human
And you had to do that for Alaska, as well!
gpt
As far as we could. Of course it was difficult to determine routes of travel there, and to a large extent that had to be left to the supervisors, but they merely revised our original districting. It took a lot of figuring in Alaska because of the tremendous travel difficulties there and the thousands of miles of territory still unsurveyed.
human
I had never realized the need of all that preparatory work,
gpt
There's a great deal of the work that has to be done in the years before the census and in the years after, he was informed,
human
I understood the Bureau had regular work all the year round?
gpt
Indeed it has. All the births and deaths that are registered are tabulated here, and a number of tables of vital statistics are worked out which are of immense value to doctors not only in the United States but all over the world. Then, as I think you know, we have for years made a special study of cotton crop conditions, and there is a bulletin published at stated intervals showing the state of the cotton industry in the United States. Then there is all the statistical work on cities of over 30,000 inhabitants, and there is scarcely a question which has reference to the population or the manufacturing interests of the country that is not referred sooner or later to the Bureau of the Census.
human
You work with the Forest Service, too, I believe, said Hamilton.
gpt
Wilbur Loyle, a forest ranger whom I knew very well, showed me some figures that the Bureau had prepared.
human
Only in the collection and publication of statistics of forest products, said Barnes, rising and changing his office coat,--for the conversation had run on long after office hours,--
gpt
Sun and
human
Sea for her parents with an explanatory note to the effect that she had been found as a tiny girl upon a heap of sea moss on the beach. Another was when an enumerator wrote on his schedule under 'language spoken,'
gpt
Some pesky lingo; I know most of their talk, but this was too much for me and the hut was too strong to stay in long.
human
This Indian ain't 200 years old. He says he's 200 snows, but I can't quite figure it out. He says he was 20 snows when he got first woman, kept her 4 snows, then she go away! He complained that 'he had no women 4 suns and catch no women 4 snows.' He 'got more woman, keep her 5 snows, then she eat cold (frozen to death). Got no woman 20 snows, she good woman.' He could not give any clue about his children only that 'his chickens 30 to 45 snows!' They reckon here only from what they can remember, so this buck is probably counting from about ten years old. That would make him thirty when he first got a wife, thirty-four when she died, thirty-eight when he got his next wife, and forty-three when she died. Counting his oldest child at 45 this would make him about seventy-five. Where the '200 snows' comes in, I don't see.