" I' ;. ""! SUPPLEMENT FOR ..UT AH ' ' POPULATION AGRICULTURE MANUFACTURES MINES AND Q1JARRIES (565) CHAPTER 1. NUMBER OF INHABIT ANTS. Introduction.-This chapter gives the population of 1910; and the distribution of the population at the Utah, by counties and minor civil divisions, as enu­ last two censuses according to urban and rural dis­ merated at the Thirteenth Census, taken as of April tricts, are given in Table I of Chapter 2. 15, 1910, with comparative statements of population The tables and text of the present chapte1~ contain where possible, and a statement and discussion for the few technical expressions whose meaning is not ap­ State as a whole of the population living in urban parent. The census usage in regard to certain terms and in rural territory. The statistics are given in de­ is, however, explained below: tail in two general tables. Density of population.-The density of population of a state or Table 1 (p. 573) shows the population of Utah, dis­ county ie obtained by dividing its total population by the number tributed according to counties and minor civil divi­ of square miles in its land area. In calculating the density of rural sions, at the last three censuses, namely, those of 1910, population, the same divisor is used as it is not practicable to ascer­ 1900, and 1890. The arrangement of counties and of tain and deduct the exact area covered by the urban districts, and even if this could be done with accuracy the deduction o:f this area the primary divisions in each county is alphabetical. from the total land area would ordinarily make no appreciable The figures for secondary divisions are printed in difference in the resulting quotient. italics. The changes in boundaries, name, or form of Minor civil divisions.-The counties are divided generally into organization that have taken place since 1900 are smaller political units which bear different: designations in the indicated in the footnotes to the table. For changes different, parts of the country, such as towns, townships, election precincts, etc. Of these minor civil divisions those which rank next between 1890 and 1900 reference must be made to the to the county as geographic areas are termed primary divisions. In census report of 1900. many instances, however, these primary divisions contain political It may be noticed that the county totals as given in units of still smaller area, such as cities, incorporated villages, towns, Table 1 for .1900 and 1890 sometimes exceed the aggre­ or boroughs. These smaller political units are referred to as 1ec­ gate population of the minor civil divisions as shown ondary divisions. Urban and rural population defined.-'l'he Census Bureau, for in the table. This is, for the most part, due to the purposes of discussion, has defined urban population as that residing territorial changes that have been made in the minor in cities and other incorporated places of 21500 inhabitants or more, civil divisions of certain counties since 1890. In and rural population as that residing outside of such incorporated the case of one county, however, it is because the places. · population was returned by p,recincts in 1910 and The comparisons of the urban and rural population in 1910 With °1900 1890. that at earlier enumerations may be made either with respect to the but was not so returned in varying proportions of the two classes at successive enumerations or Table 2 (p. 577) shows the cities and incorporated with respect to the increase between enumerations. In order to towns in Utah, alphabetically arranged, with their contrast the proportion of the total population)iving in urban or population in 1910, 1900, and 1890. rural territory at the census of 1910 with the proportion urban or The population of Utah, by counties, at each of the rural at the preceding census, it is necessary to classify the territory last five censuses, from 1870 to 1910, inclusive; the according to the conditions as they existed at each census. In this compadson a place having less than 2,500 inhabitants in 1900 and increase during the last two decades; the density of over 2,500 in 1910 is classed with the rural population for 1900 and the total and the rural population at the census of with the urban for 1910. On the other hand, in order to present RlSTORICAr. NO'l'E.