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George R. Whitmer, then of Primghar, now of Sioux City, served in the House of Representatives in 1906 and 1907, in the thirtieth and thirty-first Assemblies. Democrat in politics.
Charles C. Cannon served in the House of Representatives in the thirty- fifth General Assembly in 1913. Democrat in politics.
It might be here added that E. J. English, for several years superintend- ent of the Primghar high schools, and for many years a resident of Pringhar and vicinity, served several terms in the House of Representatives in the state of South Dakota, from De Smet, Kingsbury county.
William H. Noyes, for four years sheriff and four years county re- corder in O'Brien county, was likewise a member of the Minnesota Legisla- ture for two terms.
CITIZENS OF O'BRIEN COUNTY WHO HAVE SERVED AS DISTRICT JUDGES.
Scott M. Ladd, of Sheldon, occupied the district court bench of the then fourth judicial district of Iowa from January 1, 1887, to January 1, 1897. Republican in politics.
William D. Boies, of Sheldon, now occupies a seat on the district bench in what is now the twenty-first judicial district of Iowa, by appointment of the Governor of Iowa, serving from January 1. 1913. Republican in politics.
CITIZENS OF O'BRIEN COUNTY WHO HAVE SERVED IN STATE OFFICES.
Scott M. Ladd, of Sheldon, who first served as above shown on the dis- trict bench of Iowa, was at the election held November 3, 1896, elected and elevated to the supreme court of Iowa, and has served continuously to the present time, and has served as chief justice of that court in rotation with its other members from year to year according to the rules of that body.
Edward C. Brown, of Sheldon, was elected November 3, 1901, and served as railroad commissioner of the state from January 1, 1902, to Janu- ary I, 1905. Republican in politics.
Edward C. Brigham, who was raised on a farm in Dale township, O'Brien county, served as state labor commissioner from January 1, 1902, to January 1, 1909, seven years.
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OFFICIAL VOTE.
The following is the official vote at the general election for 1912 in O'Brien county, by townships :
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Baker
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66
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Caledonia
9
90
36
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Carroll
13
44
71
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29
65
53
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Dale
7
38
67
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Floyd
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32
70
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Franklin
55
II3
216
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Grant
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56
62
2
Hartley
92
203
90
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Highland
26
43
70
2
2
Liberty
19
79
78
Lincoln
II
2
50
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25
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36
2
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First Ward
62
97
89
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49
84
103
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4
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19
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42
2
9
Summit
60
86
I49
4
9
Union
54
138
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3
Waterman
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41
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157
5
2
Totals
620
1,506
1,659
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FOR CONGRESS.
FOR GOVERNOR.
Scott
1,020
Clark
936
Van Wagenen
1,375
Dunn
1,623
Hallam
8.12
Stevens
891
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE, 1908.
Taft
1,912
Bryan
1,326
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POPULATION AND OTHER STATISTICS.
The following is the census for 1910 by towns and townships. The population of townships signifies the number outside the town within that township. Total population of county, 17,262.
Baker
442
Highland
690
Caledonia
826
Liberty
643
Carroll
403
Calumet
242
Archer
35I
Lincoln
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494
Center
629
Omega
586
Dale
633
Moneta
44
Floyd
571
Summit
502
Sheldon
2,941
Primghar
733
Franklin
500
Union
605
Sanborn
1,174
Paullina
796
Grant
666
Waterman
537
Hartley Tp.
484
Sutherland
664
Hartley Town
1,106
MILES OF RAILROAD BUILT.
Milwaukee road, built in 1878
24.08 miles
Sioux City road, built in 1872
6.55
Illinois Central road, built in 1887
26.73
66
Northwestern road, built in 1881
25.21
Rock Island road, built in 1900
13.22
Total mileage
95.70 miles
Males in county
9,008
Females in county
8,254
Total population of county, 1910
17,262
Number of voters
1.816
Number of dwellings in county
3,600
Number of families in county.
1 3,656
Farms on which live native Americans only_
1,127
Farms on which foreign languages are spoken in part
700
Total farms in county.
1,827
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Acres of land in county
363,860
Acres actually in farming 327,809
Total value of farms $40,380,379
Value of the land without buildings 31,170,886 I 1 1
Value of all buildings, farm and town 13,754,540 1
Value of farm machinery
965,270
Value of domestic animals
3.622,491
Square miles in county
569
Population per square mile in whole county
30.3
Farm population per square mile
25.2
DOMESTIC ANIMALS, 1913.
