The Daytona daily news. [volume] (Daytona, Fla.) 1903-1926, 1911-03-17
'lsDs
. s35,855,5oo
81 ~ Per Cent More
than IN 1900.
GENERATORS USED.


fooeee oueand- Salaries and Ex.
- Paid ceumtsre q Uncle Same
slatien Aggregated >4s7oooo. Or
- Cent pss Capita.
)oBoceoe T. Dana Durand has sub
- his annual report concerning
k1f6 operations Of the bureau Of the
1 fsus during the year 19oo-10. Il II
cwn that the entire cost Of the nd
B6ek on population and agriculture in
inental United States for the thir-
Rlonth census was about $5,S5S5OO.
Y roo the cost was $4.267. 394. The
no cost was about 371a per cent more
S1Inn IN 1900.
q he original estimate Of SALT 600
- the total cost Of the decennial CEN
- including the other work of the
sonroau during the census period. the
& llpoctpr now believes too low. and he
1 fhlnks, in view Of the additional work
lyoquired BY congress and for other
vDooons. It viii reach fully $14.5OO. 600
0elsysd Liquidation 10 0eplered.
1he director urges that II new leg.
station u required for taking the CEN
sGs Of 1920 It should be passed much
;lnS1Iee than was done for the present
eonsua Were It not for the fact that
- bureau II now q permanent organi-
mtjon It would have been practically
npossible In the nine months which
l o1apoed from the passage Of the CEN
- oct to the date Of the 1910 emu
0osatjoo to arrange properly for the
011ng Of the census. The three pre-
\ eoding esnsuses had preparatory pc
I1ooD fifteen months long.
The census act authorized not to
eBceed $50 supervisors. The number
oemaly appointed was 800 in CONT
1ental United States and one in Porto
q1co They were residents Of the dis
! n1ctS from which appointed.
The number Of enumeration dis
lzlcts finally established In continental
United States was 69.O25. The dis
03ctS had on an average. therefore.
about 1900 inhabitants. The average
4 SPECULATION per district in cities Of over
400 habitants was about 1.4S5 and
In smaller towns and rural districts
about 1.245.
% general there was one enumerator
~ each enumeration district, but in q
eo08iderable number Of districts in the
oouth q white enumerator was ap-
l pointed to canvass the white popula-
don and q colored enumerator to can
3 vass the negro population. so that the
eotal number Of enumerators employ
1 q In continental United States was
]. about 71.l0O.
Amount Paid Enumsrators.
+. The total payment to enumerators
I = continental United States as com
pensation for their services and travel.
D ~ expenses aggregated about $4.87O..
y ooQ The corresponding expenditure
u 9 the census Of 1900 was about 49,.
\ $4,000. The increase was thus 81 pei
eoot a. compared with an increase in
{ 4e population of 81 per cent.
While a considerable part of the
cost Of enumeration. estimated al
ABOUT one-third. is attributable to the
agricultural statistics. nevertheless q
broadly significant comparison may bt
made By dividing the cost of the emu
n DeratiOn at each census by the mum
4 Dee Of inha bitants. This division
u shows the compensation of the emu
& Aerat0rs as equal to AZ cents pei
II capita in 1900 and SD cents in 1910
On Increase of about Is per cent.
T.. In discussing the field work OF thu
81 census Of manufactures. mines ant
(uarries the director states that 1t wa
practically completed last fall and tina
81 tAe aggregate cost was about 1000
81 ne average per establishment. Their
Ming 371.444 Of these. including
n Slaughter houses. was $2.O2. substan
tally the same as in the census
81 nos.
The ONCE force Of the bureau wa
- Aug. 81 last at its maximum point
tAefe being 3.73S persons on the pay
Solls. The largest number OF emei
ee0cy appointees on the roll at an
one time was S42. last July. All sue
were dropped in December last.