Show THE GATHERING OF statistics one of the deputy statisticians for salt ewt lake county has baa pointed out to a us that people are seemingly very to giving the information whick the tb statistical schedules require and do not realize that the law makes the furnishing ingo ot such tsuch information compulsory at the same time some people have bave complained that the statisticians inquire too closely into private affairs laira af the com nanto also assert that if the lair goes so BO far as la Is claimed for inthea it if 10 an unwarrantable invasion of the onal rights and liberty of the c citizen and its enforcement la is Imp improper ropo 11 therefore they ask for information ret re garding it with reference to the abe first brat request 4 we will may aay that the law directs that statisticians be appointed fir a stated purpose and also bequir re ane people to give them certain anfor In for motion matlon which it io IB con considered eldered will be of public benefit it is provided that ik refusal to conform to this gain requirement ball a 11 subject the person refusing to akle th penalty f fa a fine not less than live five dl del lore lars nor more than two hundred d dol lars the deputy statisticians I 1 in a each 1 county must begin their work not later than the hirst first of february in each atao i year that is 1895 and trien v thereafter and a failure to te perform their duty renders them liable k to fine and imprisonment the information which the law requires that persons persona applied to shan shall furnish to the deputy de uy statisticians la is as to the number 3 cf acres they have of improved land unimproved land and land under cultivation cultivating n during 1894 farms sores acres irrigated and also under enclosure for pasture acres of earol and amount and value thereof acra of apple peach apricot pear and p plum au the number of bushels of baab fruit sold the number of bushels and value of small email fruit produced ing currants cherries and berda berr iee the number of pounds and value of grajew grap v sold we the number of gallons of wined wine cider vinegar and sorghum bumbera number of pounds of butter cheese honey boney and 1 of each kind of dried fruits number numbers 1 i of hives of bees and pounds of wool 1 1 stoic abar v and the number of cows cow cattle horses mules asses heeck goats and swine over six months old owned on the blot day of december of the preceding year in addition to Dro procuring curing the date mentioned in the fore foregoing guing enu mera 4 tion the deputy statisticians are to re quiren to collect information as to abo tb 1 amount that has been expended for public and private buildings build linge and oa as public works the number of industrial concerns and people employed wages paid value of plants amount and value of annual product and capital 4 number of stores with their cap capital liali annual sales employee and wages miles allies of street railway and kinds of motive power number of bands in mah oh kind of ip mining laing capital invested invented employee wages end and annual output in tops tons and values the number ofa of em elters melters and hd tamping stamping mills average cost of reducing educing ores oree tons tona reduced hands employed and wages paid also taU eUca concerning irrigation systems this is an elaborate list of data and when compiled and published no doubt will prove interesting and valuable in many respects in order to secure it blanks have been issued which in most moist particulars particular conform etrI olly to the statute but in some minor respects present a difference io in making requirements not specifically set et out in the law but adapted to make the reports more perfect I 1 regarding we the complaints made inquiry does not show that the deputy statisticians have exceeded their duty or that they have been offensive in performing it nor does there seem to be any request in the law for information that easy not be cheerfully complied with without the tho personal rights righta or liberty of ef anyone being interfered with there bone to one feature however in the blanks which appears to be very objectionable judging by the vehemence of the complaints regarding it probably augmented because the bard times have made it at a sore bore place this thin is the requirement to tell how bow much cf a mortgage to is on a certain class of property and the per iper cent of interest etc there to is nothing in the law which appears to justify justia y the calling for such information tion There therefore fores if people do not dot want to tell anything regarding their aness they are under no obligation to 40 to go BO outside of individual feeling as a to this particular item there here does dot seem to be piny any good reason why toe ghe statisticians should not be afforded every very in performing their work |