Cattle
47,722
Horses
13,972
Mules
136
Hogs
83,105
Sheep
22,624
Poultry
184,005
Hives of bees
807
COMPARISON OF FIVE YEARS EXPENDITURES ON COUNTY FUND.
1908
$28,172.49
1909
28,769.30
1910
27,206.48
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31,629.28
1912
26,954.85
EXPENDITURES FOR 1912 ON COUNTY FUND.
County Auditor's Office
$ 2.566.49
County Treasurer's Office
2,189.35
Clerk District Court and Office 2,565.80 1 1 1 1 1 I I I 1
County Recorder's Office
1.781.93
Sheriff's Office
1,946.05
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1,961.76
County Attorney and Office
1,202.14
George J. Smith, Supervisor
I 53.45
Peter Swenson, Supervisor
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169.75
2,215.85 1,417.35
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580.20
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1,468.60 1,557.14
145.50
50.04
189.30
1,734.85
371.40
1,183.38
Total on County Fund
Road Fund Expense
Teacher's Institute Expense Bridge Fund
Farmer's Institute Expense
Damages for Domestic Animals Soldier's Relief Fund
Insane Fund
Feeble Minded Institute Fund. Seven Pupils
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As will be seen, this foots up an aggregate of $62.354.17 as the total
cost of running all branches of the county for one year. We have selected
the year 1912 rather than 1913 in showing up expenditures, for the reason
that it is the even numbered year, and includes the expenses of the primary
and general elections. The bridge fund expresses the amount of internal
improvements.
$ 1.973.10
26,120.05
376.90
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294.50
322.11
6,117.25
120.41
$35,399.32
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EXPENDITURES ON OTHER FUNDS.
W. C. Jackson, Supervisor
M. F. McNutt, Supervisor
Ralph C. Jordan, Supervisor Official Printing
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CEMETERIES.
The sacred dead now sleeping in the cemeteries throughout the county represent much of the history of which we write. Indeed, in another fifty- eight years most of those now living in this county will have joined the great majority. Measuring the county alone by its numbers, this is not yet true. Our cemeteries have grown in beauty as the county has improved. In each town, ample provisions are made for their care. Local organizations and the state laws each contribute. The prairie sod has given way to the blue grass lawn and cemetery decoration. No other item better illustrates that high- grade development in the county measured by the sympathies of the heart, reverence for all that belongs to the good, the true and the beautiful, in all that belongs to the moral and sacred, than the well-kept and decorated ceme- teries in each of our towns. We honor the sacred dust. They represent much of the now substantial moral and civilized standards and conditions in the county.
THE HERD LAW.
In reading the political papers the last few years, one would think that the referendum was a new question. O'Brien county, however, resorted to the referendum under the law of Iowa as early as 1874. Section 309 of the Code of 1873 (same as section 444 of the present Code ) provided that the board of supervisors of O'Brien county might submit to the voters of the county the question: "Shall stock be restrained from running at large?" On July 1I, 1874, the board of supervisors submitted that question to the voters, to be voted on at the election to be held the following October, 1874. At the election there were two hundred and seventy-nine votes cast on that question, of which two hundred and forty votes were in favor of the propo- sition and thirty-nine against same. After the election it was declared by the board adopted. It is one historic case where the early pioneers acted in referendum, and made the law for the county on this question. The resolu- tion ordering the vote to be taken will be found in Supervisor's Record No. I, on page 400, and the canvass of the vote and declaration of its adoption will be found in the same record on page 422.
A QUARTET SONG OF COUNTIES.
The four northwest counties of Iowa sing a quartet in unison. Its land all lays gently rolling. There is no waste. It is all the same. God only
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made land on one occasion. He made it solid. It can't blow away. They can't steal it. They can't burn it up. Its soil is all the genuine black loam stuff. It is all as good as a government bond. It beats the earth. In fact it is part of the earth. It is uniform in all respects. Many of its whole sec- tions of six hundred and forty acres could be plowed as one land by team or engine gang-plow outfit. Therefore, here's to the Big Four counties with this rhyming couplet for a song by the quartet :
Osceola, Lyon, Sioux County and O'Brien.
RELATIONS WITH CHEROKEE COUNTY OF O'BRIEN CITIZENS.
