The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1900-11-23
SOME CENSUS
FACTS.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From
the Bulletins.
The Population of the Forty-five
States Is Over Seventy-four Mil
lions The Gains of the Cities
United States Ranks Second
Among the Great Powers.

The census bureau is making public
by means Of occasional bulletins the
results of it's labors during the past
few months Tire population of the 45
states of the Union is IA, 627. 907, as
against SO, 116, 811 in 1890, an increase
of 10, 511, ,096. Adding the population
of the territories including Alaska
and Hawaii and the Indians on reser-
vations the grand total is 76. 1885, 2sO,
as against 63, ,069. 726 in 1890. The
total increase therefore, in inhabitants
in the last decade is 1s, 225. AGA.
In 1890 there were some 300, 900
manufacturing institutions in the
United States. Now in round numbers
there are about 900, 600.
The only state the population of
which has actually decreased during
the decade, is Nevada, which now has
only AZ, 334 inhabitants. Nebraska,
however, has gained less than 10. 600,
Vermont only about II 900, Delaware.
but about 10000, Maine, less than
81, 900 and Kansas less than 43, 600.
Wyoming. on the other hand, has in
creased more than so per cent. and
Montana nearly 10 per cent. The
most astonishing increase, however,
is exhibited by the territory of Okla
homa, which has advanced from 81, S34
in 1890 to 998, 245, gain of 500 per
cent.
There are 10 cities which have 200, :
600 inhabitants or more in 1900, 10
cities which have between 100, 00G and
200, 900 inhabitants, 40 cities which
have between so, 600 and 100, 600 inhabi-
tants and 81 cities which have been
25, 900 and 80, 600 inhabitants. There
were 1874 cities in 1890 which had a
population of $4,000 or more, but Of
these cities Brooklyn and Long Island
City now form a part Of New York
city, showing net gain of 81 cities
in 1900 as compared with $780, Of
the 124 cities in 1890, 16 had 200, 900
inhabitants or more, 10 had between
100, 900 and 200, 0c0 inhabitants, 30 had
between 80, 600 and 100, 900 inhabitants
and 66 had between 25, 600 and 30, 200
| inhabitants.
In 1880 there were but 90 cities
which contained more than 100. 900
inhabitants, hut in 1890 this number
had increased to 28 and in 1900 to 49,
In 1900 there are 78 cities of 30,
inhabitants or more as compared with
80 in 1890 and 30 in 1880.
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prise New York, with more than
8, 000 600 inhabitants, Chicago and
Philadelphia, each of which has a po-
pulation in excess of a million; three
cities, St Louis, Boston and Baltimore,
which have a population of half a
million each; five cities, Cleveland,
Buffalo, San Francisco, Cincinnati
and Pittshurg, which have popula-
tion of between 300, 900 and 400, 900
each, and eight cities, New Orleans,
Detroit, Milwaukee, Washington,
Newark, Jersey City, Louisville and
Minneapolis, which have population
of between 200, 600 and 300, 600 each.
The center of population is now in
Indiana west of Columbus. In 1900 it
was 28 miles east of Baltimore and
has shifted almost due west at the
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cept from 1850 to 1860, when it moved
west by north 81 miles.
There are in round numbers 8, 800, 600
separate farms in the United States
and territories and about 900, 600
manufacturing institutions, an in
crease in ten years of $50, 600 plants.
The increase of manufactures in the
west and south has been remarkable.
Less than one-fourth of the popula-
tion of the whole country dwell in 159
cities, having $4,000 inhabitants or
over.
Rhode Island, the smallest of the
states leads in density of population,
supporting 1896 persons to the square
mile, with less than 2 acres of area
to each inhabitant. New York and
Pennsylvania have about acres to
each inhabitant
The census places the United States
in the second rank among the worlds
great powers. The powers are today
grouped as follows as to population
Russia, 1S0, 1885, 628
United States, rs, 295, 800