DATE OF RECEIPT. FEES-CONTINUED. FROM WHOM RECEIVED. ON WHAT ACCOUNT. Amount. May 19, 1876.... Amos Steckel, Aug. 24, 1876.... Geo. B. Smyth Sept. 2, 1876.... Blanchard & Eyerly. Sept. Sept. Sept. 6, 1876.... M. J. Hamilton Sept. 12, 1876.... Woodward, King & Stearns Nov. 16, 1876.... T. C. Gilpin..... Nov. 25, 1876.... Woodward, King & Stearns Dec. 12, 1876.... Anderson & Gamble. Dec. 23, 1876.... H. L. Skinner......... Jan. Jan. 3, 1877.... J. E. Wyatt, Aud'tr Sioux county. For field notes-Sioux county. For copy of two patents...... 137.50 2.00 1.00 1.50 For copy of two patents... 3, 1877.... Woodward, King & Stearns Jan. 9, 1877.... Sweeney & Libby.. ............... For copy of patent 10, 1877.... Thos. Sargent........ Jan. For list railroad lands.... 30, 1877.. J. O. Briscoe & Co.. Feb. 8, 1877.... Thorpe & Sons................... Feb. Feb. 14, 1877.... Howard County. March 7, 1877.... Wm. Gardner............... March 17, 1877.... Galusha Parsons.. March 23, 1877.... Bowdle & Newcomer. March 31, 1877.... Auditor of Clarke county.. J. A. Schriner. April 16, 1877.... J. O. Briscoe & Co. April 21, 1877.... C. P. Searle.. April 24, 1877.... Lea & Beaman. April 25, 1877.... Miracle & Kamrar.. April 26, 1877... S. B. Zeigler..... April 28, 1877.... Woodward & Stearns. June June ...... June 5, 1877.... Weaver & Payne. July 10, 1877.... S. S. King. July 11, 1877... H. L. Skinner Sept. 7, 1877.... M. Edwards.. Sept. 7, 1877.... Woodward & Stearns. For copy of patent... For copy of patent $ 1.00 1.00 ...... For copy of two patents. 2.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 2.00 1.00 69.60 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 For copy of patent. 1.00 For copy of patent 1.00 For copy of original entries... 2.8 For copy of patent...... 1.00 For copy of patent. Tor copy of patent.. 1.00 1.00 3.75 1.00 1.00 1.00 5 00 For copy of patent 1.00 For field notes.. 4.50 For copy of patent................. 1.00 For copy of patent.. 1.00 For copy of patent.. 1.00 For copy of patent.. 1.00 For copy of patent.. 1.00 For copy of patent...... 1.00 For copy of two patents 2.00 For copy of two patents...... 200 For copy swamp land patent.... 1.00 For plats, &c... 5.00 For lists swamp and railroad lands. 3.00 For field notes. .50 Sept. 25, 1877.... Wm. Ragan... ON WHAT ACCOUNT. Amount. For copy of patent. For copy of railroad release....... 6.00 1.00 Sept. 27, 1877.... Auditor of Pocahontas Co. For field notes..... 24.00 Total.........| $654.75 All of which has heen paid into the State Treasury as required by law, and receipts taken therefor. CONTINGENT FUND. The amount of contingent fund of the State Land Office on hand on ......... Amount appropriated by Section 4, Chapter 142, Acts 1876, for ordinary clerk hire, platting the several land grants, &C........... Total................ THIS AMOUNT HAS BEEN DISBURSED AS FOLLOWS: Date. TO WHOM PAID. ..$ 155.62 3,000.00 $3,155.62 Amount. March 28, 1876.... John M. Davis, clerk............................................................................................ DATE. CONTINGENT FUND-CONTINUED. TO WHOM PAID. Amount. Jan. 31, 1877... Mary E. Secor, clerk..... March 31. 1877... Amy Christ, clerk............................................................................................................... April 30, 1877... C. A. M. Spencer, clerk................................................... $ 20.00 60.00 45.00 50.00 50.00 60.00 60.00 50.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 60.00 20.00 May July 31, 1877... Phebe A. Secor, clerk...................................................................................................... Sept. 29, 1877... Lilabelle Vinnedge, clerk.................................................................. Total amount disbursed.... 652.75 The amount of contingent fund necessary for clerk hire in this office for the next two years, commencing with April 1, 1878, is estimated at two thousand dollars. The State of Iowa has been specially favored by a kind Providence in the distribution of those natural advantages and resources that are being developed into a grand and glorious State. The climate is salubrious and invigorating; the soil is fertile and productive, and responds abundantly to the labors of the husbandman. The eastern and western borders are washed by the two greatest rivthis country, the Mississippi on the east, and the Missouri on the west. Numerous small rivers and meandering streams, skirted with beautiful groves of thrifty timber, flow through the interior portions of the State, affording good water power for manufacturing purposes. The bituminous coal fields are sufficiently extensive to supply cheap coal for fuel and motive power, for all purposes, for generations to come. The soil is a rich, black loam, of unsurpassed fertility, and it has been estimated by those most familiar with the State, that the quantity of waste, or unavailable land, is less than five per cent. In an agricultural point of view Iowa has no superior, and it may be safely assumed that within the next ten years she will have become sufficiently developed to stand at the head of the cereal producing States, and to maintain her supremacy in that direction. Could the hardy sons of toil, who are scarcely able to obtain a comfortable subsistence in the over populated portions of the East, realize that on the fertile and undulating prairies of Iowa there remain hundreds of thousands of acres of rich and productive lands awaiting development, and which can be obtained on easy terms and at moderate prices, they would gladly avail themselves of the opportunity of securing pleasant homes, where, in a few years, they could obtain a comfortable competency. Some persons may infer that the wild and uncultivated lands are of an inferior grade. This is not the case. Many of the unimproved lands are among the very best in this or any other State, and remain unoccupied for the reason that the present population is not sufficient to develop and bring forth the hidden wealth that lies buried in the fertile soil. On the 28th day of December, 1846, Iowa was admitted into the Union, with a population of 97,588. Less than a third of a century has passed, and we now point with pride to a population of 1,500,000. The development of the agricultural resources of the State has kept pace with the increase of population, as is shown by the following table, giving the population for the years 1856, 1865 and 1875, and the bushels of wheat, oats and corn, and the pounds of butter produced, as enumerated in the census for those years. YEAR. 1856. 1875.. 519,055 5,469,516 6,127,329 31,163,362 2,923,253 754,699 8,284,565 15,928,777 48,471,133 14,538,216 [1,350,544 44,131,807 29,213,891 146,993,570 37,862,540 The progress of manufactories, mechanical arts and public improvements has been in nearly the same ratio. |