The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-09-22
iT|MES-D|SPATCH
THE ONLY DAILY
Figures of the Census Bureau
Show That Interesting
Fact.
VA. CIRCULATION NOT AVERAGE
Staggering Figures Of Newspaper
Publications in the United
States.
VA. CIRCULATION NOT AVERAGE

WASHINGTON. d. c., September FL
-Thirty-one daily newspapers are
published in Virginia: that is. thirty
are printed six days In the week. The
Times-Dispatch is the only paper pub
lished every day, and. strictly speak
ing is the only daily in the State. OF
the thirty-one, fourteen are morning
papers and seventeen afternoon papers.
The Census Bulletin. issued to-day,
gives these and many other facts and
figures regarding the business of
printing newspapers In the various
| States OF the Union. The statistics re-
fer to the year 1105.
The average daily circulation of the
average daily In Virginia Is 4.2as. The
average daily circulation for the
United States is about twice that
S,597. The average circulation for the
States of the South Atlantic division,
consisting Of Delaware, Maryland.
District OF Columbia. Virginia, West
Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-
line. Georgia. Florida. is. 5,353. The
circu'a tion In Virginia Is below the
average OF other Southern States The
average circulation In Delaware Is
7,74O; in Maryland. 14.70S; District of
Columbia, 22.632; West Virginia. a,s19;
North Carolina, 2,192;, South Carolina,
1885; Georgia. 6.927: Florida, 2,762.
The aggregate circulation OF all daily
newspapers In Virginia Is. on an aver
age. 131.ob2 a day.
Circulation Growing.
The circulation per year Of all the
daily newspapers of Virginia in 1906
was 44.293.s3O copies. Five years pre-
vious. in 1900. the aggregate circula-
ton Of all daily newspapers printed in
Virginia was only 32.447.550. The in
crease in circulation is above the aver
| age Of other Southern States.
One tri-weekly Is published In Nir-
ginie, selni-week1ies. 149 weeklies,
80 monthlies. and 3 quarterlles.
The character OF the various daily,
ltri-weekly, semi-weekly. monthly and
quarterly publitattons Of Virginia is
divided as follows:
| News, politics and family reading,
1875 religious. So; agricultural, 4 com-
merce and finance, 2; general literature,
III; medicine and surgery, +: law. 2; fra
| ternal, q; education and history. 2;
society. art. music and fashion, l; col
Ilege and school periodicals, 2; mlscel-
laneous, 8.
The average circulation of publica-
tions of all classes published III Vir-
ginia Is 1861; the aggregate circula-
tton per issue Is S22, 666.
Value of virginia Papers.
The total value of the papers printed
sl,4o4a37,4 an Increase of $40 per cent
over 1900.
The number of salaried officials
clerks, etc. employed by newspapers
and periodical publishing concerns In
!. Virginia In 1905 was sos, whose sal
4 aries aggregated s214,s55. The num-
Der Of wage-earners was S24, receiving
1 s3S4,762 q year.
The number of typesetting and type
L atin M rh n MI :
I her OF operators, SO; number Of hand
4 compositors $50,
4 The total capital invested in Vir-
/ ginia newspapers and other publca-
lions in 1905 amounted to s1,464,sl1
i The total cost Of operation for the
year was s322,231.
Tho paper used In printing the pub
'l3lications Of Virginia In 1905 amounted
4 to 7,713,7S0 pounds, which cost s2o4,-
1 Dol. The present cost Of white paper
:. Is far above what it was in 1905.
The advertising receipts by news
:, papers In Virginia In 1905 was $751;
'E173. The sum received from subscrip-
J lions and sales was only $61S.764. The
total income OF Virginia newspapers
!; in 1905 was nearly twice what 1t was
In 1890. The expenses OF publication
4 have increased In something like the
same proportion, In 1880. when Vlr-
i GINA papers took In ss1S.073. expenses
were sl73,SS4. In 1908, the costs OF
publication were s322,2a1. and the total
!, receipts $1,404,937.
Virginia stands twenty-first In point
!. OF number of papers printed In her
borders. New York. OF course. stands
first,
!, Wonderful Figures. n.
The figure, for the United States
are simply staggering. IN 1906, an
\ average of 2l.07s,l3o publications OF
!, every character We're printed and cir
!, culated every day.
or this circulation. STA per cent. OF
3 tho circulation of daily newspapers
j, was concentrated in the States OF the
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