Guess it was nothing more than Chamber of Commerce boosterism, Grayce

Or, 37 years later, just another excuse to create a population column graph.

From an August 31, 1976 letter:

It's so quiet here -- hardly ever a car goes by our house. The population in this town is rising quickly though. They expect 80,000 in 5-7 years (it's 48,000 now). I am now gazing out our back door at 2 workers putting up a house across from us. They're putting up the skeleton of the roof right now. I'm surprised at how quickly it's being finished.

The population of Bannock County, of which Pocatello is the county seat, didn't reach a population of 80,000 until the 2010 census.


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