Show FIGURES FROM THE CENSUS I Percentage of Increase of Population in Different Parts of Country Washington Jan 13Th director of the census announced today the percentage te centage of Increase of population indifferent In-different parts of the country showing for the last decade a rapid decrease from previous rate of growth of population popu-lation In the West a less marked but decided decrease in the North and n slight Increase In the South For the trt time In the history of this country coun-try population of the South has In created somewhat more rapidly than that of the North The East geographically cal is included in the term North The rte of the growth In the NorthWest North-West and South is far more nearly the same than it ever has been The ofil clal announcement divides the country coun-try as follows West from the Pacific to the eastern boundary of i Montana Wyoming Colorado Colo-rado and New Mexico North and South the respective sides of a line formed by the Potomac and Ohio rivers riv-ers and the southern boundaries of Miss Mis-s o tirl and Kansas The percentage of Increase from 1SGO to 1SSO was 619 in the North 4SS In the South and 1856 in the West while In the last twenty years 1SSO1900 It was 4S7 Inthe North 48 5 in the South and 1315 In the West Prior to the Covll war the Northern States nearly doubled in population With each twenty years while in the SQutern States the Increase of population popu-lation was only about twothirds as great Since 1SGO the rate of growth in both parts of the country has been mudh less l but while the rate of growth in the North has decreased steadily that in the South during the twenty jjtears > from 1860 to 18SO has been slight r lffy lcar 1 II 1 During the last twenty years ther has been no substantial difference in thefate of growth of the two sections sectons The per cent of Increase of growth of these regions during each of the last two tenyear periods follows 188090 North 21S South 201 West 713 18901900 North 19 South 221 West 319 I the comparison Is limited > to the States 5t of the Mississippi river classing Minnesota and Louisiana with the Webtorn States the result Is slightly different I wonld show the Increase to be 188090 North 201 South 16 18901900North 19J South 177When When the transMississippi States are omitted the rate of growth in the North Is slightly greater than that in the South but the present difference between oho two sections In this respect re-spect Is about half what it was between be-tween 1SSO and 1890 and less than one seventh and 1860 of what it was between 1850 |