Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1910-12-16
CENSUS FIGURES
 ARE DECEPTIVE Population of This City Of ficially Announced to Be
 15,1O2 People.
HOLDS THIRD PLACE
Eight Thousand People Live Outside City Limits Herc--What
 Others Show.

Although the official announcement of the Census Department at Wash ington gives Pine Bluff a population of only 15,102 people, 1t ls freely es- timated by hundreds of persons who are i'm position to know that this city has population of at least 25,- 900 souls. In recent city directory 1t is estimated that there are more than 27000 people in Pine Bluff, taking the number of directory eli- gAbles' and adding those who are not usually listed in q directory.
 The announcement of the official figures was received by the Graphic yesterday shortly after the noon hour from E. Dana Durand, Director of the Census at Washington. The fig ures do not justify any claim that might be made by some of the disap- pointed ones that the enumeration of 1910 by the recent corps of enumer- utOI6 tS Hog to1ittl. GStiibdNtS WNit freely made before the official figures were given out that Pine Bluff would show between 15,000 and 16O00 peo- pie.
 These estimates were based on the fact that at least eight thousand peo- ple live outside of the city proper, and since the census was taken Tn Pine Bluff several months ago, near ly 2S blocks in strip of territory four blocks wide and seven blocks long. were annexed to Pine Bluff on the southern limits.
 I'm thas territory. which has many large residences and cottages, there are no less than 6,00O inhabitants Ad- ding these the total population of Pine Bluff. had they been included in the city census, would have been 21,- 102 people. In other territories there are at least four thousand people, who are not listed as city residents as they do not reside in the city limits and ordinarily do not come under the head of the city population.
 Ten years ago Pine Bluffs offic al census figures were given out to be 11,496. At that time there were more than 15.000 people in Pine Bluff and adjacent territory. The census of 1890 gave Pine Bluff 9,952 people, which were the official figures of the eleventh census.
 Notwithstanding the figures an- nounced yesterday at Washington are not what were desired by many of the publjc-spirited city boosters, Pine Bluff still reta,ns the distnic- tion of being the third city in Arhan- sas, as Hot Springs. the only contend CT for that honor, shows by its thir- teenth census only 14,434 resi- dents. compared with 9,973 in 1900, and S,0S6 in 1890. These figures, of course, do not include the floating population of the Valley of Vapors, which is usually about 60,000 count ing the visitors during the seasons there.
 Fort Smith made great gains dur ing the past ten years. While Pine Bluff shows gain of only S.6o6 in that decade. Fort Smith boasts. ac- cordfng to the official figures of yesterday, of an increase of 12,3SS, its total population for 1910 being 2S, 975. This gives that city the right to retain it's second position among the cities in Arkansas, with Little Rock in the lead.
 Some weeks ago the Census De- partments discovered that the census of the Border City had been padded and an nvestlgation was ordered. It is believed that the charges were not sustained in view of the fact that the Department at Washingon did not hesitate yesterday in giving out the official figures of Fort Smith. In 1900 Fort Smith had 11,5S7 people compared with 11,S11 ten years prev ious. So it will be seen, that the growth ct Fort Smith in the past ten years has been phenominal and espe- cially when its increase in population in the preceding ten years was only 27S souls.
 The population of Texarkana. AT. kansas, which does not include tn, Texas side of that town. is given of ficially to be 5,s55 compared witt 4.sl6 in 1900 and s.52s in 1890.
 Helena, which was believed to b, one of the fastest growing of tn, smaller cities in the state. shows a, increase of only s.222 people in tn past ten years The population O Helena Is given in the thirteenth cen < sus to be S.772 compared with 5,55 n 1900 and 5. 1ss in 1890