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Show OGDEN'S POPULATION. X So Ogden, in its increase of population, has surprised even the head of the census bureau in Washington! That would be rather i complimentary to Ogden, were it not that it has caused the bureau heads to express a doubt as to the correctness of the enumeration in this city. At the time the census was being taken, Ogden had no thought of creating such a disturbance. The city had enjoyed a vigorous growth, but there was no boom spirit and no desire to pad the census figures. Yet here wc are with a population so large that Mr. Durand of Washington has 'ordered one of his most trusted and competent lieutenants to carefully go over the city's inhabitants and report his findings. In compliance with his instructions, R. B. Leach, the special representative of the census bureau, began his duties thi3 morning and now has a force of enumerators working in the district between Washington and Wall avenues, Twenty-fifth and Twenty-second Twenty-second streets. On the results obtained in this test district will be determined the need of further investigation throughout the city. The canvass must be completed not later than next Thursday evening, and Ogden will be one of the very last cities In the United States to be finally reported on, as the day followirg the receipt in Washington of the figures on this city, the total census of the United States will be bulletined by Census Director Eurand. Having been in fairly close touch with the enumeration in Ogden, Og-den, this paper is confident the revision of the enumeration will cause no material change and that Ogden will be shown to have con-siderably con-siderably over 25,000 inhabitants. A recanva2s, if taken as of date December 1, would give nearer 28,000, as there has been a good growth since the date of the census, which was taken In April. |