THE ELEVENTH CENSUS

Each of Grandma’s little booklets has some story to tell, of course, but this one is notable.

 Eleventh Census  - Compliments of T. J. Fosdick, the Biggest Clothing House in the State – Sioux Falls, South Dakota, 120-122 Phillips Ave.

The first page of this book gives us the following information:

                THE ELEVENTH CENSUS

How It Was Done:

 

             It took 79 days.

                It took 48,000 enumerators.

                It cost $977,198.02.

                It took 175 supervisors.

                It required 80,206,350 blanks.

                It required special reports from 12,000 institutions.

                It required 8,928 letters and 8,937 telegrams.

 “The eleventh census of the United States was taken under an act of Congress, approved March 1, 1889. The official count of the people under this act has been consummated in shorter time than ever before in the history of the country. The enumeration for 1870 was not completed until August 23^rd of the year following. The tenth census (1880) was practically completed March 4, 1881. The eleventh census (1890) was completed in exactly two months and nineteen days after the date of commencement of enumeration, exceeding all others preceding it in rapidity and brevity in time of completion.”

 The next few pages show what the population of the states and territories was at this census. To recap:

                The United States                                            62,622,256

                North Atlantic division                                   17,401,546

                South Atlantic division                                     8,857,920

                Northern Central division                             22,362,279

                Southern Central division                             10,972,898

                Western division                                                8,027,618

 Note:    In 2010, our census totaled 307,745,538.

 If white persons in Indian Territories, Indians on reservations and Alaska would be included, the total population would reach about 63,000,000. In 10 years, the population increased by 24.86 per cent.

 The total population of each state and territory is listed, but the populations of Alaska, Idaho, Indian Territory, Montana, Nevada and Oklahoma are not shown.

 Names of all the millionaires in the U.S. are listed. The first names listed are John D. Rockefeller at $135,000,000 and W. W. Astor at $90,000,000. Others who had less than $30 million are Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, Henry M. Flagler, Charles Pratt, Wm. K. Vanderbilt and John H. Flagler.

 The change in debt of the United States Government from 1880 – 1890 was:

   Bonded Debt                     Floating Debt                    Resources                           Net Debt

1880:     $1,709,993,100.00            $413,612,887.39                $201,088,662.88                $1,922,517,324.51

1890:     $    719,178,570.00            $836.452.339.78                $632.254.790.42                $    923,376,119.36

 Note:    As of this writing, the US public debt in 2013 is:

The Outstanding Public Debt as of 02 Feb 2013 at 09:54:47 PM GMT is:

$16,441,387,961,519.25

The estimated population of the United States is 314,352,045
so each citizen's share of this debt is $52,302.46.

The National Debt has continued to increase an average of
$3.80 billion per day since September 28, 2007!