these phases of the war the citizens soldiery from Story County sustained a conspicuous part, and returned at the end to their homes, resuming their quiet and peaceful vocations as though they had only been absent on a holiday excursion. The county provided liberally out of her revenues for all her volunteers. December, 1863, our Board of Supervisors passed a resolution giving to each volunteer who should thereafter enlist $100, and in case he was a married man $50 in addition thereto, and also to the family of each married man then in the service, was given one hundred dollars. Also in January, 1867, our board made a further appropriation, giving to each person who had been a soldier an amount equal to that received by those who had been paid under the first resolution. Under all these appropriations there was paid out of the county treasury to soldiers' widows and orphans something over $46,000.
STATISTICS.
As showing the rate of improvement in the county, the following tables may be of interest. They are taken from the books of the County Auditor, and estimating the assessment at forty percent we have total values in 1876 as follows:
Value of real estate....................$7,242,198
Value of personalty......................1,966,332
Paying annually in taxes about..........100,000
Having a present population, about 15,000.
ASSESSED VALUATION.
| YEARS. | LANDS. | LOTS. | PERSONAL. | TOTALS. |
| 1860. | $1,026, 237 | $62,189 | $125,247 | $1,213,675 |
| 1864. | 1,155,669 | 42,227 | 215,3511 | 1,413,247 |
| 1867. | 1,422,469 | 74,818 | 314,301 | 1,811,588 |
| 1870. | 1,977,681 | 117,428 | 476,604 | 2,571,703 |
| 1873. | 2,520,182 | 165,739 | 450,534 | 3,146,465 |
| 1875. | 2,706,060 | 187,104 | 589,950 | 3,473,114 |
| 1876. | 2,709.375 | 187,104 | 655.444 | 3,551,923 |
TOTAL TAXES AND POPULATION.
| YEARS | TAXES | POPULATION | YEARS | TAXES | POPULATION |
| 1855 | $3,990.30 | 1,568 | 1866. | $46,218.14 | 5,914 |
| 1859 | 14,823.04 | 3,826 | 1870. | 100,318 37 | 11,651 |
| 1862. | 16.439.88 | 4,300 | 1873. | 86,311.75 | 11,519 |
| 1864. | 29,145.49 | 5,000 | 1875. | 97,683.06 | 13,311 |
EXPLANATION.
The short notice I had that this labor would be requested of me, the haste with which the matter has been gathered from many sources, the necessity of placing it in the hands of the printer as soon as it could be collected, offering no tune for comparison, cor-