The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1905-09-01
HOLDS SIXTH PLACE
Mankat0 Does Not Lose Pres
I tige BY The Census.

st. Paul, Mimi, Aug. 24.-Although
| the official figures of the state census,
in total and in detail, have been official
| ly made public, the real work of the
state census bureau in the capitol is
hardly half done.
has now to be gone over by a corps of
clerks and various additional tabulations
remaining to be done, will be the pre-
pairing of the military census" No
| one in the census bureau seemed to
know that military strength census
was called for by the state law, until a
short time ago, when an outsider called
attention to the matter But it is in
the law in black and white and al
though it will be of very little benefit,
compared with the work involved, the
| census bureau must now ascertain the
number of males between the ages of
eighteen and fortyfve years in every
civil division of the state.
Clerks are already busy, preparing a
sex classification. This will show how
those enumerated in all districts are di-
vided as to sex. There is also to be
classification made to show the mum.
| Der of children in the state of school age
! that is, from five to eighteen years. A
third classification, to complete the age
| division. will be made of all inhabi-
| tants of the state over forty -fve years
| of age.
Census Supervisor Wright is especial
y interested in an investigation his
clerks are now making, as to the length
of settlement of the people in the var
| ious counties. He is rather of the opin-
| ion that, although the southern Minneso
ia counties show something of falling
| off in inhabitants, that this falling off
| does not necessarily mean they have
| left the state, but have moved to "new
fields to conquer" in northern Minneso-
ia; have settled on wild lands, rich and
| fertile, but which are to be had exceed
ingly cheap, compared with the high price
of farming property in the southern
| counties. Investigation along this line
has already gone far enough to show
| some surprising things.
For instance, in Waseca county. but
| one civil division in the county shows
any gain for the past five years. In
Dodge county only three, showed gain, in
| Olmsfead only four, and in Sibley but
| five. In great contrast are the facts in
| some of the northern counties. In ST
Louis county, 100 out of $50 counties
show great gains; in Clearwater county
| but three out of twenty five showed
| decrease. In Aitkin, fifty out of sixty
| civil divisions increased in population.
In Beltrami, fifty out of sixty in
creased. In total, of 1925 civil divisions,
including the entire state 900, practical
| ly all in Southern Minnesota, develop
| ed decreases in population.
Another interesting feature of the
census figures is the fact that the
eleven largest cities have retained their
relative positions in regard to popula-
ton for ten years past These are, in
order, Minneapolis, st. Paul, Duluth, Wi
mona, saltwater, Mankato, st. Cloud,
Faribault, Red Wing, Brainerd, Rochee
ter.
| Some of the northern Minnesota towns
show boom growths. Hibbing, ten years
ago in eighty ninth place, relative to
| size, now jumps to thirteenth place,
with an increase of over 20 per cent.
Cloquet increased lO8 per cent, Virginia
los per cent.