Bisbee daily review., 1909-05-09
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was movement which was some what noticeable at one time, fr,Sl the United States toward the Cana dian northwest. and some of the van derlust bred into the bore of young sters by the Spanish American war resulted in the constant iritti,s of ot some of the real Amer,ear element t5 Mexico. Central America Africa, Arsen,inia aad even to chtsr and Arftralia
 T.c censug period from 1900 to 1910 embracing the first nine years Q the new century. if it could be an aiyscd by years probably would show { larse ratio of increase until 1906. s-i 1uch reduced rate. although st-l increase for the succeeding toe ears, or thereabouts. It is this ri 1 fall of the tide which no one cC1 T.tively estimate, which renders st ,i''s t to make a satisfactory guess as to the population of the country in Junc cf next year.
 Rato of Growth Decreases.
 Naturally the United States does not grow as fast as it did a genera tion or two ago. so far as the ratio of increase is concerned. In many eastern and southern states the in, crease from one census to another is small Massachusetts and Connec- ticut are growing rapidly enough, but the northern tier of states in New England scarceiy more than hold their own from one census period to an other. The south. excluding the ex- treme southwest, is largely dependent upon the natural increase of popula. ton.
 There has ben little foreign immi- gratcn into southern states. II has been spasmodically encouraged hut has now nearly ceased on account of foolish labor and convict law. which still dIsgraces the statute books of most southern states. In the middle vest there has been a diminuticn Of the influx of foreign born people. The great wave of Irish. Gesmans. and Seandinayians has largely srbsided. and the result has been demand fo laIor or farms of the west which il fas been difficult to supply.
 An unfortunately great percentage C. reecut immigration nas persistent ly sl-ng along the north Atlantic sea board or at least east Of the Ale ghenies. The Poles, Lithuanians, Slavs. and south Italians dc not seem disposed to get out on farms or the west and northwest, but are hud- ding more and more in the slums of New York. Philadelphia and Boston. and in the coal mines and qnarries and railroad camps of the nearGg coun- try.
 Increase in larger States.
 According to the most recent esti- mate there has been material ;n- crease which will be noticeable in the census returns from New York, Pennsylvania. Massachusetts, Ohio, Illinois, Oklahoma, California, and one or two other larger states. There are indications of an apparent and per haps of an actual decrease in Iowa due to the movement among prosper ous farmers who have found it profit able to sell out their holdings oi high priced land and tTeck off to Missouri Arkansas, Oklahoma, or even to Can ada where they could purchase much larger farms for the same mon ey.
 Of course. it should be understood at all times in making estimate or ihs probable population that as the com try settles the rate of increase in pop ulation necessarily becomes lower. From 1900 to 1910 the core soonding period cf a century ago, tais rate in crease was more than 36 per cent. IL ran along close to those figures untii the decennial period of the civil war when the ratio dropped theoretically at least to 9 per cent. Then It rose again to 90 ger cent in the period from 1870 to 1880. and then began to fall. h 1890 the ratio had dropped to about 25 per cent, and at the last census it fell, to be exact 10 2O.f per cent. That it will continue to faii is likely. but not altogether certain. in view of the fact that large DOT ton of the last census period was tax en up with Q time of extraordinary financial depression, while the great CT part Of the present ten years has seen equally extraordinary prosper ity.
 May Reach Ninety Million.
 According to the last census flg- cures the population of the United Hawaii lu-