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100,000 , 50
John C. Garland.
Trunks, etc ... . .
50.000
100,000 50
W. & G. Wright
Trunks, etc ... ..
15.000
50,000
20
T. Speer ...
Jewelry. .
30,000
5,000
W. A. Hendric ..
Jewelry
20,000
......
D. A. Frost ..
Silver Plater.
3.000
15,000
.A. S. Beckwnh.
Gold Pens
2,000
......
2
W. & E. Cook
Glass Stainers. 2,000
......
Hekt & Bro ..
Scales, etc.
1,000
2,000 1
E. Smalley
Cisterns
200
4,000
2
11. C. Rosin.
Patterns
600
300
A. Hesler.
Daguerreans
22,000
40,000
Faswelt & Cook
Daguerreans
5.000
15,000
Aker & Dow ner.
Malsier ..
3,000
4.000
George Drake.
Painter
2,500
S, 300
F. Weigle ..
l'aper Boxes
500
5.000
Sundell & Co.
Soda Water ....
3,000
10,000
E. Scanlan
Confections
..
5,000
75,000
Simm & Co.
Confections
4,000
25,750
Page & Co.
Confections
7.000
105,000 15
E. R. Inwen
Gloves, etc.
3.000
3.500
L. Schilling
Gloves, etc. ...
200
500
Frazer & Forsythe
Baking, etc ....
4.600
15,000 1
(". J. Wililer
Crackers, etc. ..
5.500
20,000
Worthing & Melville.
Crackers, etc ...
2,500
15,000
F. Case
Crackers, etc ...
1,000
.....
5
M. Guvies
Crackers, etc ...
300
10,000
F. S. Wells
Shoes, etc. .....
8,000
10,000
l'earenn & Dana.
Shoes. ele.
....
20,000
17,000
20
J. Kirby & Co ...
Boxes .
5,000
8,000 20
Culver. Page & Hoyne.
Blank Books,clc.
12,000
44.247 27
T. Asmus
Blank Books,etc.
200
250
-
S. Fisser ..
Caps, etc ..
ooF
......
Totals.
The Democratic Press gave the following:
SUMMARY OF MANCFACTURES, JANUARY 1, 1857.
Capital.
Value of Hands Manufactures
Iron works, steam engines, cie .. . . . $1.763,900,
2,866
$3,857.054
Stoves .. .
185,000
70
238.000
Agricultural implements.
597.000
575
1,134,300
Jtrass and tin ware, etc ..
257.000
350
471,000
Carriages, wagons, etc.
356,000
881
1.150,320
lligh wines, beer, ale, etc.
497.000
165
525,021
Soap, candles,"lard, etc ...
296,000
100
543.000
Furniture ....
354.000
Stone, marble, etc ...
617.950
8.43
1,092.397
Leather .. .
178.700
171
357,250
Bartels, wooden ware, etc.
300,000
500
712,000
Brick . .
325,000
73
32,000
Chemicals .
82,900
220
2,1,000
Harness, saddles, etc ...
25,000
75
25.000
Starch, estimated ..
15,000,
25
100,000 55.000
Daguerreotypes, ambrutypes, elc ...
75,000
75
29.500
Engraving, etc.
11,000
30
16,800
Cigars . ..
50,000
10
20
..
Types, etc.
Boots, shoes, clothing. and other manufactures, estimated ..
500,000
1.750
750,000
Miscellaneous.
439.700
502
1,044.697
Total, 1856
6,295,000 $.740
11.031.491
Total. 1855.
4.220,000 5.000,
7,8,0,001:
Total, 1554.
87.759.400 10,573 $15.515.063
7,200
White lead.
332,000
126
432,000
Planing mills, sash. doors, etc
445.000
554
37.000
Musical instruments ..
13.200,
31
636,569
Flour .
15,000
15
100,000
Sheet and bar lead.
20,000
15
Gluc and neals-foot oil.
8,050
26
500 1
`t. J. Siller.
Bakers' Tools .. .
..
S
$139.700 $1,644,697 502
Employed,
4
6
2
11
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PHYSICAL AND SCIENTIFIC DESCRIPTION OF THE COUNTY.
GEOGRAPHY AND GEOLOGY.
