The Idaho recorder. [volume] (Salmon City, Idaho) 1886-1927, 1920-10-15
j. S. POPULATION
IS n7,933,l08
INCREASE IN 10 YEARS rs ESTI
MATED At t3,7to.s42, OR i4.s
PER CENT
WAR Numbered IMMIGRATION
Director OF Census 6ureau Says immi-
grants Ceased TO Come During
Last Five Years-Cities Draw
From Country

Washington. Oct. a-The total pop
ulation Of continental United States
II l0o.6S3. los. nm Increase Of 1910
s42. or lao per cent.
This figure does not include approx
mately 12.2i0.0O0 people living In the
country's outlying possessions. The
population OF Alaska and the total
elassed under the military and naval
service abroad are yet TO be 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.
tion as transmitted Ia congress In DE.
cernber for appointment purposes,
was not likely 10 be greatly different.
although II might be slightly larger
through the addition Of population for
small sections Of territory claimed not
tn have been properly canvassed by
the census enumerators In January and
which are being now reinvestignted.
THE population Of the United States
rs announced yesterday said Mr..
Rogers, lis 105. GS3. los, as compared
with n total In 1910 Of 1872 2G6 and
1900 Of 75.g04.57a. This IN an Increase
since 1910 Of l8.71Osa2. or 14.0 per
from 1900 TO 1910 OF 15,D77,G9l, or n
per cent.
''The large falling off In the rate Of
growth rs shown by these figures II
due mainly IN nm 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 aud 10 the casualties resulting
from the World war.
"'rhe results OF the census OF popu-
latlon In 1870 At first glance may seem
somewhat disappointing and open 10
question, possibly. hut the substantial
accuracy Of the enumeration In Janu-
AIRY Is fully horne out by comparison
with estimates based upon the prob
able excess Of births over deaths
throughout the decade and the excess
~ immigration over emigration. From
NIL available data IL may be roughly
estimated that the annual excess OF
births over deaths throughout the
United States " Approximately one per
cent. This rate compounded would
indicate nm Increase az approximately
io.3 per cent during the decade. Thus,
the nearly 82Np0.ooo persons present
IN. H.. nj ..I La, 1NIn n,itshI In.
expected to increase to about l0l 100
100 In 1920
In addition. the excess OF immgrn-
ton over emigration during the decade
was approximately T33.0D Since the
hulk Of these foreign horn persons
came Ia the country during the first
four years of the decade II may hc
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 nv about 4,iOO during the de-
eade through excess Of immigration
over emIeration The two estimates
taken together would indicate there
fore probable population Of ion,.
s00.uo. or only small fraction OF
one per cent more than the total shown
by the returns of the fourteenth cen
sus.
The figures Of the present census
'tso show that the trend Of population
from the country To the city has he
rom. greatly aeeentnated since 1910
and that. for the first time In the
country's history. more than half the
entire population Is now living In ur-
han territory rs defined by the cen
sus bureau That Is 10 say, OF the
to58si. ios persons enumerated In the
fourteenth census, preliminary 'ahula-
items show that a4.sidnn or $40 per
cent are living In Incorporated places
~ . An inhabitants or more. aud 80.
$50 En. or 4si per cent In rural terri.
tory At the census III 1910 the currcs
spending percentages were ii.3 and
'3T respectively. showing lass ~ 81
per cent in the proportion 81 the pap.
nlation living In rural territory
THE Increase since 1910 ~ the popu,
ia,lnn nx whule. as before stated
was r4p per cent. hut during the de.
cads there has heen IN Increase in
thar proportion ~ the population liy.
Ing ia urban territory of II ~. S2i, NJ
* q per cent. aud In that portion living
ia rural territory of i.5isol6. ar only
81 per cent"