Show f r Ji A Shifting Center f Of Population f l t. t Wa Washington ton Aug Every 13 top ten ft yearn or when the tho census cenan Is taken f the center of population of the tho Unit Unit- ed In is found to havo have unified s For the lust last ten I years car this center has r. r been a aba ata a six point miles 8 south east of Columbus Ind IncI The census figures so far made mado public pub pub- 1 r lie lic show that there thero has haa been an enormous enor crier f Increase In population In the fk Southwest In the last ten years yearn oar The Tho j J r Northwest has also grown rapidly In InIn Inin In population The rhe remarkable In Increase ini in- in 1 i f creaso crease In the tho population of what wha is isnow now the tho state of Oklahoma mUl must also K bo ho taken Into consideration as to where the tho center conter of population is IA I likely likely likely like like- ly to light t c- c The center of population has moved i westward since 1790 when It was a at a point some flomo twenty three miles east ast of i if f c Baltimore From 1790 to 1600 1800 It moved t. t ed almost du due west to a point eighteen eight eight- ee eon een miles west of Baltimore In the next ten years from 1800 to 1810 It r moved to a point about forty miles northwest by west from Washington l accounted for by the annexation of j the territory of Louisiana From 1810 18 10 to to 1820 another slight deviation to the tho south and brought up sixteen Ix teen r miles north of Woodstock Va In Inthe s 's the ten years between 1820 and 1830 i It I continued to move westward until It halted at a point about nineteen miles southwest of 1 In what Is now the state of West Virginia Between 1830 and 1840 there was a sU slight ht movement northward and the point was located sixteen miles south I of Clarksburg In the present state of West Virginia In the next ten years 1840 18 to 1850 It moved west and slightly slight l ly southward again and halted twentythree twentythree twentythree ty-three ty miles southwest of Parks- Parks burg In what is now U West Nest Virginia Between 1850 1650 and 1860 there was a 8 second cond slight bendin bending toward the north and aud it reached a point twenty y miles south of O. O The eh sharpest turn north northwest est was between i 1860 1660 and 1870 when it reached a point forty eight miles mUes east by north of t Cincinnati During the tho succeeding y ten years rears between 1870 and 1880 1860 1880 it it c. c moved to the south slightly again and reached a point eight miles west west bj bf rf south of Cincinnati In the next ten years it moved back to practically the same latitude it occupied In 1879 and in 1890 Was at a point twenty 1 4 miles east of Columbus Ind In the tho theten ten years between 1890 1899 and 1900 the westward four miles and southward three miles to a point six miles southeast of Columbus Ind This movement between 1890 and 1900 was the smallest in a hundred years The center will have to travel something something some some- thing like seventy miles to get b beyond be be- vond yond the border of Indiana this year if If it should travel this distance istance It R would make a longer j Journey urney than it has ever made except in the tho decade decadeR R f between 1850 1650 and 1860 when It moved 1 1 ed od ono one ei miles mlles J |