Of the primitive descriptive geography of the county the following is interesting to the antiquarian: * "Chicago, a village in Pike County, situated on Lake Michigan, at the mouth of Chicago Creek. It contains twelve or fifteen houses and sixty or seventy inhabitants. From this place to Green Bay, by way of the lake, the distance is two hundred and seventy-five miles, and four hundred to the island of Michillimackinac. Ou the south side of the creek stands Fort Dearborn." Schoolcraft in his "Travels" thus describes the country: " The country around Chicago is the most fertile and beautiful that can be imagined. It consists of an inter. mixture of woods and prairies, diversified with gentle slopes, sometimes attaining the elevation of hills, and irrigated with a number of clear streams and rivers, which throw their waters partly into Lake Michigant and partly into .the Mississippi River. As a farming country, it unites the fertile soil of the finest lowland prairies with an elevation which exempts it from the in- fluence of stagnant waters, and a summer climate of delightful serenity; while its natural meadows present all the advantages for raising stock of the most favored part of the valley of the Mississippi." Beck also states that: "Chicago Creek, an arm of Lake Michigan, di- vides itself into two branches at the distance of one mile inland from its communication with the lake. The North Branch extends along the west side of the lake: is about ten or eleven miles in length, and is supplied from the prairies. The South Branch has an extent of several miles, and communicates with a lake. In wet seasons boats of considerable size pass from this stream to the Desplaines, and thence down the Illinois. The entrance of the Chicago into the lake is about eighty yards wide. At present it is obstructed by a sand-bar, which will only admit boats to pass over it." "Several expedients have been proposed," says Schoolcraft, and "one of the most ingenious, and perhaps practicable, is that of turning the Konomic (Calumet: by a canal of sixteen miles into the Chicago above the fort, and by the increased body and pressure of water to drive out the accumulated sands." These extracts combine the facts of sixty years since with the facts of to-day; some have merged into tradition by the lapse of time and the changes wrought by the hands of commerce and immigration; others, descriptive of the features of the country and its arable condition, are as true now as then. The geography is changed by the circumscrip- tion of the limits of Cook County and the alterations made in the Chicago Creek. Cook County at present comprises the townships of Barrington, Palatine, Wheeling, Northfield, New Trier; Hanover, Schaum- burg, Elk Grove, Maine, Niles, Evanston; Leyden, Nor- wood Park. Jefferson, Lake View; Proviso, Riverside, Cicero, Chicago; Lyons, Lake, Hyde Park; Lemont, Palos, Worth, Calumet; Orland, Bremen, Thornton; Rich and Bloom. The townships as cited, are given in tiers from the north, each tier separated by a semi- colon. The county of Cook is bounded on the east by *Beck's Gazeteer of Illinois, Albany, N. Y., 1823.
+At Summal.
the southern extremity of Lake Michigan and the State of Indiana; on the north by the county of Lake; on the west by the counties of Kane and Du Page, and on the south by the county of Will. It is forty-eight miles from its northern to its southern extremity: it is twen- ty-five miles wide at its northern line, fourteen miles wide at the southern extremity of the two northern tiers of townships, twenty-six miles wide at the north- ern extremity of its two southernmost tiers of town-
ships; thence it has a width of nineteen and one-half miles across the three townships of Orland, Bremen and Thornton, and a width of fifteen and one-half miles across the townships of Rich and Bloom, Its arca is about nine hundred and forty square miles. The rivers traversing the county are the Desplaines, Dupage, Cal- umet and Chicago, and the county is intersected by the feeders of those streams. The surface of the land is prairie, with heavily timbered ridges thrown up by the lake during its various periods of recession, The fol- lowing matter is compiled from the "Geological Survey of Illinois: "The soil of the prairies is usually a black or dark brown mold, varying from one to four feet in depth, and is underlaid by a lighter colored sandy or gravelly clay subsoil, In the dry timbered tracts this subsoil comes very nearly to the surface, and generally throughout the county supports a growth of black, white and red oak, butternut, black walnut, bitternnt and shell-bark hickory, cottonwood, etc., with an under- growth chiefly of hazel. In the damp woodlands of the central portion of the county, we find, in addition to the above species, burr-oak, elm, black ash and locally sassafras, forming a considerable portion of the timber. On the sandy ridges which skirt the shores of Lake Michigan the timber is almost entirely composed of the various species of oak-black, white, yellow, red and burr-with an occasional clump of red cedar or white pine, with cottonwood on the edges of the narrow sloughs which separate the ridges. The surface depos- its of Cook County are the Drift proper, and subse- quently alluvial and lake deposits." The following table gives the most reliable data concerning the deeper ge- ology, taken by Johnston Ross at the boring of a well at the Union Stock Yards:
Surface soll, lake deposits, Quaternary forest } From one lo sev- and soil bed and boulder drift, enly feet.
