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Show SALT LAKE HAS 75,090 PEOPLb, . SAYS COOPER, DIRECTORY MAN ft f Denounces Government Cen- H sus Figures as Ridiculous j j H and Absurd. V. New Canvass Shows 90,000 v . ; People In the City and . : H Its Suburbs. Local Directory Man Has a Very. l Poor Opinion of Undo Sam's . j- IH System of Enumerating. "Salt Lake's population figures, as ' L jH given by the Government Census Bu- r IH reau, according fo itfi arithmetical pro- . K IH gression system, are ridiculous and f absurd," said W. P. Cooper, the expert 1J. IH enumerator who occupies the position t IH of secretary and manager of R. Tj. h jH Polk & Co., publishers of the Salt Lake r City directory. "The population of Salt , V Lake City and Its immediate suburbs. ly. IHi according to the most conservative cstl- H mates that could be made, is something over 00,000, while the population within lH the Incorporate limits is between 75,000 i IHI and SO.000. The figures 57.13S, given by jr. IH the census bureau, have no value what- 'H over as indicating the true population. ( IH Wnat Enumeration Shows. jH "I can not give a cIoec tstlmatc on jH the present population for the reason iH that the complete count of names in our 4. JH 1904 directory hua nut yet been made. '(Hl From the Increase over last year, in 'H tho letters that have been counted, 'H howpver, wo know that tho new book H will contain over 3B.00O names of In- 4. IH divlduals, not counting firms, corpora- IH Hons or persons who have died or re- -j J tfl moved from the city. Tho multiple commonly used in computing population ' lH on the basis of names contained In a. It directory is 2, but taking 2A as the multiple and 36.1500 as the number of Jl names in this year's directory and the 1 t jH result Is 01,250. But tin Includes about jH 15,000 population outside of the corpor- , jB ate limits, which would make the popu- j 1 jH latlon of the city proper 76,250. , Can't Go Below 75,000. I IH "Thero is no possible way of estlmat- j IH lng or computing population which y IH could give Salt Lake less than 75,000. I y ijH Tho Idea of a city with a school popu- JH latlon of 15,000 having less than 60.000 ft Y lH Inhabitants is the height of absurdity. r IH Tho school population of many Eastern ' y IH cities is multiplied by seven nnd eiglit . . JH to arrive at the total population. -r dl "The trouble with the census bureau's 1 figures Is not with its system of arith- njH metical progression, but with its origin-v "iT v 5j ( al census. The actual work of taking T I the Government's census is, necessarily ( Iff - lll perhaps, done by inexperienced men. X. -a ! They simply can't do the work thor- v H oughly because they don't know h6v. r some of the large business blocks in jH this city were missed entirely by the " f- census enumerators of 1900, and whole t- fH families who" had gone away for the r IH summer escaped the count of the cen- f IH sus men. It is always so. Census V t enumerators invariably miss from 20 i' P to 25 per cent of the population. But It Y would seem that the Government 1 Y IH should be able to adopt some rational J? f system of revising Its census figures." L |