Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-06-08
GREATER
SALEM
CENSUS
Finds a Substantial
Increase of Pop
ulatiOn
The Newer Wards of the City
Contain Larger Number
Than Was Expected

The population Of Greater Salem is
13,2S7. The slur that the Capital City
of oregon has only 1000 people is for
ever removed.
The census board yesterday made
their report, giving the population by
precincts. which foot up to the amount
above. The board has labored under
some difficulties, which required time
to unravel, and it is thought that even
the figures given out do not cover all
of the residents of the city, as there
are a few families who claim they
were not numbered, having evidently
been overlooked.
In the report of the committee, at
tention Is called to the matter of nam
ing the streets and numbering the
houses, as they claim that the enumer'
ators found only about one-thirj of
the houses of the city numbered, and
in many instances the people residing
in the property were unable to give
the number of the house, and also
were unable to tell what street they
lived on.
The committee, composed of Mayor
Waters, Aldermen Hughes, Gesner
and Churchill, working with the COM
mittee from the Greater Salem Com
mercial Club, composed Of Messrs'
Bredemier, Patton and Graham, which
were appointed at special session of
the city council on March 22j, com
pleted their labors yesterday and fled
their report with City Recorder N. j.
Judah at 2 o'clock p. m. The report is
as follows:
"The two committees met at the Of
fee of the mayor, and organized by
electing f. w. Waters chairman and
H. d. Patton, secretary of the census
board. Several meetings were held
and detailed plans adopted to secure
complete enumeration of the popu'
lation of Salem, taken as 1t stood on
the first day of May, 1904.
"Enumerators were employed in
each of the wards. on the recommen'
dation of the aldermen, and the most
competent persons were employed
The enumeration in each ward was
completed in May, during the first
week. The census was taken upon
the householders blanks, showing the
following facts:
list Males over 21.
"2d, Males under 21.
sd, Females over IS.
"4th, Females under IS,
I'm each instance the enumeratoI
returned the name of the households
er. together with the street number
or location by street, and their oc-
cupation These returns of the emu
merators are on a separate blank for
each family or individual, and one
filed in the office of mayor for refer
ence. The returns show that about
two-thirds of the houses Of the city
have no numbers, and some OF the
Ipeople were unable to give the name
of the streets upon which they re-
sided. The confusion in this respect
made the work very dificult and It
shows the necessity for adopting some
complete system of naming and mum
bering the streets OF Greater Salem.
TO enable the census board to
make its work more thorough, com.
plete lists were obtained of the EN-
ployes in factories, schools and other
public institutions, and the names
carefully checked In order to give the
city credit for all persons, and to be
counted as part Of the population OF
Salem. These additional lists OF
names were also filed with the returns
of the enumerators.
THE census board wishes to thank
all who thus contributed to make the
census more accurate, and wherever
the lists of employees have been fur
nished they have been treated by the
board as entirely confidential, But
without the statements the census
board board would not have been com
plete
The census has been taken prac
tically without expense to the city
Fl w. WATERS, Chairman
"HAL d. PATTON secy"
The census. according TO wards. ia
as follows;
No, / .,.,,,,. '....,,,, l,46'
No. ? 80. 49,. =. .... 2.4s:
No. 8 .... 49,. ,...... 2,s2'