Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1911-08-03

penses Paid Counters of Uncle Sans
Population Aggregated $4,870y000, or
5.3 Cent Per Capita.
Director q. Dana Durand has sub.
mitted his annual report concerning
the operations Of the bureau of the
census during the year 19O9-1O. It is
shown that the entire cost Of the field
work on population and agriculture in
continental United States for the thir-
teenth census was about $5S55,5OO.
In 1900 the cost was $4,267, 1894. The
1910 cost was about 371a per cent more
than in 1900
The original estimate of $14,117,OOO
as the total cost Of the decennial CEN
sus, including the other work of the
bureau during the census period. the
director now believes too low, and he
thinks. in view Of the additional work
required by congress and for other
reasons, it will reach fully $14,5OO,OOO
Delayed Legislation Is DepIored.
The director urges that If new leg.
islation is required for taking the cen
sus of 1920 it should be passed much
earlier than was done for the present
census. Were it not for the fact that
the bureau is now permanent organi-
zation it would have been practically
impossible in the nine months which
elapsed from the, passage Of the cen
sus act to the date of the 1910 emu
meration to arrange properly for the
taking OF the census The three pre-
ceding censuses had preparatory pc
RODS fifteen months long.
The census act authorized not to
exceed $50 supervisors. The number
actually appointed was 329 in CONT
mental United States and one in Porto
Rico. They were residents of the dis
trtcts from which appointed.
The number of enumeration dis
tricts finally established in continental
United States was 69,O25 The dis
tricts had on an average, therefore.
about 1900 inhabitants The average
population per district in cities of over
5000 inhabitants was about 1,485 and
In smaller towns and rural districts
about 1,245.
In general there was one enumerator
for each enumeration district. but in
considerable number of districts in the
south a white enumerator was APP
pointed to canvass the white popula-
ton and a colored enumerator to can
vass the negro population. so that the
total number of enumerators employ
ed in continental United States was
about 71,1OO
Amount Paid Enumerators.
The total payment to enumerators
In continental United States as COM
pensation for their services and travel
Ing expenses aggregated about $4,87O,-
0OO The corresponding expenditure
at the census Of 1900 was about 49,
$4,000. The increase was thus 81 per
cent as compared with an increase in
the population Of q per cent.
While considerable part Of the
cost of enumeration. estimated at
about one-third. is attributable to the
agricultural statistics. nevertheless q
broadly significant comparison may be
made by dividing the cost of the emu
Der Of inhabitants. This division
shows the compensation of the emu
merators as equal to AZ cents per
capita in 1900 and 5.3 cents in 1910
an increase of about - per cent.
| In discussing the field work of the
census Of manufactures. mines and
| quarries the director states that it was
practically completed last fall and that
the aggregate cost was about $751 900.
The average per establishment. there
being 81 ,444 of these. including
slaughter houses, was S2.O2. substan-
TALLY the same as in the census of
1905.
The Office force of the bureau was
on Aug. 81 last at its maximum point.
there being 3.738 persons on the pay
rolls. The largest number Of emer-
gency appointees on the roll at any
one time was 342, last July All such
were dropped in December last
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