The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-12-11

all In the west and make up belt
comprising one"third of the area of
the United States South Dakota. Colo
RADIO and Utah had increases between
lota, Wyoming, Oregon, Nevada, Cali
fornia, New Mexico and Arizona in
creased between 80 and 100 per cent.
and Oklahoma, Idaho aud Washington
more than 100 per cent.
"Ihe increase in the ten years. 1900
to 1910. was greater than in the pre-
vlous decade in twentY-six of the forty
nlne % states. fifteen of these being west
Mississippi river.
"Tbe increase in the last decade was
less than in the previous one IN thirteen
states, six of which are east of the
Mississippi river.
1.-The greatest change in growth is
found in the three Pacific coast states.
and Nevada and New Mexico. all of
which grew far faster in the last ten
years than in the one preceding.
Geographical Divisions.
"Thc population Of the nine geo
graphic divisions is. New England,
6,552,2Sl; middle Atlantic. 1885, ,S92;
east north central, 1s,250,62I; west
north central, 1857 ,921; south Allan
tic, 12.l95 .S95; cast south central. g.,
$50: mountain, 2,633,517; Pacific,
4, 4,l92,30t. The population of the north.
ern section. 55.757. .l1j: southern sec
ton. 2q,3s9,330: western section, $685.
S2l.
"rhc percentage OF increase from
1900 10 1910 in the geographic divis
ions are:
New England, 17.9 per cent; middle
Atlantic. $50: east north central. 14.2;
west north central. 1875; south Atlantic,
16.S; east south central. Ia: west
south central. 34.5; mountain, 57,3; Pa
cific, 735. The increase was III per
cent in The northern section; 1876 in
the southern section, and 66.S per cent
in the western section.
"The fact that the increase for the
country as whole was greater from
1900 TO 1910 than in the preceding
decade was due entirely TO the added
growth in the middle Atlantic, noun
tain and Pacific divisions. In all six
of the other divisions the increase IN
the last decade was less than in the
previous one
Mr.. Durand expresses the opinion
that later statistics probably will show
that more than 45 per cent of the popu-
lation of the country is urban: that is,
in places of $500 inhabitants, or more.
The population living in cities of 25,-
600 or more inhabitants has increased
much more rapidly than that in the rest
of the country. The population of such
cities in 1910 was 2S,50S,007, as com
pared with 2l,07S,lS9 for the same
cities in 1900, the increase being
7,429,s1S, or 35.2 per cent,
Many Live in Cities.
Tn the north the proportion Of the
total population living in cities of 20,
600 inhabitants was 40.6 per cent; III
the south il was 1913 per cent; in the
west. 31.5 per cent.
The population in The rest of the
country. including smaller cities and
rural districts, in 1910. was 63,464 .259
as compared with 54,916,3S6 in 1900;
the increase, 1878, or only about a
million more than the increase. Of the
cities alone. The per cent of increase
WIS 1916 per cent, or less than half the
rate shown by cities Of $4,000 inhabi-
tants.
He finds that "whiIe there has been
probably a somewhat greater differ
ence between the growth OF urban pop
uIation and of rural population in the
last decade than in that preceding, the
difference was not as great as in the
decade of 1850 to 1890. OF as 1T was IN
most of the earlier Decades
''The conclusion cannot, therefore.
he saws. "be safely drawn that there Is,
in any broad sense. an increasing ten
dcncy by the population to leave the
country and 90 to the city,
The decline in rural popul alton has
been substantially general throughout
the great northern middle section Of
the country. In the states of Ohio, In
diana, Illinois, Michigan. Wisconsin,
| Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky
and Tennessee, which lie in solid
body. 440 out of the $50 counties de-
creased in population from 1900 to
1910.
The director closes by saying:
"Tbe decrease in rural population in
the middle states is by no means due
| to lack of property. as the agricultural
statistics of the census bureau show an
extraordinary increase in the value of
| farm lands and farm property through
out this section and will doubtless in,
deatc great increase in the income
Of farmers when the statistics are com
piled'
County Population.
Population Of the counties containing
the principal cities is:
In Montana-Cascade, 2S,S33; Deer
Lodge, 12.0s8; Lewis and Clarke, 2l,-
SOB; Missoula 23,5D6; Silver Bow, &c..
S4s; Yellow Stone, 22.944
In Washingt ton-King, S463S; Spo-
kane, l20 ,4O4; Pierce, l20,Sl2; WalIa
| WalIa, 81 ,93l