Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1900-11-08
The New Census.

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nounced by Director MERRIAM, the
total population of the United States
is rs, 295, 220, but this estimate, while
it includes Hawaii, does not include
Porto Rico. Were Porto Rico added,
the aggregate population would be in
creased by nearly a million. The
number of the inhabitants of the
Philippines, also excluded from the
census, is not definitely known, but, &C.
cording to the most trustworthy esti-
mates, may be put at some eight mil
lions. 1t appears, then. that the popu-
lation of our national domain does not
much fall short, if at all, of eighty-ive
million souls. Should the gain since
1890, which is nearly 81 per cent, be
maintained during the next decade,
u aggregate population will in 1910
considerably exceed one hundred mil
lions. Already our republic is sur
passed as regards the number of in
habitants by China, the British En-
pire, and Russia alone, and it comprises
more representatives of the white race
than does the British Empire.
The State of New York, with it's
1858, 900 inhabitants, which means a
gain of more than ], 27O, 900 in a decade,
retains and seems likely long to keep,
its name of the Empire Commonwealth.
Its population is not only larger than
was that of the whole Union in 1910,
but it is larger than was that of En-
gland at the time of the Revolutionary
War. 1t is considerably larger than
that of the Kingdom Of Belgium, and
1t is larger than that of the Kingdoms
of Denmark and the Netherlands put
together, so far as their European in
habitants are concerned. Even Penn
.sylvania, which now has 6,3O1, 800 in
habitants, is larger than Belgium, and
Illinois, with Its 1921, $50, outnumbers
the Netherlands. Ohio, with its 4, 157,-
545, holds the fourth place in our list
of States, as it did ten years ago, and
the fifth place still belongs to Missouri,
with 3 ,107, 117; but Texas, which al
ready has 3,O4S,S 28, will, if the pres
ent rate of progress be maintained,
have outstripped Missouri in 1910, and
will have passed Ohio a decade later.
Massachusetts,, which held the sixth
place in 1890, now has 2,805, SAG, a
gain of more than see, 900 in ten years,
but it has nevertheless been outstripped
by Texas. and sinks into tie seventh
place. The eighth place belongs to
Indiana, which has 2,516,463 and the
ninth place to Michigan, which has
2,419. 782, but Michigan is gaining
faster and will have overtaken In
diana before 1910. Iowa occupies the
tenth place, with 2,251, S29, but Geor-
gia, with 2.216, 239. is not far behind,
and her population is increasing at a
slightly greater rate.
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 10000;
Vermont only about II. 900; Delaware
but about 10000; Maine less than
"a. 900; and Kansas less than 43, 0
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, 1874
in 1890 to 39S, 245, a gain of $50 per
Oklahoma now has more in
habitants than the States of Idaho,
Wyoming and Nevada put together.
The population OF the Territory of
Arizona, also, has more than doubled,
having moved forward from SO, $40 in
1890 to 122, PIP in the present year..
AAIODS JULIET CuEIOSLIlSS vi the present
census may be mentioned the following:
New Hampshire, which was long sta
tionary. has unexpectedly gained some
thirty-five thousand; South Carolina
has gained 1S9, 900, and Florida has
gained 1877, 900 in spite O: the repeated
destruction of her orange groves by
frost.
The publication of the official figures
at this time is Of obvious utility, for
it will enable the present Congress to
complete the reapportionment of Rep
resentatives at the coming session
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