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Show EASTERN STATES CROWDED. But There Is Plenty of Room In the West for the Homeseeker. Washington. Rhodo Island has 508.5 persons to tho square mile, thus, according to census bureau figures, lending the list of states in tho matter of density of population. Novada, with only seven-tenths of a person to the squnro mile, finds a place at tho lowor end of tho table giving these facts. Second in tho density list, Massachusetts Massa-chusetts supports 418.8 persons to the Bqunro mile; Now Jersoy, 337.7; Connecticut, Con-necticut, 831.3, nnd Now York, 191.2. The other states possessing more than 100 to tho square mllo are: Pennsylvania, 171; Maryland, 130.3; Ohio, 117; Delaware, 103, and Illinois, 100.7. Wyoming, boasting l1 persons to tho square mllo, moro than doubles Novnda, while Arizona, with 1.8, stands third from tho bottom. Montana, Mon-tana, Now Mexico, Idaho, Utah, Oregon. Ore-gon. South Dakota, Colorado and North Dakota all havo fower persons thnn ten to tho mllo. |