-Utah derives its name from the Ute Indians, who once requested admission to the Union. Congress did not gr~t this request, but in occupied what is now the northeastern part of the state. The term "Ute" Is September, 1850, created the terrltozy of Utah, which extended from the California equivalent to "highlander." boundary to the Rocky Mountains and from the thirty-seventh to the forty-second The first explorers of this region were Spaniards. It is probable that members of parallel, The new territory thus included the area now constituting western Coronado's party entered it from the south as early as 1540. In 1776 two Spanish Colorado, southwestern Wyoming, and the greater part of Nevada. In February, friars, seeking a route from Santa Fe to the Pacific, discovered Utah Lake. Nearly 1861, when the territory of Colorado was organized, the eastern boundary of Utah, 50 years later Great Salt Lake was discovered by James Bridger, a trapper. Other south of the forty-first parallel, was fixed at Its present location. In the following trappers followed soon afterwards ~d established trading posts. The first perma­ month tho area of Utah was further reduced by the formation of Nevada territory nent settlement of the .Utah country was not made, however, until July, 1847, when with Its eastern boundary at longitude 39° from Washington (approximately 116• Salt Lake City was founded by n band ·or Mormons from Illinois under the leadership from Greenwich). In March, 1863, that portion of Utah lying north of the forty~fir.st of Brigham Young, parallel and east of the thirty-third meridian from Washington was made a part of The area now constituting Utah formed a portion of the Spanish possessions In the newly created territory of Idaho, which then included most of the present area America until Mexico achieved its independence in 1821, when It became a part of of Wyoming. In October, 1804, when Nevada was admitted to the Union, :the that country. ln February, 1848, by the treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, at the close boundary between that state and Utah was moved eastward 1 degree, and two of the war with Mexico, that nation ceded to the United States Its clti.ims to a large years later It was fixed at the thirty.seventh meridian from Washington. In July, part of the region between Texas and the Pacific Ocean, which Included the territory 1808, the area between the forty-first and forty-second parallels and the thirty-third comprised within the present limits of Utah. and thirty-fourth meridians from Washington was taken from northeastern Utah For two years after the founding of Salt Lake City the new colony had no secular and made a part of the newly organized territory of Wyoming, leaving Utah with its government. !n 1849 the :Mormons organized the so-called state of Deseret and present boundaries. In Janua.ry, 1896, the territory became a state of the Union, (507) 568 SUPPLEMENT FOR UTAH. fa.irly the contrast between urban and rural communities, as r~­ of the territory may, on the basis of ita population at the earlier ga.rde their rate of growth, it is necessary to consider the changes m census, have then been in a different class. This avoids the d' • population for the same territory which have occurre~. from ~ne turbing effect on compari~~ns which would arise from the passag~, decennial census to another. For this purpose the terntory which for example, of commumties. formerly classed as rural into the in 1910 was urban or rural as the case may be, is taken as the urban group. Those two distinct forms of comparison are made in basis, and the population i~ 1900 for the same territory (so for as '!'able I of Chapter 2 for the state as a whole and for each county lleparately reported at that census) is p.resented, even though part ~epamtoly for the lo.~t two censuses. TOTAL POPULATION, INCREASE, AND DISTRIBUTION. Population of the state.-The population of Utah is that for the preceding decade, is considerably lower 373,351. Compared with a population of 276,749 in than that, for any other decade prior to 1890. 1900, this represents an increase during the last dec~de 'l'he following table shows the population of Utah at of 96,602, or 34.9 per cent. During the same per1.od each.census from 1850 to 1910, inclusive, together with the total population of the United States m­ the mcrease and per cent of increase during each creased 21 per cent. The rate of increase for the decade, in comparison with the per cent of increase for state for this decade, though slightly higher than the United States as a whole. INCREASE OVER PRECEDING Percent CENSUS. of increase CENSUS YEAR. Population. for the United Number. Percent. States. 1910 .......... ············ ................... " .. 373, 351 96,602 34.9 21.0 1900 ........................................... 276, 749 65,970 31.3 20.7 1890 .•.......................................... I 210, 779 66, 816 46.4 25.5 1880. - ...••.. "" ........ " ............. ". " ....... 143, 963 57,177 65.9 30.1 1870 .....• ······ ···············." .............. 86,786 46,513 115.5 22.6 1860 ... "·- ..................................... 40, 273 28,893 253. !) 35.6 1850 ..... " .............................•..... "". 11, 380 1 Includes population (2,874) of Indian reservutlons specialty enumcrnted.