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Show WEBER COUNTY IN THE LEGISLATURE. There is a demand being made for a reapportionment of the state, in conformity with the constitution which requires that after each state and federal enumeration of the population, the legislature shall revise and adjust the apportionment for senators and representatives. represent-atives. The claim is made that, while Utah had a population of only 250,000 at the time of statehood, it now has 375,000, and that there is need for a new division of legislative representation, according to population. Under a new apportionment, Weber county should gain a senator sen-ator and three representatives. The country districts of Utah have not shown any great gains since statehood. The increase in population popula-tion has been principally in Salt Lake and Ogden and in the counties of Box Elder, Cache and Utah. Weber county in 1900 had a population of 25,239. By the census of 1910, Ogden will be shown to have over 26,000, or more than the county and city combined ten years ago. Ogden in 1900 had 16,313, and the county, outside the city, 8,926. If the country districts now have 14,000, Weber county will have a total of 40,000 and be entitled to about one-ninth of the entire legislative body, or, in a legislature of 27 senators and 68 representatives, represent-atives, Weber county should have 3 senators and 7 representatives, or double the present delegation. |