Show Facts and Figures Which Show How Salt Lake City Is Booming POPULATION TION RJ Y GROWS Conservative Estimate Now Places Figure at Greatly Over HOW ESTIMATES ARE MADE BY EXPERTS RemarKable Strides Made by the City in Spite of DrawbacKs Approximately people now r r- r ri sido side in Salt Lake City who were not aol residents one year ago according to the very latest estimates of at the Polk Salt Lake City Directory company making the tho total population nearly Those Thoro figures include Greater Salt Lake taking in the suburban towns an and md Murray For tho the city proper the gain is 15 placed at making the actual population within tho the city limits a good margin over Altho Although Jh but two letters of the al alphabet al aI- have havo been prepared for the thc 1908 directory yet it is pO possible Hible by computing computing ing the n average cra o percentage of gain gaiu of f these theM two I letters to calculate tiu the the- reasonable rca rea percentage of oi gain ain for lor the entire entire entire en en- tire list In the directory director for 1907 a total of or names appear Multiplying this number bv hr two which is n a l Or very conservative conser conser- es estimate in comparison compari on with th the figures employed in most moat cities the tho total total total to to- tal p population of Creator Salt Lake amounted to 1051 Adding to this tho the gain for this year it is evident evi evs- ilent i lent dent that oven even the most conservative on estimate cannot place the present population population population lation below belo Estimates and Comparisons I For Por the city proper Hi the population population pop POI according to the direCtor directory pea pie pic was as This includes only t those Olo living within the city limits It Itis It-is is is' es estimated es that of the gain ar are located in the citie cit city In n view ie view of the fact that the past winter winter win win- ter in fact th the entire cutin year vear since last I summer Slimmer has hns been one of the worst in jp ip tIle the he history of tho the t country this increase is remarkably large larse The r manner in which thc e- e figures fi are arc calculated i is a conservative and reliable one By Br subtracting f the tho number of names i in ici tho the U A A II list of ot last years ears directory from the same list this year the increase in the H As is found Averaging ragin the percentage of gain rain for forthe the two letters A and B a key is is found fo nd on which to base the increase of the entire alphabet Percentage of Gains Last year there were 1798 names Dames under under un un- un der A A. A This year 2044 OH names under this letter showing a gain of The B B list for 1907 1007 was against for 1905 showing an in increase increase in- in crease of The Thc percentage percenta e of gain in iii the A list listis listis listis is 13 13 and in tho the B D list 04 91 The 1110 average aver cr age ago of these two I per tents cents is 05 per percent cent fain gain Of the total Ji list t of names 5 56 Sos Os OSS pOT per centi is il approximately Multiplying nJ this figure h by two gives in round numbers DODO The city directory is is being printed n atthe nt at the rate of f fifty pages a t day and will come ome from the press pres about July Jill 1 There Thoro will be he over o 1500 pages in iu the tho volume |