Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-10-19
Total. O64, ,532 1881

Proudly in this list stands our own
County of Meigs. There are but two
counties in the whole hst-Motgomery
and Franklin-w hose increase equals
that of Meigs, and even in these, the ra-
tic is Insignificant in comparison
Look at the six counties composing this
Congressional District! Meigs had in
1850, 1871 Inhabitants, in 1860 she
has 26,512, being an absolute increase of
E8,541, and a relative gain of 481 per cent.
Athens had in 1850, 1925 and in 1860
she has Fl ,4O6 being an increase of only
3,191, or ,175 per cent. Vinton had in
1850, 1888 and in 1860, 1866, an in
crease of 1903, or As per cent. Hook
ing had in 1850, 14,119, and in 1860,
1878, being an increase of only 1859,
or 13 per cent. Fairfield had in 1850,
3O,264, and in 1860, 3O,723, gain of
only 459 in ten years Perry had in
1850, POTTS and in 1850, 1888, being
an actual decrease in ten years of 1,097
We have not time to o-day to carry out
the contrast further The table is an in
teresting one to our citizens, and will
attract the attention of men of enter
prise in other regions. Our growth is
the result of our natural advantages
oil "a hod 80 bo
ulus of the public works of the State, OF
any great Railroad or other improve
ment. Speculation has not crowded
into our limits an unnecessary popula-
ton. We have fewer drones than any
other county in the State. We are en-
phatically a community of soorkers.-
Men come here to ooork, and labor, find
ing its just reward, is building up our
towns and improving the county. And
in no portion Of the State has labor been
better rewarded or it's acquisition more
generally expended in the improvement
Of the condition Of the psGple than in
this county. No colossal fortunes have
been made by spectators, but all over
the county the improvement of FARMS,
the neat and comfortable dwellings,
the increased attention to stock and fruit,
as well as the ordinary products of the
farm, has more than kept pace with
the rapid increase of population during
the last ten years. And as the re:
sources of the County become better
known-the advantages of Pomervy
and other towns, as manufacturing cen
ters-the superior market thus afforded
for the products Of the farm and garden
the productiveness of our soil when
judiciously tilled-its adaptation to
fruit -growing-and, above all, the re-
markable healthiness of the climate, will
attract the attention Of intelligent and
enterprising men, and we have no doubt
the next ten years will show more
rapid increase of population, and an in
creased ratio of improvement and pros
perity generally.
To our well-to-do citizens we would
say, stay where you are-in no other
locality will you be likely to improve
your condition-with honest industry
and economy almost any man may build
up comfortable home, and surround
it with all the necessities of life. Our
schools are improving, and society gen
orally is advancing in the direction of a
higher culture And, to cap the china
and confirm the prophecy of the future,
we need only refer to the Republican
majority of the 9th of October to dispel
the doubts of all waverers, and gain a
full assent to our claim for little Meigs,
as being in all respects the "banner
County"