OCR Text |
Show H It is the years since the last B federal census .was taken. That B 'j census showed the population of the H ' United States to be "0,30.1,000. What H the population is now is a matter not I H of enumeration, but of estimate, but H ' the statisticians get at the matter H pretty closely. Tho April statement H of the chculatlon of money in this H ,, country estimates the population on H April 1, 1H05, to bo 82,010,000. There B has thus been In the last tho years an H Increase In population of 6,007,000, an H average Increase each year of 1,320,000. (One half of this Increase, or, to be more definite, 3,2o5,000, represents the immigration since 11)00. Putting tho Increase of population In the form of BB percentage, it appears that there Das ' H been a gain in the j ears amounting to H , I 6.7 per cent. There is every reason to H ! believe that before the next census Is B j taken In 1!)10 this country will havo a H population of 00,000,000. The gain in H sugar consumption la-.t year was over H rl 3 per tent. |