Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-01-24

/ @&i tVVO dc III tIcSL uIuuh0l pNlu lU Tie
holders of the bonds. The policy of
permitting our obligations TO remain
outstanding for series of years ut this
high rate of interest when the State
has the means at hand to discharge
them, is one which cannot be justified
by principles of sound economy. But
If the surrender Of these bonds cannot
be secured, would IL not be advisable,
as measure of economy, to invest the
| requisite amount, when received from
the United States, in some class of in
terest bearing securities, and thereby
relieve the people from the burden of
this actrailYg interest? With the
principal so invested, we could antici-
pate the maturity of the bonds and eff
feet thus early the practical liquidation
of the entire debt. Nc
The total amount anticipated from
the payment of these military claims
ezceeds S5O0, 900, aud appearances now
indicate that we shall realize the whole
aniOunr within the present year.
The record here presented, reaching
back to thy c6mmencement of the late
civil war, EntY embracing period of
Imminent peril ri the national govern
ment, and Of grave responsibility to
the States, may be contemplated with
profound satisfaction ny every citizen
of Iowa.
POPULATION ..-.,....
Twenty one years have elapsed since
this Commonwealth passed from its
Territorial condition, and became a
member of the Federal Union. With
in period quite brief, when compared
with the history and progress of older
countries, this generation has witness
k,If tho nriSrip ,rxya f,f
a State that new contains one million
of Inhabitants. and which, in all the
elements of continued advancement
and enduring wealth, bids fair to ex.
coed the highest anticipations of its
early settlers. The rapid progress we
have already made under circumstan-
ces which, during most of this period,
were quite unfavorable to speedy de.
yelopment of our resources. Is the re.
suit of obvious AMI natural causes. Or.
ganized out OF territory which the Fa-
theirs had wisely dedicated to Freedom,
with genial and invigorating eli.
mate, with soil of unsurpassed pro-
Effectiveness, and amply supplied with
the materials required in the various
departments Of industrial enterprise,
the foundations for the prosperity and
ultimate greatness of this State existed
at the very period of its birth. r gas
the history of Iowa as distinct pc.
litical organization dates from July 4tlI
1888, when 1t was created Territory
although it was not until the 18th dag
of December, 1S46, that II became SD
vereign State. We started us Terrific.
ry with o. $50 inhabitants, and, do The
time of its admission, the State coli
tanned population of 81, 58S, principal.
ly confined to the earlier settlements
along the eastern border, and i'm coun.
ties most convenient of approach from
the Mississippi River. OF this popuIa.
ton the counties of Lee, Van Buren,
Des Moines, Henry, Dubuque and JEFF
ferson contained over one half, and
there were only twenty one other coun-
ties which, at that date, had reported
any inhabitants ut all. : a....
| When il is considered that the State
contains no navigable streams within
its boundaries, that during ten years
subsequent to its admission it was IN
tirely destitute of railroad facilities,
and that more than two thirds of the
immigration, was compelled to reach us
by toilsome Journeys over rude and Of
ten impossible wagon roads, the sub
sequent rapid increase of our popula-
ton appears altogether remarkable. a#
During the ten years that followed
our organization as territory, the av-
erage yearly increase ofpopulation. was
II, 1876 and during the succeeding ten
years, ending i'm 1858. the average in
crease per annum was 46, 40i. 1t will
be observed that this last decade en-
braces the heavy immigration we re-
ceived from 1854 to 1856, during which
years. as the older citizens will not fail
ito remember, the population of the
State was augmented more rapidly
than at any other equal period of its
history. The tbtal increase for these
two years was 1913. 400 or a. yearly av-
erage of 96,700, showing that cur AT.
vance during this period was greater
than the entire population under the
National census of 1850, and that our
increase i'm a single year was equal to
the total growth Of population from the
first settlement of the territory up To
the time of our admission as State.
We now approach period during
which, in consequence of the late civil
war, the population, commerce and
general progress of the State were seri-
kously retarded. From the taking oil
the National census i'm 1860 10 the close
of the rebellion, period of rteErly five
years, the et;tire Increase of population
was only 40, 1856, producing a yearlyrav.
erage of less than 10000. In the midst
of so much arrangement and calamity,
while the young and enterprising men
of other States were so generally devo-
ting themselves to the public service,
and while one ninth Of our own people
was connected with the National ar
mics, it may be regarded as worthy OF
note that our population should have
increased even to this extent. Since
the return of peace, however, the State
appears to have developed new ener-
gies, and received n wonderful impetus
in every department of enterprise.
The census returns from 1867 show to-
tai population of over 800, 900, and an
addition since the census of 1865 of
about l50, 900, or nearly double the total
amount of our growth during the Ave
years which terminated with the rebel
ion. #a. , H.. s#
In representing the present popula-
ton of the State have only given the
number actually returned by the differ
ent township assessors, who i'm too ma
ny Instances, are neither accurate nor
thorouhh in their work. These returns
having been made early in the season,
include but little of the spring and
none of the summer and fall immigra-
ton. They also omit the production
kof the last, and confessedly the most
| prosperous year with which Provi-
dence has blessed our State. From
careful observation and thorough an
alysis of the data thus furnished, /
feel altogether warranted i'm saying
that there are, mt this time, not less
than 100, 900 inhabitants not included
in the census Of last year. which, add
ed to the number returned, give us one
million as the present population Of the
State. a#tiH ga FN#
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1t would be wen IL the people of this
State more fully realized the important
fact that the various implements adap-
ted to agricultural and mechanical pur-
suits, and the machinery required in
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