History of Washington County, Illinois, Part 6

Author: Brink, McDonough & Co.
Publication date: 1879
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 143


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.No. of Fat Hogs Sold ...


No. of Fat Sheep Sold ..


No. Hogs & Pigs died Cholera


Town. 1 N., R. 3 W


1000


4455


1775


110 3759


10 335 215


35 19381 9705


1700 3445


580 300


5214


1379 653


1781


34 91


1035 619


8795 5209


..... 328


478


77


658


Town. 2 8., R. 1 W


38216


36819


21761


5899


862


470


.....


558


40


6000


294


159


Town. 1 N. & 8., R. 2 W


49797


108009


48530


50


10


4310


95


9600


1708


2955


89


10


147


Town. 2 S., R. 3 W


38431


65627


32845


475


467


22


6953


12096


335


652


227


1588


759


473


31


945


2290


39


122


92


97


15


898


Town. 2 S., R. 5 W ..


25442


81314


42340


70


3960


310


10507


.... 315 30


100


106 154


712


15


20


373


460


3


21


4


51


Totals.


413556 797429


384299 3044


402614


2614


49784


6674


500 8132


4384


10016


516


10973


462 10489


43887


1254


2127


536 . 10115


Assessment of the Principal Articles of Personal Property of Washington County, Illinois, for the Year 1878.


TOWNSHIPS.


Horses.


Cattle.


Mules and Asses.


Sheep.


Hogs .


Safes. Engines Burger Includ'g Proof Boilers.


Other Tables.


Carriages and W'agons.


Watches andt Clocks.


Sewing and Knitting Machines.


Furtes.


Piano- Melodeons ch'ndise and Organs. on Hand.


Articles.


No.


Value.


No.


Value.


No. Valuc.


No.


Value


No. Valuc .: N.


Val. N.t Va. N .; Val


No. 'Value.


No Value


No.


Value. N. Val. No. Val.


Value.


Value.


Town. 1 N., R. 1, 2 and 3 W ..


233 $7,385


394 $4 207


98


1,472 142 $143


503 $576


123 $1.702


86: $100;


23


$238


1 $50


$ ......


Town. 18., R. 1 W ..


376


11,565


680 6 768


20


6,390! 286


285


980 1.028 5 1.300


1 15


213 2,825


161 236


84


1,002 1 50


9 245


1.000


180


Town, 2 8., R. 1 W


557


16,339


724


7.571|


254


8,201 406


437


1,270


1.343 6 1,000


6 185


30


822 5.044


330 591


192


1,702 24 1,580


39 1,020, 21.461


2,591


Town. 1 8., R. 2 W


441


783


8,451


176


5,548'


354


377


780


7911


15


3,761


207


310


93 1,027


5 320


12


326


4,320


350


Town. 2 8., R. 2 W


251


8 475


363 3,719


131


3,895


187


181


516


576 2


250


121


1,920


110:


121


46


456 ...


6


205


Town. 3 8,, R. 2 W ..


359


8,300


425 4.756


103


2,508


162


162


854 1,029


1


159


2,573


2.198


113


130


30


312' ... |


60


35 1,345 37,670


5,800


Town. 3 8., R. 3 W.


391


11,535


702 6,081


157


5,310


340


310


876


811| 1


75


16€


1 698


113


154


55


539


863 3


325


2


95


9,175


870


Town. 2 8., R. 4 W.


323


9,770


335 3,216


451 5,057


191


3,185


437


440 110


30:


380


3 1.400


15


88


1,610


73


168


41


443 2


125


1


20


1,505


175


Town. 2 8., R. 5 W.


297


10.680


390


5,595


193


6,655


2.720 155


153


199


208


128


1.487


81


87


38


282


3


200


2


40


400


....


.. 5,194 161,143 7,810 85,189 2142 67,519 4064 4,147 10,290 11,454 35 6,545 27 840 11 295 3,267 44,276 2,591 4,497 1,232 12,987 81 5,640 135 4 356 84,336


ASSESSMENT OF REAL ESTATE OF WASHINGTON CO., FOR THE YEAR 1878.


Manufacturers' Tools, Implements, Machinery, &c ....


$1,100


Agricultural Tools, Implements and Machinery.


