Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-05-18
Observation-Disclosures OF Lands and
City Lots-Transfers from May 1st to
May Sth-SpOrting.

Observation-Disclosures OF Lands and
City L0ts-Transfers from May 1st to
May Sth-Sporting.
POPULATION OF CEDAR FALLS.
We are unable to give correct state
ment of the present population of Cedar
Falls. The Census Report of the State
ofIowa, as returned in the year 1865,
gives the following figures:
Number OF males, 1915
Number Of coiore ss' g males, female, ing
Total population, 27e8
No. entitled to vote, 500
No. Of foreignsrs not naturallzed, 3
NO. ofdwelling houses, 5s
According to the figures above there
were five people to each dwelling house
in town at that time. The number of
houses (seeo facts herewith to substan-
tiate) has been increased at least one
hundred since the above report was
made. Five. to each house would be
500. Then, the Orphans Home having
been established within the last year we
may reckon in the children there and
most of the employes-say two hundred.
This gives US at least 700 to be added to
the 2, 72s-making the present popula-
ton of Cedar Falls 3,423. We believe
this calculation is too small, as the way
people have fiocked to Cedar Fails dur
ing the past three or four months leads
us to believe that the estimate of five to
a house is not large enough by consider
able Our opinion is that the popula-
ton will reach $500. or 300; but, our
only desire, being to give the facts as
nearly correct rs possible, we let the
estimote stand-3,42S.
RENTS.
All kinds of buildings - dwelling
houses, stores, shops--are scarce and
correspondingiy high. Property rents
mostly by the month here, instead of
by the year as is common "dewn east"
Nothing com Portable in the way of a
house can be had for less than SIS per
month. 4 house of five or six good
rooms readily brings from ST. to SIS per
month. The best rented houses i'm town
go at SIS and $50 per month. Storerooms
bring $780, $500, 800, $500 and rs high
as 500 a year, according to size and To-
cation and quality of building.
WILD AND IMPROVED LAND.
Prairie land, adjoining city limits,
$50 to $40 per acre; improved $50 to $50.
Timber, within three miles, $40 to $50
per acre. Prairie land within eight or
ten miles of the city, sells from 81 to IS
per acre; improved, from $40 to $25.-
Timber, that distance, from $40 to $50
per acre.
CITY LOTS.
The best lots for dwellings, near bust
ness, are worth from $500 to $3.50; quite
convenient, from SlG9 to 500 and $3.50
depending much upon location. Bu-
siness lots, OH Main-st., 22x132, bring
fIom $500 to Sl000-some more and some
less, according to their prox unity to the
center of trade.
TRANSFERS OF CITY PROPERTY.
The following table shows the opera
lions in city property from May LIST to
May sth inclusive:
j.; Brown to Chas. Geo. Miller, lot 5
Blk :, F. Browns ID addition, $4,000 |
IL; MeIiln 70 Geo. Miller, west Is feet of
lots and block $, 5000 |
of1ots and block -. II. Overnlan's
addition 5000 !
block 0Serman & Wrlsht's addition, $500 |
u, A. urcutt to w: S. Garrison, lot and
7, block Dean & Garrison's addition. 10000 |
X l.: q j. Taylor to j. NJ. Ben nmin and
=. TOWNSEND, piece Of land in ray-
lor.s addition, $4,000
=. z ~-t7a s~ErF.s ...-. rga es7so,oo
Our report for the month of April, /
published last week, showed the value
of transfers for that month to be SIC
1000. The active operations in real es-
tate, which these figures indicate, is q
strong indication of the prosperity of
Cedar Falls. /
SPORTING. |
Pickerel, pike, bass and other varie-
ties of fish abound in the streams and
small lakes, and are caught in large
numbers during the spring of the year.
Ducks and geese are plenty, at this sea-
son, and Knights of tine Ramrod have
rare times with their guns and dogs
We had occasion to tell, "a time ago, of
how gentleman shot thirteen ducks by
the discharge of one barrel of his piece,
and how another brought in twelve
ducks as the result of an almost stimuli
taneeus discharge of both barrels. From
the first Of August until late in the fall,
Understanding is the absorbing busi-
ness of spertsmen. Parties go out ia
wagons, with guns and dogs and the
paraphanalia of camp life, sometimes
for day and again for week, to hunt
grouse, or prairie-chickens, as they are
commonly called, which are found in
great numbers on the prairies, in coveys
OF ffties and hundreds. 1t is nothing
remarkable for company of three to go
out for day, and bring in one hundred
birds. Ladies often participate in the
sport by keeping company with gentle
men, cooking the midday meal, and in
spiring rivalry, smattering of Orien-
talism, among the gaiisnt and chival-
rous hunters. In the wintcr season,
are trapped In large
numbers, and shipped to eastern mar
kets. They constitute large item in
our exports. There are dealers who buy
them, paying the highest market price,
the same as there are those who buy
wheat and pork.
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indications OF Prosperity-List0 OF Build.
inEs now being Erected.
A SAFE INDICATION.
There Is general feeling among our