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Show IN T R O D U C T IO N R By Nathaniel Jackson, G eneral Secretary, -S a lt Lake-Commercial Club. . | | 'E'PLETE W I T H INTEREST is the 1920 d ir e c t o r /o f R. L. Polk & Company; it tak:ei is.gu&^with th e , governm ent census as regards population; it has a cla ssified section which, compared with the classified Section o f the 4910 directory, discloses ..startling industrial growth o f Salt Lake City;' its-careful perusal w ill ^convince* any fa r-seein g real estate^investor that fortunes should be iti store'foi; those who in v e it'in Salt Lake property during the. .next decade and beyond. . , ' BEBSSBBI • BE In sum m ing up the actual population of Salt Lake City the^porps o f^ o lk experts have gone into carefuL^tudy of the population, which /will be im m ediately beneficial fo the merchant^ th^gmanuiactTO^r and whoever is b e n e fite d by .a healthy m unicipal growth. It-i% a w ell known fact that when the governm ent ffin su s men took fhe population o f-S a lt 1 H W during J a n u a r y a m » b b r u a r y of th is^ year they were bound by c o r p o r a te city which m som e in s t a n c e passed {through heavily populated sections of H I An in stan ce of th isfb found along old Twelfth South street which marks the southern corporate,lim its pf Salt Lake .pity. It has Bgeii admitted by governm ent census takers thaf the population im m ediately sopth of th is boundary lin a isila rg e r than the population im m ediately north. Consequently, thj£governm ent census ofiiSalt Lake City is not sp tficiently com plete lo bo of any^di!r ^Lvaluef;tto^the]average business. f man. 'He m u st look for the^population of a moreuextensive area; one which is comm only reached by telephone lines,vgtill w ithin the district which dobs not exact to ll; where \s}||eetfear transportation is available and w herelih aistraets are well payeh toiguarantee sw ift transporta tion for autom obiles and horse-draw n v eh ic les. But this the ¡¡g H corps of experts has done, and the^ have included m their population, which is r e a lly S f valueLiia a b u s in e ^ man, the district im m ediately I,south of Twelfth South ap #M u rray, Midvale, Sandy Union, g | | Jordan P leasant (ireen aud tfa£p|bld. Hebe, they find that the popu lation ¿f Salt Lake,City i s actual 1 ^ 0 , 3 88 The governm ent census which did not include the heavily populated district im m ediately south of lhe«outhe-fn'coiT.c>ra.t%iitolt^Ms of the im m ediate suburban settlements^ was 118 , 110 :y.vt^atf'shQwed a very substantial growth for a period of tph years. H uwever||the Polk directory men declare that fully five thousand people^ were ,-eut of the city or-w ern over looked w hen the cen su s was taken,¿even within thh corporate ^m ns, which bound the United States^census men as far as Salt Lake u u y was concerned • The practice, of all standard di& ctories in giving a population is that of m ultiplying the number p f names. taken by two. 1 hat practhe m o || accurate method of arriving a ; a population knownM xcept w h e n fo m e m ethod is- pursued of m g either at home or abroad^very ’l i v i n g . individual who. should^be M W * f f iS M ? .? '. contained in th fc la a s ifie d section o f the directory of vital importance for there is nothin g quit« a ^ in sp irm a to. a trained real estate investor or realtor as.-to Compare the 1920 cla ssified section with the cla ss fied section of 1910. This com parison which it would be im possible to analyze in an introductory, gives evidence of trem endous in dustrial growth in and about Salt Lake City, giving a basis for a f a n n e r .0 estim atin g the increased value of property and for the mak g Q+ investm ents in real estate. f 1 |
