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Show ME PAY FOR ENUMERATORS Salt Lake, March 14 The continued continu-ed efforts on the pnrt of Hugh A. Mc-Mlllln, Mc-Mlllln, supervisor of the census for the state of Utah, to secure an in- I crease In the pay of enumerators, In I tbls tsale, were rewarded this morn- , ing when a telegram from H Dana Durand. director of the reneus at Washington, was received, advising of tho increase of one-half a cent per capta In the pay of census takers of the cities of the state. This Increase from 2 1-2 cents to 3 cents per carita will affect the enumerators en-umerators of Salt Lake, Logan, Provo "Ogdon, Murray and Park City. It will affect only those enumerators who had been assigned work under the B rate, and not those classed under other rates. The Increase in the pay of B rate enumerators places these enumerators In the C rate class. Tho Increase will not affect all of the census cen-sus takers in Salt Lake City, but a majority of them, and those taking the outside districts. However, It does net apply to the rural districts, where the pay Is rated on a per diem basis. The enumerators deriving the benefit bene-fit of the Increase In pay are scheduled sched-uled to take a population census of about 100,000. which will mean that they will receive an additional one-half one-half cent for each person, or a total of SSOO altogether. In his efforts for more pay for the census takers Mr. McMJllln has founded found-ed his requests upon tho high cost of living in Utah and the wages paid here in various lines of Industry as .compared with the remuneration or the enumerators. The taking of the 1910 census will commence in all parts of the United States one month from tomorrow, April 15. Approximately 67,000 persons per-sons will be employed in taking this count Of this number about 60,000 will be ennmerators, 4,000 employes at Washington, D. C, 100 mluiug nnd agricultural census enumerators, 300 clerks and stenographers, 350 supervisors su-pervisors and 250 special ageuts, assistants as-sistants of the supervisor. In 1900 approximately 52,000 porous por-ous were employed In taking the census. cen-sus. Bv the first of July practically all of the supervisors and their assistants assist-ants will have completed their work. The special agents of the mlnng and agrcultuval ceusus will be employed until fall, while the population enumerators enu-merators will have completed their work by the last of April. The special spec-ial agonts will bo through about the first of June. |