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134 Appendix 2 Demographic Growth in El Paso County and City, 1880–1930 Table B.1. Population growth for El Paso County, 1880–1930 Population— El Paso County 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 White* 3,598 14,996 24,886 50,729 99,845 51,831 Black/Colored** 47 622 N/A 1,562 1,548 1970 Mexicans*** N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 77,389 Total Pop. 3,845 15,678 24,886 52,599 101,877 131,597 Source: United States Department of the Interior, Census Office, Statistics of the Population of the United States, Tenth Census, June 1, 1880 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1882); United States Department of the Interior, Census Office, Report on Population of the United States, Eleventh Census, 1890 (Washington, DC: GPO, 1895); United States Department of the Interior, Census Office, Census Reports, Volume I: Population of the United States, Twelfth Census, 1900, prepared under the supervision of William C. Hunt, chief statistician for population (Washington, DC: GPO, 1901); United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Population 1910: General Report and Analysis, Thirteenth Census, 1910, prepared under the supervision of William C. Hunt, chief statistician for population (Washington, DC: GPO, 1913); United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Population of the United States, Volume I & III, Fourteenth Census, 1920, prepared under the supervision of William C. Hunt, chief statistician for population (Washington, DC: GPO, 1921, 1922); United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Population of the United States 1930, Volume I & III, Fifteenth Census, 1930, prepared under the supervision of Leon E. Truesdell, chief statistician for population (Washington, DC: GPO, 1931, 1932). 135 demographic growth in el paso county and city, 1880–1930 Table B.2. Population growth for City of El Paso, 1880–1930 Population— El Paso City 1880 1890 1900 1910 1920 1930 White* N/A 9,767 15,140 23,338 75,804 41,965 Black/Colored** N/A 511 466 1,452 1,330 1,855 Mexicans*** N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 58,291 Total Population 736 10,838 15,906 39,279 77,560 102,421 Table B.3. Native and foreign-born population of El Paso County, 1900–1930 Population— El Paso County 1900 1910 1920 1930 Native Born White 15,089 32,388/23,338 (city) 57,540 48,475 Foreign Born White 9,797 18,341/14,504 (city) 42,305 3,356 Born in Mexico 8,368 12,353 (city pop.) 38,625 416 *Ethnic Mexicans were considered “White” until the 1916 Special Census for El Paso, Texas, and later at the federal level for the 1930 US Census. Figures include both “Native White” and “Foreign White.” ** For the 1880 and 1890 census “Colored” races included “Negro Descent, Chinese, Japanese, and Civilized Indians.” By the 1900 census people of African descent were separated from Chinese , Japanese, and Indians. *** In the 1930 census “Other Races,” which counted Chinese, Japanese, and Indians, was expanded to include ethnic Mexicans. The total number listed for “Other Races” in the 1930 census for the county of El Paso was 77,796, with Mexicans comprising 99 percent of the total “Other” population. In the 1920 census “Other Races” were listed as “Indian (Native American), Chinese, Japanese, and All Other,” and the number was 484. The city of El Paso listed “other races” at 58,601 in 1930. ...

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