Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1911-05-11
First Preliminary Comparative State
ment of Agricultural Statistics and
General Farm Data Issued by the
Census Bureau-Total Value of Land
and Buildings Is Over $50, 900, 900.

United States Census, April Is, 1910.
1t is based on a preliminary compare
tive summary submitted to the director
by DR.. LIE Grand Powers, chief Stats
tician of the division of agriculture in
the bureau of the census. This summary
shows, for both the census of 1910 and
that of 1900, the reported total value
of farm land, buildings and implements
and machinery; total acreage, improved
acreage, average acres per farm, aver
age value per acre of farm land and
buildings, average value per acre of
farm land alone, and the aggregate ex-
penditure for labor and fertilizers. 1t
also distributes the total number of
farms according to color of farmer,
specified character of tenure, whether
held free or mortgaged by owners, and
by certain acreage groups.
Attention is called to the fact that
the figures are subject to revision later,
as number of farms, whose returns
are incomplete, will be included in the
final tables. These additions will not,
in all probability, materially modify
any of the amounts or rates contained
IN the present statement.
The census of agriculture was taken
primarily for the purpose of obtaining
an accurate inventory of all classes of
farm property existing on April IS,
1910; complete exhibit of farm opera
lions during the year ended December
81, 1909; and a statement of the num-
Der and value of domestic animals in
cities and villages on April Is, 1910.
Statements relative to acreage and
yield of crops and the domestic animals
of Washington will be issued by Direc-
tor Durand as soon as the tabulation of
this data has been completed.
The Rates of Increase and Decrease.
1t is pointed out in the statement to-
day that the principal rates of increase
in Washington in 1910, as against 1900,
among the items for which percentages
are given in the first section of the sum-
mary, are: In the total value of farm
land alone, 419 per cent; in the total
value of farm land and buildings, 1913
per cent; in the average value per acre
of farm land alone, 27s per cent; in the
average value per acre of farm land and
buildings, 259 per cent; in the total
value of farm buildings, 233 per cent;
in the total expenditures for labor, 1S8
per cent; in the total expenditures for
fertilizers, 172 per cent; in the total
value of all far mimplements and ma
chinery, 166 per cent; in the improved
acreage, S3 per cent; in the whole num-
Der of farms, IS per cent; and in the
total acreage, 81 per cent.
The only decrease during the decade,
among the items for which percentages
are given, occurred in the average acres
per farm, Is per cent.
The statement shows in detail that
the number of farms reported in 1910
was 55,744, as compared with $4,000 in
19OO,-an increase of 22,542, or 6s per
cent.
Farm Values
The total value of farm land and
buildings was given in 1910 as $780,
$4,000, as against $115, 100000 in 1900,
an increase of $454,532 900, or 800 per
cent
The total value of all farm land alone
was reported in 1910 as $515,91s,o 900, as
compared with 500, 311 900 in 1900, a
gain of $416, 6o7 900, or 419 per cent.
The total value of farm buildings
alone was given in 1910 as $54, 1924, 600,
as against $16, 900 in 1900, an in
crease of $37 1926, 900, or 233 per cent.
In 1910 the value of far inland alone
constituted 90 per cent of the total
value of land and buildings, as compared
with Sc per cent in 1900.
The reported value of farm nipple
ments and machinery was $16,653,0O0
in 1910, as. against $6,272,Oo0 in 1900,
gain of $10,3s1, 900, or 166 per cent.
The total acreage reported in 1910
was II, 663, 900 acres, as compared with
s,499,OO0 in 1900, gain of 3,164,000
acres, or 81 per cent.
The improved acreage was returned
in 1910 as amounting to 6,354,000 acres,
as against 3,466,0O0 in 1900, an increase
of 1883 900 acres, or SO per cent.
The improved acreage formed "a per
cent of the total acreage in 1910, and Al
per cent in 1900.
The average acres per farm reported
in 1910 was 200, as against 256 in 1900,
a decrease of AZ acres, or 10 per cent
The average value per acre of farm