Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-11-19
EMPLOYMENT OF
DAKOTA People
Census Departments Report Of
Occupations in North
Dakota.

According to the report on ccupa
tions recently issued by Director Will
il J.. Harris, Of the bureau of cen
sus, department of commerce. there
were 217,413 personsFc1O years OF age
and over in North Dakota engaged in
gainful occupations in 1910. The
gainful workers thus formed ST. per
cent of the total population OF the
state (577 ,O56) and 5l.3 per cent Of
the population 10 years of age and
over ~(424.730). In 1900 the III SAG
;gainful workers of the state formed
1863 per cent Of the total population
and 51.3 per cent Of the population
10 years Of age and over.
The male 4gainful persons in 1910
numbered 1882, Dr. 1873 per cent Of
all males 10 years Of age and over,
as compared with 1O3; 54S, or 1855 per
cent, in. 1900. The female gainful
workers in 1910 numbered 29.O46, or
15.8 per cent Of all females 10 years
ofage and over, as compared with
14,0O2, OF 14.5 per cent in 1900. !
The 217,41S gainful workers in 1910
distributed among the main branches
of occupations as follows: Agricul-
ture, forestry, and animal %husband1y
100, 919, or 60.2 per cent; extraction
of minerals, COS, ore0.2 per cent;
manufacturing and mechanical indus.
tries. 21,:39. or a9S per cent; trans
portation, 1888. or D.4 per cent;
trade, 1870 or s.4 per cent; public
service .1,597,or OF per- Dent; profess
sional service. 1854, or As aper. cent;
domestic and personal service, 1878
or s per cent. and clerical occupa>
tons, 4,165, or 10 per cent.
OF the gainful workers,in 1910. 1885,.
372, or S6.6aper cent were males and
29,O46, or 1874 per cent? females. In
agriculture. forestry and animal hus-
bandry. the males numbered 126,O54,
or 9G.3 per cent, and the females,
1866. or 81 per cent. All persons
(5G6) engaged in the extraction of
minerals e males. In manufac-
turing and mechanical industries. 49,
979, or $50 per cent of the workers,
were males, and 2,36O,s;u or Ill per cent
females. Males constituted 96!3 per
cent Of the 1888 persons engaged
in transportation, 92.33 per cent of the
1870 persons engaged in trade, and
1877 per cent Of the 1897 persons en-
gagged in public service.
In professional service, the males
outnumber the females. the females
5,287, or 53.7 per cent Ga
large proportion being school teach.
ers), and the males 1854, OF 46.3 per
cent. This was also true of domestic
and personal serv.ce, where the fe-
males numbered 1901. or 1855 per
cent, and the males only 4,247, Or 24.5
per cent. of the persons pursuing
clerical occupations. 2;766. or 66.4 per
cent, were males and 1900, OF 1876 per
cent females.
OF the 1SS,,372 gainfully occupied
males in 1910. 1865 were native
white, of native parentage, go, 79S
white natives of foreign or mixed pa
rentage, 1929 foreign born whites,
309 negroes, and 1.sSl other colored.
The proportion which the gainfully
occupied males formed Of all the
males 10 years of age and over in
each principal classof the population
was: For native whites Of native
parentage, 75.4 per cent; for native
whites of foreign or mixed tparentage,
7O.4 per cent; for foreign born white.
1873 per cent; and for negroes, SS.S
per cent.
OF the 29,O46 gainfnlly occupied fe-
males in 1910, 1913 were native
whites Of native parentage, 1884 ma.
tive whites Of foreign or mixed par
entage, $3.50 foreign born whites. 50
negroes. and SO other colored. The
proportion which the gainfully occu:
pied females formed of all the fe-
males 10 years of age and over in
each principal class Of the popula.
tlon was: For native whites of ma:
tive whites of foreign or mixed par.
entage. "A per cent, and for negroes,
43.4 per cent. fS
The painfully occupied males II
1910 were distributed, according to
age periods, as follows: 10 to 10
years, 1924; ID to Is years, 1896; 16
to 30 years. 91,S12;y 81 to a. years,
and age unknown 121y011: and 45
years and, ever, 1880. The proper.
ton which the gainfully occupied
males formed of all males in each age
period was: For those 10 to 13 years
Q ! age, "a per cent; for those IA to
y years of age. 31.9 per cent; for
those 10 to 20 years of age, 7O.5 per
cent; for those 81 to AZ wears Of age.
94.9 per cent--that Is, all bue 5 men
in every ION had rainF,sI. r,rc,,natjons