The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-30
GRADY CO.
GROWS In
POP.RANK

comparison there is for Oklahoma in (
census way is between the official
counts taken in 1907 and 1910 The |
1907 count was ordered for the pur-
pose Of testing out complaint made
by the opponents OF the constitution
then about to be submitted to the
people for ratification that the consti- !
utional convention had disregarded the
number Of people in forming their
legislative and judicial districts. Fig
ures made public by the government
following the enumeration proved that
the convention, while largely guessing
on population, was not far wrong, at
least not sufficiently to justify nulli-
dcation of the conventions work
County Comparisons.
Oklahoma county, including Okla
homa City was accredited with the
largest gain in people between 1900
and 1907, It's phenomenal growth dur
ing the three years Of statehood kept
It in first place after the year 1900
enumeration.
Muskogee county, which was fourth
In 1907, went to second Pittsburg
county remaining third and Pottawato-
mie county which gained 25S people in
The three years, went from second to
fourth in the total population stand
fno i,,onIu oounf,, x,-aa tbo 6fth
largest in 1907, but the loss of 2,514
people during the three years put It
back to eighth. Comanche went from
sixth to fifth, Caddo from eighth to
sixth, Tulsa from twenty-frst TO
seventh and Garfield remains the ninth
in total population, as it was in 1907
Logan county went from seventh to
tenth, Grady went from fifteenth to
eleventh. Bryan dropped from tenth
to twelfth, with LeFlore thirteenth,
as it was in 1907. Kiowa, now the
fourteenth county was nineteenth in
1907 Kay dropped from twelfth to
fifteenth, Garyin went from seven
teenth to sixteenth and Greek county
-ooll squirt that ran it from TWEEN
y-seventh to seventeenth place Car
ter was eleventh, but is now eight
aenths, Washington advanced from
twenty-frst to nineteenth, Sequoyah
iropped two places, from eighteenth
to twentieth; Greer county, after the
most recent operation out of which
grew the new county Of Harfon.
dropped from sixteenth to twenty-sec-
ond, and Payne dropped from TWEEN
tieth to twenty-third
In point Of the gains oklahoma
county stands first with 29,374, Nus
sokee second with 14,267, Tulsa third
with 1892, Pittsburg fourth with
1878 and Comanche fifth with 9,75i-
The other counties making large
gains Were in order as follows Creek
sixth, McCurtain seventh, Grady
eighth, Olsmulgee ninth, Jackson
tenth, Tillman eleventh. Caddo
twelfth. Kiowa thirteenth, Seminole
fourteenth, Washington fifteenth
Usage sixteenth, Custer seventeenth
Garfield eighteenth, Choctaw nine
teenth, Seminole twentieth, Okfuskee
twenty-frst and hughes twenty-sec
ond
The counties losing since 1907 and
he number, according to the last
census, were as follows Cimarror
1874, Johnston 1898, Love S6s, Mar
shall 1925, Texas 2,199. Carter l044
Lincoln 2.514, Roger Mills 37S.
Dividing the state by a line easi
and west through the center, placinl
Oklahoma county and Oklahoma
City and Muskogee county and Musko
gee city in the north half, the counties
above the line gained in population
l2,O91 and lost 6,456. or a net gain o
1896 In counties in the southern
half none Of which made more thar
might be regarded as normal gains
there was an increase Of 1l2,470 anC
loss of 5,375, or a net gain Of l07
095, showing that the north half O
the state gained over the south hal
30,531 people, or about what is ac
counted for in the abnormal growth o
Muskogee Oklahoma City and Tulsa
> Divided by the old line betweer
) the territories. the east half Of th'
state, which includes Usage county
gained l4S,SS4 and lost 6,4l9 people
making net gain Of l42,4l5. The
west side, which is less area il
number OF counties, gained l0l,05'
and lost 6465, making net gain o
, 94.5g4 people, or a gain OF 1882 II
favor Of old Indian Territory O
the ten largest county gains the cas-
side gets second, third, fourth, sixth
and eleventh places, and the wes
! side first, fifth. eighth, ninth and
4 lenth While the Indian Territory
E, shows FIVE counties that lost in popu
lation the west side shows but four
/, yet those four lost 4e more people thar