The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1867-11-21

| The next term-Winter-co
I the first week in December. Letters OF
7 inquiry will be promptly answered by
addressing Rev. Samuel Hodge, Hop.
kinton, Delaware county, Iowa.
Yours respectfully,
d. l.. HUGHES.
Upton, Iowa, Nov. 10Th, 1867.
Some Facts and Figures Of Iowa
History.
From the Burlington Hawk Eye Nov 18th.
To-day is the twenty-ninth annivers-
airy Of the first meeting of the 'Legisla-
tive Assembly" of the Territory of Iowa.
On the 18th day of November, 1888, this
body was convened in the city of Burl-
ington, under the provisions of al act
of Congress, entitled, An act to divide
the Territory Of Wisconsin, and to e.
tablish the Territorial Government of
Iowa. approved July 18th, 1888. Mar
tin Van Buren, was then President of
the United States, and Robert Lucas
was Territorial Governor of Iowa. The
message of Gov. Lucas is now before US
printed in the initial number of the
Burlington Patriot, published by James
&. Edwards, and which, under the
names of the Io,ca Patriot, the Huwk-
Ecyc and Patriot, and finally the Hu,ck-
Eye alone, has been continually pub
lished to this day, and will doubtless
continue to visit the public, perhaps for
centuries in the future
The counties organized at that time,
or the next year, were Lee, Van Buren,,
Des Moines, Henry, Jefferson, Louisa,
Washington, Muscatine, Johnson, Scott,
Linn, Clinton, Jackson, Jones, Clayton,
Fayette, Dubuque, Delaware, Cedar and
Buchanan, twenty in all, and the popu-
lation Of the whole was then estimated,
as the Patriot tells us, at 22,OOO. This
by the census of 1910, had in
that year grown to AZ, ll2. In one word
Iowa was then "a wilderness, the coun-
ties bordering on the Mississippi had a
sparse population, and those which were
organized adjoining them could scarcely
be said to have a population at all. The
rest was in state of nature, the haunt
of the Indian, and the abode of the
deer, the wolf, the elk, and at times of
the buffalo. The only towns worth
mentioning We're Fort Madison, Burl-
ington, Bloomington tnow Muscatinel,
and Dubuque; and these, of course, were
then but small villages in point of popu-
latlon. Besides the Patriot, the only
other papers published in the Territory,
were the Gagettc at Burlington, and the
Visitor at Dubuque. Othes statistics of
that day we have none accessible. In
truth there could be none worth men,
tioning. \ population SO small, SO
scattered, separated from the rest of the
world by distance, with no means of
| outer communication but the river, and
composed of new settlers in a new land.
and that purely agricultural in its char
acter, could hardly be expected to furn-
ish much material for the statist. The
people were few in number, and rich
only in strong hands, undaunted cour-
age, and abiding faith in the future.
They believed that the "Ncw Purchase
was inevitably to grow up into great
State, but we doubt if the most sanguinc
even dreamed that in the few years
which have since passed the reality
would be what it has proved.
Between 1888 and 1867, but twenty
nine brief years, what a change and
what contrast! In population alone,
what an unparalleled growth. Then
22,00o-now not less than one million.
The steps by which this figure has been
reached are rs follows: In 1910 the pop
ulation was 43,ll2, in 1850 it was 1872
PA, in 1860 it was GA, 9l3, and by the
State census of last spring it was over
100000. AS the State census is always
imperfect and comes short of the actual
numbers, and as we know the census Of
our own city and county fall short of the
Truth by at least the ratio which would
give the State u round million, we think
we are within the limit when we claim
that number as our present population.
Our increase in population is an index,