The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-12-29
COMPARE STATISTICS
N STATE CENSUS
FIGURES MADE IN 1907 SHOW
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
CLOSE TO RIGHT.


cial counts taken in 1907 an! 1910
The 1907 count was ordered for
the purpose OF testing out a com
plant made by the opponents OF
the constitution then about to be
submitted 10 the peope for ratifica-
ton that the constitutional conven-
ton had dlsregardei the number OF
people in forming their legislative
and judicial districts. Figures made
public y the government following
the enumeration proved that the
convention, while largely guess ing
on population, was not far wrong,
at least no. sufficiently TO JUS ify
nullification Of the conventions work.
Oklahoma county, including okla
homa City, was accredited with the
la-sest gain in people from 1900 to
1907 The county ranked one in the
new state. Its phenomenal growth
Earring the three years Of statehood
kept it in first place after the 1910
enumeration.
Muskogee countv which was four h
in 1907, went to second, Pirtsburg
county remaining third and Potta.
watomie county, which gained 253
people in three years. went from
second to fourth in the total pop
ulation standing Lincoln county
was the fifth largest in 1907, but
the loss of 2,j1l people during the
three years put it back to eighth.
Comanche went from sixth to fifth,
Caddo from eighth to sixth, Tulsa
from, twenty-first 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 thir.
teenth, as it was in 1907 Kiowa.
now the fourteenth county was nine.
teenth in 1907, Kay dropped from
twelfth place to fifteenth, GarviE
went from seventeenth to sixteenth
and Creek county took a spurt that
ran it from twenty-seventh place
to seventeenth place. Carter was
eleventh but is now eighteenth.
Washington advanced from twenty
first to nineteenth, Sequoyah drop
ped two places from eighteenth to
twentieth: Greer county, after the
most recent operation, out of which
grew the new county of Harmon,
dropped from fourteenth to twenty
first; Pontotoc from sixteenth to
twenty-second and Payne dropped
from twentieth to twenty-third
In point of gains Oklahoma coun-
ty stands first with 29,374, Mus
kogee second with 15,267, Tulsa
third with 1892, Pittsburg fourth !
with 1913, and Comanche fifth with
9,75l, The other counties making
large gains were in order as fol- !
lows: Creek sixth, McCurtain sev-
enth, Grady eighth, Okmulgee ninth,
Jackson tenth, Tillman eleventh.
ICaddo twelfth, Kowa thlI eenth,
Seminole fourteenth, Washington fif-
teenth, Usage sixteenth, Custer sew
enteenth, Garfield eighteenth, Choc-
taw nineteenth, Seminole twentieth,
Olfuskee twenty-first and Hughes
twenty-second.
The counties losing since 1907 and
the number, according to the last
census, were as follows: Cimarron
1874, Johnston 1898, Love S6S.
Marshall 1925, Texas 2199, Carter
lOii, Lincoln 2,51i, Roger Mills 37S.
Dividing the state by a line east
and west through the center. plac-
ns oklahoma county and Oklahoma
'ity and Muskogee county and Mus
iogee city in the north half. the
counties above the line gained in
population lI2,09l and lost 6.I5G. or
net gain Of 137626. In counties in
he southern half. none of which
made more than what might be
egarded rs normal gains, there was n
IN increase of 112,47O and a loss OF
30, or a net gain of 1OI095.
howing thar the north half of the a
tate gained over the south half f
053l people, or about what is ac- !
ounted for in the abnormal growth n
f Nuskogee, Oklahoma City ami 7
'ulSa. n
Divided by the Old line between :
ne territories, the east half of the
tate. which includes Usage county.
aimed 1lS.S3i. and lost 6,419 people. ',
laking net gain of 1915. The
'est side, which is of less area in
umhers of counties, gained 1O1.O59 T.,
nd lost 6i65, making a net gain of
1891 people, or a gain Of 1881 in Ct
''or of old Indian Territory. OF o