Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1913-03-01

age attending school was 59.3: for
girls, $50. For children from to IA
years, inclusive the percentage at
tending school was 832 The per-
centage for children Of this age
among native whites of native parent
age was $685. among native whites
Of foreign or mixed parentage. 8S,8;
among foreign-born whites, 76.7.
The percentage attending school
for children from 6 10 IA was s56 in
the urban population and 1913 il the
rural; for persons from Is to 20
the corresponding percentages We're
45.3 and 324. respectively
4 IIliteracy
The census bureau elassifies as il
literate any person 10 years Of age
I or over who is unable 10 write, re,
gardless Of ability to read. There
are 4702 illterates in the state, rep
resenting 81 per cent Of the total
population 10 years OF age and over.
as compared with 1873 per cent in
1900. The percentage Of initeracy is
"a among native whites, rs among
! foreign-born whites, III among IN
dams, and 5.5 among negroes.
For all classes combined, the per
centage Of illiterates is 2.6 in the
urban population and rs in the ru.
raj. For each class separately, ex-
cept the Indians, the percentage is
higher in rural than in urban com
munities.
For persons from 10 TO 20 years Of
age, inclusive, whose illiteracy de-
ponds largely upon present school ia
oilities and school attendance, the
percentage Of nliteracy is 81.
Marital Condition
In the population Is years of age
and over 51.3 per cent of the males
are single and q per cent of the
females The percentage married i;
Ala for males and ST. for females
and the percentage widowed 4.6 ant
| 10i, respectively The percentages
Ct those reported as divorced, IA anC
/ 1.3, respectively are believed TO b,
TOO small, because of the probabilit,
that many divorced persons elias,
themselves as single or widowed.
That the percentage single is S,
much smaller for women than fo
men is due partly to the excess 0
males in the total population an,
partly to the fact that women MARI,
younger Thus, 1874 per cent 0
The females from Is to 10 years o
age are married, as compared witt
0.6 per cent OF the males, and IS.
per cent Of the females from 20 Il
"a years are married, as compare,
with 12.7 per cent of the males. Il
the next age group, Is to "a years
the percentages are 500 and 1914
respectively; in the age group 80 t
"A they are SAT and 55.6, and 70
persons As and over they are So,
and 544, That there is large
proportion of widows than of widow
ers may indicate that men NOR
often remarry chan women but, sine
husbands generally are older thai
their wives, the marriage Relationship
is broken more often by death 0
the husband than by death OF tn
wife.
For the main elements of the poi
ulation the percentages Of Marie
persons among those Is years OF ag
and over are as follows; Foreign
born whites, 3S,5 for males and n.
for females; native whites Of nativ
parentage, 1915 and 81, respectively
native whites Of foreign or nike
parentage 800 and 654; Indians
61.9 and 671; negroes, 44.5 and 49,
These percentages by no means il
dictate the relative tendency of tn
several classes as regards marriag,
10 determine that the comparso
should be made by age periods. sine
the proportion married in any elias
is determined largely by the propo
tion who have reached the MARI!
r ing age Similarly the proportio
widowed depends largely on the PR
portion past middle life The pc
centage married for males is highe
in the urban population but for f
= males il is hieh -.te ~',~~t