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Show UTAH SHOUT 8719 HOUSES According to the census bureau, there was a shortage of 874 9 houses in Utah in 1920, a shortage of 5201 in Idaho, and 37G6 in Wyoming. This la on tho basis of the number of families fami-lies and the number of dwellings enumerated. According to the census there were 98,346 families in Utah last year and only 89.5S7 dwellings. In that year there were exactly five persons to the dwelling, where there had been 5.1 in 1910 and 5.2 in 1900. Families in Utah, as in the rest of the country, are diminishing in size, the average number of persons to the family in the state being 4 C last . year, whereas the general average for the uniiHry was 4.3. In 1910 there was an average of 4.8 persons to a family in Utah, and ten years pre-- pre-- viu s there was 4.9. The census enumerators found 100,500 families living in Idaho last year ami only" 'j 5,2 9 9 dwellings. The number o:' per-mis to the dwelling averagd 4.5, the same as In 1910, an.l the number of persons per family fami-ly averaged 4.3, slightly loss than 1910, but exactly the same as 1900. Wyoming bad 4S.47C families and only 14,710 dw.-llings. The r unier of persns to the dwelling averaged 4.3, as against 4.7 during the two prcfliiig censuses. The lam ill es averaged four persons each, where ten years ago they averaged 1.5. |