The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1910-12-12
TO
CITIES NOT
SO GREAT
Census Director COrreCtS
Wrong Impression
Analyses Result

Washington Dec. IL The census
\ bureau after diligent inquiry is unable
70 find chat great drift to the cities
which the 1910 count Of population
was expected to show There are ~
calisies where this drift was found to
be Of considerable proportions, but
taking the country as a whole it is
small.
p. Dana Durand director Of The cen
sus ia statement, says:
While there has probably been a
somewhat greater difference between
the growth Of urban population and Of
rural population in the last decade
than in the preceding, the difference
was not as great as in the decade Of
1880 to 1890, or as II was in most Of
The earlier decades
Not a Safe Conclusion.
"The conclusisr cannot. therefore"
he says, "be lafely drawn that there
is, IN any broad sense, an increasing
tendency BY the population to leave
the country to 90 to the city.
N a statement explaining the IN
crease Of the population of the CONT
mental United States to 9l,972,266, Di-
rector Durand attributes the growth
largely to greater net additions through
immigration.
/ He finds wider disparity in the
growth Of the different states in the
past decade than for any other. The
range is from decrease Of 5.3 per
cent in Iowa, to an increase Of 100 per
cent in Washington
The country he says. rs plainly
marked off IN broad groups of states,
according to the difference in the in
crease"
Rural Districts Hold 55 Per Cent.
Mr. Durand expresses the opinion
that later statistics probably will
show that more than 45 per cent Of the Z
population Of the country is urban,
that is, in places OF $500 inhabitants
or more. TIE population living in
cities Of $4,000 on more inhabitants has
increased much more rapidly than that
in the rest Of the country. The popula-
ton Of such cities in 1910 was 25-5OS,-
007s as compared with 21 1,07S,1S9 for
the same cities in 1900, the increase
being 7,429,SiS, Or S5.2 per cent
In the North the proportion Of the
total population living in cities Of 25,-
600 inhabitants was 40.G per cent; in
the South It was la.S per cent; in the
West Sl.5 per cent
The population in the rest Of the
country, including smaller cities and
rural districts, in 1910, was 6S,464259,
as compared Nsth 54,916,S86 in 19O0
the increase being S,547.S73, or only
about million more than the increase
Of the cities alone. The per cent of in
crease was 1865 per cent. or less than
half the rate shown by cities Of 25,OoO
-t w. ~ UtfdhtN 1tdA~o FHflflS LOST.
The decline III rural population has
been substantially general throughout
NE great northern middle section of
the country IN the states Of Ohio,
indiana. Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin.
Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kentucky
and Tennessee, which lie III solid
body 440 out Of the $50 counties de-
creased in population from 1900 to
1910
The director closes by saying
The decrease in rural population in &
he middle states Is BY no means due \
o lack Of prosperity. as the agricul
ural statistics Of the census bureau a
how an extraordinary increase in the e
'alue of farm lands and farm property n
throughout this section, and vii ldoubt- !
ess Indicate great increase in the in b
ONE Of the farmers when the sta
istics arc compiled ~