Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1895-06-20
WORK In WISCONSIN TO BEGIN
NEXT THURSD W.
WILL COST ABOUT $4,000
Tons Of Blanks-Ten thousand Copies
of the Report to be Distributed for
General Informa tion-Caunty Clerks
and Assistants ID do the Active
Local Work
Madison, June Il.

busy taking and tabulating the state
census and fling returns with the sec
rotary Of state. All returns must be
filed with the county clerks by the
first Of August. The county clerks are
TO taDulate the returns for their re-
Spective counties, and mus; transmit
them to the secretary Of state on or
before Aug. 20. In that office each
county will be tdbGlated wiz the state
at large, and the result published in
book form. Tue last state census was
taken in 1885, under the direction of
Secretary E. G. Timme, and the re-
sultant volume was book Of LIT
pages, 3S7 of which were devoted to
giving the names and addresses of eX-
soldiers and sailors in the state. The
book was compiled by Jo.eph s.
Keyes, who is now in Chicago as claim
agent of the Northern Pacific termin-
ais, and the work which he did set a
mark in the statistical history of Wis
cOnSin.
1t will take several tons of blanks
to complete the enumeration, and they
have all been printed in Madison and
have been forW arded to the several
county clerks, together with copiees of
the census law and special instruc-
is performed by town, city and village
clerks as the case may be, and they
are all authorized to appoint assistants
when necessary. The salaries to be
paid are enumerated by statute as
follows:
Clerks of cities and village shall
be paid at the rate of S1.5O for every
100 persons enumerated, and the same
for every 100 persons lawfully en-
rolled in the militia by them respec-
lively, and the same for every 100 per-
sons enumerated who served in the
United States army or navy during
the late war. Town clerks and assist
ants appointed by the county clerk
shall be paid at the rate of So for
every 100 persons enumerated by them
respectively, and S1.5O for every 100
persons lawfully enrolled in the mill
tia, and the same for every 100 persons
enumerated who served in the United
States army and navy aforesaid; and
in all counties where the population
does not exceed 5000, according to the
last census taken under the authority
Of the United States, said town clarks
and assistants shall receive the sum
of S. for every 100 persons enumerat-
ed, and $3.50 for every 100 persons
lawfully enrolled in the militia and
the same for every 100 persons enum-
Grated who served in the United States
army or navy as aforesaid, by them
respectively; and each county clerk
shall be allowed for making a copy
and return to the secretary of state
SO, in case the schedule of the enume-
Ia ton of the Inhabitants returned by
him shall contain 1000 persons or less,
and So for every 81 900 which the
schedule Of enumeration aforesaid re-
turned shall contain exceeding that
number and 1 cent for each person en-
rolled in the militia and the same for
each eX-sOIdier and sailor enumerated
in his county; and each clerk, assistant
and county clerk shall receive in ad
dition % per centum of the amount of
his compensation, as above fixed, for
the enumeration of the inhabitants, for
his, services in taking, collecting and
returning the statistics, which shall
be in full of all services required by
law
AS nearly as can be estimated the
work will cost the state about $50
600, i'll addition to printing 10000
copies Of the report, to be distributed
for general information. The enroll
ment of militia means a list of all able
bodied men between the ages of IS and
45 years, emitting only those whose
mntal or physical disabilities are plain
ly apparent. The enumeration of ex
soldiers and sailors must give name,
rank, organization to which he be-
longed and present residence. In TAX
ing the census proper enumeratorS are
to give the name Of the head of the
family, together with the number Of
members, and state age, sex. color and
nativity.
The farm statistics are to be es
pecially voluminous, giving number of
acres, improved, and wood land; the
ments; men employed and wages paid,
including board; stock on hand and
slaughtered within year; products of
all kinds and their value. A separate
blank is furnished for enumera ting
agricultural machinery, whether on
farms or n hands of local dealers.
The blank for manufacturing indus
tries is especially large, including
value of real estate. machinery stock
and fixtures: number of men employed
and wages paid; products of all kinds
and their cash value.
The information TO be elected does
not differ materially from that gath
cred in a United States census, except
in the giving of names and addresses
of the ex-soldiers and sailors in the
state
Under the constitution the state CEN
sus is to be taken every ten years and
to be so arranged that it will alternate
with the United States census, and
thus have the inhabitants enumerated
every five years. The probability is
that this is the last state census that
will be taken. as a move was inaugu-
rated il the last legislature to submit
to the people a constitutional amend
ment to do away with it. The argu-
ment against it is that it costs about
100000 and the members of the last
legislature we're of the opinion that
the money could be better spent.