The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1914-08-15
OCCUPATIONS OF
NEVADA PEOPLE
CENSUS BUREAU GIVES OUT
STATISTICS ON STATES GAIN
Full WORKERS

The census bureau of the depart
ment of commerce at Washington has
Just issued a report containing statis-
tics gathered during the taking of the
census of 1910 on the number of per-
sons ten years of age and over en-.
gagged in gainful occupations in Ne
vada at that time. Such persons num-
bered 44,910. The gainful workers
thus formed $40 per cent of the total
population of the state (S1,S75) and
64.3 per cent of the population 10
years of age and over (~69,S22). In
1900 the 10 SOC gainful workers of
the state formed 46.S per cent of the
total population and 56.7 per cent of
the population 10 years of and
over
The male gainful workers in 1910
numbered 40,535, or S7.3 per cent of
all males 10 years of age and over, as
J compared with 17,S09, or 81. 6 per
! cent, in 1900. The female gainful
workers in 1910 numbered 4,375, or
1877 per cent OF all females 10 years
of age and over, rs compared with
1000, or 1872 per cent, in 1900.
The 44,910 gainful workers in
1910 were distributed among the
main branches of occupations as fol-
lows: Agriculture, forestry and hus-
bandry, $40, or 1876 per cent; ex-
traction of minerals, 1884, or 21.9
per cent; manufacturing and mechan-
ical industries, 1862, or II per cent;
transportation, 5,13S, or ia per
cent; trade, 1895, or &c per cent;
public service, GAL, or IA per cent;
professional service, 2,4S1, or 5.5 per
cent; domestic and personal service,
$3.50, or 1871 per cent; and clerical
occupations, 1884, or 5 per cent.
Sex of Workers
OF the gainful workers in 1910.
40,535, or 9O.3 per cent, were males
and 4,375, or 81 per cent, females.
In agriculture, forestry and animal
husbandry the males numbered 1864,
or 97.7 per cent, and the females 206,
or 2.3 per cent. Practically all-9,-
S27, or 99.9 per cent-of the per-
sons engaged in the extraction of
minerals were males. In manufac-
turing and mechanical industries T.
237, or 94.9 per cent, of the workers
ere males and 3S5, or 81 per cent.
females. Males constituted 97.9 per
cent of the 5,13S persons engaged il
transportation, 92.1 per cent of the
1895 persons engaged in trade, and
92.4 per cent of the GAL persons n
gagged in public service. In profess
sional service, 1,765, or Ill per cent,
of the workers were males and ZIG,
portion of the females being school
teachers. In domestic and personal
service, 3,424, or COL per cent, of the
workers were males and 2,271, or
1913 per cent, females. OF the per-
sons pursuing clerical occupations,
967, or 1875 per cent, were males and
367, or 27.5 e cent, females.
OF the 40,535 gainfully occupied
males in 1910, 1881 We're native
whites of native %parentage, S,949 ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed
parentage, 12,9S7 foreign-born
whites, 226 negroes, and 3,O42 other
colored. The proportion which the
gainfully occupied males formed of
all the males 10 years of age and
over in each principal class of the
population was: For native whites
of native parentage, S4.5 per cent;
for native whites Of foreign or mixed
%parentage, $50 per cent; 70" foreign
born whites, 94.S per cert; and for
negroes, 91.9 per cent.
OF the 1875 g%ainfully occupied fe-
males in 1910, 1,646 were native
whites of native parentage, 1,24G ma
tive whites of foreign or mixed par
entage, 100 foreign born whites 11S
negroes, and SIS 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 population
a For native whites of native
parentage, 16.4 per cent; for native
whites of foreign or mixed parentage,
17.9 per cent; for foreign-born
whites, 1914 per cent; and for