The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-26
INTERFERING CENSUS FIGURES.


relation OF the sexes. A bulletin just
issued from the census Office shows
that relation in the several states and
territories, and in tae country at
large, with ssummsry of the changes
during the past decade. From the
table it is seen that in thirty of the
states the males are in excess of the
females. These are as follows, in
their order, beginning with Missis-
sippi, which has at the rate of &c.
527 females to 100000 males, and
ending with Montana, where the
ratio is 3S,953 females to 100000
males: Mississippi, Vermont, Ohic.
Kentucky. Delaware. Florida, West
Virginia, Indiana, Illinois. -Wiscon4
sio, Utah (93, 24O females TO. 10000
males), Arkansas, Missouri. lowe,
Texas, Michigan. Minnesota, New
Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, Oregon,
California. Dakota, Washington,
Colorado, Idaho, Nevada. Wyoming,
Arizona and Montana. There are
seventeen states Unloading the DIG
trict of Columbia) in which females
are in excess. The greatest excess is
in the District of Columbia, where
the females outpumber the males as
2,5O1 to 100000. The least excess
is in Pennsylvania, where there are
100, AS females to 100000 males
The excess occurs in the following
states, aud in the order named: Dis
trict OF Columbia, Rhode Island,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, North
Carolina, New Hampshire, South
Caroline, New York, Virginia. ALA.
bama. Maryland, Maine, Georgia.
New Jersey, Louisiana, Tennessee
and Pennsylvania. The superintend-
ent of the census comments upon the
table as follows:
As will be noticed, the prepoderance
of females IS in the atlantic region. In
the whole tier of States which lie along
this coast, with the sole exception Of
Delaware, females are in excess.
OF the States along the Gulf there are
moro females than males in Alabama
and Louisiana. These, with Tennessee
in the interior, are the only States in
which females are in excess. This excess
reaches It's maximum in the District of
Columbis. In the southern portion of
this tier of States the excess is but Slight,
while in the northern part it is very
decided, showing markedly the effect of
the westward emigration of the male
element, and of the existence of manu-
features Of q class which especially en-
ploy femsls labor, such as the manu-
facture of boots and shoes, of paper and
of cotton goods. In the Mississippi
valley the excess iss slightly on the side
of the males, indicating that the popu-
latiOn of that region is not q nOr.I al one,
immigration entering to disturb the ma
tural proportion of the sexes. The most
marked cases OF the excess of males are
in the Territories and newer States of
the West, where settlement Is recent,
where immigrst ton is still active, and
where the luxuries and comforts of life
are greatly abriged by the necessities of
frontier existence. Especially is this
true in those States and Territories
where mining and cattle raising are the
principal occupations. Ofthese the most
marked examples are Montana. Arizona,
Idaho and Wyoming, in which more
than two-thirds of The population are
males New Mexico, although Terri
tory, has been under different conditions
from most Ct the others. 1t has long
been settled By permanent clsss of
farmers ard grsZiers Of Mexican blood.
Utah, too, is peOpled mainly by q settled
community of farmers having families.
The existence Of polygamy, also, goes to
account for the nearly equal proportion
Of females in this Territory, in spite Of It's
comparatively recent settlement
The changes since 1870 in the rela-
tive proportion OF the sexes, as ex-
pressed by The number of females to
100000 males. ia quite marked in
some states, but 10 others it is scarcely
perceptible. For instance in Mas,s-
chusetts the increase in the proper
ton of females to the 1O0.O 900 males
has been but Il, while ia Idahl, the
increase has been 1864 Ia O3lo
RADIO the proportion of females has
decreased 10, 1874 There has been
temsle decrease in twenty-four states
and territories-thed decrease in In
diana (134) being the lowest. Utah
is included in the number of those
in which a decrease of females occur,
the decrease here bsing 3,460 in
100000. The decrease has been
greater in Utah than in any other
section, except New Mexico 70 747)
and Colorado 10. 890. The proper
ton OF females has increased 10
twenty-lhree states ami territories.
six of the eight territories bsiug in
cluded in the list. In the United |
States as a whole, there is loss of
1 1882 in the ratio on 100000 males in
the last decade. The superintendent
of the census further comments:
In old, settled agricultural communi-
ties, the sexes should be very nearly |
equal in number, females being slightly |
in excess. The southern states pre- ent
US with the best example of this class of |
population. There are few large cities
In this section; there Is less immigration |
or emigration. The concentration Of |
population into cities, the growth of
and the mining Industry,
immigration and emigration, all tend 10
disturb the normal relation of the sexes,
All marked cases of change, since 1870,
in the above table can be explained sEn
ply: In New England and the middle
Atlantic states there has been little
change, but that little has generally been
3 proportional increase Of females, due to
emigration of males westward and in
crease Of textile manufactures. Emigrs-
ton from this region, however, has been
in part disguised by immigration into
.hese states from foreign lands, attracted
BY the increase in manufacturing in !
iustries.E In the south Atlantic and Gulf
tstes, there has been marked Increase ;
n the relative proportion of males. The
,ause for this change is probably to be
0und mainly among the people resident
herein. and not in extraneous inhuence7.
( may with confidence be Ascribed to
PRACTICAL cessation of emigration, and to
he effort Of nature to restore the normal
quilibrium between the sexes which was
disturbed by the Wsr,