The story of the census, 1790-1915Bureau of the census . wasalso employed. Thegeneral manufactturesschedule and the gen-eral schedule for minesand quarries carried50 inquiries each. Inaddition, 63 specialschedules were used formanufactures and 29for mines and general schedule wasreturned for each man-ufacturing establish-ment and each mineor quarry, together with a special schedule when necessary. The populationschedules filled andreturned at the Thir-teenth Census num-bered approximately1,050,000; the agricul-tural schedules,8,590,000; the manu-factures schedules,425,000; and the m
The story of the census, 1790-1915Bureau of the census . wasalso employed. Thegeneral manufactturesschedule and the gen-eral schedule for minesand quarries carried50 inquiries each. Inaddition, 63 specialschedules were used formanufactures and 29for mines and general schedule wasreturned for each man-ufacturing establish-ment and each mineor quarry, together with a special schedule when necessary. The populationschedules filled andreturned at the Thir-teenth Census num-bered approximately1,050,000; the agricul-tural schedules,8,590,000; the manu-factures schedules,425,000; and the minesand quarries sched-ules, 45,000. These figures willserve to give thereader a faint idea ofthe magnitude of thetask of taking a de-cennial census of theUnited States. The recruiting, organization, and training of the army of enu-merators—a body fairly comparable, in respect to numbers, withthe standing army of the United States—^is perhaps the most Cotton Consumption—Percentage ConsumedIN Each Country During Year EndedAugust 31, 1913 (p. 30).. Number of schedulesreturned. THE STORY OF THE CENSUS GROWTH OF THE DECENNIAL CENSUS: 1790-1910. CENSUS YHAR. Number ofmarshalsor super-visors. Number of assistantmarshals orenumerators- Legalperiodfor enu-meration,excludingextensions.(Months) Timeactuallyconsumedin completeenumera-tion.(Months) 1790180018101820183018401850i8601870 18801890igoo1910 0650 0900 o 1,100 1,188 1,519 2,167 3>23i 4»4I7 6,530 Enumerators. 31,382 46,S04 52,871 70,286 10. oiS-o s z. o CENSUS YEAS. Maximumsize ofofficeforce. Totalnumber of pages inpublished reports. Total cost. Cost percapita. 1790180018101820183018401850i860187018801S9019001910 S6 74 469 2S8 214 2,165 3,189 26,408 /10,925 /II,456 $44, 66, 178, 208, 378. 833. 1,969. , 5. 790, , 11,854. IS. 968,
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