The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1862-12-04
TAMA COUNTY, IOWA, THURSDAY DECEMBER 4 1862

TssE PRoGHEss OF IOWA BE-
TWEEN 1850 and 1850.
From the Gate City
We are indebted to friend a, Wash
ington for copy of Mr.. Kenndey's Pre-
lminary Report on the sth censas-a
very valuable document, exhibiting a
rapid increase in population, wealth,
and every national resource, in all parts
Of the country, between the ages Of
! $50 and 1860. The times we're aus
picious. Without wars, Or pestlencc,
or general flood, or drought, our people
had but to call forth their natural ener-
g,cs, and to exercise the wisdom Of the
Anglo Saxon sace in order to surpass
all other people in substantial national
progress and tile trulnphs which are Of
peace.
Accordingly, We find that the pop
ula,ion OF the States and Territories in
creased from %, l0l, ,s7p in 1850 to 81
/ l45.oS9, in 1860; that the number OF
acres Of improved lands went from up
/ ll3,o32, GA 70 l63,26l, $50; the cash
value pf farm from s3,27l, 575,+26, to
Sc $50, ST. ,5o7 Of farming implements
from $l5l,5S7 ,G33 to S247 ,O27, ,496
! tha, all the productions Of our vast
/ farming lands increased enormously i;
tha, for $500 miles Of railway in 1850,
costing 1896, 600, lis, We had 3O,795
miles in 1860. costing 81, Isl $50, ,S29;
that the value Of American manufact-
urcs increased from Sl,Ol3, ,lO6,6l6, to
81 500, 600 COT: that for s72 banks,
with capitol of 1927 ,46s,cT and a
circulation OF sl55, So, in 1850, We
had ,642 in 1850, with a capital OF
s42l $50 COS, and a circulation Of S2O7,
F, l02, HI, their specie in vault increasing
mean xlilc from S4s,67l, l3S, to $50,
56i 52s ; the total wc;.i,,. Of the peoric
Of the country, being the value OF their
real and personal property, exclusive OF
the property owned by the Federal and
| State governments, rose from -, 1885,
| 1so,2ss to SIG 9,Gl9,O6S. Such is a
vc,y brief cir,,ome Of the grand record
-FOUR cauntry's amazing growth during
but ten years OF prosperity and peace
a record which abundantly shows that,
bu, for disturbing elemen. in onr body
politics. and which is now deciding in
bloody war the jssqc of its irrepressible
conflict, we would ere long take our
place as both the most populous and
the most powerful Of nations. With
that discordant element removed, rs
happily We have reasons to hope j. will
be ere long. the imagination can hardly
picture the spieHiid career which would
lie before this people alon: the coming
years.
But We propose now 10 note some OF
the facts connected with the growth OF
onr State-in many important respects
more rapid and honorable TO our peo
| pie than tic growth Of any other State
in the Unio3.
INCREASE IN WEALTH.
In 1850, the value Of the real and per-
sonal property in 1aWa was s23, 3,7l4.6ss.
In 1860. twas $247 ,a37,2oS, having
increased in ten years s22s, 923,G27 or
ut sile Fate Of nearly 9is pes ceat--
amount Of increase higher by nearly
leo per cent than that exhibited by any
| other State III the nati9H: more than
900 per cent higher than that Of Mas
sachusctts or Vermont, and about 900
per cent, higher than that Of the most
prosperous Of the Slave States.--The
absolute increase of our wealta fer the
,ens Hrs alone, vas greater than the
es,irc wealth, in 1860, Of either Arkan.
sas, California, Delaware, Florida, Kan.
sas, Maine, Minnesota, New Hampshire,
Oregon, Rhode Island or Vermont.
Florida, older than Iowa as State by
nearly ten years, and With p greater
area by more than four thousand square
niles, augmented her wealth during the
decade but $5o,2so,2ao-Iowa could,
today, u, poa, Florida, bag, baggage,
and "niggers," and still have nearly
$4,000 900 worth ofproperty left. The
rate Of increase in the wealth Of Wis
consin was 55l per cent, and in Illinois,
| 45a.
GROWTH IN POPULATION
Such rapid acquisition ofwoalth as
the above tignc,s show, would indicate
intense energy, or rapid increase, or
both, among our population. Doubtless
our DeOnle are az energetic as any other