Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1908-02-08
POPULATION OF u. S.
RECENT CENSUS OFTERITORIES
CITIES and STATES.
New York Leads Cities With 4,11a,o4a
PeopIe-seventy citIes Have Over
5o,ooo-North Dakota Has Greatest
Gain In Observation-Disclosures by
Far Worlds Largest City.

Interesting figures showing the in
crease in population Of various Amer
lean cities during the last three years
have just been issued by the census
department at Washington. For the
three years 1904, 1905 and 1906 the
| first FIVE cities in the Union have re-
NAMED as follows: New York, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, St. Louis and Bos
ton. The following figures are inter
esting as showing the rate of increase
in population of each:
1904 1905. 1906.
New York. 3,887,762 4,000,4O3 4,113,049
Chicago ..1,932,315 1,9OO,75o 2,O49,lSS
Phila. .1,392,3S9 1,417, O62 1,441, 735
ST. Louis 624,626 636,973 649,32O
Boston -. 588,482 595,3SO 62O,27S
The interesting feature about these
figures is the fact, according to the ex-
perts of the census bureau, that at the
present rate of increase no other city
will ever be able to overtake New
York
On the other hand, looking ahead
to the time wnen New York shall be
the greatest city in the world in point
of population, the same experts. say
that assuming the present rate OF in
crease is maintained it will take until
the year 2071 for New York to over
take London. In 1910 it is estimated
that the population of New York will
be about 4.563,6O4, while that OF Lon
don will be about 7,484,181.
There are 70 cities in the United
States with population of more than
$4,000, evansville, Ind, bringing up
the rear with population in 1906 of
63,957.
New York leads in the local popula-
ton in chartered places in 1905, with
6,471, 780, or 80.2 per cent of the total
population of the state, Massachusetts
being second, with 2,024,325. The COM
parison is hardly fair to Massachu-
sets, its towns being chartered entire
as cities, of which there are only 49,
New Jersey is third, with 1,709,174
in it's 225 interpretations, Wyoming be-
ing last, with 1881 population In it's
81 incorporated places.
The state showing the greatest in
crease in interpretations is North Da-
kota, which has gained 636 per cent,
tn number of such places having in
creased from rs to 124, and the popu-
lation from II, 148 to 116,4O7
In number of Incorporated places of
less than 1000, Iowa leads, having sos,
Minnesota being second, with 484 In
places of from 1000 to 5000 New York
leads, with 234, Iowa being second,
with 1875.
In places Of 5000 to $4,000 New York
is first, with 35, Michigan second, with
81, and Wisconsin third, with H.
In those places Of $4,000 to 1000
Massachusetts again leads, with Z,
New York following with s, and New
Jersey with 4. In places of 100000
popuiauon and upward New York
leads with 4, and is followed by Mas
sachusetts and New Jersey, with 8
each
The total estimated population in
1906 Of the SAL places in the table, ex-
Guiding San Francisco and Los An
geles, CAL, is 28,466,624; these same
places had in 1900 population of "a.
554,436, an increase of 3,912,188, or
1853 per cent. This is more than "
of the percentage increase in CONT
mental United States from 1900 to
1906, which was 7,946,935, or 1915 per
cent.
1t is evident that if these cities con
tinue to increase at the same rate they
will have increased in 1910 more than
continental United States, exclusive
of these cities. This indicates in a
striking manner the rapid growth OF
urban population.
The following table gives the pres
ent population of the United States
and all her outlying territory, with
a glance into the future:
1900. 1906. 1910.
U S. ..S4,S15,s37 90, 49,, 24O 1885,, 5Sa
Contin.
U. s..75,ss4,575 1894, $40 IS, 1853, 7s2
Alaska 1882 82,516 95,13z
Outlying territory
Guam 5000 9,648 10000
Hawaii. 154,OO1 1s2,4O7 21s,O1s
Philippine
Isrds. 7,6S5,426 7,s12,5s3 S,2S2,14s
P. Rico. 953,243 1,037,02S 1,0SS,5Ss
Samoa. 500 6,53S $685.
The U. 8. Was Second.