53,796


Gold or Silver Plate or Plated Ware ...


105


Moneys of Bank, Banker or Stock Jobbers.


4,020


Credits of Bank, Banker or Stock Jobber.


300


Moneys other than of Bank, Banker, &o ..


43,785


Bonds or Stocks ....


1,800


Shares of Capital Stock of Companies, &c.


1,000


Property of Saloons and Eating Houses


1,440


Household and Office Furniture .


76,589


Investments in Real Estate and Improvements thereon ...


100


All other Property not otherwise Listed ..


4,006


MANUFACTORIES OF WASHINGTON CO., FROM CENSUS, 1870.


BUSINESS.


Hands Employed


15


$3,475


$2,338


$4.440,


$10,770


Carriage and Wagon


13


33


11,975


5,420


8,820


31,140


Cooperage


8


59


27,950 26.700


46,677


91,970


Mills


14 107: 483,000


9,500


4 200


11,950


25,500


Saddlery and Harness Manuf y


9:


15


9,300


1 400


10,520;


19,000


Tin, Copper and Sheet Iron "


4


10


9,700


2,240


13,270


25,300


Woolen Goods


1


10


800


3,120


8,550


12,800


50'


159


8.465


1.410


9.875


Town. 2 8., R. 1 W.


16.344


5,647


186,836


22,857


200,693


324 1,238


65.320


10,250


75,570


Town. 3 S., R. 1 W.


7,283 11,793


57,613


29,866


87,4791


80. 962


9.865


5,605


15,560


Town. 1 8., R. 2 W.


22.847


315,667


2,395


318,062


53


13,175


1.400


14,665


Town. 2 8., R. 2 W.


12,332


9,372


143.475


30,305


173,780


32,940


67,875


1


75


110


130


240


Town. 1 S., R. 3 W.


15,086


6,014


193,598


18,30%


211,906


16


32


2,610


330


2.940


Town. 2 S., R. 3 W.


19,352


2,196


348,400


9.255


357,655


539


426


213,453'


16,375


229,830


Town. 3 8., R. 3 W.


11,158


8,574


110,799


22,459


133.258


246,968


102


380


19,880


3,270


23,150


Town. 2 8., R. 4 W.


11,201


12.894


142,217


35,998


178,215


29,203


163,036


78 286


12,345


1.215


9.0×5


Town. 2 S., R. 5 W.


19,687


3,172


317,000


10,005


327.185


20


51


7,870 3,955


520


4,475


Town. 3 8., R. 5 W


11,002 11,828


132,287


33,285


165,572


No. of Improved


Town Lots ........


No. of Unimprored


Cash Value of Im-


Cash Value of Unim-


all Town Lots .....


Total Cash Value of


Town. 1 N., R. 1, 2 & 3 W ...


11,119


6,286


$123,655


$18,275


$141,930


Town. 1 S., R. 1'W.


18,980


4.089


205,820


12,207


218,027


improved Land .....


all Lands ..........***


Total Cash Value of


5,050


209


212


833 1,010


1.


100 18 595 3 185


302 6,601


194


3.180


1,647


111


115


23


170.


837 1


25'


8


250


2,045


250


Town. 1 8., R. 5 W ...


97


2,445


209 2,089


621


1,715


120


396


402


659


671


4


..


1


10


197


3,117


177


281


101.


1,122


Town. 3 S., R. 5 W


240


6,910


275


3,162


59


2.920


246


251


301.


602


Town. 2 8., R. 3 W.


501


17,594


829


9.867


146


192


6,175


122


3,720


258


258


616


620


4


640


288


292.


6


730 2 45 ...:


143


2,302


128


152


79


425 31


215


11


370


2,495


.....


13,495


482


5,369


71


2,055


169


174


657


657.


20


157


2.611


132


253


44


20


303


1


50


10


Town. 1 S., R. 3 W ..


257


8,580


370


311


9,915


404 4,950


197


252


650


860; 2


250


2 20


Town. 3 8., R. 4 W.


290


10,190


35495


285


2429


25


5975


30


2961


......


3755


720


45


313


2432


886


43


1385


24


149


10


1309


3608


47


165


82


1290


Town. 3 8., R. 5 W.


