22S Wisconsin Academy of Sciences^ Aiis,, and Letters. 



table of per capita values for the period 1875-95. The figures 

 Tvere ohtaiiied from the assessors' returns on file in the office 

 of the Auditor of Dubnqne Coimtv. The books containing fig- 

 ures previous to 1875 could not be found. ^ 



Table II. — Per capita of total property valuations. 



For IS'^O the figures for personal property alone are given. 



"We see by this table that the lead region by 1875 had already 

 passed its period of most rapid development and was increasing 

 in wealth and numbers more slowly than the rest of the county. 

 In twenty years the wealth per capita of this lead area increased 

 only from $99.0 to $143.5, while in the middle area the increase 

 was from $99.7 to $184.7, and in the non lead producing area 

 from $124.9 to $212.5. After the land had been worked for 

 mines it was as a rule fit for little else, and with the exhaustion 

 of the mines came decline in population and wealth per capita 

 for these regions, as already shown. 



The comparative strength of the political parties in these 

 three areas mav be seen from the followins: table which shows 

 the vote in Dubuque County for president from 1860 to 1896, 

 and the vote for governor in 1854 and in 1857. In the first 

 column are the total number of votes cast, either Democratic or 

 Republican. In the second column is given the per cent, of the 

 total cast for the Democratic and Republican candidates, re- 

 spectively. The figures for the city of Dubuque are omitted 

 from this table. 



1 It was a task of considerable difficulty to collect these valuation figures. The figures 

 for each town are recorded in a separate volume and many of these volumes are miss- 

 ing. The auditors have made it a practice never to keep any census report longer than 

 ten years. After that time the reports are stored in the basement of the court house. 