We should make note of the peculiar relations with Cherokee county of the early citizens, especially of the south half of our county, in the pioneer days. The county commencing its earliest settlements in the south part of county, brought this about. For instance, Mordecai Vandercook, one of the very early merchants in Cherokee, was almost a homesteader and citizen of O'Brien county, at least in sentiment and memory of its people. Clark Green had not the capital to carry or supply the credit of groceries and supplies necessary. Mr. Vandercook, like Clark Green, dished out his merchandise with over-generosity. With a heart that could not withstand the piteous appeals, he lost more or less money. The earliest homesteaders all had a good word for him. The Allison store there also performed a like, though lesser, part. The older physicians, like Dr. E. Butler, who represented Cherokee in the Legislature at the same time with George W. Schee in 1884, and Dr. Hornibrook, were household names in this county and were called to the sick bed in hundreds of occasions in the more dangerous cases, and for consultation and on actual practice, in long, tedious midnight rides. Its attorneys, E. C. Herrick, J. D. F. Smith, A. R. Molyneux and Robert Mc- Culla, of the later attorneys, and Eugene Cowles and Judge Charles H. Lewis, of the earlier bar, have in their times become a familiar part of the O'Brien county bar. The earlier settlers were also financially accommodated on many occasions in the early days by Scribner & Burroughs, W. A. Sanforn and T. S. Steele & Son. The movements of our citizens in business and trade have been more toward Cherokee from all the east and south parts, than toward the other counties. The vicinity of Sheldon has had more of like situations with Henry Hospers and Mr. Van Oustenhout, of Sioux county, or H. L. Emmert, of Osceola county, and other conditions in those counties.
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ABSTRACTS OF TITLE.
There have been during the period of forty years, in one shape and an- other, some six or seven sets of abstracts of title. John R. Pumphrey com- menced the first set about 1869. S. A, Sage made part of a set a few years later. Cyrus McKay, of Decorah, Iowa, made a set in 1875. From this set J. L. E. Peck made a new set in 1889, later owned by C. S. Cooper & Co. E. Y. Royce made a set about 1890 to that date, but which have not been in use for many years. Warren Walker commenced a set about 1876. He went into the minutia and details of records more than any abstracter ever in the county. His set was rather over elaborate, and some of his details have since been omitted. Mr. Walker made plats of all towns and even copies of judgments, and a duplicate system of the abstracts itself which was found unnecessary. The following persons have at one time and another owned one or more of above sets and done abstract work : John R. Pumphrey, George W. Schee, Clinton E. Achorn, J. L. E. Peck, George R. Slocum, Frank A. Turney, Warren Walker, Isaac W. Daggett. Cyrus Mckay, H. E. Thayer, S. O. Reese, Frank B. Royce, E. Y. Royce, S. A. Sage, W. W. Artherholt, Clarence W. Ingham. J. F. Boyer, Henry Rerick, Kenneth Rerick and F. L. Herrick. The E. Y. Royce set is now owned by his son, Frank B. Royce, but not in active use. The Warren Walker set is owned and conducted by Frank L. Herrick & Company. Henry Rerick & Son now own each of the other sets named. The business is now, therefore, centered down to the two active sets owned and conducted, one by F. L. Herrick & Company, and the other by Henry Rerick & Son, both at Primghar. Each of these two sets as now conducted contains a complete abstract of title to every tract of land. large and small, in the county, including town and suburban lots, and showing every deed, mortgage or other instrument affecting the several tracts, all systematically arranged for quick and ready reference.
EZRA M. BRADY, MEMBER OF BOARD-AN EARLY INCIDENT.
During one of the county-seat contests and during the session of the board while holding the hearing or canvass, it seemed necessary to procure quickly some affidavits of some parties then working just south of Sibley. Mr. Brady started overland in the afternoon for Sheldon, procured a hand- car, and, though he weighed two hundred and fifty pounds, he actually pumped that hand car from Sheldon to Ashton, procured a notary public there, and thence on to or near where these parties were working. got their
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affidavits and presented them before the board of supervisors the following morning as the board assembled in the middle of a contest then going on. On any ordinary occasion he would not have attempted such a transportation problem of thirty miles on a hand car.
A BIG STRETCH OF JUSTICE OF THE PEACE JURISDICTION IN THE COUNTY.