14755


23851


13830


46


1092


674


3295


55


990


55


109


133


120


200


60


1106


664


565


59


815


1645 5211 787


19


98


6


454


Town. 1 8., R. 5 W.


917


24127


9675


100


989


80


2949


75


30


119 133


45


641


Town. 3 S., R. 3 W


30108


42405


27435


424


2825


Town. 1 S., R. 4 W ..


24290


90331


61162


30930


253


3019


Town. 3 S., R. 4 W


29009


50851


25404


25 91


6147


35361


146


1765 2127


641


78


16


Town. 1 8., R. 3 W


31935


57539


41


771


2233


30


99


33


80 658


Town. 3 8., R. 2 W


10228


20785


46


303


300


5.58


30


4


116


Town. 2 8., R. 2 W


35830


48007


15700


18


350


3255


133


149


19


424


1834


1005


16


132 970


1090


22


494


2480


63


4122


133


51


667 958


Town. 2 8., R. 4 W


21144


122


92


305


16


18


10


112


Town. 1 N. & 1 8., R. 1 W


50430


63090


31782


18


416


194


72


581


Town. 3 8., R. 1 W.


11968


19057


3


275


18


825


2610


217


242


100


390


505


484 3:28


469


.....


Total Assessed Value of all Real Estate in Washington County for the Year 1878.


.$3,557.831


Total Assessed Value of all Personal Property in Washington County for the Year 1878 ... 735,808


Grand Total of all Property, Real and Personal,


.. 4,243,039


TOTALS OF FOLLOWING ARTICLES IN COUNTY,


VALUE.


TOWNSHIPS.


Land ......


Acres of Improved


Land ........


Acres of Unimproved


proved Land ........


Cash Value of Im-


216,493 119.562 82,764,363 8342,813 83,107,176 1.308 3,911 $357725 843,940 $401,665


Establishments .... | º


Capital ...


Wages ....


Material.


Products .....


Town. 3 8., R. 4 W


11,765


11.717


133.833


86,745


19,799


106,535


40.


111


2,400 14,745


Town. 1 S., R. 5 W


6,372


7,791


16,835


5.785


231,393


15,575


6: 158


675


1.530


Town. 3 S., R. 2 W.


5,130, 11,720


34.935


4,331


122


500|1 442


274 3,266 39,2,795


1X


2


95


3,315


......


Total ...


10,326


Steam


Fire & Billi'rd


Mer-


Material


17


.....


507 371


1200


837


16


8:21


622


102


30


63 16


1101


and


Manuf'd


Town. 3 8., R. 1 W.


270


7,965


Town. 1 8., R. 4 W


182


261


89


147


provad Town Lots.


proved Town Lots.


Total ...


1,540.552


Lumber Sawed and Mills ..


3


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313


300


167


......


......


220


1


500


and


191


300


100


87


505


83


Cash Value of Un-


Town Lots


Town. 1 8., R. 4 W.


Agricultural Implement Manul'y


48,800' 1,285,150


Vo. of Sheep Killed by Dogs ..


22


HISTORY OF WASHINGTON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.


SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, ETC.


The fine school system of the State has placed a good free school-house within reach of every family. Churches of all demoninations are scattered all over the State. First class Colleges and Academies for males and females are located at various points, and at as reasonable rates for tuition and board as can be obtained anywhere in the United States.


MANUFACTORIES.


There are quite a large number of manufacturing establishments along the line of the Illinois Central Railroad. Grist and saw mills are located at almost every station. Wagon shops, cooper shops, box factories, blacksmith shope, plow factories, etc., can be found almost everywhere. A nail factory has just been established at Centralia.


FRUIT RAISING.


The great fruit region is located south of the Terre Haute and Alton Railway, where most of the lands in their natural state are covered with for- est trees, some being very valuable timber. For raising fruit, grapes, berries of all kinds, and vegetables of every variety, these lands cannot be excelled. The fruit and berry crops have become of so much importance that the man- agement of the road have for a number of years past, during the berry and fruit season, run a daily Express Fruit Train between Cairo and Chicago which carries all kinds of vegetables, fruits and berries, and runs at a rate of speed equal to any passenger train, so that the fruits and vegetables shipped reach the northern markets almost as fresh as when gathered from the tree or vine, and consequently always command a better price than those that are shipped from more distant points and become stale and unfit for use before reaching their destination.


