The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-07-25
HOW POPULATION
SHIFTS ITS CENTER
A NEW CENSUS ESTABLISHED BY
1910 CENSUS WILL BRING 1T
FURTHER WEST.

Washington, July 2i.-Every ten
the center of population of the
United States is found TO have shift.
ed. For the last ten years this cen
ter has been at a point six miles
southeast of Columbus, Ind.
The census figures so far made
public show that there has been an
enormous increase in population in
the southwest in the last ten years
The northwest has also grown rap
idly in population. In the last two
have been coming out and they show
that counties which ten years ago
We're sparsely settled now have from
$4,000 to $4,000 population each. The
remarkable increase in the popula-
tion in what is now the state of
! Oklahoma must also be taken into
| consideration as to where the center
of population is likely to light"
IF one examined the returns from
the southwest and the northwest
without taking into account the fact
that the east has also increased its
population within the last ten years.
he would be inclined to say that the
center of population would be pulled
a considerable distance westward. A
fact worth bearing in mind is that
the Increase in population in the
east, particularly, has been in the
larger cities, and it is true, of course :
that there are more large cities in
the east than in the west. Another
face that will undoubtedly have
bearing on the center OF population"
is that the millions of immigrants
who have come in during the last
ten years have nearly all camped in
the eastern section of the country.
The center of population has mov-
ed almost due westward since 1890.
when 1t was at a point some twenty
three miles east of Baltimore. From
1890 TO 1900 it moved almost due
west to a point eighteen miles west
OF Baltimore. In the next ten years,
from 1900 to 1910, it moved west
ward and slightly southwark 10 Ii
point about forty miles northwest by
west of Washington. That slight Ge-
Walton toward the south was ac-
counted for by the annexation of the
territory of Louisiana. From 1910 TO
1920 it took up its march westward
again and another slight deviation
to the south and brought up sixteen
miles north of Woodstock. Va. In the
ten years between 1920 and 1880 IT
continued to move westward until
II matted at point about nineteen
miles southwest of Moorefield. H.
what is now the state of West Vii
ginia
Between 1880 and 1910 there was
a slight movement northward aad
the point was located sixteen miles
south of C'arksburg, in the present
state of West Virginia. In the mex,
ten years, 1910 to 1850. it moved
west and slightly southwark again
and halted twenty-three miles south.
east of Parkersburg, in what is nov
est Virginia. Between 1850 and
1850 there was second slight bend.
ing toward the north and it reach
ed a point twenty miles south of
Chillicothe, Ohio. The sharpest turn
horthward was between 1860 and
1870, when it reached a point forty
eight miles east by north of Cincin. /
Fau. During the succeeding ten years
between 1870 and 1880 it veereI to
the south slightly again and reach.
ed point eight miles west by south .
OF Cincinnati In the next ten wears
1t moved back TO practically tpe
same latitude it occupied in 1917
and in 1890 was at point " eutv
miles cast of Columbus Ind. In the
Ten years between 1890 ami 1900 the
center moved westward little
more than four miles and southwark
a little less than three miles and
As has already been said halted
1t point six miles southeast Of
Columbus. Ind. This movement he
.ween 1890 and 1900 was the small.
Est in a hundred years.
The center win have to travel
something like seventy miles to get
beyond the border of Indiana this
rear If it should travel this dis
anee it would make a longer iour.
ley than it has ever made exceu,
n the decade between 1850 and 1850
when it moved eighty one miles
soreness OF the muscles. whether