Show Census Figures 0 F there arc are any Salt Lak Lakers rs who are arc inclined still to I IF cherish resentment at the announcement of our census cen- cen oj sus sua returns they may derive erie a modicum of comfort from the considerable number of cities which show a percentage of increase far below ours and some that show a a- decrease Take Spokane for instance That is a boom city Tl Things are lively there Improvement has been rapid and md marked in the last few few- years ears Census returns this thi year ear give Spokane a population of a loss oss of souls as compared with ten years ago As Spokane has lias made claims to being a rapidly growing city its chamber of commerce rises rises' to explain The situation as analyzed by the chamber of commerce commerce com corn merce there is that when the census of 1910 was taken OOOO transients were in th the thc city and were listed as 4 residents The school population of Spokane has increased increased increased in in- creased 29 per cent Water Vater accounts s ha have hae e increased and t telephone installations show a gain of 29 per cent The increase in bank deposits over ten years yrs ago is 59 per cent Sixteen hundred new homes h have ve been built and are occupied i. i Various Vanous other increases chamber are arc shown by the I of bf commerce and these the organization concludes are area I a n better index to the thc growth of f the city than the population population pop pop- showing made by the federal census Still if we can make the same showing in other respects respects re re- re- re and also in population as Salt Lake City has bas done in the last ten years w we ought to be bc satisfied |