realized and the Good Roads Movement is rapidly gaining supporters. 

 In certain sections the farmers are about ready to build the roads at 

 their own expense. This spring a group of men from the Darnestown 

 District so expressed themselves with reference to a road which for their 

 purposes particularly needed piking. At the present time an addition 

 of 72 miles is proposed under the State Road System which will 

 materially improve conditions if built as planned. 



POPULATION 



The 1910 Census gives the total population of the county as 32,089. 

 This is an increase for the decade 1900-1910 of 1,638 or 5.4%. The 

 increase for the preceeding decade, 1890-1900, was 3,266 or 12%. 

 (See Table No. 9, Appendix, page III). 



Since the total land area of the county is 521 square miles, a popula- 

 tion of 32,089 makes the density for the whole county 61.4 inhabitants 

 per square mile. For the entire state the density is 130.3 per square 

 mile. There are 23 counties in the state and Montgomery County 

 stands fourteenth in respect to the density of the total population. 

 For the entire state the density of the rural population (according to the 

 Census definition of "rural" as all those living outside of places of 2,500 

 inhabitants or more) is 64.1 per square mile. Montgomery stands 

 eleventh in this respect, its entire population being classified as rural. 

 In this report hereafter a different classification will be more con- 

 venient. All places of 750 or more inhabitants will be referred to as 



towns; places of from 100 to 750 in- 

 habitants will be termed villages; the 

 remaining population will be termed 

 "rural". (The division of the popu- 

 lation into these classes for 1900 and 

 1910 is shown by Table No. 10, 

 Appendix, page III). 



In 1900 the rural population formed 

 a larger per cent, of the total than in 

 1910 and there has been a gain in 

 the towns. Six districts, Nos. 5, 7, 

 9, 11, 12 and 13, during that decade 

 showed an increase of 2,855, while the 

 remaining seven districts showed a 

 decrease of 1,217. Of the six dis- 

 tricts showing an increase, two, Be- 

 thesda and Wheaton, are suburban 

 districts; two, Barnesville and Gai- 

 thersburg are adjacent to the railroad 



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