CHAPTER XXXV.

IT.

WEALTH AND PROGRESS.

would be impossible to sum up, in a single chapter, or a single volume, all the wealth of Indiana; or to measure the progress of the great industries of the State. By studying the following table, and comparing these statistics with a similar showing of other States, the reader will be astonished to learn, perhaps for the first time, that Indiana is no longer a third rate State in the American Union; and had she sufficient territory within her limits, she would not long rank in the class of second rate States. Indeed it is only in point of territory that Indiana can be ranked a second rate State. In regard to population, wealth, progress, enterprise, commerce, manufactures, agriculture, intelligence, the State of Indiana, in comparison with other States, acre for acre, or square mile for square mile, is, in all senses, a FIRST RATE State. In many things she excells even the leading State of the Union.

POPULATION.

THE Compilers of this work having visited all the cities, towns and villages in the State for the purpose of collecting the material for the county histories, were enabled to gather much valuable information concerning the probable number of inhabitants now living within the limits of the State. In 1850, the total population of Indiana was 988,416; in 1860 it was 1,350,428; in 1870, it was 1,680,637; and from a careful estimate, by townships, the compilers of this work have arrived at the conclusion that the population of this State, in 1875, will be OVER TWO MILLIONS. The following table, showing the population in 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1875, of all the towns

and cities in Indiana, containing over one thousand inhabitants, will exhibit the unparalleled growth of the State during the past five years:

POPULATION OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND VILLAGES IN INDIANA

IN 1850, 1860, AND 1870, WITH

ESTIMATES FOR 1875.

RELIABLE

PUBLIC DEBT.

County debt, for which bonds have been issued

620,926

All other...

506,343

Town, city, etc., for which bonds have issued..
All other...

2,342,067 181,867

The total receipts into the State Treasury during the fiscal year 1870, were $3,589,889; of which $2,903,579 were from taxes; $360,688 from interest on school and sinking fund;