NIAGARA GROUP.
I. Bluish-gray limestone. 16 feet
2. Limestone -- light-gray. 138 feet
3. Limestone-nearly while 20 feel
1. Limestone-buff or drab. 80 feet-254 feet.
CINCINNATI GROUP.
5. Shale-soft and fine. . 104 feet
6. Limestone-light-gray . 20 feet
7. Shale-coarse and sandy. 126 feet-250 feet.
TRENTON GROUP.
8. Brownish ferruginous limestone .... 25 feet
Grayish limestone. .- 305 feet-330 feet.
ST. PETER'S.
10. Whitish-brown sandstone .. -155 feet-155 feet.
LOWER MAGNESIAN LIMESTONE.
11. Lighi-colored limestone-very hard. 60 feet
12. Gray limestone .... 10 feet- 70 feet.
*Geological Survey of Illinois, by A. H. Worthen; article: Cook County, by Henry M. Bannister; 1868.
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HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY.
· ECONOMIC GEOLOGY.
The supply of buikling stone in the county is very large, and in the lower division of the Niagara group in the Athens quarries is found one of the best building stones in the State, technically known as Athens mar- ble. The limestones quarried on the western banks of the Desplaines in the Lyons quarries furnish good ma- terial for rough walls and, provided the beds are of sufficient thickness, good rock for general building pur- poses. The bituminous limestone quarried in the vi- cinity of Chicago is also used for building purposes.
The upper beds of the Niagara group furnish good material for rough walls, culverts and flagging, and this material is sometimes utilized in buildings. The Thornton quarries furnished a large proportion of the stone used by the Illinois Central Railroad in the con- struction of their culverts in Cook County.
The beds of limestone in the southern part of the county furnish abundant facilities for the manufacture of excellent quick-lime; the gray limestones of the Ni- agara group being principally used for this purpose.
The clay found throughout the county presents an excellent material for the manufacture of hrick. The brick yards at Pullman" display the extent of one series of yards, and the excellence of the manufacture at- tained there of the natural raw material. Sand is abundant all over the county, placed there by the lake as in a storehouse until the amplitude of Chicago's building necessities required it.
There are large beds of peat throughout the county; one at Rose Hill and another in the vicinity of Blue Island are the best known; and in the northwestern section of Lyons Township occurs a bed of marl in a marsh which appears to have been at one time a shallow lake. The marl was found underneath a thin layer of peat while the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad was being constructed.
The presence of petroleum and mineral pitch in some of the upper parts of the Niagara group has been discovered, and necasionally small masses have been found in the cavities of large fossil corals. Neither substance has been found in remunerative quantities; and the experiment of boring for petroleum at W. T. B. Read's, corner of Chicago and Western avenues, was only saved from being a failure as a commercial enter- prise by striking water.
Any metallic minerals that occur are immigrants from northern localities, and came with the drift. There are two exceptions to this rule: The pyrites of iron which is sometimes found in small quantities in the limestones of the Niagara group, and bog-iron ore, de- posits of which may be found in the marshes and peat- bogs. Green stains have been frequently perceived in the limestone, analysis whereof showed them to be salts of chromium, but not in sufficient quantity to be re- munerative. Although no minerals are discoverable in the county, yet the distribution of the geological form- ation was such as is particularly applicable to the city of Chicago; and no questions can arise as to the eco- nomic utility of building material for Cook County being of infinitely greater value than coal measures or metalliferous deposits.
One other factor of the utilization of terra firma remains to be mentioned-the successful boring of artesian wells throughout the county, whereby a plenti- ful supply of water is procured to relieve the necessity which occasioned the enterprise. These wells range in depth from a few hundred to two thousand feet.
V'ide article on Pullman.
Thus, with building material, water and possibly fuel, Cook County has not been neglected in the distri- bution of prizes in economic geology.
AREA OF THE COUNTY.
Alexander Wolcott states, under oath, the following facts relative to the county:
That the Government survey of Cook County, as appears from a certified copy of the original survey, shows the total number of acres in Cook County to have been (less fraction 596,831.
That the total number of acres in Cook County lia- ble to assessment for 1873, not subdivided into town or city lots :except the property of railroad companies) is (less fraction : 524,610.
That the total number of acres of railroad property in Cook County liable to assessment for 1873, and not subdivided into town or city lots, is (less fraction) 1,567.
