The Cordova daily times., 1915-05-15
MARKED PROGRESS MADE IN TAKING
 THE CENSUS SINCE THE FIRST ONE

ssT> HE story of the census is the given to a most
 interesting publication just issued by the United
 States Census Bureau and a copy of which has been received by the Daily Times.
 The first census, taken in 179O related solely popula ton The of the head each family taken toge with the total number of persons in the family classified free slaves Subsequently from time to time the field cred by the has been enlarged until embraces de- tailed inquiries along distinct made ecenna qun ennia biennial annual and semi annual intervals in addition to various special inquiries ordered by the president gress.
 The first taken under the supervision of United States marsha of whom there IT, The actual work performed by marshas assistants of whom there about 650 The enumeration began the first Monday in August 1790 and according law should have been completed in nine months Double this time elapsed however before the returns all in The returns made by the marshals direct the president and by him turned the secretary of state, who transmitted them to the printer No clerical force employed for compilation verfcaton correction and the figures printed without explanatory expercente ages and detailed analyses which accompany scs The report of the first contained in octave volume of 56 pages This little book discoored and crrmb ling with age very indeed the existence of only few copies being known two of which the bureau and another in the Library of Congress.
 By the first the United States had 3,893635 nhab ants follows: Vermont, 85539 New Hampshire Al 1885 Maine, 96540 Massachusetts, 37887 Rhode Island 68 825 Connecticut, 23 946 New York 34020 New Jersey 84 Pennsylvania, 434373; Maryland 319728 Virginia 74760 Kentucky 73677 North Carolina, 393751 South Carolina, 240O73 Georgia, 82548.
 The expansion of the work from 190 present time is srkngy brought out by comparison of this single 56page vome by inches size with the hundred or more quarto 2 by nches volumes having aggregate of than 10000 pages issued by the bureau of a decade.
 Although the covered by the first enumeration was much smaller than that from which the statistics gathered the difficulties under which the marshals assistants performed their work almost ncomparaby greater than those which confront the enumeraors of the present day Roads, where they existed at a poor and impas sabe bridges almost unknown The saddle horse the stage and private coach furnished the only land tray e long days journey required the distance travelled in an hour
 Sectional jealousy and dsrus of the newly established federal government existed in considerable degree in habitants, to whom enumeration wholly idea suTmsed that increase in taxation might result More ove III some quarters there much opposition to the sus based the Old Testament of the dsageeabe consequences arising from the of the Children off Israel Small wonder then, that the first enumeration was not completed n parts of the country until Is months had elapsed from the date of its although m der present conditions decenna enumeration vastly great CT scope than that of 790 be practically finished only month