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Show i ; ' ' ' . ... t i ...... . ' . ' SBssiaasaBBSBBBaBBsasasBBBsaHa Intcrcsttj Stcry Is Told bj It of the Growth of tLc City. '".''S' . ;:Y ' ! - The new- city .dlrectpry made its ap-peararice ap-peararice this morning. It Is volume XIV., and la by long odds the most complete com-plete directory ever issued In Salt Lake by R. L. Polk V Co. -.' . The list of names shows an increase of 16,000 over the city's population of - last year, and Manager; W. p. Cooper, who has directed - the work, says the,cltjrs population will come up to 90,000. The book Is complete in every detalL The appendix contains all the information deMrabla of every rubllo Institution. . The first book off the press came to The Telegram office with the attest that It wa the first bound copy completed. This year's directory is larger and bigger big-ger than ever before. It conclusively proves that Salt Lake is growing. R. L Polk St Co. began to make directories direc-tories for Salt Lake in 1890. Beginning with 189T, the city's growth is shown . as fOUows: - - ; . v ; Tear. " Ko. of Jfamea Population. ' 1S97.... K8M 74,413 19Se Beaaaeeaeea36(83T . " '-' 7t481 1899 .. . . .- 7.30 WOO 28JCB ' M.004 1901 J9.219 ..- . 87,64 19n i2iM - -i 89.661 lfKO .35. 137 8741 J904 W.478 ' ; 91,195 1906 -,. 40.430 93.9b7 .' The number of names under each letter St the alphabet in this best of all previous 1 recto lies 1s as follows: - Aiss are a 4 e m- B 1791 C , 1064 Xy eee e a e e e It 421 E v f ..i..,.. ........... i.sp9 0 , 1.779 K . -,M1 1 ...... 148 J.. .......... Ii44 K .v.. . . 1.900 L 1.928 Mc 867 M .......... 2.514 ) . JT o ..... ...... ? 678 P . 8064 q ..;. 8 R 2.050 S I 4.06J T ...... 1.3M V 199 j . .' aea Hitlt 2lr I T Z 83 Total ''.:)... ..L. ...... ...... ..40, 430 The directory is handsomely bound, and is of New Tork slse. The bank statements state-ments tn the appendix show more busU ness than Is done In any ether city of the else of Bait Lake, and etill.the deposits are steadily Increasing. . r |