Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-11-10

| Mon-an. fsl $50 s9f53 20 5a5
| Wyoming $500 81. 5S9 2','s9 s,lle
| Colorado ...... 4lG,",5 19i.@2' S9.-Gi
| New Mexico -. IA, n llS,"oi 9i,5I
| Arizona ...--.. j@,Gl Az. 40 $50.
| Utah $500. 80. 30, - 1898 Sc ISL
! Nevada ......... 81 ,j31 6!,26s ~, 49,
| idaho .......... II ,229 -, $40 1899
! Washington 34S.1'6 .5,l:1 1855
/ Oregon .-...... 81 40 IL, .Gs OS23
| California 1870. 1870. l,16i, oo2 s5i'694 5e0,2l7
| Total population. 1890. 62, 4sG, $40 :;
| 1880, so, 1875, 1873: 1870. 50, 55s .37l.
! Increase from 1859 to 1899, number,
u 324 ISL; percentege, 24.51
Increase from 1870 to 1880. number,
II 597 ,4l2: percentage, 80. 0S.
Increase from 1868 20 1870, number,
7,lj, $50; percentage, -. IS.
The general law governing the increase
of population Is, that when not disturbed
0v extrnneous causes, such as wars, pes
licences. Immigration, emigration, etc. :,
increase OF population goes on at 3 con-
tluuallY diminishing rate. The opera
ton of this law in this country has been
inierfered with in recent years BIZ the
late war, which, besides the destruction
of vast number OF lives, decreased the
birth rats very materially during its
progress. IL was followed by hn in
creased birth rats, as is invari bly, the
case under similar circumstances. The
norma! rate OF increase has been, aud is,
greatly iuterfered with also BY i'm ri sra-
ton, and 1t is difficult 20 satirnato the
effect OF this upon our rate OF increase.
Approximation to 1t may, however, DC
reached by the following process: Be
tween 1880 and 1890 , 40 .Gi3 i'm migrants
entered tits country. OF thess 81 part
have returned 10 their homes or migrate q
elsewhere A considerable proportion,
probably about ous-sighth, have di-d.
On the other hand. children have been
born to them, AMI II Is probable that the
births have uounrsTbnlancsd the deaths
and the emigration, SO that the net in
fuencs which immigration has exerted
upon -our population Is approximately
expressed by the number of immigrants.
Subtracting this number from the nuCner-
zeal increase during the past decade thers
remains Il tritie over :, 900, 900 TO repre-
sent tho actual increase of the inhabi-
tants of this country in 1880. The rate
of natural Increase is therefore not far
from II per cent.
The states are grouped as North At"
lautio, South Atlantic, Northern Gen.
trail, Southern Central and Western.
This grouping Ia natural one, and by
the aid of it certain characteristic fea-
tuTss III NuS ueftiCJIt!euL VI tbc biatco
are brought out. The North Atlantic
section is primarily a manufacturing Sec
ton. AS necessary result Of the pre-
DONNA ce of manufacturing there is O
great development of urban population.
Indeed, more than half of the inhabi-
tants are grouped IN cities.
The predominant industry of the
Northern Central states Ia agriculture,
although in many OF these states manu-
features are now acquiring prominence.
The industries of the South Atlantic
and Southern Central sections are still
almost entirely agricultural, while in the
Western states and territories the lead
ing industries are agriculture, mining,
and grazing.
In the course Of the settlement and de-
velopment of country the industries
commonly follow one another in
certain order. After the hunter, trap
per, and pEospector, who are com monty
the pioneers, the herdsman follows, and
for g time the raising OF cattle is tbs
leading industry. AS settlement be-
comes less sparse, this is followed by sg-
riculture, which in its turn. as the pop
ul6tiOn becomes more dense, is sue
decided by manufactures, and, as con-
sequence, the aggregation of the pao-
pie III cities. We see in this country all
stages of this progress.
In Maine, New Hampshire, aud Yer
mont the rate of increase between 1870,
and 1880, has not quite been mann
tanned; indeed. in the last named state
there has been trifiing absolute de-
crease of population. In these states ag-
riculture is in a very low condition, the
soil is as rule infertile, and III irkets
are not especially easy OF access; cOnse-
quently the farming population has con-
tinusd to migrate to the far West. On
the other hand, manufactures have not
yet assumed sufficient prominence 10 re-
tain population.
In the other states OF this subdivision,
with the exception of Rhode Island,
viz: Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey aud Pennsylvania,
while farming is at quite as low an etb
ss in Maine, New Hampshire and YER
mont, manufactures nave assumed so
great promlnencs that they have not
only sutiiced to maintain the former
rate OF increase, but even to increase 1t.
The rate in Massachusetts has increased
from 22 to 90 per cent. in Connecticut
from l6 to 20, in New York frcm Is to
IS, in New Jersey from % TO 27, and in
Pennsylvania from % to %. II will be
seen, Furthermore, that this augmenta-
ton of the rate of increase is greater in
the more easterly states than in the three
Western ones above mentioned, owing to
the fuller development of manufacture
ing industries.
In the northern central group of
states various conditions prevail. In
Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Missouri, and
in Illinois if the city Of Chicago be
dropped from consideration, the rate of
increase has declined very decid eddy. In
Ohio it has fallen from 20 to Is per cent;
in Indiana from Is to IL; in Iowa from
So to II; in Missouri from 26 to % per
cent, in spite Of the rapid growth of ST.
Louis and Kansas City, and in Illinois,
dropping Chicago from consideration,
from 1919 TO Sc per cent. In these
states the agricultural industry, which 10
still the prominent one, has began to de-
cline, owing to the sharp competition of
western farms The farming population
has migrated westward. and the growth
Of manufactures is not vet sufficiently
rapid TO repair these losses. The south
srn portions Of Michigan, Wisconsin and
Minnesota are under similar conditions,
but the northern parts of these states,
lying upon the frontier of settlement,
have filled up with sufficient rapidity to