The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-06-08

nations The United States ranks peSt 70 Russia III Po
nopuaon Russia according the latest census returns
h,d oontation of raso66o ratio OF per square
kometer One square klometer equals o5s6i OF square
mile The Official figures Of the population OF the Onea
States are given z63o55S7 or about 81 70 the square
meter Next to Russia and the United States comes the Ger
man empire with total population of s6,34soI4 or io4a
Der square kometer Other nations follow in the order
given
Iaoan (t2oSl 437oo754 il4'a
Great Britain and Ireland ..,.., 4uoo0oas 1870
ftface 5sPsj ....,......y ,s,t;;Ss ,555
Aa.s 5 Soo5, i i$..o,.3st s so
Ausro- Hungary .......'....,'.''4 ss'3aao'eSS ago
Spain GS97) '.'.'.''',.'.'.''''. 'loioe9'Soo '''
The density of population of the United States exclusive
Of Alaska and Hawaii according the of 1900 is
g6tba is there are in the United States in the
average a66 inhabitants the square mile using land sur
face only At the of there we're less than hye
inhabitants square mile, that the density OF the
population Of the country has increased in years more
than vefod although the land of the country IN 1900
exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii is than three and one
half times what it in
s. *
Excluding the District of Columbia which is in effect
municipality Rhode Island with 4o7 inhabitants to the
square mile in 1000 is the deusely settled State in the
Union while Massachusetts, with not quite $40
inhabitants to the square mile New Jersey with little
more than $50 inhabitants to the mile in 1900 is the
third State point of density of population while Connect
cut with somewhat than lsz inhabitants to the square
mile occupies fourth place Four other States have more
than 100 inhabitants to the square mile in 9oo-namely
New York with Is26 inhabitants PENNSYLVANIA with 1901
inhabitants; Maryland with 1905 inhabitants, and Ohio
with Ioz inhabitants to the square mile.
Alaska has the but onetenth OF one person
to the square mile in and similarly Nevada has only
four-tenth Of person to the mile Wyoming has
not quite one inhaban the mile in while
Arizona the mile of IL inhabitants
New Mexico Of 10 inhabitants Montana of ~ inhabitants
and Idaho Of 9 inhabitants.
Other States and Territories the following density
ratio Indian Territory, Iz6 Iowa, 4oa Kansas 1873 Mis-
souri, 45a; Nebraska, 1919; Oklahoma, Texas no
Wyoming. o.
The newly acquired Territory of Hawaii shows an aver
age density OF population in of not quite twenfou
persons ranking in this respect between Maine, with a3
persons and Arkansas with 47 persons to the mile
4
An interesting deduction be made from the --latest
bulletin is the fact that there has been falling off in the
OF increase OF population for the period Of IseoQoo
compared with previous records The total numerical in
! crease r5,733631 or ~ per cent
Excluding the population of Alaska, Hawaii Indian Ter
rory and Indian reservations in 1900 and there has
been increase in the population Of me States and orga
uized Territories during the decade of 2o57,ooS
per compared with increase of a466467
per cent for the equivalent from 1880 to 1890.
, Among the several States and Territories, Oklahoma
shows the largest percentage OF increase since 1890 The
Territory of Oklahoma opened settlement in May
1890 and the taking month later June 1890
had population of 7s47s including 664r Indians and
other persons specially enumerated hut included the
general report population that At the census
OF had population OF 39S33I increase since
1890 of 1910 cent in other words, its population OF
than FIVE times large the entire popula
ton returned in 1890.
The second largest percentage of increase in population
since 1900 is found in the Indian Territory being somewhat
more than per The population OF the Indian Ter
ritoTy specially enumerated in 1900 but no part of the
population thus enumerated included in the general re-
port on population T8oI8z Indians and other
persons enumerated in the Indian Territory in 1900 but this
number has been increased 10000 in 1000 showing an
increase of aII8S 1870 per cent during the ten
Nevada the only State which an actual decrease
IN its population since 1900 but for this State there was
much larger decrease reported for the preceding decade
265 per cent from 1880 1890 against per cent from
1890 to 1900 The smallest percentage increase during the
ten years that shown by Nebraska being less than
per cent while for the period there has been an IN
crease OF only per cent in the population of Kansas "a pc,
IS cent IN that OF Vermont and per in that OF Maine
There has been gain during the decade OF not orit.
10 per cent IN the population respectively OF Delaware and
New Hampshire, and OF between and 40 per cent in The
population OF each of the remaining States and Territories
the largest percentage among this class being that for
coma or 1913 per cent and the smallest percentage that m
Il Virginia, per cent. 90
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