Show T r CITY POPULATION IS r RAPID GROWTH Of THIS CITY SHOWN SHOWN- NEW DIRECTORY If f Increase Continues Continues' at af Rate of the l Last st Year the Population tio Will Pass the Nark Mark in 1912 Some Sone f i gures ores of Interest Here Salt Satt Lake City with it its immediate suburbs has a a population of according to the city directory which will be distributed in a few d days ys The Th directory estimates the population within the he corporate limits corporate limits of the city at The higher figure is sec secured red by including including including ing the populations of Murray l and Garfield which are are almost immediately adjacent cent The directory of a year ago gave a population of 76 to the city proper and and to th the city anti and suburbs The ga gain n this year is considerably greater than is indicated indicated indi indi- cat d. d by a comparison of the these e figures however Last ye year r and all years previously th the estimate of population was gained by y multiplying th the r of names in the directory directory-by by the multiple 21 2 This year the nl multiple tiple 2 was used THE MuL MULTIPLE WAS REDUCED ACCORDING ACCORDING TO W. W D. D COOPER COOPEE MANAGER BUR R. R L. L i. i POLk POLK CO o. o THE DIRECTORY PUBLISHER BE BE- AU E OF or NEARLY Y SINGLE cM MEN U N EMPLOYEES OF or SMELTERS w G IN T THE CITY IT ITrIS f IS Dc WHETHER I TORY TORY COMPILERS IN MANY OT OTHER IER CIT CITIES S ARE ABI SO SO CONSCIENTIOUS CONS IN INTHE INI THE COMPILATION OP or POPULATION ITI TION l STATISTICS AND ON THE SAME BASIS AS IS USED ELSEWHERE ELSEWHERE ELSEWHERE ELSE ELSE- WHERE SALT LAKE LABS CITY WOULD BE SHOWN TO HAVE EVEN A GREATER POPULATION IN MANY CITIES THE MULTIPLE 2 z IS USED AND NOWHERE ELSE IT IS IS A LOWER MULTIPLE THAN a 21 EMPLOYED THUS THE GAIN IN POPULATION HERE IS SHOWN TO BE SUBSTANTIAL SUBSTANTIAL SUBSTANTIAL AND FIDE BONA FIGURING IT ON SHE VERY LOWEST RATE PATE OF PERCENTAGE The THo directory a of 1905 1005 contained 40 that of or 1906 had 15 names a S. S pf f 2565 2561 This Tiia years year's ill til- tilT T tory Will wiH contain in th the names mes of 53 52 p person an unprecedented increase se of The Thereal g gain n in fn population during thelast the thelast last j t twelve lve months was 1913 while a casual asual observer er will Trill give the gain only at-only Tire Th e iota tat number dumber of t names n names m s In in In last years year's directory as Had It been it-been been multiplied by 2 as the number of ot name names was multiplied this year ear the population estimate te last year would have have been been 85 90 for tor the greater Salt Lake City Multiplying Multi plying the e number of names In the 1967 1907 1 a l oA me fn ten sG directory t the estimate for r Greater Salt Lake City shows a gain of ot almost Lots of Smiths In twelve twel months Divided alphabetically the numbers of of names in last years year's directory and in that o of this year are as follows 1906 1905 1907 A 1443 1798 1798 B C f H D 1770 2065 v. v E i t 1206 ig 1396 F s' 1301 1730 G l t i 1851 1851 n 2272 ng 2 H t I J 1582 2014 K IC 1314 1689 L t 2041 2457 Me l H 1145 1195 r rl l M V lIt A 2638 N J 1045 1264 O 0 t- t r 3 J g. g ii P 2323 2963 Q 68 77 R 2124 21 2124 2607 S 1 t T t i 14 1437 1937 19 1904 U U 75 SO 80 SOV V v.- v. t. t W 2918 2915 Y i Z L 87 I 1 The Telegrams Telegram's Estimate Based on an unofficial estimate made at that time titre by Mr Cooper THE TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELEGRAM TELE TELE- GRAM several severa weeks ago placed the population of ot the city and its immediate suburbs at This estimate is now shown to have been about 2000 too low Every city in the United States bases its population statistics upon the population population tion within the city and th the adjacent suburbs so that the figure is the fairest estimate of ot Salt Lake City City's population |