FALSE CENSUS RETURNS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1057, 21 February 1911, Page 5

FALSE CENSUS RETURNS.

AMBITIOUS' AMERICAN CITIES, -:; By Telecrark—Press Association—Copyright '.-••. New York, February 19. \- Tho director of the United States Census Bureau announces that the census returns of twenty-three cities have been inaccurately given, and that there have been conspiracies of a general character to make the population - : of cities appear as large as possible. 'Prosecutions against the enumerators are pending. , -■- The United States census.returns were published in. December last. They showthat the continental population of • the United States is 91.972,266, as compared with 75,500,000 in 1900. The total population .of*all territories under the American flag is estimated to be about 101,100,500. As far as the United States proper is concerned the figure is larger than was expected. There has been a check in the decline of the decennial percentage of increase, which since the unoccupied Western territory became more or less settled has been revealed in recent, enumerations. For the decade 1690 to 1900 the percontage was 20.7, as compared with 30.1 for IS7O to 18S0.. For the first ten vears of this century it is 21. .--;■ " Immigration, according to the Director of the Census, is largely responsible for the result. About 45 per cent, of the population will, he thinks, be found to be urban. The older njricultural States in the East, Middle .West, and South, such as lowa, Missouri. Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and others fall short of the average growth. lowa curiously is the worst -.with' an actual decrease of 0.3 per cent. New Hampshire gains only about 4 per cent. The newer agricultural States show, however,' a verv rapid increase. In South Dakota, Colorado, and Utah the increaso is between 30 and 50' per cent ;m ] North Dakota. Wyoming. Nevada Cabfomn. New Mexico, and Arizona between »0 and 100 per cent.; and in Oklahoma, Idaho, and Washington over 100 per cent. In the Eastern States, such as New lor*, Connecticut. Massachusetts, and Rhode Wand, where the growth of population surpasses an approximate average, the result is entirely due to the growth of [he town". Now Cit - T IS ' aa ? ,n poin It has grown since 1900 from Vffi'W-to 4,7G6,553. The towns on tha Pacific "Coast have also grown, enormously eT have the new commercial centres in the South, such as Atlanta and Birmingham. ' .■' . "