The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1916-12-12
Census Bureau this Year will Branch Out
Adding New Divisions Of Cotton and
Tobacco for Investigation
INTERESTING FIGURES
in MANUFACTURES
In 1914 Calendar Year Products TOlalIed
Twenty -Four Billions and 100000
Employees Drew $685., 100000

Washington, d. c., Dec 12-Accord-
ing to the annual report Of Director
Sam L. Rogers of the bureau of the
census to Secretary William c. Red
field of the department of commerce,
covering the fiscal year ended June 80,
1916, which has just been made public,
the census bureau during that year
compiled and published the greater
part of the primary or fundamental
statistics from its latest canvass of
the manufacturing industries of the
country and carried on numerous 9TH
er inquiries which it is directed by
law to make at regular intervals. The
preliminary figures from the manufac-
lures census-which show, among 9th.
er things, that during the calendar
year 1914 the manufacturing INDUS
tries of this country turned out pro
ducts valued at over twenty-four bill
lion dollars and gave employment to-
more than eight million persons, to
whom were paid approximately $751;,
367.O00OOO in salaries and wages
were published at earlier dates, rela-
lively to the period covered, than the
corresponding ones for preceding CEN
suses. The bureau has begun the is
suance of the final reports in the form
of a series of bulletins which will la
ter be bound together in large vol
umes.
New Lines Of Work.
Three important Investigations are |
planned for the coming year; one re-
lating to transportation by water an
other to religious bodies, and third
If authorized by the passage Of
joint resolution now pending in con-
marriage and divorce. The
first two of these inquiries are under
the law made at decennial intervals.
A new division-the division of cot
ton and tobacco which has
been created in the census bureau in
pursuance of a provision contained in
the last appropriation act, will have
charge of the cotton and tobacco work
heretofore carried on in the division
Of manufacturers. The same act di-
rects the collection and publication of
statistics relating to stocks Of leaf to-
bacco at quarterly intervals instead Of
semi-annually as heretofore.
Reports are to be issued at intervals
If three months in which will be given
statistics as to the amounts of cotton,
inters, cotton waste, and hull fiber
consumed in the manufacture of ex-
,losives and Of absorbant and medi-
'ated cotton; and monthly reports re-
ating to cotton seed and its products
will be published
The annual collection Of birth statis-
les from registration area embrac.
ng nearly one-third Of the total popu-
alton of the country has been begun
" the bureau; the lrst report on this
ubject will relate to the calendar
ear 1915.
City Carriage.
A special inquiry to be undertaken
q fhe near future will relate to the
ost of city carriage as a factor in the
ost of living. 1t is known that in Z
ONE cases the charges for carting
oods a single mile from the railway
tation to the home or place of bust
Tess of the consignee are greater than
he charges for transporting them a
undred miles by rail Little is known
S to the extent to which this factor
ontributes to the total cost Of trans
and distribution, but there
$ no doubt that its effect is very con
iderable; and it is the purpose of the
roposed inquiry to provide some reli-
BILE data on the subject
Office Force.
The census bureau has permanent
orce of nearly 600 officials and en-
'loyes. The report calls attention to