The Powder River County examiner and the Broadus independent. [volume] (Broadus, Mont.) 1919-1935, 1920-10-22
j. S. POPULATION
IS n7,99S,l08
INCREASE m 10 YEARS - EST.
MATED At 13,71o,s42, OR tao
PER CENT
WAR Numbered IMMIGRATION
Director OF Census Bureau Ssys lnarni.
grants Ceased 70 Come During
Last Five Years.-Cities Draw
From Country

Washington. Oct. 9.-The total pop
! ulation of continental United States
is 1Oa.6S3, 1OS, an increase of 1870
$40, or $40 per cent.
This figure does not include apprOXi-
mately 12,25OOOO people living in the
| country's outlying possessions. The
population of Alaska and the tota!
classed under the military and naval
service abroad are vet to he an
nounced.
Director Rogers Of the census bu-
reau in making the announcement Of
the country's population said that
while the figures were preliminary and
subject to correction. the final compila-
ton as transmitted to congress in De-
cember for apportiOnment purposes,
was not likely to he greatly different.
although it might be slightly larger
through the addition Of population for
small sections Of territory claimed not
to have been properly canvassed by
the census enumerators in January and
which are being now reinvestigated.
THE population of the United States
as announced yesterday" said Mr..
Rogers. ''is 1O5.6S2.1OS. as compared
with a total in 1910 Of 01.972.266 and
1900 of 75.994575. This is an increase
since 1910 of 13.71O.S42. or $40 per
cent. as compared with an increase
from 1900 to 101O>of 1897, 691, or q
per cent.
1.-THE large falling off in the rate Of
growth as shown by these figures is
due mainly to an almost incomplete
cessation of immigration for more than
five years preceding the taking of the
census in January last, and in some
degree also to an epidemic of influ-
enza and to the casualties resulting
from the World war.
'rhe results of the census Of popu-
lation in 1920 ut first glance may seem
somewhat disappointing and open to
question. possibly. but the substantial
accuracy of the enumeration in Janu-
airy is fully borne out by comparison
with estimates based upon the prob
able excess Of births over deaths
throughout the decade and the excess
of immigration over emigration. From
all available data it may he roughly
estimated that the annual excess OF
births over deaths throughout the
United States is approximately one per
cent. This rate compounded would
indicate an increase Of approximately
1O.5 per cent during the decade. Thus.
the nearly 92,OOO.OOO persons present
in the United States in 1910 might he
expected to increase to about 1O1, 7OO,-
600 in 1920
I'm addition. the excess of immigra-
ton over emigration during the decade
was approximately 733OOO. Since the
bulk of these foreign born persons
came to the country during the first
four years of the decade it may be
roughly estimated that the increase
due to excess of births over deaths in
their families was about 10 per cent.
Thus the population Of the country
may he assumed to have been aug
mented by about 400 during the de-
cade through excess of immigration
over emigration. The two estimates
taken together would indicate there
fore probable population Of 1867
SOO.OOO. or only small fraction Of
one per cent more than the total shown
by the returns of the fourteenth GEN.
SuS.
1.-THE figures of the present census
also show that the trend Of population
from the country to the city has be-
come greatly accentuated since 1910
and that. for the first time in the
country's history. more than half the
entire population is now living in ur-
ban territory as defined by the cen.
sus bureau. That is to say, Of the
1O5. 6S3. los persons enumerated in the
fourteenth census. preliminary tabula-
tions show that 54,Sl6.2O9. or $40 per
cent. are living in Incorporated places
of $500 inhabitants or more. and So
SS6.699. or 4S.1 per cent. in rural terri
tory. At the census of 1910 the corre-
spending percentages We're aga and
53.7 respectively. showing loss of SO
per cent in the proportion of the pop
ulation living in rural territory.
"The increase since 1910 in the popu-
latiOn as whole. as before stated.
was $40 per cent. but during the de-
cade there has been an increase IN
that proportion Of the population liv-
ing in urban territory of 12.192.s26. or
2S.6 per cent. and in that portion living
in rural territory Of 1,51S,O16, or only
81 per cent"