The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-12-21
FACTS REVEALED BY CENSUS
GATES SHOW WIDE DISPARITY
IN RATE OF GROWTH.
Immiqrants Swell the Population

The Lowest Percentage of Increase
Is in the Great Central and the
Northern Sections. Biggest Change
in Pacific Coast States. The Man
featuring States Have Grown Very
Rapidly.
WASHINGTON.-Since the first
census was taken in 1890 the coun-
trv has grown twenty-five times as
large. the population then having
been 3,929,214, slightly larger than
the present population of the state
OF Texas.
The growth of the country was
Greater than has been expected by
the expert statisticians who have
closely watched the progress of the
countrys population.
Director Durand attributes the
Growth of the continental United
States to 81 1922 largely to great
or additions through immigration.
Mr.. Durand finds wider dispar-
itv in the rate of growth of the diff
fprent states during the last decade
than for any other for long time
The range is from a decrease of SO
Der cent in Iowa to an increase Of
100 per cent in Washington.
"The states showing the largest
rates of increase, falling below 10
Der cent" he says, 'are five in the
great central section of the country
namely, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky,
indiana and Tennessee; the three
northern New England states and
Maryland and Delaware.
The states showing the next
higher increase, between 10 and 20
per cent, lie adjacent to those show
ing the lowest rate and include, in
the Middle West, Ohio, Michigan,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Ne
brasba and Kansas, and on the 9th
er hand a great belt Of southern
states namely, Virginia, North Car
DINA, South Carolina, Georgia, Ala
balra and Mississippi
States which show an increase
from 20 to 80 per cent are, for the
most part, the great manufacturing
states, including Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New
York, Pennsylvania and West Virgin
ia. The only other states increasing
between 20 and 80 per cent are Ar
kansas and Texas.
The states which show an in
crease exceeding 80 per cent are,
with the exception of New Jersey and
Florida, all located in the west, and
make up a solid belt comprising full
ly one-third of the area of the Unit
ed States. South Dakota, Colorado,
and Utah had rates of increase be-
tween 80 and so per cent, while
North Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon,
California, New Mexico and Arizona
increased between so and 100 per
cent, and Oklahoma, Idaho and
Washington more than 100 per cent
The greatest change in rate OF
growth is found in the three Pacific
coast states and Nevada and New
Mexico, all of which grew faster
during the last ten years than dur
ing the preceding PERIOD
The population of the Middle
Atlantic states is 19,315,S92 and the
South Atlantic states II, 1874, $40.
The percentage of increase in the
South Atlantic states is 1854
The fact that the rate of in
crease for the country as a whole
was greater from 1909 to 1910 than
during the preceding decade was due
entirely to the added rate of growth
IN the Middle Atlantic, Mountain ana
Pacific divisions. In all six OF the
other divisions the increase during
the last decade was less than during
the previous one"
Mr.. Durand expresses the opinion
that later statistics probably Will
show that more than As per cent OF
the population of the country is ur-
ban, that is, in places of $500 inhaD-
ltaDts or more.