Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1894-12-06
IOWA STATE CENSUS.
Preparations Already Being Made for DompiI.
ing the Statutes.

ing the Statutes.
The secretary of state has just com.
menced his preparations for taking
the regular state census. Every square
foot of Iowa soil will be searched fol
men, woman and children. 1t makes
no difference whether they are chris
tian or heather, saint or scoundrel
rich or poor, just so they are men, and
the more the merrier.
The last state census was taken in
1885, and according to the laws of the
state every ten years the country has
to be gone over again. The United
States census is taken every ten years
also, but this happened last in the year
1890, and so Iowa is practically review.
ed every five years.
On the second Monday of the coming
January assessors will start on Their
zigzag journeys from every county
seat of the state and will continue
working the county until the first of
June. by which time they are supposed
to have corraled everybody.
These men are allowed until the LIST
of September to get in their originals
The census enumerators secure their
lists and arrange them according to
the blanks which are now being ar
ranged over in the capitol These
men hand their sheets of legal cap pa
per covered with names, descriptions,
etc., in to the county auditors Of the
various counties who in turn see that
they are placed in the hands of the
secretary of state. Then Mr.. McFar-
land will file abstracts from them and
al interesting book is complied, print
ed and labelled, "Iowa Census Report"
The above is only general review
of the work, but the great burden of
the labor rests in the fact of its minute
ness, which is wonderful and extreme.
ly laborious. This coming year more
labor will be required since so
many new and public enterprises and
manufacturing undertakings have
have been entered upon in our state
during the last ten years. Indeed the
work will almost double that of 1885.
Every man will have recorded his
name, profession, where he was born,
whether native or foreign, his wife and
children, whether he or they can read
or write, whether an inmate of any
asylum, and residence. In fact, they
want to know little of anything and
everything do these census enumera-
tors.
Besides an individual list there is an
other list prepared from the above ia
bles which show the various employees
and employers, their business it's sue
cesses or failures, its goods, quality
and quantity. Agriculture, mining,
aeligious and educational statistics are
all made. Grain, vegetables, fruits,
horses, cattle and poultry all figure in
these statistics with comparisons by
former results. The name and indi-
vidual output, hands employed and the
amount of work accomplished per
hand an hour will 60 in the mining
tables. The manufacturing OUTLAWS
will perhaps have the largest per cent
increase over former years, for Iowa
has come we'll to the front in this great
corner of civilization, and just what
will be the result of this Investigation
cannot as yet be determined, suffice
will it be to say that the statistics will
be surprise.
All the colleges and schools will be
able to show their benefits more forci-
bly, then as they are generally under
stood.
The entire work will in all probabili-
ty consume the entire year of 1895,
and Iowa this time next year will be
seen to have great deal more whole
some and prosperous appearance and
rank among the other states than ever
before.-DeS Moines Leader.