Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-07-11
According to Polk Directory
Salt Lake Has l12,346 Souls

possessed by any similar extent Of
country in the United states.
She draws constantly increasing
tribute of wealth each year from tbs
mines, mills, ranches and range oil
Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana ano
Nevada. The people who make theii
fortunes in these states look to Salt
Lake City as place of permanent
residence and Investment. They are
drawn here by the characteristic Amer
lean desire for the best things of life,
and they find them here in our splendid
educational system-schools, colleges,
Observation-Disclosures institutions OF
literature, science, music and art, thea
tiers, parks and public pleasure resorts.
The substantial growth of the city
is perhaps best shown by the WONDER
full building boom which has been
in progress during the years l907-S, and
which, at this writing, gives no sign
of diminution.
This remarkable building activity is
as noticeable in the residential as in
the business districts of the city. Salt
Lake City at last finds herself in the
sky-scraper" class, and official sta
tisties indicate that in this phase of
community development she leads
every city of her size in the nation.
The gigantic task of paving the broad
streets of the city is well under way
and a new era OF individual and mu-
nicipai interest in civic beauty is upon
us, 80 that not many years will pass
seto-e sal; Lake City, already beauti-
full, will be the City Beautiful" of the
trans-Mississippi country.
The strong financial condition of our
banks and business institutions was
satisfactorily demonstrated during the
money panic of the past year. which
not only brought no failures, but no
suggestion of weakness.
Because of the conditions briefly pre-
sented here, and by reason of her SUI
perb climate and the exquisite beauty
of her scenic envil onment, Salt Lake
City holds out moro attractions to the
tourist, the home-seeker. or the inves-
tor than does any other city within the
range of our knowledge.
The city directory should be- and
claims TO be, the highest authority on
the population of the city where il is
published Beyond even the federal
census, with the law of the United
States behind the enumeration 20 aid
in securing the consent of the people
to furnish statistics, are the trained
directory employees, who, from yeaI to
year, cover the city and must show
results from every opening on every
street and alley, or answer to the .vx.
aminer for the omission. The publish
ers therefore rely confidently on the
statistics and other facts of the can.
vass this is the more true because
from the cordial assistance AFFORDED
the canvassers by the people it has
been comparatively easy to get things
just right. The customary means OF
estimating population is to multiply the
number OF names OF individuals in the
directory by two and half. In the
present volume there are 56,l73 names
of persons who lived in and around Salt
Lake City at the time the canvassers
took the information for this book. In
this number is included no firm name
church, school, institution, nor any
thing else which does not stand for
me name OF an individual. Multiply
TINS number by two only and the popu-
lation of Salt Lake city dncludInc
Murray and the suburbs) is found to be
1895 The population OF the city
proper however, Is estimated by the
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