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COUNTY FINANCES
The financial condition of Jones County is most satisfactory. A conservative management has been the policy of her financiers, whose care has ever been to keep the county from becoming involved in debt. The unfortunate loan to the Air Line Railroad, of which mention is elsewhere made, has been the only serious calamity which has ever occurred affecting the county treasury. The County Treasurer's report, in June, 1879, shows a balance on hand in each of the various funds in the keeping of the county. There are no outstanding warrants demanding payment, and county orders are at par. The county has no bonds outstanding. No money of importance has ever been invested in county building, the Court House now occupied being the gift of Anamosa and different citizens, as has been elsewhere mentioned.
The report of the County Auditor for the year ending January 5, 1879, shows the expenses of county government for 1878, to have been as follows:
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| Supervisors | $ 777.59 |
| Salaries of officers | 4,400.00 |
| Witnesses | 2,138.70 |
| Jurors | 3,490.00 |
| Attorneys and reporters | 1,193.50 |
| Sheriff, bailiffs and janitor | 1,286.33 |
| Jail expenses | 961.40 |
| Justices and Constables | 1,607.00 |
| Poor, outside poor farm | 2,658.15 |
| Fuel, lights, repairs to county
buildings, etc. | 691.28 |
| Assessors, Township Clerks and Trustees | 1,759.90 |
| Postage and express | 134.05 |
| Books and stationery | 797.40 |
| Printing | 1,779.53 |
| Superintendent of Schools | 958.07 |
| Election expenses | 456.20 |
| Bounty on wild animals scalps | 242.00 |
| Township Collectors | 1,140.59 |
| Poor Farm | 2,557.96 |
| Paid Benton County in Johnson case | 208.00 |
| Copying mortgage index | 175.00 |
| Clerks fees, criminal cases | 52.25 |
| Settlement of title to Coleman lots | 40.00 |
| Miscellaneous | 4.10 |
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| Deaf, dumb and insane | 405.45 |
| Insane Hospital | 1,515.56 |
| Bridges | 14,473.44 |
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| Total | $45,903.45 |
The assessment for 1879, as corrected by the Board of Supervisors, we give by townships. To this 5 per cent has been added by the State Board:
TOWNS AND TOWNSHIPS |
Acres of Land |
Assess'd value of Land |
Assess'd value of Town Lots |
Personal Property |
Total |
| Cass | 22908 | $196073 | $
| $57745 | $253818 |
| Castle Grove | 22755 | 204825 | 495 | 58864 | 264184 |
| Clay | 22280 | 181939 | 3619 | 40828 | 216386 |
| Fairview | 21701 | 205132 | 4504 | 64229 | 273865 |
| Greenfield | 22645 | 206484 | 5165 | 106796 | 318445 |
| Hale | 22850 | 193742 |
| 70778 | 264520 |
| Jackson | 22228 | 183207 |
| 30869 | 214076 |
| Madison | 22106 | 206709 | 19655 | 79396 | 305760 |
| Monticello | 22022 | 215217 | 514 | 52976 | 268707 |
| Oxford | 22253 | 189269 | 14330 | 88254 | 291853 |
| Richland | 22911 | 171422 | 4665 | 38662 | 214749 |
| Rome | 22172 | 200925 |
| 58873 | 259798 |
| Scotch Grove | 22443 | 198765 | 1036 | 51331 | 251132 |
| Washington | 22866 | 166508 |
| 36421 | 202929 |
| Wayne | 22575 | 206312 | 5205 | 71282 | 282799 |
| Wyoming | 22200 | 191498 | 9060 | 62615 | 263173 |
| Anamosa |
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| 170225 | 98036 | 268261 |
| Monticello, town |
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| 158466 | 146614 | 305080 |
| Olin |
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| 28887 | 20890 | 49777 |
| Strawberry Hill |
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| 15110 | 2604 | 17714 |
| Wyoming, town |
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| 66600 | 71254 | 137854 |
| Totals | 358915 | $3108027 | $507536 | $1309317 | $4924880 |
The assessment of railroad property is as follows:
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Number of Miles in County |
Assessed Value per Mile |
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Western Union Division
Davenport & North-Western
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45.26
30.63
20.80 |
$2,300.00
2,500.00
2,000.00 |
The tax levy for 1878-79 was as follows: State tax, 2 mills; county school tax, 1 mill; county tax, 4 mills; bridge tax, 3 mills; poor tax, 1 mill; total, 11 mills.
