Elbert County tribune and Elbert County banner., 1921-01-28
RURAL POPULATION IN COLO
RADIO SHOWS INCREASE.

w HAt tlac ldIIH population IN the
country as a whole has increased
much less rapidly in the past decade
than the population CT the cities, in
Colorado the population of the farm
ing districts has grown more rapidly
than that of the cities. Figures
announced by the federal census bu-
Teau and mopled in the office of the
State immigration Department show
that the rural population of Colora-
do is now 51.76 percent of the total
population. compared with 49:3 per
cent in 1910 In United States the
rural population Is now 4S.7 percent
Of the total, compared with 5S.7 per
cent in 1910.
The census report shows that tie
farming population of four of the
Rocky Mountain states, Colorado
Montana, Wyoming and New Mex
leo, has increased more rapidly than
the urban population. while the ur-
ban population has increased more
rapidly than rural population of Ida
10, Arizona, Utah and Nevada. Ag-
ricultural development in the Rocky
Mountain group of state, according
to the census report, has been much
more rapid than in the country as
whole, and it has been more rapid
In Colorado and Montana than in
any other states OF the group
The rural population in Colorado
IN 1920 Is 4S6,370, compared witt
594.1s4 in 1910, the increase being
over 20 percent. The urban popula-
tion in 1920 was 453,259, compared
with 4O4.o4U IN 1910, the +ncreast
being slightly less than IL percent.
In the United States as a whole the
increase in urban population in the
past decade was 2S.6 percent, while
the Increase in rural population was
only 3. percent.
These figures show clearly that,
while there was a strong movement
from the farms to the cities in the
country as whole. the movement
| in the Rocky Mounain states was
from the cities to the farmy and
that this movement was especially
strong in Colorado and Montana.
No state with the exception of Mon
tanna has shown SO rapidly an in
crease in the acreage of land under
cultivation in the past decade as
Colorado, and few states have shown
a larger percentage of increase in
the number of farms. Within the
past ten years approximately 10,-
100000 acres of government land
has been homesteaded. white large
areas OF privately owned land have
been broken eand placed under culti-
vation Records of the State Immi-
grafton Department show that this
movement has been much stronger
, in the past five years than in the
preceding five years, and that there
was an actual decrease in the pop
ulatlon of the state during the first
two years after the 1910 census was
compiled The increase in subse-
quent years has been due primtarily
to agricultural development, which
has been much more marked in the
mon irrigated than in the irrigated
districts. fi
Charles j. O'Hara, the suspected
robber of the Littleton bank and his
wife were caught in a little cabin,
near Louviers, by the sheriff of
Douglas County. He was taken to
Denver and Jailed, and has been
identified by the cashier of the Lit
tleton bank as the robber
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small ranch, fully equipped. or will
exchange equipment .andrent ranch
Inquire of Elizabeth State Bank, or
| e. V. Rankin, Boulder, Colorado,
274O Pine St 2l11p.
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