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Colporteurs’ Summary for August, 1915

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 14, 1915

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 92, No. 51.

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Colporteurs’ Summary for August, 1915

Books — Periodicals

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Atlantic
Maine	12	859	$1004.85	$412.30	4257	$425.70	$125.50
N. New England	12	907	602.50	63.75	3378	337.80	225.10
Massachusetts	9	613	624.90	684.70	7376	737.60	410.90
S. New England	1	109	143.05	193.40	1980	198.00	197.40
E. New York	19	2029	2591.58	1260.18	2805	280.50	106.30
W. New York	19	1568	1637.45	472.95	4050	405.00	330.70
Gr. New York	10	1131	636.12	406.66	5643	564.30	687.10
Totals	82	7216	7240.45	3493.94	29489	2948.90	2083.00

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Columbia
Ohio	23	1294	1163.00	1139.55	3829	382.90	639.30
Chesapeake	12	926	1557.10	731.00	1041	104.10	138.70
Virginia	22	2533	3138.10	976.65	1310	131.00	244.70
West Virginia	8	830	848.85	570.00	206	20.60	24.00
E. Pennsylvania	18	2022	1700.57	1074.03	2529	252.90	423.40
W. Pennsylvania	19	1879	1830.77	1155.07	615	61.50	76.80
New Jersey	9	859	886.25	619.50	3982	398.20	523.60
Dist. of Columbia	8	69	363.10	…..	157	15.70	219.20
Totals	119	10412	11487.74	6265.80	13669	1366.90	2289.70
Lake
E. Michigan	19	1870	1737.90	717.05	3180	318.00	374.30
W. Michigan	13	785	470.50	223.95	847	84.70	149.50
N. Michigan	12	924	724.35	295.50	580	58.00	35.10
Wisconsin	20	1886	2106.10	1298.75	1238	123.80	258.50
N. Illinois	16	1486	887.73	978.62	885	88.50	445.50
S. Illinois	17	1794	1626.25	1405.15	1431	143.10	75.80
Indiana	17	1003	857.70	358.60	561	56.10	218.00
Totals	114	9748	8410.53	5277.62	8722	872.20	1556.70

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Eastern Canadian
Ontario	8	…..	3166.41	1350.21	3381	338.10	230.60
Quebec	..	…..	103.51	…..	177	17.70	20.00
Maritime	2	…..	222.45	3.00	150	15.00	340.50
Newfoundland	..	…..	50.50	6.20	…..	…..	8.00
Totals	10	…..	3542.87	1359.41	3708	370.80	599.10
Southern
Louisiana	11	482	670.70	731.10	896	89.60	82.50
Alabama	24	1766	1130.78	2401.80	1011	101.10	96.50
Kentucky	13	1188	1111.25	677.45	1065	106.50	45.20
Mississippi	11	726	731.85	2337.10	945	94.50	82.00
Tennessee River	15	1520	1069.80	1351.95	1647	164.70	278.00
Totals	74	5682	4714.38	7499.40	5564	556.40	584.20

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Southeastern
Cumberland	14	1514	1259.05	1023.35	710	71.00	38.10
Georgia	24	2440	1809.10	2857.75	890	89.00	138.50
North Carolina	9	1253	1512.82	802.85	4698	469.80	105.50
South Carolina	10	903	380.60	935.10	1160	116.00	137.50
Florida	10	961	628.70	3262.35	1005	100.50	137.80
Totals	67	7071	5590.27	8881.40	8463	846.30	557.40
Southwestern
Arkansas	10	454	627.00	2225.35	458	45.80	49.50
Oklahoma	37	1585	1231.60	2335.80	2637	263.70	82.30
N. Texas	11	562	371.30	3169.95	932	93.20	42.60
S. Texas	16	1575	2145.80	3090.55	1626	162.60	181.60
W. Texas	21	1344	1378.30	897.74	353	35.30	28.50
New Mexico	7	531	546.15	1707.65	270	27.00	35.00
Totals	102	6051	6300.15	13427.04	6276	627.60	419.50

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Central
Missouri	14	475	466.00	1384.65	1515	151.50	519.90
E. Colorado	10	875	1093.75	804.40	897	89.70	146.30
W. Colorado	4	419	412.75	164.50	…..	…..	71.00
Nebraska	10	1223	1517.60	1546.95	342	34.20	312.40
Wyoming	6	745	1150.35	1245.30	121	12.10	5.50
Kansas	23	2750	2864.70	741.85	1875	187.50	160.10
Totals	67	6487	7505.15	5887.65	4750	475.00	1215.20
Northern
Iowa	9	715	802.25	703.50	3087	308.70	606.50
Minnesota	24	3573	3258.46	1894.60	5404	540.40	764.30
North Dakota	15	2508	4978.00	1733.60	1143	114.30	38.00
South Dakota	8	828	831.80	1109.75	225	22.50	41.50
Totals	56	7714	9870.51	5441.45	9859	985.90	1450.30

