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Show DIRECTORY RK j I SHowcrrrsGROWTH il Salt Lake City Gains 8000 in ' fl Population During the . y 'M Year. ; 1 SIGNIFICANT FACTS POINT 11 TO AUGMENTED EXPANSION i On Every Hand Are Indications u H of Phenomenal Growth of Salt Lake. - H It is commented upon as a significant v fact in tho business of tho city that; two pieces of property in the business " 1 section on State street, between Second and Third South streets, sold this week 1 ' for over $S00 tho front foot. Thi3 , value is close to the highest price dc- manded for property during , the boom i j days of 1S90, when it was considered i ) tt that realty sold for amounts far abovo , A its real value. Yet the sale of theso lf IH properties has occasioned little or no J comment among Iho realty dealers, and j fH is not regarded as an indication of moro t ' j t than a good, strong activity in real t ' j estate. . : ' During the past spring tho number of ' : ' building permits taken out by "people I who desired to erect buildings in the : city has exceeded enormously the Jium- j bcr recorded b- other cities of tho l j 'R United States. It is reported by real ' R estate dealers that oven at tho present j . . time in the beginning of the summer j season, when the realty market should ' J R bo dull, that the sale of real estate is 1 R excellent aud that inquiry for prooerfcy j j . is up to that of the times of tho year ' I 1 R when activity in realty is generally I 1 i R greatest. ' R Eastern Investors Inquire. R "Tho call comes from eastern iu- ' 1TR vestors, too," said one of tho promi- -rR uent real estate dealers Saturday, and -R he offered to show tho names of peo- , R pie who were inquiring for property in 1 1 ' R ' which to place sums of money where it ; R f-would .yield, a good return. Brokers uho t'SR ! report that there arc large sums of ( .. . , R money being placed in their hands al- ' ' " . ' jH most every day for disposal in real j - H estate ventures. They are conservative people, too, it is said, and they do not .'-M tako up every pieco of property which 1 lM is offered. They examine carefully, ' thus showing that there is no feverish- ' 'M ness in tho trade, and that they do I finally buy is considered an ovidenco ' ( that thev arc satisfied with tho condi- 1 j vrfl tious here and aro confident of the con- ? , ; tinucd prosperity of tho city. , ' Numbers of real estate men havo , 1 commented on tho statement of Mr. K , Harriman, mado rocently, that the four . ' ' fl cities of the country which were des- T tined to be tho business sections of tho i . ' United States wero Now York, Chicago, ' Salt Lake City and San Francisco, by f pointing to tho tremendous amount of $ r i i building that has been going on, and J the continued demand for property. II., Significant Hnpponings. I ' I 1 Last week one dealer alono reported ft 'M i that forty new homos were in procoao ' i' j of construction on subdivisions which I 1 : had boon added to the real estate of I ; the city. A tour of the city shows that j '., ' t 'H activity is not confined to any one sec- j tion, and on tho north bench and in tho i j southeastern section, tho activity around ' , Federal heights, tho proposed improve- . 'M j ment of Popporton placo, the dcclnra- .' tion of Samuel Ncwhouse that he in- ' ! tends to erect a hotel to cost $1,200,000, H the rapid building of tho Ncwhouso aky- ( T -M scrapers, tho quick rentals of tho recent- f ' ly completed Judge building, tho work J on the buildings on upper Main street, i tho rapidly rising walls of tho new Ore- , gou Short Lino depot and tho immediate ' 4 occupation of tho now store3 alonjr ) 'M Third South street, aro all significant of ' ( I ' the manner in which tho businoss of tho ; city is overflowing from tho oldor sec- jj tions nnd demanding quarters in less , ' congested quarters. . : In fact, it did not require more than K ; a glance at the figures produced by tho !' city directory to show that tho increaso , of S0OO in population over the yoar s 1007 is conservative nnd menus a solid growth in the prosperity of the city. ' Those who havo followed carefully the j, jM financial standing of Salt Lake City sinco tho depression of last fall cau .not ' , but realize that the business foundation of Salt Lake City is too firm to permit I 'H of the slightest dislodgemcut. , . I Population Figures. f ' "Every house which wo control is oc- l) cupied and tho new apartments aro uc- t-cupicd t-cupicd Ion? before the completion of the ' , buildings. This was the statement by t one of the real estate dealers of this t city who makes a specialty of creeling , apartment houses. Rentals are high, ( 'fk duo mainly to tho large demand for ac: rJ commodntions by the people who are ' coining into the city. ,1 , ' ' The following list of figures, com- 'r' i piled by W. P. Cooper, manager for li. ,1 ' L. Polk & Co., in preparing tho dircc j . i lory for the city for tho year 190$ H j , sho'w only too clearly tho wonderful ' , ! prosperity of the city aud the necea- 1 H sity that tho people give their strictest i v. attention to improvement in every pos- i v Continued on Pago Two, vll DIRECTORY FIGURES SHOW CITY'S GROWTH . Continued From Pago One. sible way, to care for the incoming population and thoso who come hero to go into business: Number of Tear. Names. Population. 