CLIMATE.


The climate throughout the whole State of Illinois is usually mild and genial, and particularly so in the southern portion of the State, where the lands for sale are located. It is as healthy as any other State in the Union.


WATER.


The very best of well water can be obtained by sinking wells at various depths, from ten to fifty feet below the surface. An abundant supply of stock water can usually be obtained in creeks and rivers convenient enough without digging wells for that purpose. But stock water can generally be procured at so shallow a depth that it is cheaper to dig wells or pond holes than to drive stock any distance to water.


COAL.


Our most skilled geologists inform us that the so called "Coal Measures," (a term used to designate the formation on which the principal coal deposits are found,) attain an aggregate thickness of at least one thousand feet, and cover nearly three-quarters of the area of the entire State. The southern boundary being fixed at about Cobden, on the Illinois Central Railroad ; the eastern boundary by the State line; the northern at Bulkey, on the Chicago branch of that road, and Mendota, on the main line; and the west- ern, usually a few miles east of the Mississippi River. This coal measure has not been fully developed in the central and northern portions of the State, and but partially in the southern. In the central and northern part of the State the formation is known to be at a great depth, while in the southern it is in some places quite near the surface. Near St. Johns, Du Quoin, Tamaroa, Carbondale, Centralia, and some other points, mines have been opened and are now in successful operation, some being approached by inclined planes and tunnels at a depth of from eleven to fifty feet from the surface, others by shafts, at from one hundred to five hundred feet in depth. The coal is of an excellent quality, and the mining operations have attracted much attention, and when fully developed will be a source of great wealth.


TITLE.


The title to these lands offered for sale is as perfect as human agency can make it. It was originally donated by Act of Congress to the State of Illi- nois, and by an Act of the State Legislature transferred to this Company and its Trustees. No incumbrance of any kind whatever.


To all who desire in good faith to examine any of these lands, the Railroad Company issue half rate tickets to and from the nearest points to the land, and if such ticket holder buys even a forty acre tract, they will allow what be paid for such ticket as part payment on the purchase.


Believing it would be of interest to the citizens of this county we have in-


dicated on the map the lands belonging to this company. These lands can be purchased on the following terms.


One-quarter cash, with six per cent. interest for one year, in advance, on the residue; the balance payable in one, two and three years, with six per cent. interest, in advance, each year on the part remaining unpaid. For ex- ample, for forty acres of land at $5 per acre, the payments will be as follows


Cash Payment, $50 00 principal and $9 00 interest.


In One Year, 50 00


= 6 00


In Two Years, 50 00


3 00 =


In Three Years, 50 00


$200 00


$18 00


Or the same land may be bought for $180, all cash, as we deduct ten per cent. when all cash is paid.


Full information on all points relating to any particular locality or tract, will be furnished on application, either in person or by letter. to P. DAGGY, Land Commissioner, Room 11, No. 78 Michigan Ave., Chicago, Ills. All station agents along the line of the road have maps showing the land in their vicinity for sale, with prices.


CHAPTER IV. GEOLOGY.


BY M. L. M CORD.


CHOLARS will naturally expect that in writing an essay on the Geology and Palæontology of Washington County, we will use · scientific terms and expressions ; but to make it more easily un- derstood by the general reader, we will use plainer and simpler language. The geological features of this county are in most respects the same as those of the other counties which are drained by the Kaskaskia river and its tributaries. It is but a small area of the great interior basin, (or, more correctly, what was once a basin). * * The ancient bot-


tom of this great inland sea is to be found below the deepest coal deposits. Vast quantities of rank weeds, ferns and sedges, together with gigantic- trees and other similar arborescent growth, springing upon the shallow borders and low islands, falling into decay, gradually settled to the bottom of the water, and were finally covered by sedimentary deposits, much of which is now hard- ened into stone. These buried drifts, by lapse of time and other causes, were eventually converted into coal. Finally, after vast periods of time had roiled away, this inland sea, by the washing from its shores and islands, had become comparatively shallow with its stores of coal, shale, sand-stone and lime-stone, covered with various grades and stratas of clay, and the latter with a black loam, composed of mingled clay and carbonaceous matter pro- duced from decayed vegetation.


