Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-01-31
POPULATION OF u. S.
RECENT CENSUS OFTERITORIES
CITIES And STATES.
New York Leads Cities With 4,tts,o43
PeopIe-seventy Cities Have Over
5o,ooo-North Dakota Has Greatest
Gain in MISREPRESENTATION by
Far Worlds Largest City.


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-
manned 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. 8 1897, 762 1900, 403 4,113,043
Chicago .1,932,315 1900, $50 2,049, lS5
Phila. :. 1,392,389 1,417,O62 1,441, 1885
st. Louis 624,626 636,97S 649,320
Boston 4. 5s8,4s2 595,3sO 62O,21s
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 abe 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 2O71 for New York to over
take London. In 1910 it is estimated
that the population of New York will
be about 4,563,604, while that of Lon
don will be about 7,4S4,1S1.
There are 70 cities in the United
States with population of more than
$1,000, evansville, Ind, bringing up
the rear with a population in 1906 of
1887.
New York leads in the local popula-
ton in chartered places in 1905, with
6,471, 78O, 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 33.
New Jersey is third, with 1,7O9,174
in it's 225 interpretations, Wyoming be-
ing last, with 63,521 population in its
81 incorporated places.
Inc state showing the greatest in
crease in interpretations is North Da-
kota, which has gained 63.6 per cent,
tn number of such places having in
creased from Is to 124, and the popu-
lation from 71,14S to 116,407.
In number of incorporated places of
less than 1000, Iowa leads, having 606,
Minnesota being second, with 484. In
places of from 1000 to 5000 New York
leads, with 234, Iowa being second,
with 165.
In places of 5000 to $4,000 New York
is first, with 35, Michigan second, with
81, and Wisconsin third, with IA.
In those places of $4,000 to 100000
Massachusetts again leads, with T.
New York following with 5, and New
Jersey with 4. In places of 100000
popu4aton 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 541 places in the table, ex-
GLIDING San Francisco and Los An
genes, Cal is 2S,466,624; these same
places had in 1900 population of "a
,436, an increase of 3,912,188, or
15.9 per cent This is more than liz
of the percentage increase in CONT
mental United States from 1900 to
1906, which was 7,946,935, or 10.5 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
5 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
5 and all her outlying territory, with
a glance into the future:
1900. 1906. 1910.
: U S. ..S4,S15,937 9S,1S2,24O 9S,S54, 5SS
Contin.
U. s..75,994,575 1894, $40 S9,15S,792
4 Alaska 1882 S2,516 95,192
Outlying territory
+ Guam 5000 9,64S 10000
: Hawaii. 154,OO1 192,4O7 21S,O1l
: Philippine
= Isrds. 7,6S5,426 7,912,5sS S,2S2,14
P. Rico. 953,243 1,037,028 1,0S8, 58S