Preliminary Results as Contained in the Eleventh Census Bulletins

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United States Census Printing Office, 1891

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Seite 3 - That the schedules of inquiries at the Eleventh Census shall be the same as those contained in section number twenty-two hundred and six of the Revised Statutes of the United States, of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, as amended by section seventeen of the act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Tenth and subsequent censuses...
Seite 12 - District comprises the counties of Barbour. Berkeley. Brooke, Calhoun, Doddridge. Gilmer, Grant, Hampshire, Hancock, Hardy, Harrison, Jefferson, Lewis, Marion, Marshall, Mineral. Monongalia. Morgan, Ohio, Pendleton, Pleasants, Preston, Randolph, Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Tyler, Upshur, Wetzel, Wirt, and Wood.
Seite 7 - The general law governing the increase of population is, that when not disturbed by extraneous •causes, such as wars, pestilences, immigration, emigration, etc., increase of population goes on at a continually diminishing rate. The operation of this law in this country has been interfered with in recent years by the late war, which, besides the destruction of a vast number of lives, decreased the birth rate very materially during its progress.
Seite 4 - New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York North Carolina North Dakota Ohio Oregon Pennsylvania South Carolina South Dakota...
Seite 5 - A house is not necessarily to be considered as identical with a home and to be counted only once as a home. If it is occupied as a home by one or more tenants, or by owner and one or more tenants, it is to be regarded as a home to each family. 2. If a person owns and cultivates what has been two or more farms and lives on one, they are not to be taken as more than one farm. 3. If a person owns and cultivates what has been two or more farms and all are not mortgaged, the several farms are to be counted...
Seite 2 - the leading industries are agriculture, mining, and grazing," the author goes on to generalize: In the course of settlement and development of a country the industries commonly follow one another in a certain order. After the hunter, trapper, and prospector, who are commonly the pioneers, the herdsman follows, and for a time the raising of cattle is the leading industry. As settlement becomes less sparse, this is followed by agriculture, which in its turn, as the population becomes more dense, is...
Seite 11 - Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Clark, Clay, Codington, Davison, Day, Deuel, Douglas, Edmunds, Faulk, Grant, Hamlin, Hand, Hanson, Hughes...
Seite 3 - If the head of family is a farmer, is the farm which he cultivates hired, or is it owned by him or by a member of his family?
Seite 2 - Brooklyn bridge were made of American steel. 1884 — In 1884 we commenced to import iron ore from Cuba. 1884 — The first basic steel made in the United States was produced experimentally at Steelton, Pennsylvania, by the Pennsylvania Steel Company, on May 24, 1884, in a Bessemer converter. 1884 — In 1884 there were still in existence in this country several slitting mills, which were used spasmodically in the conversion of iron into nail rods. There was a slitting mill at the Cambridge rolling...

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