The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1869-12-23

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Total. Is, 704 1856
Same for City Exclusive of Additions.
Real Estate. ...Sl.0l6 79l
Personal Property.............7437 36
Total. ,759 62a
Amount Of Taxes.
Total for the County. .. .Sl23Ss6 81
Ottumwa with the Town.
ship in which the city il,
nays Of the above. SOC IL
The excess OF valuation tor
1869 over 1868 is............ 1901 900
1t is proper to state in connection
with the foregoing statement. more
particularly for the benefit Of foreign
readers, that tits universal practice
here to net put the valuation Of real
or personal property at over one.half
its cash value. This practice We think
pernicious, but nevertheless it has
been done for many years, and is still
kept up, so that double the assess.
mont given above would be perhaps
about correct estimate. u
COAL AND COAL RESOURCES OF THE
COUNTY.
At the census made in February
and March of last year, the number
Of bushels Of coal reported Is mined
in this county was 6s7,554. This
has been largely increased during the
present year, as several coal mining
companies Of large capital, formed in
the last twelve or eighteen months
have carried on during 1869, an i'm.
mense expectation ofcoal to all points
of the Compass. Upon good author.
ity we estimate the number of bush
els of coal mined this year in the
county will reach 100000. These
beds of coal are inexhaustible they
lie in the very heart Of the great coal
basin Of Iowa.
POPULATION.
The city proper, is not all embra-
ced within the corporate limits
Quite large additions to the city have
been made within the past three
years; the population and wealth Of
which, do not appear in the city cen.
sus, nor upon the assessment list Of
the city, though in fact they do for
all purposes Of business, &C., comprise
q portion of the town as much Is any
other part oft. We therefore give
the population Of these additions in
making up the total Of the city.
In February an | " .rch last; the
census showed including additions u
population Of 5000, and we hazard
nothing in saying that the popula.
ton now is 1000. Making 40 increase
OF lO00in ten months. This increase
is necessarily estimated, as no census
has interviewed in that time. but We
know that the estimate is not a large
one.
T. al Estate Sale For 1869.
W. are indebted to D. w. Tower.
the accomplished Recorder Of thi.
county, also Notary and Real estate
Agent, for the following statement 0,
aeal Estate sales in this county for
1869, with comparison of the same
with those Of 1868, showing a Aattrr
ing increase in the aggregate amount
resulting principally from the rapid
advance in real estate in the county
consequent upon our superior rail,
road facilities present and prospect.
i've.
Report of sales of Real Estate in
Wapello County from January 1st
1869, to December 10th, 1869.
Land sales. ,..$573 953. "A
Town Lots, ................... 343, 02l 90
Total. .$9l6,974.44
Sales for year 1863. .$769, 1888
4l47, $40. 81
being an increase of $147,84O.61,
over the sales Of 1868, which is main
ly from the increase in the value, as
there are but few more pages of Rec.
ord used this year, than last.
The largest sale of land in one
month is in January, Ss9, 434.0O, and
of town lots, the month OF May, $780,.
10000.
Largest sale of lands, was from W
A. Jordan to J. W. Cunningham, $50
1sSA W IVA
Churches and Schools.
As the statistics We are publishing
will be read by many persons of 9th.
er States, it is we'll to give briefly
our Church and School privileges.
The denominations organized and
holding regular worship, are the
Presbyterians, Msthodists, Baptists
Congregationali'ts, Episcopaiians,
Catholics and German Presbyterians
oil Of them, except the last named
have large and oommodious church
buildings. The Methodists are divi-
ded into the first and second charges,
the latter having as yet, no church
building.
Toe Public Schools are all held in
one building, containing twelve
rooms, situated in central part Of
the city, in a Parx containing four
acres beautifully ornamented with
shade trees. This building and
fixtures was erected ut q cost of
s3l 900.
One male. IL. NJ. Hastings, Prin.
and eleven female teachers are EN-
ployed. This school is dcservedIy