The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-10-19
BUTTE COUNT IS ON
500 ENUMERATORS BUSY IN CITY
AND SUBURBS.
CHURCHES ARE BACKING; WORT
Prediction Is Made That Canvas Will
Show Government Census Is Low
Managers of Undertak-
ing Talk.

With determination to do their work
more accurately than the government
enumerators, 500 people started out in
Butte and its suburbs this afternoon to
count the dwellers in this city and its
environs.
While the object of this canvass Is
primarily religious, the work calls forth
a lively secular interest, because there
has been SO much questioning here
about the accuracy of the last govern
ment count of the people.
John Orchard, who represents the
Sundayschool association, says that
where an enumeration, such as is being
made in Butte now, has been made in
other cities the results have shown the
population of the towns to be over 10
per cent greater than was indicated by
the government figures.
All Districts Included.
The count today is including all dis
tricts of the city. The rougher parts of
the town are being looked after by the
Salvation Army people. Even the Chi
nese are not being overlooked in the in
vestigation.
1t is expected the count will be COM
pleted this evening and by Monday
valuable information on the results of
the enumeration are expected to be
ready for publication.
Rev. s. C. Blackiston, rector of st.
Johns Episcopal church, chairman of
the executive committee dealing with
the enumeration has this to say about
the count:
My idea is that through this canvass
we will find out the members of our
church in the city who have not made
fh1rN,
pastors have much the same idea. We
and get the children into the Sunday
schools.
Assisting in the Work.
"All the churches in the city and the
suburbs, SO far as l know, are assisting
in the work of counting the people. l
have been informed that this sort of in
vestigating has brought good results in
other cities.
Il think the people are interested in
the work and will help US all ti.ey can.
have heard Of case or two where
men asserted that the clergymen sim
ply wanted to locate them to get money
out of them.
Il think such people are too few to
interfere with the work to any apprecia-
BILE extent. The character of the people
engaged in the enumeration is suffi-
cient answer to any such assertions as
l have mentioned"
Concerning the count, Mr.. Orchard
who has immediate charge of it, said:
'Cards We're left at the large board
ing houses and hotels yesterday for the
guests to fill out and thus assist us in
the work that we are doing today.
THE count will be thorough one and
is to be completed today by the 500
There are both men and
women doing the counting.
Results Coming Monday.
"By Monday night we hope to have
the results of the canvass figured out
so that we can give at least O. rough
estimate Of the number of people in the
city and suburbs.
I'VE also hope by that time to know
about how many persons under 18 years
of age there are here, the number of
church attendants and the number of
members in the churches.
1T will take 10 days longer to figure
out the UNCONVENTIONAL preferences of
the people. In other cities where these
have been made the figures
have shown the population of the places
to be over 10 per cent in excess of that
shown by the government census"