That the total number of acres (including town and city lots reduced to acres; in Cook County, occupied by churches, cemeteries, schools, Poor House farm, Reform School, charitable institutions, Bridewell, engine houses, Illinois Central Railroad and public grounds, exempt, by law, from taxation, is (less fraction) 4.665.
That the total number of acres in the city of Chi- cago, subdivided into lots (not including property exempt by law is (less fraction) 18,413.
'That the total number of acres in the county of Cook, outside of the city of Chicago, subdivided into lots (not including property exempt by law) is (less fraction : 47,570.
The original number of acres in Cook County was 596,831.
Since which compilation by Mr. Wolcott there has been no similar one made.
GOVERNMENT SURVEYS.
Following is an authentic statement of the various Government surveys in Cook County. They are given in chronological order:
The first surveys were made in 1821, five years after the treaty of St. Louis by which a strip of land twenty miles in width and extending from Ottawa to Lake Michigan was ceded to the United States, preparatory to the construction of the Illinois & Michigan Canal. For precision and brevity the various surveys are de- scribed by townships and ranges.
In 1821 the following portions were surveyed: Township 35, Range 13; Township 36, Ranges 12, 13 and 14: Township 37, Ranges 11, 12, 13 and 14; Township 38, Ranges 12, 13 and 14; Township 39, Ranges 13 and 14; Township 40, Range 13; and Town- ship 41, Range 12.
In 1828 the following: Township 42, Range 10
In 1834: Township 35, Ranges 14 and 15; Town- ship 36, Range 15; Township 37, Range 15; Township 40, Range 14; and Township 41, Range 14.
In 1837: Township 38, Range 15.
In 1838: Township 42, Range 11.
In 1839: Township 40, Ranges 12 and 13; Town- ship 41, Range 13; Township 42, Ranges 9, 12 and 13. In 1840: Township 41, Ranges 9, 10 and 11.
In 1843: Township 39, Range 12.
In those cases where the same territory was surveyed more than once, as in Township 40, Range 13, the later survey was made because of inaccuracies in the first one.
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SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND AGRICULTURAL
POPULATION OF COUNTY.
The United States census for the decade ending 1840* gives the population of Cook County as 10,201, and the population of the following towns, then in the county, were thus given :
Athens. 1,662
Barrington
202
Bridgeport
385
Chicago ..
4.470
Chicago Precinct
303
Desplaines
455
Gross Point
330
Hanover
Jake.
277
Lyons
207
Monroc ..
350
Salt Creek.
Summit ..
310
Thornton
306
The population of Cook County for 1845 was as follows :
l'opulation,
Subject to military
Chicago City
12,033
3.037
Chicago.
575
160
Athens.
593
125
Blue Island
2344
York ..
3.46
73
Monroe
786
200
Lake ..
141
Lyons
554
Fyl
Summit
619
290
Desplaines .
270
Gross Point
734
Hanover ..
710
170
Barringion
504
118
Bridgeport
449
1.47
Thornhim
5-46
100
Salt Creek
1.073
268
Total
21.581
5.540
In 1850 the population of Cook County is given as 43,385 souls; of whom 23,485 were male white persons, t9,522 female white persons total, 43,007 white); and 209 free colored males, 169 free colored females (total, 378 colored). The population of various subdivisions of the county is thus given:
Barrington.
676
Bloom.
755
Bremen
250
Chicago (nine wards) .. 27,036
1.008
East and West Chicaga
1,01g
Elk Grove
Hanover
072
Jefferson
744
Lake
340
Lemont
310
Leyden.
756
I.yons
Maine
548
New Trier
473
Niles. .
408
Northfield
1,013
Orland
504
Palatine
617
l'alos.
336
Proviso
482
Rich
169
Ridgeville.
444
' T'he population of Illinois by this census was 476,18}, and of the United States 17,063,666, The population of Illinois from the first census laken, was: 1810, 12,389; tH90, 59,913: 1830,137-445
Schaumburg
Thornton
30g
Wheeling goz
Worth .. 589
In the census for 1860 the population of Cook County is given as 143,947 white, and 1,007 colored; of which totals, 74, 162 were male whites, and 69.785 female whites; and 521 free colored males and 486 free colored females; total, 144.954.
The population of subdivisions of the county are thus given:
Barrington
1,312
Bloom
1,225
Bremen
700
Chicago, Jen wards. 109.260
Cicero
1,272
Elk Grove
831
Ilanover
Jefferson
1,395
Lake ..
