The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-03-18
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Paper Of the City and County
NO., FIGURES WONT LIE.

sSVS vVVtVu ILL.,
We would like to have Clate Tinan
tell us which column one should put
the Black Hills counties on II he we're
going to make a full and complete tab
ulatiOn Of the population Of the state
for determining the center Of popu-
latlon-Mitchell column or Pierre
column: lie overlooked them in his
recent tabular statement. Ii they
were credited to the Pierre half, as
they should be, the difference would
6e quite marked In favor of Pierre:
When the Black Hills vote is counted
next fall Mitchell will he painfully
aware Of that "marked" difference.
You know that old saying Clate,
"Figures won't lie, etc" But. oh
pShaw, it was just a Slip of the faber,
you didn't intend to leave them out,
did you, Clate? "The only strictly
moral" wouldn't do such a thing
Carthage News.
Just what the News is driving at is
more than we know. 1t is pretty
hard to answer a hYpothecated case.
We have made 40 figures arriving at
the center of population while leaving
the Black Hills out of the reckoning.
Anyhow, it is not necessary to make
figures to determine that-the center
of population-the census reports
give that-and they give the lie to
Pierre's statement that it is moving
west to any preceptible extent. We
made some fgures-quoted them from
the census reports-showing the alb
surdlty of the WATERFOWL Public
Opinions statement that the north
half of the state east Of the Missouri
had a greater population than the
south half. This was the tabulated
statement to which the News prob.
ably refers. The Black Hills counties
were not taken into account (1) be-
cause the Watertown paper was re-
ferring to the state east of the Mis-
souri, only, and ~ it vas not neces-
sary they should be because the tab
ulated statement vas splitting the
state in two east and west and not
north and south. 1t would not have
effected the figures anyway, because
there is as large a population in the
south half Of the state west of the
Missouri as there is in the north half
on that side of the state.
But we did give some figures that
took the Black Hills into account, and
all of the state west of the Missouri as
we'll. And as they are from the 1900
census reports and cannot be contrc-
verified and knock Pierre's arguments
silly about the center of population
moving west, the News better file
them away before it makes any phool
breaks on its own account, along with
a lot of other Pierre strikers. The
figures referred to were those showing
that:
The three tiers Of counties on the
extreme eastern border of the state
and comprising only about one-tifth
OF its area-a strip Of territory about
three counties wide, running north
and south-namely: Marshall, Rob
erts, Day, Grant, Clark, Codington,
Hamlin, Deuel., Kingsbury, Brookings,
Miner, Lake, Moody, Hanson. Nc
Cook, Minnehaha, Turner, Lincoln,
BonHomme, Yankton, Clay, Union
and Hutchinson have a population of
231,872, while the remainder of the
state, including all west Of the Mis-.
souri, has but 100, sos, showing that
there are some thing like 81, 00O more
people living east of Mitchell in the
state than west Of it.
During the period from 1890 the
total gain of the state in population
was a little owe $4,000.
THE GAIN OF THE COUNTIES JUST
NAMED ABOVE WAS 5O,276 ALONE
ALMOST AS MUCH AS THE ENTIRE
STATE, INCLUDING ALL WEST OF THE
MIssOURI-GAINED IN THAT TIME.
The Black Hills counties are in
Guided in this statement, dear News
and you had better ponder on il
awhile.