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Pacific
Cen. California	4	102	$127.50	$64.75	800	$80.00	$12.40
California	16	706	465.95	444.00	4981	498.10	380.50
N. California	13	429	521.75	894.45	237	23.70	62.70
S. California	..	…..	…..	657.60	935	93.50	360.00
Utah	4	103	130.75	263.45	100	10.00	25.00
Arizona	..	…..	…..	33.00	…..	…..	…..
S. E. California	2	24	37.25	…..	…..	…..	…..
Totals	39	1364	1283.20	2357.25	7053	705.30	840.60
North Pacific
W. Washington	..	…..	…..	2388.50	1757	175.70	156.00
Upper Columbia	..	…..	…..	717.00	101	10.10	90.00
W. Oregon	..	…..	…..	1134.75	723	72.30	88.20
S. Oregon	..	…..	…..	243.00	102	10.20	19.50
Montana	..	…..	…..	…..	785	78.50	118.70
S. Idaho	..	…..	…..	882.00	581	58.10	45.50
Totals	..	…..	…..	5365.25	4049	404.90	517.90

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Western Canadian
Alberta	10	1827	1872.50	1209.60	149	14.90	247.50
Manitoba	4	909	790.60	813.00	415	41.50	85.50
British Columbia	4	462	465.70	…..	837	83.70	236.50
Saskatchewan	23	4293	5697.15	2664.15	1196	119.60	117.00
Totals	41	7491	8825.95	4686.75	2597	259.70	686.50
Foreign and miscellaneous					3655	365.50	1197.10
Mailing lists					44419	4441.90	3147.90
Union
British	43	4454	2425.26	4759.72	178595	3624.00	2724.44
Australasian	92	6731	10877.81	9329.65	64500	1968.29	1797.84
South Africa	..	…..	…..	786.46	…..	…..	38.52
Indian	43	4896	332.38	592.34	…..	…..	…..
Scandinavian	141	20722	13226.84	13233.85	6222	297.87	264.35
E. German	50	7203	2489.39	…..	84805	2185.21	…..
W. German	45	6621	2223.80	…..	75309	1906.05	…..
Danube	14	1530	428.19	…..	…..	…..	…..
Cen. European	58	7816	2743.11	…..	25926	504.72	…..

Unions	Agts.	Hrs.	Value 1915	Value 1914	No. Cop.	Value 1915	Value 1914
Latin	9	989	730.40	1624.90	4454	146.33	230.32
Porto Rico	6	…..	1215.96	476.09	…..	…..	…..
Cuba	20	877	2135.40	1452.00	134	7.08	112.65
Jamaica	..	…..	411.00	…..	5226	313.56	…..
Canary Islands	1	113	60.25	78.57	…..	…..	2.95
Japan	..	…..	11.83	5.59	2594	87.19	43.20
Philippine Is.	15	1245	733.45	151.20	…..	40.00	…..
Korean	..	…..	37.13	18.96	3484	87.00	145.17
South America	20	1204	1666.31	1454.76	…..	134.17	142.56
Brazil	37	3382	1973.47	1484.60	…..	…..	…..
Venezuela	3	…..	280.00	…..	…..	…..	…..
Totals, for.	597	67783	44001.98	35448.69	451249	11301.47	5502.00
Totals, N. Am.	771	69236	74771.20	69942.96	152275	15227.30	17145.10
Grand totals	1368	137019	$118773.18	$105391.65	603524	$26528.77	$22647.10

Comparative Book Summary

	1910	1911	1912	1913	1914	1915
Jan.	$42,532.23	$44,495.65	$53,931.97	$64,262.88	$59,697.52	$46,778.58
Feb.	50,990.34	53,923.57	53,525.18	62,813.12	67,149.45	47,943.61
March	55,711.55	73,015.56	73,374.99	66,640.42	75,962.31	73,414.23
April	64,042.39	73,548.31	73,027.32	73,520.45	85,685.35	78,974.96
May	86,333.58	81,923.78	94,166.15	101,640.01	87,024.10	107,987.69
June	112,606.05	135,888.76	137,838.38	137,573.06	153,480.96	151,199.10
July	103,919.12	127,256.86	156,166.90	140,576.24	199,116.62	170,546.02
Aug.	91,145.11	91,810.46	103,165.69	111,660.64	105,391.65	118,773.18
Sept.	66,523.65	86,001.72	67,551.70	73,732.14	74,359.96
Oct.	62,461.13	81,367.89	70,219.07	84,015.90	60,357.25
Nov.	58,211.68	67,600.00	77,424.87	73,949.68	57,388.95
Dec.	54,663.93	58,386.24	57,201.91	59,749.92	57,496.17
Totals	$849,140.76	$976,218.80	$1,017,684.13	$1,049,943.46	$1,083,110.29

Comparative Summary of American Periodicals

	1912	1913	1914	1915		1912	1913	1914	1915
Jan.^†	121666	177080	152971	170760	July	191937	176772	211040	150880
Feb.	144257	201659	242627	134619	Aug.	183119	153849	171451	152273
Mar.	207520	166499	224757	341059	Sept.	173077	127017	164860
April	189498	152088	162027	183280	Oct.	587830	126557	174182
May	162220	166465	168934	158114	Nov.	108755	100351	142040
June	163120	156550	189897	159635	Dec.	111199	99504	143190
Totals						2344207	1804391	2147076

: Multiply number of magazines in any month by ten cents to get value.