Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1893-03-30


the eastward, 30 that the sun will not
80 down tonight upon our westward
border until It shall have risen on the
coast Of Maine" Overlooking for the
time the tfilling inaccuracy involved
In this really fine flight Of rhetoric,
and proceeding with the sub
Jeot which the distinguished gentle.
man opens up, we find much that
Is instructive and thoughtful. OF
course the steady western movement
Of our national population is TO bo
credited with the condition spoken OF.
MIR. Dawes public career began in
1888, and the census Of two years later
showed tho center OF our population to
be located at n point some twenty
three miles southeast VI Parkersburg,
West Virginia, while the last census
ps90l shows the center t. be twenty
miles eaet Of Columbus, Indiana-a
westward movement In forty years OF
900 miles, the average rate per nnnum
being 5.72 miles.
Going still further back and com.
mencing with the nrst census, that Of
1870, we are shown that there has
been In the hundred years movement
westward Of 800 miles, the center Of
population having passed from twenty.
three miles enst OF Baltimore, Md, to
the location In Indiana named above.
The rate OF progress for the whole
period averages 5.O5 miles year,
or soventy.three feet day. That
10, for a century the center
has tecn moving westward Mt au aver.
age rate Of yard an hour, with one
foot more In every twenty -four
hours. The slowest progress was
made In tbe second decade, from 1900
to 1910. In this period the population
center achieved only thirty.six miles,
or at the rate OF atout two feet two
Inches per hour. The swlfteet pro-
gress came In the seventh decade, from
1850 TO 1861, when the center moved
westward about eighty-one miles, or ut
the rate OF about four feot ton lnches
per hour. II this rate had been main.
tanned up to the present time, "whero
would we be at" now?
The decade Immediately precedInp
this showed falling OIL In the west.
ward hol business, the rate having
dropped to forty-eight miles, n little
below tho average; this WINS about two
feet eleven inches per hour. Ifweex.
tend the period down 10 the ptesent
time, 1t IL shown by careful com.
putatlon md allowing for no
greater progress than was maIe
from 1850 TO 1899 that the
center Of populatlon has prooeed,d
from tho point Inst named Ia thu di.
rcction of the setting s,in In about balf
way between Columous and Wayn.s.
burg, both in Indiana, and 4, dailv-
hourIy-comina nIony our wav.
The Boston Herald mites A. NJ. N
curious fact that. whiIo IN, wsstwa,d
population bas oover.J M len. than
ola degrees of lonv,tude 10 d.yreos
81 minutes 2 secondsl this tnoveme,,
has run almost on a straight line. IN,
extreme northern md southern varia.
ton embracing I.ss than one.tbird of
n degree of latitude. eighteen minute.
Gny.,Ix seconds. To mt IN, contrast
more distinctly. wa may sav that
while the western movement for the
century aggregated sos miles. In.
extreme northern and southern
variation IA little und.r
twenty two miles. md the 1n.
ishing point OF the line ia only
some six miles south of the starting
point. The sllghtness OF this yarla.
lion may be taken ae showing that. A.
you divide the United states ny m.
9glh paralleI of netth latitude. tho
groyth of the popuIatIon I'm thu ,wo
sections thus mado hn, been vary
neariy equal during The 100 voars
covered bV The pIeyeu gpnaiIaea In