The Forrest City times., 1912-11-08
POPULATION OF ARKANSAS SHOWN Government Issues Bulletin Giv- ing interesting Facts
 and Figures.
NATIVE POPULATION LARGE
Total Number of Males of Voting Age Is 3o5, ,824-This Number Repre-
 sents 25.1 Per Cent Population.
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 Washington. The Census Bureau of the United States Department of Agriculture has issued a bulletin show ing the composition and characteris- tics of the population of Arkansas, ac- eording to the census of 1910. The tables are divided into fouA parts as follows: Table I. state and counties, table H. for Little Rock, the only city of more than 25,O00 inhabitants; table III for cities between 10000 and 25,000 population: table " for twons of 2, 500 to 10000
 The report shows that of the total population of the state, 1.131,0 ,026 or 7l.S per cent are whites, and 442,S9f, or 2S.1 per cent are negroes. The cor responding percentages in 1900 were 72 and 2S. In fl of the 75 counties more than half of the population are negroes. the highest percentages being Chicot, 794 in Desha, 7S6 in Phillips and 7S.4 in Lee county. In 26 of the counties, on the other hand, the ne groes form less than five per cent of the total.
 Native whites of native parentage form GS.4 per cent of the total popula- ton of the state, and 953 of the white population. In the total population of the state there are S10,026 males and 764,423 females, or 106 males to 100 females. Among the whites are 107.7 males to 100 females; among the ne groes 107.7 to 100. Of the foreign born white population. persons born in Germany represent 34.4 per cent; Italy, 10; England, 9; Austria, 7.5; Ireland, 6.4; Canada, 6.3; Switzerland, IS; Russia, 45: Scotland, 2.6; France. 23; Sweden, 2.3 other countries, 10.2 per cent.
 The total number of males q years old and over is 395, SPA, representing 25.1 per cent of the population. Of such males 71.S per cent is white. and PSI negro Males of militia age, IS to A, number 311,792 Of the total population, 14.7 per cent is under five years of age, 24.7 per cent from 15 to 24. 25.1 per cent, from 9 to A, and 147 per cent 45 years and over. The urban population shows a small CT proportion of children than the rural, and a larger proportion of per sons in the prime of life, which is said to be due to migration to the city. The total number of persons of school age-from 10 20 years-was 551 ,672. of whom 24.095, or 587 per cent, at. tended school.
 There is shown decrease in Hitter acy. There were 142,954 illiterates in the state, representing 126 per cent of the total population 10 years of age and over, as compared with 20.4 per cent in 1900. The percentage of illit. eracy was 26.4 among negroes, 8.9 among foreign-born whites; Fl among native whites of native parentage and 2S among native whites of foreign or mixed parentage. llliteracy was rela, lively fewer in urban than rural dis trlets, the percentages being 6.4 and 136 respectively.
 In the population 15 years and older, o4 per cent of the males are single and 23 per cent of the females. The percentage married is 5S.9 for males and 64 for females; and the percentage widowed 5.9 and 11.3, respectively. The percentages divorced, 0.5 and 0.S. respectively, is believed to be too small, because of the probability that many divorced persons class them. selves as single or widowed. That the percentage of single persons is so much smaller for women than for men IS said to be due to the fact that women marry younger. Thus. 2f.1 Der cent of the females from 15 to 19 20 to "A years old are married. as com. pared with 2 per cent of the males and 65.2 per cent of the females from 2o to "A pears old are married. as com. pared with 35.9 per cent of the males
 The total number of dwellings in Arkansas was 327,625. and the total number of families 333,36S, indicating that in very few cases does more than one family occupy dwelling. The average number of persons per dwell. Ing Is 4.S, and the average pumho.