The followings table shows the population of the 
county at different veriods. 
In i310 13,590 
1830 27,729 
1540 §=35,140 
1900 37? , 059 
Altnoush there has been a slight loss in population 
Lately generally a steady and healthy growth nas always 
been maintained. Livingston county is almost jurely 
agricultural as she cannot to-day, nor never could point 
to any gigantic commercial or manufacturing enterprises. 
The only industries of this character undertaken are salt 
production, the manufacture of small amounts of machinery 
in some of the larger villages, and a very limited production 
of oil and natural gas. Although Livingston county cannot 
noint to great enterprises she Jossesses evidences of 
wealth in the prosperity and contentment of her tillers 
of the soil. der citizens have made a beautiful county 
nore beautiful, and have transformed it from a wilderness 
il. 
