Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-03-26

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Chisseo j. not likely msoh longer %
have the extraordinary erowth wtsieh
has distinguished 4 ke<ssofnrs. md
which wA& the result % shs occap&tisn
and asrsiep<s<ns OF the sast fertile ter
Kitpry txibEtsxv 10 ID. b<c1sse fhss terri
tory y uoS - far ocsapisd shss there b
no Lager opportunity for the very rspsd
growth which occurred during TIE trans
formstion Of the psxiries iElso farms.
Ihe State census ef Iowa sho8ed sn Ia
crezss In population Of oniy !. per cent.
from Is5o % 1885. sua there wss mere
urcuissvsted prairie in Iowa IN lssg
than In aag ether stats bofisrius on
The Ht<zsss5pp3 when fhs fzrraina
popri4iioc hss reached esrfstn point
N The western States 10 cea~es 10 grow.
thouRh doubsiess shers Eczasins The poe
stbtiity Of great fnoressei Ia prs11ctfoo
and the tswns 0rew with great fspidisy.
In the eonntry fnrsaer vest ths enoecu-
pied fertile land ~ now trihin< IN
anount eompsresi With ghkt there ves
west Of Chicsco Is or - years ago. and.
moreover. it - " di-tsnf from Chicago
that il requires and tlrszsiy snpports
considerable s1ppiy markets between IL
and Chicago, chsef Of which are Kansas
CITY. Onshs, 81. Pani and Minneapsiiz-
West OF Lake Bapexsof. where there "
nov tue largest Arcn OF unocoupied
prairis, lake transportation is Likely 10
give she oonnsry an oatist for its pro
ducts asd an inlet for IL s1ppiiss quite
indspsndsnt Of Chicago, theogh here
and still further soalh CstsaRo ner-
chants still do large part Of tia basi-
rfss. Bat Caioaeo " no longer the city
nsarest The fFoniisf, and ft may be en-
pecset 10 grow hereafter more like 3
city 10 "a old country than Iiks e4e in
q new territory where population and
prodrction are doubling every fes years.
ii Is trns that nsw kizds Of business de-
ssiop - the cennfry around grows more
dsnsxiy peoplsd and has larger town
pepui stsiss, bat on the average the rate
Of growth 10 mes like What tf used 20 ba.
From 1850 10 1870 Cbieaso's population
increased lGz per cent; from 1870 TO
isoO, - per cent; 10 has possibly IN
creased st soa-sthlng like ttss latter rata
about ~ per NJ. psr AMMAN since
1850; bat. II 30. 10 has nes sDoat go 900
Inhabitants, and no city Of thai siEs has
sser gvns ON increasing ak that rate. OF
ceuld possibly do 90 very long. Even
tbe average rata of increase OF tbs whole
United states in tbs last decade $50 per
cent? woeld give ID an inereass Of
nearly Uuyo00 IN the next ten years. and
make lts popuistisn I,l000oo 10 l9oh.
The increase Of New York from 1870 20
1850 WAS 81 per cent, sf Philzdslphia
zsys. OF Hrosklyn ~. of Boston lsut
very largely BY annexstion1 Is, Of Bal
timeFe 2t. Of Cincinnati -. and OF st.
Louis is per cent; thes being ell ths
places with msfe than 200 0o0 snhabii-
aats 10 1870. With the excsption of
Chicago ana Brooklyn, mono vf these
piaess increased a. fast as the aggregate
population Of tins country; bas among
smaller tewns there are many examples
Of much more rapid growth. San Fran
CISCO add 81 per cent. Cleveland y.
Pittsburgh se, Kansas City 70. Fall kissr
~. et. Paul i07 Ind Minneapolis ~
per seat. bot this rapid growth ~ the
growth Of childhood and youth, not 81
maturity. A boy may havs increased
from : pounds to i20in the frat IL years
OF mis- life. but We may not, thersfore.
expest hisn 10 add 400 per cent. 70 his
weight Ia tbs nexs "a years and weigh
1900 pounds al the age Of -. when
town reaches population OF half a.
million VI more. q very moderate per
cestses OF increase constitutes very
large addition; bat meanwhile human
bsines are noitipiied At the sane mod
crate rate, and these great growtbs have
10 be importsd. Ihs addition OF " per
cent. 90 the population Of Chicago IN
ten years now requires the whoie natural
increase Of more than 2.ouosuo0 people,
at the rate Indicated In this counirys
which Is greater than aaygteEe else A
tew towns With saah growth wsald sson
absorb the whsle population OF the eoun-
tfy-leays not sonl on the farms OF In
The viliages.
We may show this BY examining the
growth of the total city population nf
tha rnissd states. From iaso 80 1850
this increased 80 per cent, and wns p
s97 GOO in ls6o. II IL had continued at
that rate, II would have been about
p. 2.OOO. 900 in 1850, whereas Ii was aolu
ally ii,3i8,547. Going on further, We
should have. al the rste Of grswth from
1870 20 lssso, q population Of 81 Coz. .O0e
In cities 10 1900: when, IL the yery rapid
growth Of the whole population from
1870 10 1880 10 eoptinu.a. there will be
but "a 500 60 people In the whole coon-
TRY. twenty mere years would give the
cities 3ls,0u0.O00, or 30. .0o0. coo more
than the whole country viii contain
with growts Of 30 per oent. per
decade, as from 1870 10 tss0-which IL
itself impossibly rapid for 50 long
period.
Cnlsaeo, however. ia still apparently
growing much faster IN population tkan
any other large city Of the eoentry. and
for some tine vet ssesns Likely TO grow
faster than Nsw York. which alone sx-
Deeds II In the amount Of its cofnmerce,
and shows no signs as JET OF coming
down 20 the moderate eresth OF the
Older Western cities. iiks Cincinnati and
Sc. Iouia, thoueh u probably VIII csme
down 20 something like IL tn tims. Al
ready ths rate Of growth Of the leading
towna 400 or 80 miles wssf, northwest
aud sons1wsst IL mora rapid than Chi
Cages. and IL will probably coutinne 20
be until the eoautry vest Of then IL
pretty well occapsed, - thai between
them and Chicago II nov. Their rapid
crowth, however, " likely 30 ceass long
before they have reaehsd anything hks
Chicaro's : ~. portions. bccsnse they have
rnneh more limited area OF fertile
coantry 10 sap,prt them Hence Cht-
eaao seems certain 10 hold rs place
as the great interior city and trade
center.
Tns BACK DIAMOND TRouHIr. "A
gentleman who cams in from the Black
Diamond mines yesterday afternoon.