Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-10-31

Persons in service of United States
stationed abroad ~(estimated), "a. 400.
Indians, ETC.. on Indian ~servation
except Indian Territory, 145,2s2.
Total for seven territories. etc, for
year 1900, /, e67, $40; 1890, s52, 94s. Indians,
89,541.
The Alaskan figures are derived from
Alaska and for military organizations.
stationed abroad. principally in the
Philippines, have not yet been received.
The figures of. the population are the
result of a careful computation by means
of the latest tabulating machines. Bulle-
tins will be issued shortly for the var
ious minor civil divisions in the different
states and territories as fast as possible.
The entire number, it is hoped, will be
ready for the public use before the first
OF January. The early completion of the
tabulation of the population of the states
enables the census officers to submit the
figures to congress as soon as it convenes
in December, thus giving that body the
information necessary to dispose of the
question of the reapportionment of repre-
s%entatives at the coming session.. All the
field work of the twelfth census, so far as
it relates to the collection of data relat-
ing to population, agriculture, vital sta
tistics and manufactures, is now COM
plete.
1t is the aim of the officials now in
charge of the work to push the tabula-
tion of the returns so as to give the COM
plete reports to the public in accordance
with the law, which equIr that they be
issued July 1902. Up to this date the
number Of schedules received relating to
agriculture is about $500, 900. The chief
statistician in charge of details relating
to manufacturers reports at this tim
that his work is practically finished and
that he has collected something over 621.-
900 schedules as against three hundred
and fifty-five thousand in the former de.
cade, thus showing a large increase In
this part of the work. By means of the
plan adopted in this census the office has
been enabled to complete the field work
concerning manufactures more than a
a earlier than was done ten years
ago. 1t required nearly eighteen months
in the last census to collect the manufac-
turing schedules, but as a result of the
efforts of those in charge of this census
practically all of the data is now in con.
troll of the office.
The enumerators,~ numbering something
over ffty-three thousand have all beer
paid, with the exception of ffty-fve
whose accounts are held up for technical,
files. In the last census it took eight OF
ten months to pay all the enumerators
All the supervisors have been paid will
the exception of a few which have beer
delayed for various reasons. The cost o
the census up to date, including the eX
pense incident to the preliminary worl
as well as the cost of the enumeration
and supervision, is $6,S61, 961, of which
over $4,000, 900 has been expended for sup
ervision and enumeration.
The field work having been completed
every effort will now be made to compl,
with the law regarding the publication o
the reports concerning the four genera
topics named above.
The bulletins thus far issued have bee,
given to the public almost a year In ad
vance of those given out during the las
census