Of the permanent School fund which the wisdom of our early State government provided, to assist the various counties in maintaining free schools, there is in the hands of Jones Countymost of which is loaned out on real estate$58,756.53. The apportionment of the permanent fund to Jones County for the past year was $4,063.14. The annual interest upon the funds placed in the care of Jones County is greater than her share of the yearly apportionment. |
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STATISTICSSOCIAL AND AGRICULTURAL
A steady growth has marked the progress of Jones County from the date of its organization. No feverish haste is perceptible, but that constant influx of population and wealth, which forbids all thought of relapse or disaster, and gives an air of permanence and stability to every place or institution to which it is peculiar. This is strikingly illustrated by a comparison of the census reports since 1838. The population has been as follows: 1838, 241; 1840, 475; 1844, 1,112; 1846, 1,758; 1848, 1,779; 1849, 2,140; 1,850, 3,007; 1,851, 3,400; 1852, 4,201; 1853, 6,075; 1856, 9,835; 1859, 13,475; 1860, 13,306; 1863, 13,495; 1865, 14,376; 1867, 16,228; 1869, 18,113; 1870, 19,731; 1873, 18,930; 1875, 19,166.
A steady growth has marked the progress of Jones County from the date of its organization. No feverish haste is perceptible, but that constant influx of population and wealth, which forbids all thought of relapse or disaster, and gives an air of permanence and stability to every place or institution to which it is peculiar. This is strikingly illustrated by a comparison of the census reports since 1838. The population has been as follows: 1838, 241; 1840, 475; 1844, 1,112; 1846, 1,758; 1848, 1,779; 1849, 2,140; 1,850, 3,007; 1,851, 3,400; 1852, 4,201; 1853, 6,075; 1856, 9,835; 1859, 13,475; 1860, 13,306; 1863, 13,495; 1865, 14,376; 1867, 16,228; 1869, 18,113; 1870, 19,731; 1873, 18,930; 1875, 19,166.
Subjoined we give an abstract of the population of Jones County, taken from the census report of 1875. This is not given as a true representation of the population of towns at the present time, but may be valuable as a matter of reference now, or fifty years hence:
TOWNS AND TOWNSHIPS |
POPULATION |
Total Pop. |
Number of Families |
Male |
Female |
Colored |
| Cass | 394 | 378 | 3 | 775 | 166 |
| Castle Grove | 375 | 332 |
| 707 | 126 |
| Clay | 543 | 419 |
| 962 | 169 |
| Fairview | 594 | 579 |
| 1,173 | 220 |
| Greenfield | 604 | 487 |
| 1,091 | 178 |
| Hale | 528 | 460 |
| 988 | 187 |
| Jackson | 415 | 385 |
| 800 | 150 |
| Madison | 510 | 487 |
| 997 | 167 |
| Monticello | 474 | 435 |
| 909 | 159 |
| Monticello Town | 760 | 825 | 2 | 1,587 | 332 |
| Oxford | 506 | 468 | 1 | 975 | 201 |
| Richland | 387 | 353 |
| 740 | 134 |
| Rome | 651 | 629 | 1 | 1,281 | 254 |
| Scotch Grove | 421 | 400 |
| 821 | 137 |
| Strawberry Hill Town | 59 | 66 | 5 | 130 | 30 |
| Washington | 422 | 365 |
| 787 | 140 |
| Wayne | 581 | 554 |
| 1,135 | 210 |
| Wyoming | 504 | 510 |
| 1,014 | 181 |
| Wyoming Town | 331 | 358 |
| 689 | 157 |
| Anamosa Town | 814 | 784 | 7 | 1,605 | 356 |
| Total | 9,873 | 9,274 | 19 | 19,166 | 3,654 |
The population of the incorporated towns during the years 1870, 1873 and 1875 are given as follows:
NAME OF TOWN |
1870 |
1873 |
1875 |
| Anamosa | 2083 | 1656 | 1605 |
| Monticello | 1337 | 1335 | 1587 |
| Wyoming |
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| 689 |
| Strawberry Hill |
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| 130 |
The post offices in 1875 were Anamosa, Blue Cut, Bowen's Prairie, Castle Grove, Clayford, Clay Mills, Fairview, Hale Village, Highland Grove, Johnson, Langworthy, Martelle, Olin, Onslow, Oxford Mills, Oxford Junction Scotch Grove, Viroqua and Wyoming.
| Number of acres of improved land in 1875 | 208,907 |
| Number of acres of unimproved land in 1875 | 63,298 |
| Number of acres of natural timber in 1875 | 52,546 |
| Number of acres of planted timber | 473 |
| Number of voters in 1875 | 4,180 |
| Number of voters born in Germany | 283 |
| Number of voters born in Scotland | 133 |
| Number of voters born in Ireland | 614 |
| Number of foreigners not naturalized | 176 | |
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