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The growth of our county has heen gradual and steady. The mer- 

 cantile, mechanica], and manufacturing business, has kept about an even 

 pace with the agricultural interest. Herein are a few extracts from the 

 statistics of our county, to wit: 



Years. No. of Horses. No. of Sheep. No. bush. Wheat. Passengers. 



1837, 518 176 27,612 4,181 



1840, 714 744 67,317 5,715 



1845, 9,070 



1850, 1,735 22,441 161,284 "12,472 



1854, 2,992 27,147 207,964 14,681 



1856, estimated at 16,000 



and is probably more. 



Cold water is the centre of the county, and contained in 1837, a pop- 

 ulation of 970, which increased up to 1854 to the number of 3111, 

 and now contains about 4000, or more. It is the seat of justice for the 

 county, is a thriving place for business, and in regard to locality, beauty, 

 neatness and enterprise, is unrivalled by any inland town in the State. 



Quincy, Union City, and Bronson, are also pleasant places and grow- 

 ing villages, and their inhabitants are active and enterprising. Our pop- 

 ulation and business have steadily advanced and increased as rapidly as 

 could have been expected in an interior county, with no navigable 

 waters. It shows conclusively that notwithstanding the excitement in 

 regard to emigration to Texas, Oregon, California, Minnesota and Kan- 

 sas, we have a county rich in agricuUural wealth, suflSciently tempting 

 to induce the resident to remain, and the emigrant to tarry within our 

 borders. 



Our citizens are nearly all of the Anglo-Saxon race, and mostly emi- 

 grants from New York and Eastern States. 



They are enterprising and ; industrious, temperate and well disposed. 

 This is no part of the world for indolent, lazy or lounging rogues. We 

 have no use for them. They cannot exist here, and do not stay long 

 with us. 



A better state of society cannot be found in the same number of 

 square miles, in any part of the Western States. Our citizens do not 

 fall behind those of our sister counties in regard to intelligence and 

 virtue, and in relation to agriculture and the improvement of stock, we 

 claim to be the banner county in the State. We can exhibit as fine an 



