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of the manufacturing industries. This fact is brought out better 
by the statistics of the percentages of urban population in the 
above states: 
Rhode Island 68 
Massachusetts 64 
New Jersey 52 
Connecticut. 45 
New York 69 
Pennsylvania 39 
Maryland 43 
Ohio 37 
Illinois. 46 
The order of population density in the first list of states is 
consecutive; but Maryland is the only state holding the same 
rank in the list of the percentages of urban population. New 
York has the largest percentage of urban population, while Ohio 
has the least. 
Pacific coast states in last decade. During the last decade 
there have been some marked instances of rapid population 
growth among these states: Washington increased 120 per cent, 
Idaho 101 per cent, Oregon 63 per cent, California 60 per cent. 
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries a somewhat analo- 
gous condition might have been noted on the European side 
of the Atlantic Ocean, a condition that developed in accordance 
with Kingsley’s slogan '^Westward Ho,” the industry and com- 
merce of Europe spreading across the seas. In a few decades, at a 
rate which was marvelous compared with its unfolding in the old 
world, this movement crossed the United States. Considering the 
facts of this last decade, the future will witness a more equal divi- 
sion of commercial activity between the Atlantic and the Pacific. 
The‘ Pacific states have been sparsely settled for a long time. 
Nearly three-fourths of a century has elapsed since California took 
a foremost place as a wealth-producing state, but only in recent 
years has the area adjacent along the Pacific commenced to 
show its possibilities. While we have these large figures of popu- 
lation increase in the last decade, at the same time, the density 
of population in the respective states is not significant: Wash- 
ington has a density of 17 per square mile, Oregon 7, California 
15. The percentages of urban population are as follows: Wash- 
ington 37 per cent, Oregon 31 per cent, California 45 per cent. 
