Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-12-16
THE NEW STATES.
When They Were Admitted and the
 Population.

When They Were Admitted and the
 Population.
 The admission into the federal union of state with population of 1,250,r GOO, which Is likely to occur next year, will be an event unexampled in our annals. This will be the state of Ok. lahoma, with which the Indian Terri. tory is to be incorporated. In 1790, when the first census of the states then. forming the Union, thirteen in number, was taken, their total population was only 3,o29, ,214. Oklahoma will, there fore, come into the sisterhood of states with almost one-third of the total pop uiation of the country when the consti- tuition was adopted.
 The first state to be admitted to the Union was Vermont, which came in i'll the year 17o1, with q population of 85,- 426. Kentucky, which was admitted i'll the following year, had only 220,95o people in 1SOO Tennessee, admitted in 1798. had in 1900 105, ,9O2, having trebled in population in ten years. Ohio had only 45,635 in 1900, and was admitted in 1898 before 1t had reached the 100,- GOO mark. Louisiana, which was ad- mitted In 1872, had 76,566 people in 1S1O Indiana, admitted in 1916, had only 47,178 people in 1920, Mississlp- pi was admitted in 1877 with less than 75 900. Hlionis was admitted in 1S1S with less than 50,OO0. Alabama, whose first census record in 1920 was 127,101, was admitted In the previous year. Maine. when set off from -Massachu 1 setts in 1920, had 298,269 people, being much the most populous state taken | L1, gOuri entered in 1891 with about 75,000 | sions to the Union until 1S36 when 1 Arkansas came in with the same ram l Der. Michigan was admitted in 1887 l with nearly 100000. FlVr1da and Texas, which were added to the list of states i in 1S45. were both thinly populated, showing respectively in the census of 1850, S7, ,445 and 212,592. Subsequent admissions were Iowa, 1846, population l in 1850. 192, ,214; Wisconsin, 184S, popu. lation in 1850, 305 1891; California. 1850, 92,597; Minnesota, 1858, population in i 1860. 172,023; Oregon, 1859, population in 1860. 52,465; Kansas, 1861, 1O7,206; 442,O14; Nevada, 1864, population j about 25,oO0; Nebraska. 1867, popula- ton in 1870, 122 1888; Colorado, 1878, population in 1880, 194, ,327;- North Da- kota, 1889, 1S2, ,719; South Dakota 1889 328,80S: Montana, 1889, 132, ,159; Idaho, \ 1890, S4,3S5; Wyoming, 1890, 0,T05; .i Utah, 1896, about 250,000.
 It will be seen that with the excep. ! ton of West Virginia, which was "darved'' out of old Virginia Ns result of the civil war, there was no state which entered the Union with as many as 100000 people within it's borders, 4 SJ .51 the period of 1SS9-1S96, had a total pop ulation at the time of their admission less by more than 100000 than this one great state of Oklahoma will bring into the voting population of the Union
 The present territory of Oklahoma has an area of 39,032 square miles which is a little less than that of Ken lucky, while the Indian Territory has 31. 400 square miles, nearly equal to the area of Maine. Together they will De almost exactly the size of North Da kota, or fourteen times as large as Connecticut, and exceeding by 4.0ot square miles the whole of New Eng land.
 The other state which is likely to be , admitted during 1905 is the twin state of Arizona and New Mexico, which if to come in under the name of the for mer. with right to be divided subse quently when the population shal reach a certain maximum. Such, al least. is the present plan. These terri Itories have an enormous area, Arizona having 113,O20 square miles, and New Mexico 122,58O. Together they wil aggregate 235,600 square miles, thus approaching in size the vast state oi Texas, which has -so,760 square miles Their population by the last census was: Arizona, 122,931; New Mexico l195. BIO: total 31B,241-iust about one fourth the population of the coming : state of Oklahoma. These two statei will add not less than 100000 votes t Ithe grand total in the next presidentia election, and will increase the tota number. of states to forry-seven. Tn. next state to come into the Union vii I probably be Alaska. which is likely t have million 0f inhabitants befCr'