Show WHAT THE CENSUS COSTS the eleventh census which the superintendent can be completed by the eod end of the year 1893 and for which the present congress congre so is ie asked for a further appropriation of to defray its expenses from march 4 to june has haa already cost in the neighborhood of seven wid arid a quarter millions of dollars by the time the work is completed it will have involved all outlay of between eight and nine millions this Is an enormous increase la in the cost of the work as hereto fore done but it to is explained in IB the fact that the present census has assumed a much broader field of operation than any of its predecessors this being noticeable in the statistics that have been prepared on edues education churches insurance ranee in diana hah and fisheries horticulture ti irrigation viticulture street railway statistics statistic water and other la iii addition there theme hav been an expense of er en tailed by taking the statistics relative rl 1 to farms homes bomea and mortgages which was entirely without the province 6 the census work proper and was never I 1 attempted before and which a large proportion of people still deem entirely irrelevant and out of order these we any rate will be apt to differ witha i bupt supt porter in the view that when I 1 the great extent and variety of ata i 1 oal work actually completed la taken into consideration the elevenie ele eleventh venit census should be regarded as a marvel marve pj of economy I 1 but as a matter of fact there h been a constant increase in the cost of ofa the census owing in large part to th they aa fact that with each recurring do defy cade the business has hag taken n wider scope and ben been arranged more moitt conveniently to sube sab erve serve the purpose aft J i for which it was wag undertaken one hu hundred oared years ago toe the work census of t 1790 which was comprised in conw z 1 volume cost while ten later 1800 the cost of the work in 0 one tic 3 volume again was census of 1810 necessitated an enlar enlarge I 1 ment knout to two volumes the pro para lio w of which cost the no next succeeding census wat that of 1820 also alio in ap r two volumes cost tha thea census of 1830 required but one volum 4 yet the cost increased inor eased to that ox of 1840 required four volumes and the abe cost mounted amounted to 1 T the million dollar mark was pawed byi 1 the census of 1860 1850 the four volumes vo lumea of which cost the census of 01 aw or 4 1860 and 1870 were each comprised jj io four volumes and cost the form former and the latter i the census ot of 1880 was comprised ln twenty four volumes and cost coat not only was wag there an absolu N increase in the cost but there was B wi ai increase per capita the cost feriv ji head of population having increased inar from 1120 in 1790 to in 88 the per capita cost of the ensia caos 1890 will certainly a exceed that of thed census of 1880 |