Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1907 — POPULATION GAIN IS SHOWN. [ARTICLE]

POPULATION GAIN IS SHOWN.

Census Bureau Estimates that 83,041,510 Now Live In America. The population of continental United States, according to the estimates of the census bureau, was 83,941,510 in 190 G. This is 7.940,935 more than the Ln. IOQO. Tire estimated population of the United States, including Alaska and insular possessions, in 1906 was 53 ; 182,240. Computed on the basis of the estimate, the density of population of continental United States in 1900 was twenty-eight persons per square mile, as compared with twenty-six ip 1906. The five leading cities and tlieir estimated population in 1900 follow: New York 4,113,043 Chicago .... • .2,049,185 Philadelphia 1,441,735 St. Louis 649,320 Boston • 602,278 The States that took a census in 1905 aro Florida, lowa* Kansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, NeT/ York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island. South Dakota, Wisconsin and Wyoming. In Michigan the census is taken in the years ending with a “4.” The population returns for these States was 26,263,877, an increase since 1900 of 1,901,572, or 7.8 per cent. For the remaining States and territories the population for 1905 as determined by the method adopted by the bureau was 56,283,059, an increase over 1900 of 4,374,040, or 8.4 per cent. The population of the fourteen States making an enumeration, if estimated in the same manner, would be 26,204,762, a difference of only 0.2 per cent from the actual returns. The rapid growth of orban population is noteworthy. The total estimated population of incorporated places having 8,000 or more inhabitants, exclusive of San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cal., is 28,466,624 for 1906, an Increase over 1900 of 3,912,183, or 15.9 per cent, while the estimated population of the United States, exclusive of these cities, showed an increase of 4,480,003, or only 8.8 per eent.