
force employed has either been dis
missed already or soon will be. The
geographic divisions, where the civil
divisions OF the country have been
decided upon in order to determine
the exact population of each, will con |
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population division, except the manu-
facture Of maps to be used in the final
report.
Dr. John s. Billings, who has charge
OF the vital statistics, has this work all
completed except such as depends up
on the population of the country, such
as determining the increase and de.
crease of rates and the percentages
The most comprehensive report on
church statistics probably ever print
ed will be ready in three months,
while but seven clerks have been re-
tanned in the division Of education to
complete the report on that subject,
which will be ready in three weeks.
The division of pauperism and crime
will complete its work in two or three
months and will probably horrify the
country with the figures it has obtain.
ed; and on the 10Th Of July Il. G.
Copeland, in charge of one section OF
the debt, wealth and taxation divis-
ion, will put his report in the hands of
the printers, and his entire 70 ce will
be dispensed with. Mr.. j H. Upton,
in charge Of the second section of the
same division. will complete his final
report in two or three months. In the
division of farms, homes and mort
cages the bulk of the. work has been
done, and on the 1st of August the
force OF clerks, now 500, will be re-
duced to 200. The statistics relating
to mines and mining have all been col
lected and compiled under the direc
ton OF DR.. David T. Day, Of the Geo
logical survey, and in about two weeks
report on the subject making vol.
ume of 1000 pages, will tie is
sued. The division of fish and
fisheries is somewhat behind in its
work. However, the work now under {
the direction of Mr.. Pidgeon is pro
crossing satisfactorily. The fish com
is cooperating with the cen
sus office and the report which the lat.
ter will issue will be Endorsed by the
commission. The work will not be
ColupleteI uull HeAb year, DuU u00 Dul.
letins will be is ued in a short time on
the oyster and herring fisheries, which
are likely to be of more than ordinary
The report on transporta- I
ton, being prepared under the super ;
vision Of Prof. L. G. Adams, will be {
in two months, and the S
division abolished, and the statistics
relating to insurance will be ready for /
publication in a month. One volume
has been completed already f
The divisions having charge of the t
statistics OF social classes in cities and S
special classes are as far ahead with
their work as they can get until the
final POI u'ation figures are given out.
After that they will be able to
wind up their operations in
month or two. Ivan Petroff, in 5
charge of the Alaska division, is !
now in Alaska, but will return in DC
tober with material for complete re- 6
port on the resources of that country,
and Prof. Thomas Donaldson is Just s
lengthy and exhaustive
report on the Indians. 1t will proba-