The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-07-08
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.
The Enormous Task Of Compiling
the Census Of 1890 Rapidly
Nearing Completion.
Final Volumes of tho Report Will
be Issued by the End of
the Year.
Twelve Hundred Clerks VIII Have to
Look for Other Emplnyment-Re-
view of tho Work Done.

view of tho Work Done.
WASHINGTON, July THE work of com
piling the census of 1890 is rapidly drawing
to q close. The final volumes of tho report
will hardly be issued before the latter part
of next year, but the bulk of the work is
already done, and the results obtained are
being rapidly put in shape for tho printers.
The census office when it had obtained its
largest growth was divided into twenty-five
divisions. each one devoted to Il special
branch of the census investigation. or
these the population division has all along
been the largest and in most respects the
most important, but it has now practically
concluded its portion of the work. The
general results obtained by the division
have already been given to the country,
but on the 31st of July all the figures show
ing the population of the country by minor
civil divisions will be ready for the tabulat-
ing machines, and will be published imme-
distely afterward. On the same date Loo
clerks now employed in the division will be
discharged, because there is no other work
for them to do. Next in Importance to the
population are the divisions of manufac-
lures and agriculture, and these will be the
last to complete their work. The manu-
facturers' division has about completed it's
field work, and the returns respecting the
most important products, such as iron u
steel, WOODEN goods, cotton, glass, chemi-
Gals, pottery, silk, hats, caps, newspapers
and others, are now being tabulated in the
- QS~o AL1-% Aft- ~ osv%~ C1arIu ruil1 h0
retained to complete the work ard prepare
it for publication. The final report will
not DO completed until next year. The
division of agriculture has SO far been de-
voting itself to the compilation of statis-
tics relating to what are termed local
products, and this work has been nearly fin
ished, 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 cereals,
cattle, and such general products will then be
ployed to tabulate the returns made by the
enumer ators. In the other and smaller di-
visions of the bureau the work is being fin
ished up now, and the greater part of the
force employed has either been dismissed
already or soon will be. The geographic
ulSlSAOAS "LlC4oC v VI Lie COuLl
try have been decided upon in order to de-
termine the exact population of each, will
conclude it's work at the same time as the
population division, except the manufacture
of maps to be used in the final report.
DIR. John 5. Billings, who has charge of
the vital statistics, has this work all COM
pleted except such as depends IN the pop
ulation of the country, such as determining
the increase and decrease of rates and the
percentages. The most comprehensive re-
port on church statistics probably ever
printed will be ready in three months, while
but seven clerks awe been retained in the
division of education to complete the re-
port on that subject, which will be ready in
three weeks. The division of pauperism
and crime will complete its work IN two or
thee months, and will probably horrify the
country with the figures it has obtained,
and on the 18th of July T. G. Copeland, in
charge of one section of the debt, wealth
and taxftion division, will put his report in
entire force will be dispensed with.
Of the second section Of the same d.
vision, will complete his final report in two
or three months. in the division Of farms,
homes and mortgages the bulk of the work
has been done. and on August l, the force
of clerks. o 500, Will be reduced to 200.
The statistics relating to mines and mining
have all been collected and compiled under
the direction of DIR. David T. Day. of the
geological survey. and in about two weeks
a report on the subject, making a volume of
1000 pages. will be issued. The division of
fish and fisheries is somewhat behind in its
work. However, the work now under the
direction of Mr.. Pidgeon is progressing sat
isfactorily. The fish commission is CO.
operating with the census office, and the
report which the latter will issue will
be Endorsed by the commission. The
work will not be completed until
year. but the bulletins will be is-
herring fisheries. which are likely to be of
more than ordinary interest. The report en-
transportation being prepared under the
of Prof. Fl. G. Adams, will be
completed In two months, and the division
abolished, and the statistics relating to in
surance will be ready for publication IN a
month. One volume has been completed
The divisions having charge of the statis-
tics of social classes in cities and special
classes are as far ahead with their work as
they can get until the final population figures
are given out. After that they will be able
to wind up their operations in a month or two.
Ivan Petrof, in charge of the Alaska division,
is Now in Alaska, but will return in October
with material for a complete report on the
resources of that country, and Prof. Thomas
Donaldson is just completing a lengthy
and exhaustive report on the Indians. 1t
will probably be issued during the next
month. 1t is, therefore, apparent that but
little remains to be done except in two or
three divisions, and within the next three
or four months the force of clerks en-
ployed by tho bureau will be reduced SO as
probably not to exceed POO in all. The
discharging of clerks, Supt. Porter says,
gives him nearly as much trouble as their
appointment did. The impression that
the Wholesale reduction of the force in the
census Office is due to a lack of funds with
which to pay it, Mr.. Porter says, is errone-
Gus. He claims that there is enough Of the
appropriation left to run the bureau to the
end Of the yenr, and more than enough to
continue the work until after the assem-
bling of congress-. He anticipates no diff
Guilty in obtaining an appropriation at the
next session TO enable him to completa hia