The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11
Official Announcement Just Made BY
Census Bureau Shows Population of
Nation, With Colonies Included,
Is About 1O1 100000
IOWA is ONLY ONE or COMMONWEALTHS
TO SHOW DECREASE IN LAST TEN YEARS
Western States Make Magnificent Gains, and in
Some Of Them, as Well as in East, Number
of Congressman Will Be Increased

WASHINGTON, Dee 1n.-In the
United States and all its possessions
the Stars and Stripes protect i01, ,l00,-
0g0 souls.
This is the official estimate Of the
United States bureau of the census.
! nnnouUce1 today. in connection with
The population statistics for the coun-
try. as enumerated in the thirteenth
decepnial census. IT includes the Phil"
ippines, Samoa. Guam, Hawaii, Alaska
and The Panama canal zone.
~ Within its borders on the North
American continent. exclusive of Alas
fka, the United States has a population
OF 81 .972 266 inhabitants.
In the last ten years the states of
the union had an increase IN population
OF 1877 ,6al, which amounts to II per
cent over the 1900 figures
Since the first census was taken in
J79c the country has grown twenty
five TIMES as large, the population then
having been 3,929,2ll. Slightly larger
than the present population of Texas.
Changes Congressional Ratio.
The growth Of the country was
greater than has been anticipated by
the statisticlans who have closely
\ matched the progress of the country s
population.
~ Notwithstanding the rate of increase
VAS greater than had been expected, 1T
sill was smaller than that scored in
ANY previous decade except &hat be
Tween Is9U-l9Un. when the increase
amounted TO 20.7 per cent. The largest
y Increase ever shown in any ten years
WAS that OF 36.4 per cent between 1900
and 1910.
~ Unquestiouably it will be necessary
to alter the basis of representation In
conditions At the present ratio OF
l9a, 600 people TO each member of the
house the house would contain 474
members, as against 592 at present. 1t
would be unwicldy. Even at the rate
of 100000 as a basis the house would
contain Is members, an increase Of II.
Last States Announced.
Statistics Of the population of four
states, announcement of which was
withheld until the country's total pop
uation was announced follow;
Georgla. 2,609, ,l2l, an increase OF
392, 100, or II per cent, over 2,2l6,334
III 1900. when the increase over 1890
Was 3Is,97s. or 20.6 per cent.
Montana. 376,o5S, an increase of 1872
.24. or lj.5 per cent, over 234.329 in
lo0,4o5. or 70.3 per cent,
Washington. ,l5l $50, an increase Of
925,s ,ssI, or 1904 per cent, over 5lS.l0
IN 1900, when the increase over 1890
was l60,S1l, or - per cent.
Wisconsin. 1888 $50. an increase of
SU4,SlS, or l27 per cent, over 2,06o,042
ID 1900, when the increase over 1890
~gS 3I3,Il2, or 222 per cent,
Inc number of persons In the naval
'snd military service of the United
states stationed abroad and on naval
. vessels is 55,G0S.
Over One Hundred Millions.
The total population of the United
states with all possessions is about
svl, 100, 900. This number includes T.
o,o,4Zo IN the Philippine islands as emu
mcrated IN the census there in 1908 and
ss.'nates Tor the population of Guam,
lug American possessions in Samoa, and
persons in the Panama canal zone
corrected figures issued by the census
Tnw us ms morning, give the state OF
New 1ork's population as 9,1l3.6l4, an
increase Of 1,s44.72O. or 25.4 per cent;
IloIiaa, 1855. an increase Of 224,077,
oi 424 per cent, and MARYLAND, 1895.
oao, an increase Of l07 ,302, or per
ID a statement explaining the in.
fteasc OF population of the continental
neu nnmseu states to 91,o72, ,266, Director
Durand attributed the growth largely
grafton. 'i'''''-
washington Doubles Population.
hc tinds wider disparity in the
Slowth Of the different states in the
pas. decade than for any other The
aahSe rs from a decrease of SO per
Washington.
me states showing the lowest in.
va;se, railing below 10 per cent he
iina, in5i, are Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky,
anaiana and Tennessee; the three north,
sna Hew Mw England states and Maryland
81. me states showing the next high
40. increase between 10 and 20 per
;'' include Ohio, Michigan, Wiscou-
Ka, lllinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and
frsansas, Virginia, North Carolina, South
sissippi, ii" az" NIB
states which show an increase
moa. ~ to 80 per cent are, for the
stoa part, the great manufacturing
"A fsIass1, including Massachusetts, Rhode
s,iu'. Connecticut, New York Penn
MAMA and West Virginia; the only
al 2n"ei states increasing between 20 and
~ arc Arkansas and Texas.
Utah Shows Big Increase.
<xe ne states which show an increase
e~sealng 80 per cent are, with the
OF New Jersey and Florida