Excerpt from Abstract of the Twelfth Census of the United States, 1900 Abstract of the Twelfth Census have the honor herewith to submit their report. The Abstract is an epitome or digest of the contents of the ten volumes of the Twelfth Census, and is designed for the use of the general public who may not have access to the main volumes or may find this digest more convenient for ready refer ence. For this purpose the volume should be small; the information should be presented in tables because an item of information is found far more easily in a table than in text; and the tables should be arranged in a simple, orderly way so that any table wanted may be found without delay. We have endeavored to make the present volume fulfill these requirements. This Abstract conforms in the main to the one prepared for the Eleventh Census. The present volume, however, contains no sections upon fisheries, mineral industries, transportation, insurance, wealth, debt and taxation, real estate mortgages, educa tion, churches, insane, feeble-minded, deaf and dumb and blind, or crime, pauper ism and benevolence. Reports on these subjects are not yet available, because in accordance with the requirements of the act providing for the Twelfth Census all special inquiries were postponed until the main reports were completed. Future editions of the Abstract may incorporate their results. The Abstract is divided into four parts, Population, Mortality, Agriculture, and Manufactures, corresponding to the four main lines of inquiry ordered by the census act of March 3, 1899. In each part the first series of tables is for the largest area, the second series is for the states and territories, the third for the cities, the order being thus, as a rule, that from the greater to the less. For obvious reasons, in the part relating to agri culture, the series of tables for cities is lacking. The area, to which the first series of tables for population, agriculture, and manufactures relates, is continental United States, by which is meant that part of the United States lying on the continent of North America south of the Canadian boundary. It thus excludes Alaska and the recent insular accessions of Hawaii, Porto Rico, the Philippine Islands, Guam, Samoa, and, if it be a part of the United States, the Isle of Pines. As all this territory except Alaska has been acquired since 1890, as the Twelfth Census covers no part of it except Alaska and Hawaii, and as It comprises populations living under peculiar conditions and having distinctive characteristics, it has been deemed best to confine the first series of tables, with one exception (table to the area comprised in continental United States, and not to attempt to cover either the entire United States, for which we have practically no statistical information, or the area covered by the Twelfth Census, which includes Alaska, Hawan, and the military and naval stations outside continental United States. However, in the second series of tables, those for states and territories, the figures for Alaska, Hawan, and the military and naval stations are given, but at the end of the table rather than in one alphabetical series with the states and territories of continental United States. The latter is divided geographically into five divi sions, which, with the states and territories included under them, are as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com