1,755
Lake View
587
Lemont
1.380
Ixyden
1,505
Lyons
1,044
Mainc.
),142
New Trier.
912
Niles ..
1,34
Northfield
1.534
Orland
1,040
Palatine
1.462
l'alos
1,010
l'roviso
1.265
Rich
1.143
Shaumburg
907
South Chicago.
2,053
Thornton.
1,033
Wed Chicago.
859
Wheeling ..
1,60g
Worth
2,330
In 1870 the population of Cook County was 349,960, and the population of subdivisions of the county was as follows:
Barrington
1.490
Bloom
1,213
Bremen
1,501
Bremen
164
Calumet. 1.253
Chicago, Iwenty wards 208,977
Cicero
1.545
Elk Grove.
1,120
Evanstrm.
3.06z
llanover
1,008
Hlvde l'ark 3.6.4.1
Jefferson
1,813
Lake.
3,360
Lake View
1,841
Lemont
3.573
Leyden
1.437
Lyons
2,427
Alaine
1.505
New Trier
1.105
Niles
1.791
Northfield
1.705
Orland.
1,130
Palatinc
1,855
Palos
853
Proviso.
2,001
Rich .
1,539
Schaumburg
031
Thornton.
2,222
"Thornion
301
Wheeling
1,835
Worth
1,747
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South Chicago ..
duty.
Evanston
342
HISTORY OF COOK COUNTY.
The population of Cook County is thus given in the census of 1880:
FINANCIAL ..
In 1871, the total equalized value of county property WHIS 8100,233,633, inclusive of the following items : Valne of lots, $67,638,039 ; personal property, $20,344,- 752 ; value of lands, $9.332,654, and railroad pruperty, $2,918,218.
The following table shows the equalized valuation of portions of Cook County at a ten-year interval.
VILLAGES,
Equalized Real Estate Valu- ation. 1672.
Kent F.state.
Personal Prop- erly.
Barrington,
$167.419
$279.374
$74.171
Evanston Township, including.
6.703
175.943
327,679
56,720
Bremen
179.952
224,6g8
49.008
Rogers Park village.
529
Cicero ...
1.787,197
1.375.517
44.736
South Evanston village.
1.517
Calumet
255.425
393,552
34.504
Ilyde l'ark Township
15.716
513.527
1,027,525
94.113
Jefferson Township, including
4.870
Ilanover
171,696
253,965
55,153
Rowmanville village
337
Ilyde Park.
3.662,279
4.204.2t
272,930
Irving Park village,
Jefferson
$27.591
1,670,955
99.217
Lake Township ..
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329.8412
450,681
70,791
1.ake View Township, including. Ravenswiki village ..
185
Lemont
147,620
225.115
49.005
Lemont Township, incluiling
3.795
Maine
172.526
243.517
33.168
128
Northfield
175.804
227.579
36,161
Part of Desplaines village. I.emont village
2.108
New Trier
229.132
289.571
24,305
Leyden Township ..
1.383
138,320
216,147
34.932
La Grange village
531
Orland .
185.437
190,502
41.998
Maine Township, including. Part of Desplaines village.
city
Proviso
266,906
336,420
26,80€
Park Ridge village ..
457
2,223
Kiversile.
232,140
232,015
10,352
Part of Evanston village.
300
Rich ...
163,005
230,442
$3.4:6
Glencoe village.
387
Schaumburg
150,838
268,205
37.008
Gross Point village.
327
Thornton
229.480
353.305
;7.149
Wilmette village. Winnetka village.
419
Wheeling
204.626
307,513
53,020
Niles Township.
2,503
North Chicago.
6,045.375
10,073.700
1,550,450
Northfield Township.
1,807
Norwood l'ark Township.
1.675
(Irland Township.
1.208
l'alatine Township, including. Palatine village.
731
Palos Township.
1,200
Praviso Township, including
3.061
Harlem village.
923
C. & North-Western ..
1.000,216
159.791
795
Kich Township, including
1.702
Matteson village,
451
(', Burlington & Q. - -
241.357
233.358
12,320
2.100
Dalton Station village
445
Homewood village.
313
Lansing village.
219
Thornton Station village.
401
Wheeling Township, including.
2,206
West Wheeling village.
204
Worth Township, including ..
2,180
Part of Blue Island village
1,039
The total population of the villages
calendling over mure than one township is :
Blue Island.
1.542
Desplaines.
