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Show 9 o e & e GROWTH OF 20 PER CENT OVER 1910HEC0RDED State Fails to Keep Up Past Reputation for Great Increase ABOUT FIVE PERSONS IN SQUARE MILE HERE Period of Great Growth Be tween Years of 1850 and 1860 WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. Utah, list state in population ten sears ago, and the 1!20 population of which was announced today by the census bureau it 149,446, has shown the largest percentage per-centage of growth of an stale thus far announced In the fourteenth census cen-sus Its rate of growth. '20 4 per cent, was almost as large as that for the deci.de ending with 1910 but Its numerical num-erical increase was exceeded in that i decade. (HIT 1 i s;t SF. I In tho last ten sears lis increase was 76.095. while ten years ago It showed an increase of 96.602. The stale now hns almost forty times the population M bad when organized' as" aerrltory In isr.rt and 'Its iicrpr.e In tn last tn wars t more than six times the population popu-lation at that time. Utah had a population of 7"..o."l in 1010. ranking as the 4 1st most populous popu-lous state in the union. It showed an Increase of 90.602 or 34.9 per cent over 1900 hiving had the largest growth numerically in Its history to that time. In area Ftah ranked as 10th largest stale in the union In 19lo with a land area of 32.1S4 square miles, making its population average 1,6 per square mile msTom i i i h Utah was organized as a territory in 1 8o0 and appears in the Federal census cen-sus reports lor the first time in that year. Ourlng the l'O seats from lfc.'iU to 1870 ils population Increased verj rapidly. multiplying nearly encht times, the rates of Increase being -53.9 per cent for the first decade and 115.5 per cent for the second, The population from 1870 to 1910 while Showing a substantial growth, did no; increase nearly so rapidly as during the tsvo decades 1850-1S70 the rates of increase ranging from C'l 3 per cent for the decade 1890-1900 to 65.9 per cent for the decade 1870-80. I Rl.Y GROWTH RAPID Comparison of the rates of Increase for the state with those of the United States shows that the rate for the state during every docado from 1S60 to 1910 was higher than that for the ' I nlted States as a Whole The largest difference between the two rates was during the decade 1860-0 when the rate for tho state was more than seven limes that for the country as a Whole, vshlle the smallest difference was that shossn for the decadL 189o-l900 when; i the rate for the state was a little, more than one and one half times thatj for the country as a whole. The population popu-lation of the state in 1910 was nearly 33 times ah large as In 1860 While the .population of the United States In' 1910 was only about lour times Ihati In 1 850. The record of growth of Utah s population follows. C'en Yr Pop. Increase Pet.1 19-'0 .... 449,4 4ii 711,095 20.4 1910 373.351 96.602 84.9 j 1900 276.719 fin. 970 3 1.3 I , 1890 210.779 tifi,8 16 46 4 188o .... 143,063 57.177 t".5.9 1 870 86,78 46.51 1 115 9 I860 40 271 28.893 253 9 i '1850 1 1,380 oo |