The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-11-24
Also He Makes Some Excel.
lent Recommendations.
Figures Which Show the In
creases and Decreases.
New viIIagsslnt o Existence
Last Five Years.

saturday. ne OHlclal report VIII De
out about the end of the year. 1t will
contain about $50 pages of reports and
population tables. The compilation of
the census has been under the direction
of Peter E. Honson, secretary of state,
as census supervisor.
Mr. Hanson reviews the work of tax
ing the census in the first part of the re-
port. The compensation of the enumer
ators is discussed. He says:
"The law provided for the payment of
enumerators of 2 cents per name in dis
tricts of over 5000 population, 2A
cents per name in districts of 500 to s.
900 and go cents in districts of less
than 500. The 2-eent per capita rate is
sufficient, and the rate of pa cents in
Incorporated coties and villages is am
pie, but PA cents per name in most
towns is not an adequate compensation.
The rate should be at least 3 cents i'm
townships of less than 1000 population
and where township does not contain
500 inhabitants the enumerator should
be paid higher per capita rate or plac-
ed on per diem compensation. The
sum of $40 or $l2 for enumerating
whole congressional township is certain
ly poor compensation. The low COM
pensation often results in poor work,
many enumerators combining other du-
ties with their work which tends to in
accuracy and incorrect work. If CEN
sus is worth taking at all it ought to
be of sufficient Importance to justify
a compensation that would proce rea-
sonable recompense for the work per-
formed"
Regarding the superintendent of the
census he says:
"The character of the work is such
that it would seem to me to be wise
departure by some future legislature to
enact the census law two years in adj
vance of the taking of the census and at
the same time designate the superin-
tendent of census or provide in some
manner for his appointment at time
months to make all necessary arrange
ments for taking the census. The state
population in another ten years will
mean more of task than ever in TAX
ing the census. 1t may be that before
another decade a permanent statistical
and development bureau will be created
by the legislature, and in such an event
provisions could be made in the law
creating such a bureau for authorizing
the superintendent of the bureau to have
charge of all census work. To further
follow in old beaten paths would seem
to be folly. If census is worth any
thing to the state it is worth taking
well and making all proper provisions
lures more OF less permanent. This
would not call for any additional ex
pense, as the superintendent of state
statistical bureau could so systematic
his office as to have everything in
readiness for census when it was nec-
essary to take the same"
The report of population shows that
the state has had an increase during the
last five years of Is per cent and an in
crease of 25.7 per cent during the last
ten years. The increase during the last
five years was 5l.743 more than during
the five years preceding.
There are nine counties which show
an increase of over 100 per cent during
the last ten yaers. Beltrami and Clear
water, formerly one county, leading
with an increase of l,4067 per cent.
Five counties show an increase of so to
100 per cent. Twenty six counties have
increased rs to so per cent, fifteen have
increased 10 to 25 per cent, seven have
increased less than per cent, and five
have decreased. Fillmore has the largest
decrease, Al per cent.
A group of twenty-seven counties in
the northern part of the state shows an
increase of 97,72O for the past five
years, or 42.S per cent of the entire in
crease of the state during those years.
The increase of the three big counties
in that time is ll2,2l5, or about half 2
in that time is 1925, or almost half
the entire increase. This would leave an
increase in the other fifty-four counties
only about per cent of the increase
or an increase in the older counties of
less than l per cent.
The increase in the state is classified
by groups in the following table:
Northern Minnesota ........... 97,72O
Central Western Minnesota. -. ll,479
Southwestern Minnesota 4,762
Other counties ................ 5,225