$18
Evanston
oof't
Total population of Cook County
607.524
The white population is given as 600,362, and the colored population as 6,945 ; Chinese, 172 ; Japanese, 2, and Indians, 43-
By these tables, the total equalized value for 18;2, of the real estate in Cook County, is demonstrated to be 875,743-385 ; and, for 1881, the total assessed valu- ation of real estate is $96,183,233 ; of personal property, Sz3.892,268 ; of railroad real estate, $704.680, and of railroad personal property, $114,131.
In 1875, the valuation of 518,107 acres of land in
Barrington Township, including.
1.503
Barrington village.
410
Isloom Township ..
1,431
Brenten Township, including.
1,453
Bremen village ..
210
Calumet Township, including.
....
Part of Blue Island village
503
Washington Heights village
1,035
Chicago city ..
503.155 5,162
Cicero Township, including
Austin village
1.359
Brighton village.
Clyde village.
Oak l'ark village
I,BSS
Elk Grove Township.
l'art of Evanston village
4.200
l lanover Township.
1.30Kl
Elk Grove
131.791
1,252,148
617.516
Jefferson village.
610
286,354
24.300
Maplewood village.
725
Lake View
1.yomis
6,565
Lake
3.330,869
5,061.875
609,550
I.yons Township, including. ..
3.000
Norwoil Park.
130.424
16.267
2.346
Palatine.
221.868
325.910
55.965
New Trier Township, including.
5.84
Wurth,
336,434
342.212
South Chicago
29 134,200
34.945,920
4.475.740
West Chicago.
22,301,510
20.423.164
tet .6
Riverside Township, including. Riverside village
450
Schaumburg Township.
Q54
Thornton Township, including.
3.337
Michigan Central .....
151,165
870
C. & Eastern Illinois
Columbus, C. & Ind. C
123,80;
2,850
Chicago & Altun ...
Joliet & Northern Ind
60,474
Joliet & Western Ind.
C .. Danville & Vincen.
51.352
39,000
3.224
Lake Shore & Mich. S
39.765
4.495
355
Chicago & l'acific.
4.000
Pittsburgh, Cin. & St. 1.
50,251
470
C. & Strawn
C. & Grand Trunk ....
2,400
33.795
Maywood village.
C., Milwaukee & St. P.
8.00ş
27,200
C. Kock Island & P ..
529,711
160,500
246,860
19,353
493
l'ittsburgh, Ft. W. & C.
Juliet & Chicago ...
Baltimore, Ohio & C.
14,228
5.560
C. & Western Indiana.
200
1,500
RAILROADS.
1.074
125.95l
132,570
22.433
629,282
leyden. .
243,119
1,201
2,576
$3,500
130
357.700
SOCIAL, POLITICAL AND AGRICULTURAL.
343
Cook County was $16,116,197, and of real estate ;lots) was $97,795,613 ; the total valuation of property in the county being $156,087,486.
The valuation for 1883 is: Personal property, $3,017,929 ; unenumerated property, $23,391,378 ; town and city lots, $101,456,866 ; lands (improved and unim- proved), $9,832,373, and railroad property, $941,260. The total value of all property assessed in the county is $138,639,806.
The bonded debt of Cook County, as reported for the fiscal year :882-83, was $4,951,500, being within a fraction of three and one-half dollars of indebtedness for each one hundred dollars worth of property at its assessed valuation.
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES .- The following table gives the receipts and expenditures of the county from 1831 10 1848, the year when the new constitution was adopted :
YEAR.
Receipts.
Expenditures.
1831
$ 357 78
$ 425 97
1832
661 42
600 66
1833
1.040 25
1,6×1 74
1834
1.040 35
1.167 67
1835
4-303 39
3.322 74
1936
7.107 95
5.333 02
1837
2.931 28
6,135 71
1838
5.695 63
11,172 92
1839
10,313 53
9.014 78
1840
8,106 11
15.064 50
18.41
10,294 07
14,167 44
1542
11,500 00
9,000 00
1843
14.511 36
9.916 24
1845
15,240 13
13,403 06
1846
23.185 16
11.504 55
1547
23,676 92
27.405 95
1848.
27,963 82
17,824 99
The records from 1848 to 1871 were destroyed in the fire of 1871. From 1871 to 1883, the receipts and expenditures were as follows :
YEAR.
Receipts.
Expenditures.
1871*
$1,983.706 12
$1,957.346 06
1872
1,847.803 94
1,798,582 04
1873.
939.463 27
950.308 92
1974
$42.193 62
793.208 So
1975
1,132,196 14
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