The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-02-14
SPECIAL DATA To
Be BIG feature
Information Concerning Manu-
factories viii Be Obtained
in Taking Census.

A feature of the coming United
States census viii be the obtaining Of
| special data by the department of COM
merce and labor regarding the manu-
! factories of the country. The work
viii be carried oil partly by the regu-
! lar enumerauOTs and partly by special
deputies appointed for the purpose by
| the civil service commission. In sparse
/ ly settled sections the work viii be
done by the enumerators, and the spe-
/ ciaI deputies will conduct the Work
/ only in the more thickly settled re-
giOnS or where there are good many
more manufactures
In carrying out this feature of the
census it is desired that all questions
asked be answered truthfully by man
ufacturers, and it is pointed out that
the information obtained is strictly
confidential and Will be used TO COM
| pile statistics, the individual manufac-
tuTer being mentioned in no instance
In this manner it is hoped TO obtain the
totals for industries carried on in the
different states. The information given
/ cut will not be used for purposes OF
| taxation, nor in any way to 1denufy
| the operations of individual establish
ments and will not be disclosed to any
state or local official or TO any other
! bureau of the federal government
How Census VIII Be Taken.
The manner of taking this portion
]
| circular letter Will first be sent TO
| every manufacturer, together with
| blanks for reports of business. IhlS
/ is done in order to permit each manu-
/ faCtuTeT to give the necessary thought
! to the questions asked. 1t is also re-
| queSted that each manufacturer have
/ the schedules prepared when the depu-
! ties call for them after suItlclent
| time in order to facilitate carrying on
| the work of the census. Although the
/ ciP q
! be mailed to the manufacturers, II is
/ requested that they be kept until the
| call of the deputies.
/ The first of the two blanks will be
! a general schedule concerning matters
! of business not specific. The second
blank deals with matters relating 10
special details of the business and are
| arranged so as to cover eighty-seven
different subjects, as follows: Admin
| istrative and general office; agricultu-
raj implements; automobiles; beet SUI
! gar factories; bicycles and mOtOrcy-
cles; boots and shoes, brick, tile terra
/ butter. cheese and condensed milk fac
| tories; canned and preserved fish and
| oysters; canned and preserved fruits
and vegetables; carriages ana wagons;
cars, steam, street and rallrosd; ce-
ment; chemical manufactures; coke;
cotton manufactures; COttOnseed oil
mills; dyestuffs and extracts; electrical
machinery and apparatus; essential oil
factories explosives, fertilizers; flax,
/ hemp and jute manufactures; glass
works, hosiery and knit goods; ice
manufactures; iron and steel blast fur
! naces: leather gloves and mittens
! tanned and cUrTled leather; lime; lum-
/ Der and timber products; metal work
! ing machinery; oil cloth; hnOleum and
! artificial leather; paints and varnishes;
/ petroleum refining paper and pulp
mills, Photographs and raphOphones ;
| pianos and organs; railroad repair
| shops; printing and publishing; rice,
! cleaning and polishing; salt works /;
! shipbUilding; silk manufactures;
| slaughtering and meat packing; soap;
| starch and glucose factories; steel
| works and rolling mills; sulphuTic,
| nitric and mixed acids; turpentine and
/ resin; tin plate ana tin plate works F.;
wire; wood Installations; wool manufac-
! tories; census of mines and Quarries ;
| census of petroleum and natural gas
| anthracite coal; asphalt and bitUminouS
| rock bituminOus coal; bluestOne; clay;
/ granite; gypsum and gypsum products;
! iron mines; lake copper mines; lime
| stone; manganese; manganifeTOus iron
/ mines; marble; mica; millstones and
| chaseTs; miscellaneous mining indus
| tries; natural gas; On-argentiferous
| lead ano zinc mines; petroleum.; phOs-
/ phate rock: placer and surface mines
! pyrite; quicksilver; reduction mills
sandstone; slate; tale and soapstone
| trap rock, and aUriferoUs and argen-
/ tl1erCus deep mines.