Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1920-08-21 | Page 4 | Our Growing Population

I' OUR GROWING POPULATION. Tn thr census report by siatos, Utah is credited with 452,833, which compares favorablj with 457,619 for Idaho. The two inter mountain states are going forward at about the samp rate, and both are enjoying a good growth, though not n boom. Down through the I snake valley there hat been a remarkable development in the past ten years, which 1ms added much population t the state. Though; Utah has 'no Snake valley, hut.- intensive farming lias mode it pos-( Bible for thli stat agriculturally to advance in company with Idaho. In inannfscturing, Utah has kept well ahead of Idaho Nevada has more than held its own iii 1890 the 8ilver itati , lost population, and at that time then- was considerable agitation in the eastern press in favor of giving to the ' western boroug," as it w as called less representation in congress, in fad of taking swa ; statehood, if that wire possible. Wyoming and Arizona have nol much more population than ( I't.ih. Wyoming falling 11,000 short oi 200,000, while Arizona only has 78 157. . , Delaware, Vermont and New Hampshire fall below I tab in the i I'nsiis figures California ranks eighth among the states in population, having passed New Jersey, Indiana. Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Georgia and other commonwealths which s fe years ago were more populous New York with 10,740,395 and Pennsylvania with 8,788,000 continue con-tinue to far outrank all Other stnt'-v Oklahoma, a territory Long after Utah was admitted to the union, lias 2,421 L56. it seems as only yesterday, when the squatters made! their big rush into the territory and the government's lottery of land j whn ii had been held bj the Indians was in progress, The United 'States as a whole is credited with 105,082,650, or more people than Germ an 3 and France combined had al the opening; of the conflict in T1 1