Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-06-22
ENUMERATION
IS COMPLETED
HELENA AND BUTTE WILL BE
DISAPPOINTED IN NUMBER
OF INHABITANTS.
GREAT FALLS WILL BE
SECOND CITY IN SIZE.
Helena's Population Probably Less
Than in 169O-Difaculties Of
Count at the Mines.

The work of enumeration in the cities Of
Helena n Butte has been closed for sew
eral days. Governor Richards declines to
the approximate population OF the two
cities. He says he has troncNad instruc.
tions from the census authorities to nodd
property of the government. and the result
will not be known until 1t is given out BY
the Washington officials. It Is safe to con,
both Helena and Butte will be very much
disappointed when the totals are made
public, and the shortage IN notn cues nsn WI" ~
many thousands short Of 5000 inhabitants,
and Helena's population will be less than
in point of population will be Great Falls.
and the numerical strength of Helena and
Anaconda will be about the same. The
official bulletin announcing the totals will
Notwithstanding the effort tina was put
enumeration said Governor Richards this
morning; "but a small proportion of the
~stragglers were enumerated, and l have
reason to believe that there are many resi-
dents of this city who will not appear on
the census rolls.
1.-The difficulty in securing the names Of
great, but has been a small matter when
compared with the difficulties encountered
by the enumerators IN the districts IN
mining regions, which are largely popu-
lated with non-English speaking people.
The troubles of an enumeratOr who had
charge Of this kind Of a district, are set
forth in the following letter which l re-
ceived a few days ago:
There are perhaps 200 men patching
and boarding within the city limits Of my
district whom l have not been able to emu
merate. I know where they belong, but
cannot catch them, nor get the required in
formation from others. In my attempts
I have wasted yesterday and much of to-
day. l was around their supposed places Of
resort a great part of last night, obtaining
very few names as a result OF my time
spent. l shall go again tonight and make
another attempt. The Boston & Montana
offices cannot help me, as they know the
men only by numbers, saying that SO many
names are similar that it would be very
difficult to avoid duplication in some in
stances, and omission in many others. I
find the boarding houses deal with them
and there a mans name is 24O Cor some
other number instead Of an absolutely UNI
pronounceable name which nobody knows.
The men rush to and from their meals at
the smelter boarding house with no time
to give (save perhaps two or three at a
rush to some place of amusement In other
parts of the city, beyond the limits of my
district. Every attempt to round them up
in that manner has resulted I'M very few
returns
II am also having some difficulty in Sc
curing the names of the japanese along the
lines of railroads" continued the COVER
nor. 'In fact, in several of the districts
where there are crews of these men work
ing no interpreters are to be found, and
able to give much assistance, their explain
alton being that the men are furnished
them under contract, and they do not keep
a record of the names of the laborers.'