Show FIURE FIGURE ON THE GEN CENSUS U Various Estimates of Salt Salt Lakes I Population i f If HOW BIG TIlE TEE TH CITY OTTY IS I It SPECULATION RUNS t I TO C J Now that the te enumeration city has ha been ben completed by Supervisor Pratts little army ary of men uteri menan and women there is much m ch speculation as an a to what the population of the city really Is and there Is the te widest di diversity diversity of opinion op as to the th figures R RL RL RL L L Polk Co in their last city directory directOr directory tory tOr place the population of the city and the th surrounding suburban towns I at 8 but as the number of people Jn in the suburban towns is not given i this is 1 1 indefinite when it comes comES to get getting gt getting I self ting tn at the population of the city I itself it itself The e Chicago Tribune gave an esti estimate estimate mate mat yesterday of the te population un under under der del the new census of of i the th largest cities cite in the country The j average aver gain gin since IS as shown in these thee figures fr was wa about 40 per cent cent I The population of or Salt Lake in 1890 1810 18 was I 4 42 1 If I it has ha gained 40 per pr cent fi ft I I the ten years yea the population now would t be b 5 iO and ad this Is very close cloe to the te I estimate made at the beginning by Su Sc t I Pratt Prat Take Tae Increase Denver according to the Chicago Tribune estimate has hI increased in pop population 78 73 per pr cent in the last ten years yea If I Salt J Lake has h done don d as well wol as a her herser slater sister ser on o the th east is Claiming to have done done her population should now be 70 One of the best b enumerators that Su Sn Supervisor Pratt had estimates that each aoh h hor I of or the th enumerators who worked in this thi city worked twelve t elve days day out of a possible fourteen and rind I that they tey worked on the average eight hours hour a i day He thinks too that they I averaged twelve names name per vel hour If I I this thi estimate is to be relied upon the number of or people In the city is I Mayor Thompson will wi make intake application I ties tion to to Director Merriam of the census I bureau breu in Washington for the official O figures as 8 soon as a hf he hf thinks they can be had which will wi be b in a i few days |