GEOGRAPHIC NOTES 



INTERSTATE MIGRATION 



AT least one person in every five 

 native-born Americans is living 

 in a state other than that in which he 

 was born — a striking instance of the 

 mobility of the people of the United 

 States. The native population of the 

 United States, according to the last 

 census, was 65,843,302, of whom more 

 than one-fifth, or 21.3 per cent, were 

 living in adopted states. 



It is interesting to note the number 

 of sons and daughters which the differ- 

 ent states have sent out. New York 

 has sent out more than 1,300,000, Penn- 

 sylvania nearly 1,000,000, Ohio more 

 than 1,100,000, Illinois over 1,000,000, 

 and Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Missouri, 

 Tennessee, and Virginia, over half a 

 million each. Proportionally to her pop- 

 ulation, Vermont has given to her sister 

 states more than an}' other member of 

 the Union. Vermonters equaling in 

 numbers nearly one-half of the present 

 native population of the state are now 

 living in other states. Virginia, Ver- 

 mont, New Hampshire, Nevada, Maine, 

 and Delaware have each sent out num- 

 bers equaling about one-third their pres- 

 ent native population. 



Numerically Illinois has received more 

 citizens from other states than any other 

 member of the Union — nearly a million; 

 855,000 have entered Missouri, 838,000 

 Texas, and over half a million New 

 York and Ohio. The states that show 

 a net gain from this intermigration are 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Con- 

 necticut of the New England States, New 

 Jersey, West Virginia, and Florida of 

 the Atlantic Coast States. The other 

 New England States and New York, 

 Pennsylvania, and all the Southern 

 States as far as Mississippi have suffered 

 net losses. For instance, New York 

 has had a net loss of 666,000, Ohio 



612,000, and Virginia 455,422. Ind- 

 iana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Missouri, 

 the great states of the middle West, have 

 each experienced considerable net losses, 

 while Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Ar- 

 kansas, Louisiana, and all the states 

 west of the Pacific coast have made 

 gains. Texas has gained the most of 

 all — : 629,ooo. Kansas comes next, with 

 a gain of 422,000, and California third, 

 with 364,000. 



U. S. WEATHER BUREAU 



THE United States Government 

 spends annually somewhat over 

 one million dollars on its weather service. 

 In return it is estimated by conservative 

 financial interests at least twenty mil- 

 lion dollars are saved annually to the 

 people of the country by the advance 

 storm warnings to shipping along the 

 Atlantic and Pacific coasts and by flood 

 warnings to the people living on the 

 banks of our great rivers. Such an in- 

 vestment, annually yielding an income 

 twenty times the principal, or, in other 

 words, which pays yearly dividends of 

 2,000 per cent, is somewhat rare. 



The last annual report of the Chief 

 of the Weather Bureau, Prof. Willis E. 

 Moore, describes the work of the Bureau 

 during 1 900-1 901. In addition to the 

 weather forecasts, the Bureau is carry- 

 ing on extensive work in many other 

 lines. Snow bulletins, issued in the 

 Rocky Mountain region, give complete 

 information as to the depth and charac- 

 ter of the snowfall in the mountains — 

 information that bears on the probable 

 water supply for irrigation during the 

 summer. Experiments are being made 

 in wireless telegraphy ; the revision of 

 the barometric system for the United 

 States, Canada, and West Indies has 

 been practically completed under the 

 direction of Prof. F. H. Bigelow ; the 



