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Show » m UTAH'S 1001101110 STATUS and the GREAT SALT LAKE DIKING- PROJECT Part I - Utah's Economic Status « I - 7ITAL STATISTICS: Population of Utah - 1920 ---•-.-•------• « . 449,396 Natural Increase- 1920- 1930 Ince( Excess of births over deaths) 87* 061 Total -----.--'-.---... 536.457 Population of Utah - 1930 ---------.'-'•- - 507,847 Net emigration fron State - - - - - - - - - - - - 28.610 This shows that the equivalent of one- third of the natural increase i the State's population left the Stnte in the cost prosperous decade of the country's history* There is indicRted very seriously an approach to the point where Utah will sustain no further increase in population The following table gives a bird's- eye view of the State's growth in population since its founding: Increase by Decades Fqiaarfeal vcar Population Increase 1850 15,000 ( Approx c) i860 35,000 ( Approx. ) 20s000 1R70 86,786 51.7B6 1880 143- 9& 3 ' 57,177 1890 210,779 • 66,818 1900 276,749 65* 970 1910 373,351 96,602 1920 449,396 76,045 1930 207,847 58,451 Increase j? xj> ressetl a « Percentage of Population At beginning of Decade < 133o3 147.9 65.9 46& 4 3UD 25** 20,4 11* 5 « . i |