This incident occurred with, or rather happened to, George Hardin in Highland township. one of the old homesteaders in an early day. It was during those years when there was plenty of pasturage in the summer, that a bunch of nonresident cattle owners freely grazed their cattle over the town- ship until cold weather. They gave their names as Hartley brothers. They made a bargain with Mr. Hardin to winter about one hundred and fifty head of cattle through the winter on his corn stalks and corn feeding. In the spring Hartley brothers came on for their cattle. Mr. Hardin was absent from home. They made demand of the wife and hired man. and were re- fused. Mr. Hardin would have had a lien for his pay. They saw the ad- vantage of his absence. They went before a justice of the peace in another part of the county, as a replevin suit can be brought in any justice court in the county, swore to a petition of replevin, and put up a straw bond, with one of their herders on the bond, which of necessity was no good. The justice should have known that he had no jurisdiction in the case, but he did not, it seemed. Here was this large herd of cattle, worth all the way from fifteen to twenty and twenty-five dollars per head. They were worth more than two thousand dollars. A justice has jurisdiction only up to a value of one hundred dollars. But with all that gall and self-assurance, they took the justice off his feet when taken unawares, and actually persuaded the justice to issue a writ of replevin for all those cattle and placed the writ in the hands of a constable for service. The constable should also have known that no such writ was good. He found it out a few days after. It was all done so quickly, and Mr. Hardin absent, that by the time he got back the cattle were outside the county and beyond the jurisdiction of even the district court. shipped, gone no one knew where, and probably out of the state.
THE HAY TWISTER.
The county being almost entirely prairie, the fuel question was an im- portant matter. Early settlers had no money with which to buy coal. But necessity became the mother of invention. The rich prairie soil produced
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grass from one to five feet high. This hay grass supplied the fuel. This item was indeed a boon to the settler and supplied free grass hay and pasture. Many a man and most settlers could thus raise some stock, supply their own meat, butter and milk and market a little. The term "hay twister" was then familiar. Indeed every old homesteader became known as a "hay twister," and took pride in that rustic epithet.
This hay twisting machine was a simple device. The loose hay must first be twisted or pressed into compact form to retain heat. This simple machine consisted of an ordinary frame, with two uprights about three feet high. In the top of these uprights was attached a crank and cross rod ; the crank turned and the hay spun on the rod like yarn is spun, and in a moment a quite solid stick of hay, or wood, is made. These hay twisters became so expert, that many made them simply by hand. These sticks were corded up in cords like wood in the barns or sheds, and would last about like cobs. But as hay was free and the labor the only question, and as this labor could be done in the winter, it proved very practical. It was claimed that a man with a hay stack could in a day twist more hay, that would last longer, than he could chop wood with the logs at hand. But as there were no logs save a few on the Waterman, and as coal was out of the question, and had to be hauled after being paid for from Cherokee or Fort Dodge, it was either twist hay or freeze, and a very comfortable alternative. Sheet iron stoves were soon made expressly for the purpose. One inventive genius actually worked on a patent on a device that would thus twist the hay direct from the hay stack into the stove, but as he forgot one material item, namely, that such a device left a dangerous haystack in too close proximity, and liable to burn up house and all, that it did not become practical. It was also found that in the winter time this settler could go out into a slough, where the tall grass stuck above the ice, and, with a horse hitched to a long heavy board, could soon scrape tons of dead grass from above the ice, and twist it into fuel in this way.
In 1877, one amusing political fight was made on Judge A. H. Willits, who was a candidate for re-election as clerk of courts, namely, that he had got so allfired tony, that he was actually burning coal for fuel, and that the poorer hay twister of a candidate should be voted for.
He twisted this hay-twisted twist with his fist, This wrist twisting, fist twisting, hay-twisted twist, He twisted so hard by his jerks-you big liar, He twisted that hay stack right into the fire.
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O'BRIEN COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Section 1660 of the Code of Iowa provides for the establishment of a county fair in each county of the state complying with the law, which when the conditions are complied with entitles it to receive sundry state relations and aids. Definite steps were taken at Sutherland at a public meeting held in Peterson hall August 17, 1887, with Dr. J. C. Bonham, chairman, and Bert Hamilton, secretary. Committees were appointed on incorporation, grounds and premiums. Mesdames C. N. Cass, F. L. Bidwell, S. A. Crosser, H. C. Kelsey, Silas Steele, H. A. Peck and J. C. Bonham were elected its first board of directors. Articles of incorporation were at once drafted and recorded and stock subscribed in the aggregate of one thousand dollars, in shares of ten dollars each. A charter was procured running twenty years. On August 28th of the same year Dr. J. C. Bonham was elected its first president and C. E. Achorn, secretary. While the law only requires the purchase of ten acres, twenty acres was purchased of Nicholas Lutzell, just north of the city. As an instance of rapid, enterprising labor and effort of a united town, though much was to be contended with, on October 5 and 6, 1887, just forty-nine days after the first meeting relating to it, the society held its first county fair. The charter was renewed December 21, 1907. During this long period the society has held highly commendable fairs every year but one. At the last fair held in 1913 from four to five thousand people were in attendance, which indi- cates that in an agriculture community interest will not be lost in a county fair.
