Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-04-15

rsrere alrsost proverbial for their fertility, tho
for arc most part exceedingly narroS. Ihes
fertile low grounds were sought with sridi,l
1y e.nigrants TO the west, who could go, >
shat time, neither beyond toe asissssippi, be
CAUSE 14suisiana belonged 10 Spain, nor be
yond the Ohio, which was occupied hy Chs
Indian tribes. Thrcpch the cUnDoed opera
sfiOE Of those causes, the white population oil
The tzsEs -Alleshany country lncI c-sed, IN the
.l<eB years between 1890 and 1890. inon 49,
ss4 10 gTo,94i-or at the rate OF S3s pei
s-es1t.
YEor considerable part of the next ten
wears, frem 1900 to 1910, the country be
gFond the Mississippi was stin under iOte.gn
sruis, and the purchases From the Indians be
ryond the Ohio were limitedln extent. 80 that
SEbs trans-Alieghsny country in Virginia std
enjoyed the benefit Of large emigration;
and il would probably have gone on to IN
crease at nearly the same rate as IN The pre-
scediDg ten years, so great was the current OF
emigration TO the west, but for the operation
of two causes. One was, that the finest
tracts along the rivers were, 10 a great ex-
stent, already occuped--the other, that cini-
grants began, BY tnls time, TO discover tbat
the titles to land in that country we're not so
secure as beyond tie Ohio and Mississippi
it nevertheless increased III white population
from &c, 944 to I04, l--0r at the rate OF ~
per cent.
From 1915 to 1870, the cause. retar,iing
iats increase continued TO operate nnd some
of them with increased force. Il hs best lends
wcre-stil nearer the point OF beng fully oc-
cnpied. and the liabilities continued sin IN.
secure, though perhaps lsss SO. * sccordios
" increased, in these ten wears, bat s7f per
cent, or from I0l 81 10 1912. u could
not hep beng struGk, on graWlnin% this sab
iecf with the s.eadias5s and Regularity with
(which the sude Of Incense diminished from
1850 to fS1p IN ihc first len years OF these
twenty Nc ratc OF e,creass, when compared
svitb the rate uincrenss in the prec edinS ten
years, is found to have diminished 43 per
sent and 4 fraction. In the second ten. wears
of these twenty. the rate of IGcrease, when
compared WITH that efthe frat trn years is
found TO baEs diminished Al per ceRteand c
fraction. If tAe rate oE,ncrease in the issI 20
yesrs from 1920 to 1880. when compared
with thsl from 1910 10 1929 has fallen OF, as
much as the rate oil increase frer 1910 TO
1880 thd when compared with hat from 1860
TO 1910, it has been. in these last ten ycars, |
but l6 10 per cent
From tina steGoiHsss ard uniformity With
xsh,ea Size vate o! increase d'ai is ed in thu
1--WE preceding pedsds. il ssems reasonable 10
infer that il kas goae an diminishing IN ahpot
abs Sarn4 Proportion And rssons ~ abundance
present themselves TO feuify this coaclus,on
Ehe whole trans.Alleghauy district Of, frs,
ssmait pyoppT;ioo sf very &c ailaVisi sOii;-
second, considerable prsP0rt'er particularly
40 the uorthern part nf it, Of very Gne land,
which is, however,, very lilly; sad third, very
large proportion, probably four tunes as exteE
s;ve as bah tho ethofs together, Ct mountain
}apd. which will probably no tie cultivated, TO
any great extent, tor sn hundred yssrs TO come.
5uch OF ii, in fact, being nGcuittvabse, accord.
ing &c any American pottnn o. 90 tttEsbiity. Ia
aud qu stiy, the rate of increase continues to
.sias, az couvse, as they appreaos tie point ef
sfuil population. But IN country Hike this,
~VSere each new comer Is, every year, compete
ed to cnntens hip,seif with worse and worse
land tho ate OF inSres8e from eUlig rss on must
-aink st. faster. If We add to these consider !
atoms the continually increasing facility of stn'
sgraiiom from that ceustry, IN consequences Of
tie vast increase OF steam uhvigstisn on the
western waters aud the prodigious quantity OF
fertile land boiosging 90 the United ststes, |
and always III market al aio~ PRICE, the west |
ern, south western aHd perth western states !
and territories, we SHALL sec still iursher rea |
~sons fss believing tha; the rate at Increase IN
the .raas Allegheny country has continued 20
fail atf, as it did ia thu ewenty years preceding
the last census. 1T is oae OF the sr4k,ng re-
suits presented by critical examination Il The !
Gables os population, and result which ,hr5ws !
scine lishF on the question ofthe probabls ~ !
tare retutivs increase Of population in the east |
and the wesi, ihat while the rate ef iucrease n
the transit lie Oh any cUantry. between 1910
and $40, Hwss Al per cent. sass.r than il vas
between 1900 sud 1916, The rate Of irrrease in
Ehe tide'wster country, between 1910 and
1820, was more than fifteen hines ne fast as il
-Ssss between 1900 and l6i9 Ii,lt this s apart
from ray ps-ssU' purpose. which inquiry
into Abe. so,ss' white papn,st.cn % tae tVeRs'
AHeCbaSy auGtrY N 1879.
The inference which draw from the facts
! have stated, and from Others which cannot
take ame 10 state, becaussI am not writing
q trsa6sa 90 statistics, is thai in all pTobabll-
ity the white population CT the trans Alegha-
nv region has Increased. IN the last ten years,
about Is 40 per cent If Tins copiectinal es-
fimate be correct. and Of that you can Judge,
from the premises stated, as well as can. the
present white population of that district IS
1883. Tho white population ofthc valley
being, before stated, 1886, the total
white population west Of tho ridge, in 1890,
is eS9.S7S, having increasoo, since 1880, by
IS ,670
THE white population OF the four great dls-
tricts, then, III 1880, viii stand thus:
Trans- Allegheny country, lb1,543
The Valley, -l35,555
Piedmont or the middle country I89 ,565
Underwater country, l10,565
Total white population N 1890, 649,Si2
Total white nouulaton IN 1920. sos .Uol