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Show CENCUS OP UTAH SHOWS BIG GAIN Percentage of Growth In Ten Years Largest of Fourteen States So Far Reported. Utah, forty-first state in population ten years ago, and the 1920 population popula-tion of which was announced this month by the census bureau as 449,-446, 449,-446, has shown the largest percentage of growth of any state thus far announced an-nounced in the fourteenth census. Its rate of growth, 20.4 per cent, was almost al-most as large as that for the decade ending with 1910, but its numerical in: crease was exceeded in thait decade. In the last ten years its Increase was 76,095, while ten years ago it showed an increase of 96,602. The state now has almost forty times the population it had when organized as a territory in 1850, and its increase in the' last ten years is more than six times the population at that time. Utah had a population of 373,351 in 1910, ranking as the forty-firsit most populous state in the union. It showed an increase of 96,602 or 34.9 per cent over 1900, having had the largest growth numerically in its history to that time. In area Utah ranked as tenth largest larg-est state in the union in 1910, with a land area of 89,184 square miles, making mak-ing its population average 4.5 per square mile. Multiplies Eight Times. Utah was organized as a territory in 1850 and appears in the federal census reports for the first itime in that year. During the twenty years from 1850 to 1870 its population increased in-creased very rapidly, multiplying nearly eight times, the rates for increase in-crease being 253.9 per cent for the flrrt decndi nnd 115.9 per cent for the second. The population from 1870 to 1910, while showing a substantial growth, did not increase nearly so ",-'(" r- -Viring the rtwo decades 1850V1870, the rates of increase ranging rang-ing from 31.3 per cent for the decade 1890-1900 to 65.9 per cent for the decade de-cade 1870-80. Comparison of the rates of increase for the state with those of the United States shows that the rate for the state during every decade from 1850 to 1910 was higher than that for the United States a? a whole. The largest larg-est difference between the two rates was during the decade 1850-60, when the rate for the state was more than seven itimes that for the country as a whole, while the smallest difference was that, shown for the decade 1890-1900, 1890-1900, when the rate for the state was a little, more than one and one-half times that for the country as a whole. The population of the state in 1910 was nearly thirty-three times as large as in 1850, while the population of the United States in 1910 was only about four times that in 1850. |