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Show POPULATION OF OGDEN AND SALT LAKE. H; With & population of 118,110, Salt 'Lake City shows a growth of H; 25,332 since 1910. This is an increase of 27.3 per cent, or a healthy ! development. Ogden's percentage of increase was slightly higher than that of Salt Lake, and would have, been much greater had the boundaries V of Ogden been extended at any time in the past thirty years, during which period Salt Lake repeatedly has reached out and taken in R now population. . H All- that part of Ogden south of Thirty-sixth street, west of the H stockayrds in Wilson Lane and north and northwest of Five Points H is beyond the corporate limits and is not included in the census fig-J fig-J ures. Otherwise Ogden would .show approximately 40,000. H But Ogden is beginning to get industries which will give a more, H rapid growth in the next ten years, unless, in a clash of forces which is now operating, the bright outlook is turned to dismal disappoint- H Ogden is at the inception of an industrial development which H promises to close the numerical gap which today separates Ogden H and Salt Lake, and it would be a source of extreme disappointment if, at the starting of a rapid upward movement, the advancement Hj should be checked and even wiped out by involving tho whole com- H munity in an endless uproar. H Salt Lake can better afford to have these upsets, because that H city has had its greatest possible growth in an industrial way. Ogden H is just stepping out to attain the position which its natural advan- H tages warrant, and it would be regrettable if Ogden itself, were to H close the door to progress. H Ogden to.day has nearly double the number of inhabitants Salt H Lake had in 1880 and almost as many as the capital possessed in 1890. Even as late as 1900, Salt Lake had only 53,531, but in the H twenty years; since then the city has more than doubled. H In the next twenty years Ogdon should duplicate the perfor-m-uA-AfwSaJUJU.in.the peried from. 1900 to-1920. |