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Show POPULATION" OF CIAH. The census returns for Utah give that Territory a population of 5o.60o. which is less than it has generally been credited with. Trobab'y its reai population is not under 1.'.0.' . Salt Lake City anl county have a population popula-tion of 1. 837. of which 17. are in the city proper. However inaccurate the totals given may bo. the details are very interesting and suggestive, and the returns as a whole may b.' accepted ac-cepted as a fair guide iu estimating the sevial con litiou of a retiiarkab.e eserumunity. i ne roredatien is classified classi-fied as follows ; White vc4 : colored, col-ored, i Indian. 173 : C1-. -e-e-. 443 i native. ov-.Or-;: foreign, -.0-2. The number of Indians in the Territory must be much .arrer than it arrears in this statement. Froeaely domesticated domesti-cated Indians alone were eoumora:; i. Thi foreign ele'eneut is no: so large as is genera. . y sup roed. tut this is owing in t'-e Territorv of f-re:gn rarentage. pepu'a:i;:i is really na:ire to the Uni- pcar pre-e:uinen-ly. In all the twenty in excess. In Sal: Lake City there ire 60t5 more females titan males: but in the remainder o:' the county there are wholeTerritory the males number 1.177 the more. Aswe do no: receive the moles of sex by age. we cannot tell what is the disparity between adults, which is the point of chief interest. the natives females 7-3: bat c:' the-foreign-born, the females outnumber the males 6S5: the practice of polygamy is apparently confined con-fined to Nmparative tow. luthisfaet, a- i i:i -.: t i 'y '!-.: .-i i -.t .- i -. i . . : e . - :. : i.i i, . ... , i ... - i - -. ... - |