| Show the pj eblem wo have an esteemed salt lake contemporary which still claims that the center of population is near the present capital of utah it gave some a few days ago which we reproduced and suggested a bevy changes in their arrangement it was not willing to accept our corrections ao we have thought best to arrange a dav figures of oar own from the last united states census and we challenge any one to refute them in all reliable maps of utah anere ia what is called the salt lake base line or latitude it extends across the territory from east to west pass ins directly through salt lake city and the counties of uintah summit salt lake and thoele tooele in the first named county the population is ail south cf the latitude in iSumi nit and salt lake counties a part of the population ia north and a part south aud in locale county the population is all south of it we have carefully added together the population of the settle manta north of laid latitude as well as those south of it in the two counties where there 18 a division of the population and salt lake cites population we have divided equally north and south of said hue because it passes through the city just a few rods south of the temoleon tem pleon south temple street the result of thus divining divi Jing the population of the by tha suit lake city latitude is herewith given population north of salt lake city latitude cache county 15 county morgan county 1780 eich county 1527 gait lake county north 22 summit county north weber equity ra 23 ota total SOUTH afuli of ina silt f cit lanu biver county arv county 4 ai field 2457 drand arti cu 2683 guib counts kioa emte 2842 sit lak anty boullt lt 32 cn tv sanpete sevier county summit county south thoele tooele county county 2 22 utah counis artt au h county 4 adu county 4 CUO total 3 that ig a the population stood at the last census and it must be remembered that the poi ties for fan increased u lie south of the salt lake city latitude if the capitol id built at salt lake in a few years it wil be IQ tha great inconvenience of a lare majority of the population lation of utah let the capital come to provo where it will be nearer the center of population |