The following men have held office and worked for the interest of the society, which has once each year brought these hundreds of people to Suther- land: C. N. Cass, Bert Hamilton, H. A. Peck, T. B. Bark, E. J. Elliott, W. P. Davis, R. C. Jordan, W. S. Hitchings, R. M. Van Horn, Charles Youde, J. C. Briggs, S. B. Crosser, J. B. Murphy, A. C. Bailey, L. J. Price, John Slick, H. P. Scott, F. L. Bidwell, Alex Martin, and many others.
COUNTY SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
His name was Adam Towberman. The office was never filled but once. The code of Iowa provides for it. It was April 7, 1880. There had been considerable discussion in the papers complaining of certain scales in the county. At all events Adam Towberman applied to the board of supervisors
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for appointment. He was appointed. Neither Mr. Towberman nor the board quite took in the significance of it until it was under way, as practically applied. A full set of weights and measures was purchased at a cost of one hundred and thirty dollars. When they arrived they weighed a ton or more, being test weights for all classes of scales. The law provides fees for each test made. He applied it to every merchant or public place handling articles to be weighed. Mr. Towberman started out with team and weights over the county from town to town. The owners of scales resented it as an interference, especially the fees, though not large. They thought he made more of it than the needs warranted. The news of his coming preceded him and it became a joke. At one big store in Sheldon, he started in to carrying in his big weights into one door and the clerks proceeded to carry them back around another door, and put them back into his wagon. They kept him packing weights and measures until he saw what was going on. He made but one round trip of the county. From his own standpoint it was imprac- ticable.
WHAT BECAME OF FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND FEET OF LUMBER.
In the year 1873 Herman Greve, a large lumber dealer and mill owner in Wisconsin, shipped to John R. Pumphrey, Sheldon, Iowa, four hundred thousand feet of culls or secondary lumber from his mills. He expected Mr. Pumphrey to sell it out in the starting up of the new town Primghar. For some reason the train bringing the lumber sidetracked the cars containing it on a siding a mile north of Sheldon. This required an overland haul of nearly twenty miles to Primghar. It was during those years when help and supplies were distributed to the settlers. At all events it got noised abroad among the homesteaders that there was free lumber there for distribution. Pumphrey did not get on the ground quick enough, and did not land his lum- ber fast enough, and the result was that only about one hundred thousand feet ever arrived in Primghar. Some of this lumber went into the first court house built, and into sundry private dwellings. It was for many years a dispute between Pumphrey and Greve who should lose the lumber, and never was settled. Greve lost it.
THE HIGHEST POINT IN IOWA.
What is the highest point in Iowa, is very much like the question of "Who killed Cock Robin?" The "International Encyclopaedia," on the ques-
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tion of the topography of Iowa, says: "Iowa lies entirely within the great central prairie belt. Its surface is a plateau with an average height of one thousand feet in the northwestern corner of the state, the highest point being Primghar, in O'Brien county."
This, however, is still in dispute. Even the official reports do not agree. The town of Alta claims that Alta is an abbreviation of the word altitude and was so named because it is the highest point in the state. The visitor at Lake Okoboji is shown and taken to the "highest point in Iowa," on the ele- vation just west of Miller's bay on a part of that lake, where a cupola is built costing perhaps fifty dollars.
The "Official Register of Iowa," an official document issued by the state, gives the following altitudes in this part of Iowa : Primghar, 1,498; Paullina, 1,412; Hartley, 1,458; Sibley, 1,512: Cherokee, 1,205; Des Moines, 805; Alta, 1,513; Sheldon, 1,415: Sutherland, 1,428; Spirit' Lake, 1,458; Sioux City, 1,099 ; Ft. Dodge, 1,126; Council Bluffs, 990.
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