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sota .show the greatest gain, the former having increased her 

 population 36.4 per cent, and the latter 34.5 per cent. One 

 of these States is at the southern end of the great Mississippi 

 Valley, the other at the northern end. They have wide 

 differences as to climate, soil, population and politics. The 

 result may tend to show that growth depends on many 

 factors. 



The increase of population in the territories has been, as 

 miirht have been expected, far more rapid than elsewhere. 

 Arizona has increased 105 per cent ; the Indian Territory, 

 117 per cent; while Oklahoma shows the enormous gain of 

 544 per cent. She now has a population ten times that of 

 Nevada, and is knocking vigorously at the doors of Congress 

 for admission to the sisterhood of States. 



A glance over the various States of the Union will show a 

 far wider range of percentages of growth among individual 

 States than is to be found between different sections. In 

 general, it may be said that New England, as a whole, has 

 fallen behind the average growth in population. The same 

 thing is true in a less degree of the southern States. The 

 middle States have kept up about the average percentage of 

 growth, while the western States have grown far faster than 

 the average. Thus the average growth in population in New 

 England has been 14.7 per cent. In the middle States, in- 

 cluding New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, 

 Maryland and the District of Columbia, the gain has been 

 21 per cent. In the southern States, including the two 

 Virginias, the two Carolinas, Georgia, Florida, Kentucky, 

 Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and 

 Arkansas, the gain has been 20.5 per cent. With regard to 

 New England, it is to be noted that one group of States, 

 Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont, the agricultural 

 group, are far below the average, their growth in population 

 being only 5.8 per cent; while the other group, Massachu- 

 setts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the manufacturing 

 group, are above the average, their average growth being 

 23.7 per cent. Massachusetts leads all the New England 

 States, with a percentage of 25.3. This short comparison^ 

 serves to emphasize the fact that particular advantages for 

 manufacture, for commerce or for agriculture, will largely 



