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Show ' farms have been cultivated and more people have turned farmers, and, a a result, all the county settlements should show material gains. Make an estimate aa to this gTowth, add it to the growth of Ogden and then write your figures as a guess. By o doing you might receive one of the cash awards. THE POPULATION OF WEBER COUNTY. The response to the Standard's guessing contest on the population popu-lation of Ogden has been so enthusiastic, that this paper has decided to enlarge the field by including Weber county and today offers $100 to those who can guess nearest to the census returns. The last census gavo Weber county 25,239. The population of Ogden should equal that of the entire county ten years ago, so to the 25,239 mu3t be added the population of Ogden Valley and all that country to the north, west and south of Ogden. Huntsville, Eden, Liberty, North Ogden, Plain City, West Weber, We-ber, Roy, Riverdale and the other smaller settlements should bring Weber county's total census up to 40,000. That may be a little high, but it is a guess which is presented for what it is worth. In the first ten years, Weber county more than trebled in population. popu-lation. Then in the next decade it doubled, but from 1870 to 1880 the growth was slower, until between 1890 and 1900 there was a gain of only 2,516, all of which was made in Ogden. But since 1900 the country around Ogden has prospered. More |