Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1890-11-06
THE COUNT COMPLETED.

THE COUNT COMPLETED.
Cleveland Leader
Subject to minor corrections, the
counting of the American people is fin
ished, and, exclusive of the Indians still
maintaining tribal relations and of the
whites in the Indian Territory, the pop
ulation of the United States, as it will
be recorded in all official documents for
the next ten, years, is 62,4SO,54 The
tables published in the bulletin issued
by the Census Bureau show how this
population is distributed in the various
States and groups of States, how it com
pares with the totals of former enumer-
ations, since the Rebellion, and what the
rate of increase has been in the country
and in the States separately.
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The rank of the States is very much
as might have been foreseen. In order
of population they stand as follows: New
York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Ohio, Mis-
souri,, Massachusetts, Texas, Indiana,
Michigan, Iowa, Kentucky, Georgia,
Tennessee, Wisconsin, Virginia, North
Carolina, Alabama, New Jersey, Kansas,
Minnesota, Mississippi, California, South
Carolina, Arkansas, Louisiana, Nebras-
ka, Maryland, West Virginia, Connect
icut, Maine, Colorado, Florida, New
Hampshire, Washington, Rhode Island,
Vermont, South Dakota, Oregon, North
Dakota, Delaware, Montana, Idaho, Wy
oming, and Nevada. The most popu
lous State has 5,9S1,934 inhabitants, or
about one hundred and thirty
times as many as the least populous,
which has 44,327. New York and Ne
vada are equal in the United States Sen
ate, and the latter has nearly two and
one-half times as great an area as
the former. There are q States
which have over one million inhabitants.
Of these ii are in the North and l3 in
the South, of the States having over 2,
100000 people, only twO-Texas and
Mississippi-weree ever cursed by slave
ry. Four States have more than 3,000,-
600 inhabitants, and all are in the North.
Only two have reached 100000, and
both are well past 100000.
The greatest absolute gain in the last
ten years has been made by Pennsylva-
mia, which State has risen from 1882,
891 in 1880, to 5,248,574 this year. New
York is second in growth, with gain
of S99063. In this respect Illinois is
third, Texas fourth, Nebraska fifth, and
| Minnesota sixth. All of these States
have gained half a million apiece, and
their aggregate increase has been 1882,
S52, or about 20 per cent. of the gain of
1924, ,757 in the entire country. Mis-
souri, is seventh in actual increase, Ohio
eighth, Michigan ninth, and Massctu-
sets tenth, these four States gaining
between 450,322 and $500 each. -
Ohio's increase is 468,657. Only tive
States have lost'population>s since 1880,
VERMONT by 81, and Nevada by IT,
939. The highest rates of increase, of
course, ARE found in the far West, North.
Dakota ranking first; Washington, sec
ond; Montana, third. South Dakota,
fourth; Wyoming fifth; and Idaho,
sixth. The,frst of thisigroup has rate.
of increase of 39426 per cent, and the
last 1929 per cent. Only five States
faiIedto. gain at least 10 per cent, These
were Virginia, New Hampshire Maine,
Vermont, and Nevada, and the last two.
lost population. Four Of these States
are in the North, and Repnbilcan IN
politics. The rate of increase IN the
country as a whole is 2457 per cent.
Nineteen States show a higherfate of
growth, and twenty-five fallSSbelow it.
fOhio's rate Of gain is z<3416 per cent,
which is the loWestfn the North, except
Nevada and Indiana in the West, and
three of the>New England States, The
majority of the Southern States are cred
tied with higher rate. ~