Walker Lake Bulletin

The New Census.

The census has at last been completed. Chicago is now the second city in the Union. In 1880 she had but 503,000 and Philadelphia 846,000. Only 10 years shows Chicago with 1,098,000, a gain of over half a million, while Philadelphia has 1,046,000 a gain of but 200,000. It looks now as though New York would soon be playing second fiddle to Chicago as well. In 1880 New York had 1,206,000 and now she has 1,513,000, or a gain of a little over 300,000. The South is also shown to be waking up. Atlanta with 34,000 in 1880 now has 65,500 nearly doubling her former population. Birmingham, Ala., with less than 10,000 in 1880, now has 26,000.

San Francisco's increase has been a little disappointing, but she has passed Cincinnati in the race in a handsome manner and is now 5th, pretty far behind Baltimore with her 433,000.

The Atlas publishers will reap a harvest this year, as the census statistics and new maps, etc., causes an immense boom in the business. We take the above figures from the Standard Atlas of the World, which will in all probability sell by thousands, as it is one of the most complete and accurate works of the kind we have ever seen. It is safe to say that the first agent in the field will fairly coin money, as we all want the new census statistics and the new features in this Atlas which commends it to everybody. The History Company of San Francisco, the well known publishers, control the Coast rights. They want agents, and we call attention to their advertisement in another column.