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Title: Some facts concerning York and York County : a sesqui-centennial memento
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hawkins, Charles Augustine, 1859- Landis, Houston E
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Publisher: York, PA. : (Press of York daily
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ation in 1880 was 13,940. showing an increase of 6,853, or 49.16 per cent, from 1880 to 1S90. The population by wards in 1900 was as follows: i8 York and in excess of the rapid growth of the substantial and well founded business interests of the place. The work to be done has vastly increased, and this has been followed by a natural influx of the hands to do it. The condition which perhaps more than any other one thing gives rise to this prosperity and lends to York a peculiar and conspicuous industrial strength among her rivals,is the low cost of labor and a resulting low cost of production. Passing back a step further in search of the basic reason for the cheapness of labor, attention is at once drawn to the frugal and industrious habits of the people, not of the city merely, but of the country surrounding as well. A perusal of the outline of York Ward 1, 2,388 Ward 8, 2,317 2. 1,587 9, 5,461 3. 998 10, 2,517 4. 1,803 11, 3,869 5. 1,615 12, 4.594« 6. 2,777 13, 1.047 7, 2.735 Total, 33.708
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York Co2tnty 21 County history appended will reveal the fact that the population is composed largely of descendants of Germans, Scotch Irish and Friends or Quakers, all people who usually get along in the world. York County people as a rule are not spend-thrifts, nor are they of the overreaching get rich quick class. Though good livers as compared with people elsewhere, they live well within their means, and accumulate, if not large for-tunes, at least sufficient to make living easy for themselves and those who come after them. It is safe to say that the class of people who, when they make ten dollars a week spend it and when they make twenty-five dollars a week likewise spend it, and in either case remain as far behind as possible with their store bills, are not to any great extent of either German, Scotch Irish or Quaker extraction. Being frugal and industrious, the farmers in the vicinity of York are enabled, at a moderate profit and without the added emoluments of one to three mid- 22 York and

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