The population of Missouri
per square mile in 1810 exceeded that of Illinois .08; but, in 1860, the
population of Missouri per square mile was 17.54, ranking the 22d, and
that of Illinois, 30.90, ranking the 13th. Illinois, with her ratio to
the square mile and the area of Missouri, would have had in 1860 a
population of 2,082,042; and Missouri, with her ratio and the area of
Illinois, would have had in 1860 a population of 971,803, making a
difference in favor of Illinois of 1,110,239 instead of 529,939. The
absolute increase of population of Illinois per square mile from 1850 to
1860 was 15.54, and of Missouri 7.43, Illinois ranking the 6th in this
ratio and Missouri the 14th. These facts prove the vast advantages which
Missouri possessed in her larger area as compared with Illinois.
But Missouri in 1810, we have seen, had nearly double the population of
Illinois. Now, reversing their numbers in 1810, the ratio of increase of
each remaining the same, the population of Illinois in 1860 would have
been 2,905,014, and of Missouri, 696,983. If we bring the greater area
of Missouri as an element into this calculation, the population of
Illinois in 1860 would have exceeded that of Missouri more than two
millions and a half.
MINES.--By Census Tables, 9, 10, 13, and 14, Missouri produced,
in 1860, pig iron of the value of $575,000; Illinois, none.
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