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Show WE ARE TIIK l'EOI'LB. Salt Lake Shows lip a Population Gain or 110 l'erCent. Superintendent Condon, supervisor of the census, who is as yet tho best authority attainable on that highly interesting in-teresting subject, has figured it out that Salt Lake's quota will be withiu the 50 of 40,1)50 and 50,000. The number is almost certain, he says, to be between those figures anil he makes it 40,983 from the information he has. This exercise ex-ercise of mathematics also gives Ogden 111,825 which makes that cilv a little shy of what it expected. Mr. Wood who had charge of the Salt Lake end of tho great inlerogation point, believes with Mr. Condon that 4,075 or thereabout there-about is 1 he con ect figure. The official return cannot be declared for a week or s. Ogden thus gains 177 per cent, in the past ten years with Salt Lake showing up a gain of f lu p,u- ,..PUt. xiie 1880 census gave ( Igdeu 6.009 and Salt Lake 20,7(i8, making a. respective numerical gain of nearly 11,000 iu the first instance and about 30,000 in the second. |