1S97 24.804 74.412 " 1898 2C.827 77, 4$! 1800 26.400 79,380 1000 28,202 84,006 1901 ,.' 29,216 S7.G4S 1002 32,f.04 S9,5nl 1903 25.137 87.S42 1904 36.473 - 91,135 1005 40.430 90.G7r 1900 -12.095 96,726r 1907 .. D2.SGL 10fi,l22s 1905 56,17.". 112.3413s Multiple of 21 used Instead of 22, as In provlous years. , , I'MuItlple of 2i ustjd, Instead of 2. as In 1903 and 1004. sMultlplo.of 2 used. Instead of 2J, as In 1905 and 1000. Number of Individual names under oach letter of the alphabet In the directory.: A 2.044 N 1.340 B 5,138 O 030 C .. 4.31S P 3,137 D 2.2H4 Q B 1,514 K 3.C00 p- 1,843 S 5.G94 0 2.523 T 1.956 U 4.3S5 U .?3 1 . . ; 237 "V" -io9 j 2.0G7 W 3,CdS K. 2,024 X 7 jj . . . . 2,503 Y . mo z u- M a, 494 ' " L Total . 50.173 The following iutrodactioa was writ-ton writ-ton for the dircuLory by Fisher liarns. secretary of tho Commercial club: i "Tho people of Salt Lake City may I well bo gratified, lit tho remarkable I progress thy citv has made along all the linos of municipal development dur- iurr lli.- rifisfc tAVOlvfl mOUtllS. "The increase in population has not only been larec, as indicated .by the size of this volume, compared with that of the preceding issue, but the general charactor of the people making up tho additional population is eminently satisfactory sat-isfactory from all the standpoints of good citizenship. "Salt Lako City is .the actual po-graphical po-graphical and commeroial center of an area of country containing, by reason of its varied natural resources, the greatest wealth producing possibilities possessed by any sirailnr extent of country in the united States. "She draws a constantly increasing tribute of wealth each year from the mines, mills, ranches and ranges of Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Nevada. The people who make then-fortunes then-fortunes in these states look to Salt Lake City as a place of permanent residence res-idence and investment. They arc drawn here b.y the characteristic American desire de-sire for the best things of lifo, and they find them hero in our splendid educational system schools, collogoSi universities churches, institutions or literature, science, music and art, theaters, the-aters, parks and public pleasure resorts. "The substantial growth of tho city is perhaps best shown by the wonderful building "boom" which has been m progress during the years 1D07-8, nnd which, at this writing, gives no sign of diminution. . . "This remarkable building activity is as noticeable in the residential an in the business districts of tho citv. Salt Lake City at last finds herself in tho 'skyscraper' class, and official statistics indicate that in this phase of community development she leads every ev-ery city of her size in the nation. "The gigantic task of paving the broad streets of tho city iB.well under way and a new era of individual and municipal interest in civic beauty is upon us. so that not mnny j-cai-B will pass before Salt Lake City, already beautiful, will be tho 'City Beautiful' of tho trans-Mississippi country. "The strong financial condition of our banks and business institutions was satisfactorilv demonstrated during the money panic of the past year, which not only brought no failures, but no succestion of weakness. "Because of the conditions briefly presented here, and by reason of her superb climate and the exquisite beauty of her scenic environment. Salt Lake City holds out moro attractions to tho tourist, the homeseeker, ot the investor than does any other city within the ranee of our knowledge. "The city diroctory should be. and claims to be, the highest authority on the population of tho city where it is published. Beyond even the federal census, with the law of the United States behind tho enumerator to aid in securing the consent of the people to furnish statistics, nre the trained directory di-rectory employees, who, from year to year, cover the city and must show results re-sults from every opening on every street and alley, or answer to the ex-aminer ex-aminer for tho' omission. The publishers publish-ers therefore rely c6nfidently on the statistics and other facts of the canvass; can-vass; this is the more true because from tho cordial assistance afforded the canvassers can-vassers by tho people it has been comparatively com-paratively easy to get things just right. The customary means of estimating population pop-ulation is to' multiply the number of names of individuals in the directory by two and a half. In the present volume there are 56,173 names of persons who lived in and around Salt Lake Citj- at tho time the canvassers took the information in-formation for this book. In this number num-ber is included no firm name, church", school, institution, nor anything else which does not stand for the name of an individual. Multiply this number by two only and tho population of Salt Lake City ' (including Murray and the suburbs) 'is found to be 112,346, The population of the city proper, however, is estimated bv the publishers to be between be-tween S5.000 and flO.000. The directory will be ready for distribution dis-tribution Tuesday. July 14. |
