Show TO TAKE THE CENSUS 9 Superintendent u ent Pratt to Begin Work VOlk Next Friday READY KEADY 4 SMALL SALL ARMY ARIY TO OUT OUTI I OVER UTAH e Expected That the Results Will Show That hat This State Is Entitled to Two Congressmen Questions to Be Asked Population of Salt Sait Lake Points of Interest 4 The plans are aloe now all complete for forthe forthe forthe the taking of or the twelfth census of Utah and on next Friday June 1 un under der cler r the direction of Superintendent Ar Arthur Arthur r thur Pratt an army of enumerators enumerators tors will be pread out over the Ute state te inquiring into the most minute details d 4 of the peoples private business Mr MI Pratt says Stays that un everything is no rIDy nv v in readiness for the hIe commencement t of the I vork volk In Ju Salt Lake there will be fifty I five men and women at work and they ey are expected exp to complete every detail etal in two weeks In the country districts thirty days ate ale allowed for fOl the work In the large cities the enumerators will be paid so much per head In rural districts they will be paid by the day from 5 to 6 according to conditions Much of the work in Salt Lake Ogden Logan Provo Park Pari City and a num number number ber her of the other larger places of the state In tn regard r gard to the various indus industries I tries will be taken out of the hands I V of the enumerators and turned over oer to special agents of the census office scent direct from Washington I The work of taking the census is di divided divided vided under four separate heads and special schedules are provided for each j class of T work ork These rhese bru br briches ches are pop population agriculture a manufacture and mortality The rhe questions asked are not notI I I so many this year as in hi previous c cen n sus sun years but they are numerous enough yet to cause kicking galore Th The government holds that he enumerator enumerator has the right to rater enter every house institution and establishment to secure information The following are the questions qu that must be answered under the tb head of population n Questions t ons to Be Asked 1 Surname Christian name initial 9 Residence street number of house houw 3 Relationship hip of each member to tor r head of family 4 Color or 01 race 6 Age last lt birthday 7 Day month and year when born bore bor 8 Single married widow widower widow or divorced 9 Number of ot years married 10 Number of children 41 Sex at these the e children r 12 PIa of With birth If A the United States v ta ot of territory j if of Qt foretell foreign birth bir give country 14 Where waa wa yo r father isker bern Same S me conditions condition as foregoing 1 l If of foreign birth when did you come to the United States 18 How many years have you re resided resided sided sidd in the United States 17 Have e you been naturalized How many years Yf ars pince you became a citizen 1 18 What is your occupation trade or 01 profession This T ia applies to persons 10 years of ot age or over I 19 How many m ny months during the i iyar year yar are you employed 20 How many months have you at attended attended attended tended school 21 Can you read md 22 Cai yon you write 23 Give the t th facts concerning your I education j I I I 24 Do you own the house In hi which you live 25 Do you rent the house in which I you live i 28 GIf If you own the house is it free freer or r mortgaged Similar questions ap apply apply apply ply to farms fanTiS I Three More Moie Schedules 1 The above are thi th questions under one schedule ana ano there are four schedules Under the mortality schedule all the facts must be ascer ascertained ascertained tamed as to very every person who died in inthe Inthe Inthe the year ye r from June 1 1899 to May 31 SI 1900 Every person alive on the first day of June next will be counted in the coming census he will be counted even though he die on the second day of the month mon But a child not Dot born until the tIle 2nd of June will be ignored and must wait for ten years to get himself counted Every fact concerning the death of every ery person during the year just preceding the 1st of ot June TUlle must be record the place of birth the real resi residence dence dene the occupation the cause of the death the date the name of the th at attending attending tending physician and all other information information information mation bearing on the case ease Agriculture and manufacture are aregO gon goh gO 1 into in the most minute detail there being a sufficient number of ques questions on one schedule to fill a small volume E H Callister of Salt has been bf eD appointed special census agent for the government nt to look after ae e cattle interests of the state and he heis heIs is ii now nov at work on that branch of the business His special work is to enumerate all the sheen shee and anel cattle of Utah and to furnish all the required in information information formation about them This of course Is an important branch of the work here In Utah because use of the gi growing owing importance of the sheep Industry Work of Enumerators i Each enumerator who has ha been ap appointed appointed appointed I pointed to the position upon the re recommendation I commendation of Superintendent Pratt PrattIs Is required to undergo a certain amount I I if J f schooling before starting out A book heel of insh of o over er sixty pages is furnished to tG t each containing de detailed detailed detailed I 1 tailed information on every point that trat thatis is liable to come up and if any of he the enumerators is embarrassed embarras ed in m his hill I I work It will be because he has not i taken t the e trouble to read up I Mr Pratt is not inclined to speculate j I very much as to what the census figures will wll show as to the population of Dr this city and state s ate The population of Df the th state in m 1880 was vas in 1890 1810 I It tt had increased to in 1895 ac according accordIng cording to the census taken by the state Utah had bad 24 people Of these were mal mall s and an were females There were colored 1 J and Chinese in the state at that time Even by the percentage of in increase crease shown in the above figures Mr Pratt expects the census no now A to tc run Dver over He really rEany expects ex Utah I It to t be entitled to two congressmen under the next apportionment I The population of Salt Lake City was as I approximately in 1800 1896 and under the special state census of 1885 1896 It was Mas wass I s shown shawn n to be 48 The rhe superintendent win will be surprised he says if the population lation Uon of or the cit city now will ll reach He lIe will know he says ays on the th day dav of Jun Junt because on that day dav the TV Work ork of enumerating in the city will wUl be complete and amI the totals tot 1 will be mown known five minutes after the last Jut name Is turne i in inThe inThe InThe The points Joints of chief interest to the theo ther r 1 o people in general to be brought out by the n new w census in Utah are arc as to the total population of af the state and the large cities and d whether the state will gain gan another congressman under the new DeW apportionment Greater care will be taken this year than aver over before in getting g th census returns concerning the Chinese Ho Yow the imperial consul general at tt t tSan San Francisco has gotten out a pro proclamation proclamation to the Chinese people of the country county advising them that it will be beall beaU bean all aU for fr them to answer the ques question question questIon tion Heretofore many ma y of them have dod doda d cI fearing tearing that some somO advantage wow would be taken of ot them Olem This proclamation has been adopted by the census bureau at Washington and is being sent out to the different superintendents Superintendent Su ri Pratt received a 0 copy of this yesterday in the original Chinese Chines and with the th English translation One difficult to be over overcome overcome overcome come is the fact that th Chinese do donot donot donot not count count time as w s do The chart sent out translates Chinese time into common c time and this will greatly aid aidin Jn 11 in compiling the t required red statistics |