As this vast shallow body of water gradually moved away, it naturally followed the lowest surfaces at the bottom, and by degrees washed out and formed the channels which now comprise ' the rivers and smaller streams. Every farmer has observed how, on any of our wet prairies, if a road, fur- row, or other slight channel is formed leading to lower levels, a deep ditch and finally a small creek is washed out, and what was once a swamp be- comes dry and tillable land. This is but a repetition of the process of which we have spoken of above, though on a diminutive scale.


Now, whether the elevations about the head of Grand Point creek, in the east of Sawyer's Point, and Plum Hill, near the centre of the county, and the region about Elkhorn and Lively's Grove, in the west, were original "uplands," or whether these were at the average of the ancient sea level, the fact that on the higher elevations in our county, the surface is com- posed of drifts interspersed with " wash-pebbles," would point to the conclu- sion that no considerable upheavals had taken place prior to the subsidence of the water, and there is little to lead the scientist to the conclusions that any such action has taken place since.


The first of these causes was the action of enormous icebergs, which, dur -. ing the glacial periods which our latitude has passed, floated over the Mis- sissippi Valley, with their bottoms scraping all shallow places, and carrying and depositing those many boulders and blocks of granite and other masses


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of stone which are found scattered over our prairies, which a casual observer can discern are not natural to their present locality.


In many places the hills were uprooted by these icebergs, driven by tempests, and the strata of rocks are frequently found in a vertical and in- clined position.


The second of these causes consists in the fact, that many of the streams, especially the minor ones, have entirely changed their former course. In many of these places the ancient channels undermined banks and ledges of stone, and caused them to fall and tilt upon their edges, after which they have been more or less covered by the shifting sands and sedimentary deposits. Many of these tilts are found under non-existing hille, in the pro- cess of well-digging and other mining operations.


There is, therefore, nothing in the geological feature of this county to indicate that any considerable volcanic action has ever taken place, but, on the contrary, that its hills and valleys, its prairies and other features, as well as its deep-lying coal-beds and strata of sand and lime-stone,-the latter of which are in many places over sixty feet in thickness,-have all been pro- duced by the action, direct, or remote, of water. It is evident to the mind of a geologist that the contour or features of the great basin of which this county forms a small part, probably subsequent to the last ice period, or that, perhaps, it was formed into a basin by the scooping action of the float- ing ice-mountains, or the throwing up of the barriers which penned in the waters and prepared the way for all subsequent alluvial action.


The only minerals to be found in an alluvial country, in paying quan- tities, are salt and coal. The interior basin of central Illinois from about the region of the Big Muddy river, on the south, to the Illinois river, on the north-east, while detached beds of great extent are found in most other parts of the State. The surface of Washington County is underlaid with coal, the main strata being at a depth from 90 to 600 feet. While detached beds of thin, shaly coal may be found at depths varying from 20 to 60 feet, in some places there is a perceptible outcrop. At Dubois, on the line of the Central road, coal may be found about 300 feet from the surface, under a lime-stone formation of varying thickness from 40 to 75 feet. No mine has been sunk at Nashville that reached the coal; but from reliable surveys of the Dubois vein, and the Coulterville mine, near the south-west corner of the county, and along the line of the South-eastern railway, in St. Clair county, we judge the depth of the principal coal vein to be about or near 500 feet at Nashville.


Immediately above the coal we generally find slate, from 2 to 7 feet ; the lime-stone 25 to 125 feet. The more recent traces of diluvium become appa- rent near the surface of the older lime stone, (generally called by the miners coal-cap). Vegetable remains are often found; sometimes large trees, in a good state of preservation.


Detached beds of rubble, and sometimes useful quarries of lime-stone, or calcareous sand-stone, are met in various parts of the county, near or on the surface. This is particularly the case about the borders of Little Muddy, in the east and south-east, in township 2 south, range 2 west, and near the banks and breaks of the Elkhorn, and of Mud Creek in the west and south- west. Very little pure sand-stone has been found, and that generally of a very unstable quality; while in a few places, especially in some elevated position, the soil and other surface formations are pale from the absence of carbonaceous matter, the mineral element, such as lime and phosphoric acid being in unusual abundance.


