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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:
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:
The assessment of railroad property is as follows:
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.
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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:
The population of the incorporated towns during the years 1870, 1873 and 1875 are given as follows:
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.
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