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Show SALT LAKE'S EXODUS. The Salt Lake Herald-Republican, commenting on the census j figures and answering the charge of a contemporary that there were empty houses in Salt Lake before the late boom, says : Were there ony more then than there are now? Isi't it a fact that 2,000 people left Salt Lake since the last city J election? Isn't it a fact that every real estate man in Salt Lake is suffering in his business because high taxes are keeping people from investing their money in the city? In their quarrels, the Salt Lake papers are disclosing thi truth. The Standard, on Tuesday last, said that if the census were to be taken now, Salt Lake would show not much above 80,000. Here i3 a Salt Lake paper admitting that even since election the drop in population has been 2,000 and that vacant houses dot the city. The misfortunes of Salt Lake are not entirely due to good or bad politics, but to a false policy of over-booming and of building on foundations of sand. |