Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1909-11-15
PRELIMINARY WORK
OF CENSUS BEGINS
Division of the Territory Into
Enumeration Districts
Under Way.
CHIEF CLERK IS APPOINTED
Assistance is Asked of Officials
and Public Spirited
Citizens.

The preliminary work for taking
/ the census in New Mexico next April
/ has begun in earnest Census Super.
visor Paul A. F. Walter has started
the districting of the Territory into
enumeration districts OF which there
will be between 250 and $50 As there
+ is no precinct map of the Territory,
! he has written to every probate CLERK
! for an outline map of his county
showing the boundaries of each pre-
cinCt. Unless these boundaries are
j defined TO enumerators their work
would overlap in some instances or
as is alleged happened in the 1900
Z census, entire precincts may not be
, enumerated at all, a mishap which is
/ to be prevented at all hazards this
time. Probate Clerk Leo o. Lester
of Deming. Luna county, was the first
to reply with the desired map, ana
Probate Clerk F. w. Meyers of Gal
lup, Mckinley countyrwas a swift sec
ond with precinct mp of his coun-
ty.
The position cf chief clerk in the of
flee of the census supervisor had
been rendered to Frank w Newell Of
Albuquerque, reading clerk in the
House of the last legislative assem-
bly,, and who was i'll every way fitted
for the work, but Mr.. Newell had in
the meanwhile gone to Seattle and
found remunerative work. He there,
fore declined the position, which has
now been rendered to H. P Williams
of Lumberton, Rio Arriba county, who
has splendid testimonials from Pres
ident Taft. Governor Curry, Third AS
sistant Postmaster General A. l.. Law
she and others. Mr.. Williams is
homesteader under the Navajo River
irrigation project and came to New
Mexico for his health. He is ~ Uni.
versity graduate, was chaplain of the
Fifty-first Iowa Volunteers during the
Spanish-American war and was in the
northern advance from Manila as
fighting chaplain He speaks ad
writes Spanish fuentIy and is most
capable for the difficult work of the
census obce. 1t is expected that he
will come to Santa Fe with his wife
and two children from Lumberton.
during the present week. Mrs. viii.
lams also being a University gradu-
ate
The appointment of enumerators
will not begin until after the work
of dividing the Territory into enum-
GRAFTON districts is complete. In dine
time, applicants will be sent applica.
tion blanks and must answer certain
questions which will be the only test
required although great care will be
exercised that none but the most COM
petent men that can be secured for
the work are appointed. 1t is a COM
mon experience in census taking that
the average town and city and county
is disappointed in the result of the
census when announced and it is i'm
portant therefore that men who have
the public confidence and are known
to be competent and painstaking I'M.
dertake the actual work of counting
noses.
Census Supervisor Paul A. F. Walter
has thus far received almost two hun
died applications for census enumera-
tors, but while small places like Ri
oardo, Guadalupe county, have sent
IN as high as five applications, ether
sections are not represented at all in
the applications.