The American Census Returns were published last Saturday. They show
(we take the summary from the Washington corre- spondent of the Times) that the continental population of the United States is 91,972,266, as compared with 75,500,000 in 1900. The total population, including the oversea possessions, is about 101,100,000. Between 1890 and 1900 the rate of increase in the States was 201 per cent. For the last ten years it has been 21 per cent. The result is chiefly due to immigration. It is believed that about 45 per cent. of the population is urban. The agricultural States of the East, Middle West, and South show less than the average rate of increase. But the new agricultural States show a very rapid growth. In South Dakota, Colorado, and Utah the increase is between 30 and 50 per cent. ; in North Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, California, New Mexico, and Arizona between 50 and 100 per cent. ; and in Oklahoma, Idaho, and Washington over 100 per cent. The population of New York City has grown from 3:437,202 to 4,766,883.
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