Show NEW CITY OTY DIRE ORY OUT TODAY SHOWS RAPID r. r Of SAt T lAI LAW E 5 Volume XVI of the Salt Lake City t I directory was issued from the press V f 1 this morning and is now being dis dis- It contains 1340 pages Instead Instead In- In stead of 1150 as last years year's book and J bears many other evidences of the forward forward for- for 1 ward strides the city is making As told in THE TELEGRAM a few r days ago the population of the city isri is isi i 11 ri placed at this estimate b being in made by use of a multiple of 2 Last i years rears population fi figured on a multiple fe v. v of 2 24 4 4 was given iven as only K i- i The book is th the work of R. R L. L Polk i r Co of which whit W. W P P. Cooper is is mana manager man- man f a ager er and is a handsome and splendidly arranged arranged and indexed volume The first F name in the book is that of th the tha Aachen i I Munich Fire Firc Insurance company The first individual name is Da Dagmar mar East Sixteenth South street Thelast The Thelast last name is that of Paul 61 Apple le street There aire Smiths in the directory exclusive of the and Smyths The Th Browns not countin counting the Brownes number and the tho J Joneses The resources and growth of the city are set forth in the following introductory introductory introductory tory by Jud Judge o C. C C. C Goodwin Since our directory for 1906 was is issued issued is sued Salt Lake City has lias so greatly advanced ad ad- n advanced that the chan change e amounts to well ni nigh h a transformation The bank clearings at the close of last year had increased over the former year or more moie than 30 per cent There is is just now bein being expended on public improvements within the city lit limits the contracted sum of 1218 while the private and aud corporate improvements now bein being rushed to completion com com- will a aggregate gre ate for the y year ar armore more than The tremendous work now in progress progress progress pro pro- gress is looked upon as only a unit of what is to be Just Just outside the city the smelting companies are expending millions of dollars and all this is but a tributary to the tIle city while the vast sums involved involved in in- in the production purchase and reduction of f ores have no place but this city for a clearing The Western Pacific by September 1 l will wm be running trains far out into Nevada The tracks are already laid and the last details are bein being sp speedily speedily speed speed- edily ed- ed ily arran arranged edThe ed The Tho natural result is a lar large e increase increase in crease in inhabitants and a corresponding correspond correspond- in ing increase in the number of names which our directory for 1907 contains It includes the names and addresses address address- es of the residents residents of the city and all the surrounding suburbs it is so complete complete com com- p lete that it will be a necessity for f or every every ev ev- ery ery business manThe man The The estimate of population made mad e by a directory canvass by this company com com- com com- pany is is of much interest and it is generally geny generally gen gen- orally regarded as bein being nearl nearly correct There are in this volume individual individual indi indi- vidual names names of corporations firms death and removal notices no not t included We have been using using- th the e lowest multiple in vogue in Western cities 2 in m making our estimate of population since 1905 but owing to the very close canvass made this year and on account of the large number of names of single men working at the I Murray furray and Garfield smelters and included in in- in this volume we have decided to use the multiple of 2 this year to represent married women and children who are not included in the directory canvass canvass This indicates a population of residing within the limits covered cov covered cow cov- cowered ered by our canvassers Deducting 22 22 from this his is total for Murray Murra Garfield Gar Gar- field Fort Douglas Holliday Brinton and all an the suburbs the population of Salt Lake City proper is at nt the present time according to our ou- estimate There is no other city in America with so fair a promise of r future advancement advancement ad ad- as Salt Lake City Its climate its lake its min mineral al springs s its sunshine and the glory lory of its surroundings would eventually insure in in- sure a larger cit city than it now lOW is with no business considerations ns' ns involved Just Justas as a health resort it is a place for people for no other spot hasso h has ha's hasso s so much to offer to the health seeker But a as ae a business center it has its supreme claims The foremost smelt foremost smelt smelt- in ing center in the world wora surrounded by the greatest minin mining region in the world world the only place within miles in either direction for fora a city all the great States in this interior basin tributary the way half resting place in crossing the continent and Just now laying aside its villa village e swaddling bands and putting put put- ting on its metropolitan robes who can estimate what its glory lory will be in another another another an an- other decade |