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Show lVJ OGDEN'S POPULATION 18 30.111 Thp Standard, lam week, made a forecast of the school census, estimating esti-mating the Increase nt nearly 300. The enumeration as completed is even larger than our figures, the increase in-crease being 341, with a total school population of 7S6.1. All the wards of the city show gains, proving that Og- den Is growing in every direction. Comparison! are sometimes odious but we are prompted to place our Increase alongside i bat of Salt Lake. The capital has 24,004 school children a growth of 1$6 over 1912. This Is an Increase of only 4u more than is disclosed In Ogden. The ratio of three to one is being well maintained D) the two Cities Salt Lake has been claiming 100,000 population and the directory ghes 120.inm. If thosc figures fig-ures were reliable, Ogden would have 33.000 to 40.000 people, but they are overestimates. gi, ie approximately approxi-mately has 90,000 and Ogden 30,000 The growth of Ogden cannot be better presented than by a comparison compari-son of the school census of this year with that of the year when the United States census was taken: School census 1910, 4.9S3 School census lmn 7,863 Ogden, according to the government govern-ment reports, had a population of 25.-580 25.-580 In 19H In determining Ogden'l pitsent population, we have this ratio. 4,983:25.580 -7.863 X The answer Is 80,111. At this rale of growth, Ogden will have over 40,000 people by the next federal census. |