In the line of paleontology but little can be said. On the more elevated ridge a few fossils have been noticed, and those mostly of coprolites of a reptilian origin. A few only have been found that would weigh as much as twenty or thirty pounds. Just beneath the last mentioned stone forma- tions the remains of shell-fish exist. Some petrifications of the water-snail are also found, composed principally of sulphurate of iron. On the prairies, from four to twenty feet below the surface, are frequently found the bones of fishes of the gar-pike species.


CHAPTER V.


CIVIL HISTORY.


RIOR to March 1st, 1784, Virginia owned all the territory situated north-west of the Ohio River. On the date above mentioned, that State, by its delegates in the Congress of the United States, conveyed to the United States all the "right, title and claim, as well of soil as of jurisdiction," which the said Commonwealth had to the ter- ritory north-west of the Ohio.


At that time, the population of that vast region did not exceed the present population of the County of Washington. It was a vast expanse of uncul- tivated land, covered with wild grass, filled with wild game, and inhabited by wild men.


On the 13th of July, 1787, Congress passed an ordinance " for the govern- ment of the territory of the United States north-west of River Ohio," by which it was provided that, as soon as there should be five thousand free male inhabitants of full age, in said district, they should have authority to elect representatives to the General Assembly. This was the first organiza- tion of civil government here under the control of the government of the United States.


Congress appointed the Governor, Secretary and Judges. The people had no part in making the laws until their population should comprise five thou- sand free male inhabitants of lawful age. The Governor and Judges, or a majority of their number, were authorized to select and publish such laws- civil and criminal,-of the original States as they deemed suitable or neces- sary for the government of the districts. The power to make laws remained in the hands of the Governor and Judges for nearly thirteen years, at the end of which time the territory could " muster " the requisite five thousand "free male inhabitants of full age." An election was held, and members of the Legislature were chosen. The territorial Legislature convened at Cin- cinnati, then better known as Fort Washington, on the 16th day of Septem- ber, 1799. It was found that a quorum was not present, and in consequence thereof the organization was delayed for eight days. The territory, which now comprises the grand Commonwealth of Illinois, was known as Knox County, and was entitled to but one representative in that legislature. Shad- rach. Bond was the representative ; he traveled nearly four hundred miles to attend.


By act of Congress of May 7th, 1800, the North western Territory was divided, and all that portion lying west of the mouth of Kentucky river, into what was called Indiana Territory. All this territory, which embraced all that now comprises the States of Indiana and Illinois, did not contain the necessary five thousand free male inhabitants to entitle them to the right of self-government. Illinois remained a part of Indiana for nine years.


On the 3d day of February, 1809, Congress passed an act forming Illinois Territory, of all that portion of the territory west of the Wabash river. At that time there were not found in all this vast territory the "five thousand free male inhabitants," consequently the territory was governed by lawi made by the Governor and Judges appointed by Congress. Three years elapsed before the necessary population was here for a territorial legislature. Washington County was, at this time, a part and parcel of St. Clair County, and remained so until 1817. In this year the legislature in session at Kas. kaskis passed an act forming the County of Washington, establishing its boundaries within the lines now encompassing the counties of Clinton and Washington. In 1827 the Legislature of the State passed an act forming of the north half of Washington County, the County of Clinton. This con- stitutes the history of the legal sub-divisions of Washington County, from the days when it was, in law and in fact, part of the great State of Virginia, to the time above mentioned, when Clinton County was formed of a part of its territory.


COUNTY SEAT.


By the same act of the Legislature that formed the original County of Wash- ington, three commissioners were appointed, viz .: Jacob Purman, Reuben Middleton, and Leaven Maddux, who were authorized to examine and locate a seat of government for the county. They met at the house of James Bankson, on Shoal creek, in what is now Clinton County, March 2d, 1818. Their report says : " And considering the importance of said site being located on the margin of a navigable stream, as near the center of the pre- sent and future population of said county as is consistent with expediency and justice, do, upon mature consideration, pronounce that a part of the north-east ; north-west ; a part of the south-west of section thirty-three, and a part of south-east of section thirty-two, in township one, north of range


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