1860, 82.8; 1870
83.7; 1880, 84.7; 1890, 85.5; 1900, 85.8; 1910, 86.5 ]

The rapid growth of our industrial and manufacturing interests during
the past quarter of a century is shown by the fact that 22 per cent of
the people of the country are massed in cities of 100,000 inhabitants
and over. In the three largest cities alone--New York, Chicago, and
Philadelphia--there are almost one-tenth the population of the whole
country. There were five cities with populations between 500,000 and
1,000,000; eleven between 250,000 and 500,000; 31 between 100,000 and
250,000; 59 between 50,000 and 100,000; 120 between 25,000 and 50,000;
374 between 10,000 and 20,000; 629 between 5,000 and 10,000, and 1,173
between 2,500 and 5,000.

The thirteenth census revealed but slight change in the location of the
centre of population. In computing its position, no account of the
population of Alaska and of our insular possessions was taken into
consideration. It had moved west about 39 miles and northward
seven-tenths of a mile and was located at Bloomington in southern
Indiana. The westward movement from 1900 to 1910 was nearly three times
as great as from 1890 to 1900, but was less than that for any decade
between 1840 and 1890. This advance of the centre of population toward
the West was due to the increase in the population of the Pacific Coast
States. The large increase in the population of New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, and other States north of the thirty-ninth parallel served as
a balance to the increase in Texas, Oklahoma, and southern California.

During the past fifteen years there has been a steady migration from the
rural portions of the United States to the western provinces of Canada,
not less than 650,000 immigrants having crossed the border within that
period. Most of them have become naturalized Canadians. It has been
estimated that these immigrants took with them, on an average, $1,000.

According to the congressional reapportionment act following the twelfth
census, there were to be 386 members in the House of Representatives or
one representative to 194,182 of the population. The House of
Representatives actually contained. 391 members after the admission of
Oklahoma. By the census of 1910, several States were entitled to
additional members, but in order that no State should be reduced in the
number of its representatives, the House of Representatives passed a
bill providing for an increase of 42 members. The new ra