Arizona republican., 1911-04-12
CITY CENSUS
 MAY BE TAKEN Council Considers AdViSd-
 biIity of Recount BOARD OF TRADE CALLED IN Lack of Funds in City Trea- sury Causes Mayor to Turn Matter Over to Sec retary of Board of Trade, Who May Recount.
BOARD OF TRADE CALLED IN

A petition signed by many prom incnt business men and merchants of Phoenix asking for d recount of the city population was presented to the city council yesterday afternoon. The totals of the last government census have been regarded as below the results which would be obtained by a careful census taken under the di rection of the city, and pursuant 10 the statement advanced by a number of citizens that the city's population is considerably in excess of ll,OO0, the petition asking for a recount was submitted.
 An informal ten minute session was held in the room of the city recorder at , o'clock with Mayor Christy, Charlie Stauffer, representing the First ward, and C. w. Cisney repre- senting the Fourth ward present. The petition asking for a recount was the only matter of import to be brought before the meeting, and after it's presentation by C. R. Price, an open discussion was held concerning the advisability or the possibility of the recount being made under the di- rection of the council. The members present were unanimous in admitting the benefits which would result to the city from a careful and accurate tabulation of the population, but the perplexing question to be solved was concerned with the raising of funds to discharge the debt Of from three to four hundred dollars to be incurred in the recount, as the council has no available monies for the purpose.
 Being charged by the school board of Phoenix with the work of taking the school census. C. R. Price stated that the necessity of his calling at every house within the city limits to complete the tabulation of all the young people of the city between the ages of six and twenty-one would give him an opportunity to take the entire census of the city with little additional effort, and that he would be willing to undertake the complete census at one half the charge which he would demand for the service if assigned to the duties of city census takcr without the accompanying duty of school census taker, for which work he is paid the regular price by the school board. The pay for every name taken is five. cents according to the fixed remuneration of census talk CTS. and this is the rate upon which the school census is being taken. MT. Prices offer gave the city council the opportunity of having a complete count taken of the population at two and one-half cents for every person .f hn city census.
 The question was asked MT Price what territory he had already GOV cred during the time he has been en- gagged in taking the school census for the school board. and he replied that he had completed the parts of the Phoenix district lying outside the city limits on the previous day, Mon day. and was only awaiting the de cision of the council concerning the recount work within the city limits to resume his count within the boudaries. He stated also. that before taking up the work of the school census in the parts of the district without the bounds of the city proper, he had done considerable work in the city on the recount believing that the council would finally authorize him to go on with the work and complete it with his other count for the school board. MT. Price asserted confident Iy that he was certain recount would prove that the government to- taIs would be found several thousand short of the actual number of people living in the city of Phoenix, and he said he believed an estimate of eighteen thousand or more would not miss the actual number of inhaDl- tants by a great deal. He stated that during his work as school census taker he had met scores of people who had never been counted by the government census takers, and that it was his belief that large numbers of people had not been included in the official census.
 The discussion of these matters brought the council back to the orig inal problem of securing the money for the recount, admitting its advis- ability. It was finally decided to re fer the raising of the necessary mon ey to Harry Welch. the secretary Of the board of trade, and the meeting adjourned with the decision that pro- vided the business men and property holders of the city would raise the money to pay MT. Price for his work the council would authorize the re count.
 Immediately after the meeting in the city hall Mayor Christy conferred with Mir Welsh at the board of trade building. and the question of the ad- visibility of taking another count of the city was discussed again without any definite conclusion resulting. It was the opinion of Mir. Welsh that the board of directors of the board of trade would be glad to consider the matter of securing funds to be applied on the expense of taking the census. and promised to refer the