El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-06
SOME CENSUS FIGURES.

devoted to the population Of cities hav-
I ing 5000 inhabitants or more i'll 1900.
II shows that here are 159 such cities
in the United States.
! The I59 cities combined have pop
ulation in 1900 of 1864 .625. as com
pared with population of the same
cities of 14S55.4S9 in 1890. and of g.
1913 927 in 1886
The absolute increase in the popula-
ton of those cities from 1880 to 1900
was .S39 .I36. or S2.426 less than the
absolute increase from 1880 to 1890.
when it was 1921 .512. The percentage
of increase in population of the 15S
cities from 1880 ID 1900 was 32.5 as
against 49.5 from 1850 to 1890.
There are 10 cities which have 200
900 inhabitants or more in 1900 10 cities
which have between 100000 and 200
900 inhabitants, 10 cities which have
between 10000 and 100000 inhabitants.
and 81 cities which have between 20
900 and $4,000 inhabitants. There
We're 12i cities lis 1890 which had "A
population of 5000 or more. but of
these cities Brooklyn and Long island
City now form a part of New York
city. showing a net gain of 81
cities in 1900. as compared with 1890.
OF the ia cities in 1890. Is had 300
900 inhabitants or more. IL had be-
tween 100. 900 and 100000 inhabitants.
30 had between $4,000 and 100000 in
habitants. and 90 had between 25.G0o |
and 10 600 inhabitants
In 1850 there were but 20 cities that |
more than 100000 inhabi
tants. bur IN 1890 this number had in
to rs. and in 1900 to 3S.
In 1900 there are IS cities of $4,000
inhabitants or more as compared with
IS in 1890 and So in 1880.
The combined population in 1900 OF
he 10 cities of the first class 11..35.-
500 against a population IT. 1890 of s.
$40. los. representing an increase dur
ng the ten years of 2.916.7Of. or 32.S
per cent. The same cities showed an
Increase from 1880 to- 1890 of 1867 .452.
,r 400 per cent.
The 10 cities of the first class COM :
rise New York. which. with more thar
200 900 inhabitants. properly stands d.
" itself: cities. Chicago and Phila-
Ielphia. each of which has a popula- ,
ion in excess of Il million: cities. st.
-ouis. Boston. and BaItimoye. which :
ach; ; cities. Cleveland Buffalo. San i
francisco. Cincinnati and Pittsbcre. {
which have a population of between :
90 300 and 100. 900 each: and cities. i
few Orleans. Detroit. Milwaukee
Newark. Jersy City.
louisville. and Minneapolis. which 9
ave a population OF between 200 900
nd 300 900 each.
Win We come TO examine the cities /
n detail. We find many interesting v
Kings that would bear further discus /
ion. San Francisco has Il far smaller b
ate OF increase than have the cities in t
ensral. PittsburS. the great iron and u
teel center. has more than doubled in
lie last twenty Years. under the pro-
.ctive tariff system. Milwaukee and
etroit have kept within a few hun
red of each other for the last twenty :
ears. In 1880 the difference was less
ian eight hundred; in 1890 the differ
ice was fourteen hundred: in 1900 the
florence was less than four hundred q
ways in favor OF Detroit. II
Looking back at the records for 1880. c.
e find that the cities of the west have n,
'actically all been made during that
me. Minneapolis. st. Paul. and Kan
5 City have all had remarkable ex- =
.riences during the past twenty years.
Id youths of today have seen these G.
ties grow from forty to fifty thousand lie
three and four times that number. u
uluth grew from s3s to $1,000 in that a. 81
me: Denver from So. 900 to $4,000. 81
Looking into the west We find that oi
Ds Angeles has grown in the twenty u
Ears from a little town of 1000 to =,
city of 1O2. 900. Portland. Oregon. \
as grown from 1900 to 10000; Sc Il
tile. from 5000 to 10000: Tacoma. n
ON 1.OOG to $4,000. II
CHANGING at the smaller manufactur- ?,
TX cities of the eastern section of the p
)untry. those which have felt the in q
uence of the marvellous growth Of -
curing the last twenty g
ears under protective tariff. We find |;
hat Toledo has gone up from 10000 to v
81 900: Worcester. from $4,000 TO u.s. ::
BOO: Trenton. y. y. from 10000 to Q
900. Bridgeport. from $1,000 tn TO- a
DO: Akron from 10000 $1,000: South Y
end. from $4,000 to $4,000: Bayonne. >
!. j.. from 5000 to - 900: Passaic. y