Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1901-07-04
NEW AUDUBON COUNTY MAP.
The Republican Publishes One i'm
Connection With the Paper.

IuS NSpuDtISdn fuDuSHeS Out u
Connection With the Paper.
About three months ago we made ar
engagements with map publishing com
pany to make map of Audubon count!
so that we could handle it in CONNECTION
with the REPUBLICAN. We have neve
believed much in premiums or schemes
to increase the subscription list of oul
paper, believing that good local paper
is it's own best recommendation. With
the exception of clubbing rates we have
therefore never used another article to
work with our paper till this year. We
realized the value and usefulness OF a
good county map and thought that il il
could be sold at reasonable figure il
would be in demand.
The map company sent an experienced
draughtsman here who, taking the last
county atlas, made corrections up to
date SO far as the transfers Of farms
showed Oh the records. A map thus
corrected was submitted to parties well
acquainted in each township and cor
rections were thus made until we now
have an up-to-date and very reliable
map. 1t shows the name Of the owner
OF each farm and the number of acres in
the farm, the location of the residence,
the roads over the entire county, the
railroads, streams, the school houses,
churches, creameries, cemeteries, etc.
The townships are colorsd differently
from each other. Indeed it is an artis.
tic, complete and practical county map,
on scale of one and one-half inches to
the mile and is 34xH inches in size.
Some Of the maps are here and they will
all be ready for delivery in few weeks.
We have employed Charles S. White,
Of Greeley township, to canvass the
county and sell the map in connection
with the paper. Mr.. White is an Audi.
bon county boy, a school teacher of ex-
perience, graduate Of the Iowa State
College Of Ames, and a young man of in
tegrity and energy. He is authorized to
receive money and receipt for it. He is
selling the map on heavy map paper
with the edges bound with cloth at 81 90
to present subscribers who are not more
than a year in arrears, and is taking
new subscriptions for the REPUBLICAN
for one year and the map for $500.
The cloth mounted map comes seventy
five cents higher. Those who only want
the map are charged $500 for the paper
and 1915 for the cloth mounted map.
This is, we believe, the first map of
Audubon county ever gotten out. There
have been aliases, one having been pub.
lished something over year ago. II
sold at $500 and was so high that most
people did not care to invest. This map
is an improvement over the atlas both
for office and the home in several
respects. 1t shows the whole county at
one glance in the relation of the diff.
ferent parts to each other instead of on
twelve different pages. 1t is practically
up to-date. or was few weeks ago, in
ownership Of farms. 1t has also many
corrections made which the atlas did
not have as to roads, residences, school
houses and even towns. Then it sells at
sl.O0 to subscribers while the atlas sold
at $500.
Mr.. White has already canvassed over
half of the county and has met with ex.
cellent success both with the map and
paper. He will finish the canvass in
few weeks and then deliver.