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Show I - . P0P0LATI0N INCREASE IN CITIES. The Census bureau took a census of the country last year. The , Nation has increased .l01 per cent since 1900. Chicago has increased 20.6 per cent. New York City about 19 per cent. The population of all incorporated places having 8000 or more inhabitants in-habitants has increased by nearly 16 per cent, which shows a general tendency to drift to the cities. But of the big cities New York and Chicago lead. St. Louis increased only 12.8 per cent ; Philadelphia 10.3 per cent ; Boston 7.5 per cent ; Baltimore 8 per cent. We think Salt Lake City has increased 50 per cent if the real figures could be obtained, and we predict that it M ill increase in per cent of population more during the next decade than any other city in the Nation. The trend is all this way. It is about the last place thaf seems' to be waiting for a boom. All the cities of the East and of the extreme West have had their booms; Salt Lake never has. Without With-out one-half the resources to support a city, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Omaha, Kansas City, Denver, and a whole lot of other cites have doubled or, quadrupled. It is time, now, that Salt Lake begins, and the change in the next five years is going to be something some-thing so great that it will attract national attention. |