POPULATION. 



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area, with some additional data. The census gives very lit- 

 tle information about those with less than 2,500 inhabitants 

 not even separating the races in them in recent decades 

 and there are only four which exceeded that figure in 1910. 

 Table 27 gives the total population of each of these four 

 from 1880 to 1910, and some statistics of sex, race, nativity, 

 and illiteracy for 1910, together with the number of news- 

 papers in 1917 and railroad outlets in 1919.* 



TABLE 27. 

 Statistics of four largest cities of southern Alabama. 



The illiteracy figures for Troy which is somewhat of 

 an educational center seem much too high in comparison 

 with Dothan and Greenville, and may be due to errors in 

 the census reports. 



Table 28 gives the population of the 17 cities next in 

 rank from 1880 to 1910, and the number of newspapers and 

 railroads as before. The names of those that are county- 

 seats are printed in capitals. 



*By railroad outlet is meant a line of railroad connecting with 

 the large cities, etc. A town on a main line of one railroad has two 

 outlets, whether or not it is the junction point for a spur line, but one 

 located on a spur, whether at its end or some intermediate point, has 

 only one outlet. 



