| Show WHERE THE population 15 I 1 an interesting census bulletin no 65 baa has just been issued from the geographical division of tho the central bureau in washington it tresta of 0 the distribution of pop in accordance cor dance with the topographic beata features es of odthe the country the surface of the united states broadly considered consi deredi Is been seen to contain two great elevated ele rated teas areas the eastern of which is known as the appalachian mountain system in separated from the atlantic by a broad plain eloping sloping gently east eastward rard and the western known as the cordilleran dil leran 31 mountain fount aln eastern system Is man many y times as broad as the eastern system more than twice as high and the mountain ranea ranges which crown it are vastly greater in number and more complex it extends westward toabe to the pacific cal coast t between these two system a liea lies a broad valley moat most of which is drained by the mississippi river to the gull gulf of 51 mexico exico the northeastern part is drained by the saint lawrence river and the system of the great lakes to be the golf gulf of saint lawrence while bile along the gulf coast a are r 0 c considerable 0 areas drained by 0 other streams the country th thus us broadly outlined contains every variety of surface found upon the globe and the various effects due to differences in slope elevation and climate are all represented for greater convenience in the compilation compi lalion of statistics these regions have been classified under twenty one cub divisions one of which the basin region comprises the part of tho the country rn ta which we live of it the report says in the interior of the cordilleran region is 1 an on area comprising practically all ol 01 nevada nevado western utah part of ot eastern california a and ad southern oregon which has no drainage to the ben ses it Is ft a closed basin the only discharge ol 01 in its water la to by sinking into the thirsty soil or by evaporation into the thirsty atmosphere this la 18 the most desert part of the country wi with t h the e exception ac P am of the course of the lower lowe r colorado 0 and gila rivers the Is fig scanty beauty even upon the mountains so scanty indeed that there are but two or three running streams of any magnitude within it its surface Is diversified by many ranges of mountains ins baring having a general parallel trend rising from flat valleys filled wl with t h alluvium these ranges divide the basin I 1 into uto cumer oui ous minor basins la in each of which water collects and al ka in the eastern part the largest basin Is that known as the great salt lake into which several small streams from the wasatch mountains in the getem west okra part the principal basin Is that of taw t Ilum boldt river the elevation of the floor of the basin range ranges from feet near its middle line downward reaching in death valley in eastern california an elevation of feet below the level bevelot 0 I 1 the sea tho the table of statistics showing the number of inhabitants the increase and the density of population would scarcely be suitable for newspaper newe paper C columns for the purpose of obtaining the results in brief however these twenty one cub divisions may be grouped when it will be seen that in ia the swamp regions of the country including in that term the coast marshes and the alluvial region of the mississippi river there are inhabitants or 43 per cent of the population this consists mainly of the colored race in the desert and semi desert regions of the country there are found 0 or r 2 23 2 3 per cent of the population in them the moan 0 un tain tan region of the west there are found people or about 25 per cent while in the eastern easter n mountain region people are living pr or about one sixth of the entire population |
