The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-22
PEOPLE N GOPHER STATE
CENSUS DIRECTOR MERRIAM HAS
NOW COMPLETED HIS OFF,
CIAL COUNT
POPULATION IN MINOR TOWNS
List of Villages Having Less Than
2,ooO Inhabitants, with The
Figures for 1900 and
for 1870.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21-Director Mer-
ram has completed the compilation
or the population of Minnesota, and he
has issued bulletin which says:
The popu alton of the state in $500 is
1,i5l,S94, as compared with a population
in 1880 of 1891, SIG, showing an increase
since lSt of 449,56S, or $40 per cent A
part of this increase is due to the fact
that there were S,20S Indians and 24g other
persons, or total Of S,i57 persons. on
1ndlan reservations, etc, in Minnesota,
who We're specially enumerated in 1850
under the provisions OF the census act
put were not included in the general pop
ulation of the state at that census. The
j. increase Of 34.5 per cent, though ma
terially less than that of earlier decades,
represents in fact a large accession to
the population of state which has been
distinguished for it's rapid growth
throughout its brief history. Attention
is particu arly arrested by the influx of
population to this territory during the
decode from 1850 to 1860, when the num-
Der of Inhabitants increased from 6S77 to
1I2,O2S, or ), .30.I per cent.
The population of Minnesota in 1850 is
more than >SS times as large as that
given for 1850, TIE first census In which
the population Of the territory, now COM
prising the state, was enumerated
The total land surface of Minnesota is
approximately, 1895 square miles, the
average number of persons to the square
mile at the censuses of 1890 and 1900 Eoing
as follows; 1850, 1874; $780, 221
All the c:ghty-two counties in the
state have increased in population during
the decade, the counties showing more
than 100 per cent OF increase being Bel
traml, 5455.3 Per cent; Cook 1865 per
cent; Cass, 523.7 per cent; Itasca, 5155 per
cent; Hubbard, 1868 per cent; Lake. 25S. 8
per cent; Kanabec. 1922 per cent; Pine.
1913 per cent; Mile Laos, 1875 per cent,
and Altken, 1873 per cent. There are also
twenty-four counties which have increas-
ed In population more than so per cent
put less than 100 per cent during the
last ten years
The bulletin saws:
81 Paul first appeared in the census re-
turns IN 1886, with only LIP Inhabitants:
minneapolis in 1860, with 1894 and Duluth
In 1870 with S,13l Subsequently, the in
crease in population of all these cities
hoth IN number and per cent, has been
SonspicuouSly rapid for each succeeding
decaoe, except that Duluth made only a
nominal gain from 1870 to 1890 During
the ten years from 1880 to 1850, however,
the city made a phenomenal gain in
creasing from 1883 to SO, lis, or S5OS Der
cent. Within the same decade the
population Of Minneapolis increased from
4o,SSf to l64,l36, or 25l.4 per cent and that
OF st. Paul from H,473 to 1873. 1856. or 221 /
per cent. AS compared with this record
the increase in the population of these
cities during the last decade, as shown by
the enumeration for 1900, is so email as to
afford a noticeable contrast.
The bulletin shows that there are 447
Incorporated cities villages and bor-
oughs in the state The Globe has
heretofore published the population of
cities and towns having 1900 inhabitants
and over. The towns, villages and Dor
oughs with less Ian 1900 population
are as follows: .e.