Show SAIT SHAKES CiSVS The census returns for Salt Iak city will be found in another place In to days Herald They would have appeared ap-peared one day sooner If Mr Squires the chief statistician had not vIolated ills promise to give them to the mornIng morn-Ing papers simultaneously The Herald Her-ald understands the reason for his discrimination dis-crimination and appreciates it as it deserves The population of Salt Lake city falls very much below that Svhlch was supposed It has been variously estimated esti-mated at from 0000 to 75000 We do not think the most conservative of out citizens placed It at less than 50000 The returns give the total at 47DSO This is an increase of seven per cent on the census of 1890 I During the last two or three years i many persons have left the city Some I have moved to suburban residences on tho additions that have been made by real estate men others have gone to other parts of the territory to obtain ob-tain employment or take up land and still others have left the territory altogether al-together That we have an Increase of seven pee cent In five years in spite of these changes is evidence of fair and steady progress That many wide awake people have moved beyond the city limits to escape 0 t o if J the heavy taxation caused by the ez ravagance of the city authoritles who were elected on boom principles cannot can-not be denied Unless1 there is evidence evi-dence of wise reform in these particu 1 ats others wili certainly follow their example pit it is far easier to plunge Into debt than it Is to Inaugurate and carry out a policy of rptranchment And when there is manifested a disposition dis-position to adopt the expedient of special assessments and make unequal burdens for the backs of the taxpayers the effect will be not only to drive beyond be-yond the municipal limits enterprising enterpris-ing and thrifty citizens but to prevent I tho inflow Of capitalists and t > f capital i There are som6 interesting particu lars in the returns They are worth I studying We believe the census has I been carefully made We have no 1 reason at present to doubt their accuracy i ac-curacy The work has been done promptly and due credit should be I given for that I Henceforth for some little time at i least it will not be safe to boast of Salt Lake as a city of more than 50 000 inhabitants Natural increase will soon bring the population upto that figure and when the good times arrive I or which we have been looking and i come they will the figures that have been quoted by sanguine people will ba within the limit of a fair count and Salt Lake will be more of a metropolitan metropoli-tan city H |