TABLE. SHOWING THE DATE OF ORGANIZATION, AND THE POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF IOWA, FOR THE YEARS NAMED. TABLE SHOWING THE DATE OF ORGANIZATION, AND THE POPULATION OF THE SEVERAL COUNTIES OF IOWA, FOR THE YEARS NAMED. CENTENNIAL AWARDS. TO IOWA EXHIBITORS. UNDER the system of awards adopted at the Centennial Exposition of 1876, every article exhibited was placed in one of thirty-six groups, numbering from 1 to 36. The examination was not of a competitive character, but upon the merit of the article. Each article of merit was entitled to receive diploma and a bronze medal of uniform value. The following awards were made to Iowa exhibitors: GROUP NO. I. Wesley Redhead and Mahaska Coal Mining Company are accredited with samples of coal. The committee says: "Commended as samples of bituminous coal of Iowa." LEAD ORE. John Harvey, of Dubuque.-Report says a large and instructive exhibit of Galena lead ores of Iowa. W. P. Fox, of Des Moines.-Commended for an instructive exhibit of the stratified deposits of the State of Iowa. [NOTE.-In this group were shown fifty-five varieties from stone quarries in Iowa, prepared by Donahue & McCosh, of Burlington, in blocks six by nine inches square; also were shown samples of building and moulding sands, and three specimens of glass sands, twelve of fire and potters' clay, six or eight samples of mineral paint, and one sample of peat; also some fine samples of geodes from Keokuk. Judge Murdock, of Clayton county, exhibited a collection of relics of the mound builders. The most prominent one was his large collection of mound builders' skulls.] GROUP NO. IV. State of Iowa.-Commended as a very fine collection of cereals in the straw, beautifully cleansed; also grasses and seeds-sixty varieties-a fine collection beautifully arranged; also a collection of Indian corn, seventy varieties. BUTTER. Stewart & McMillen, of Manchester, Delaware county, Entry No. 880.-Commended for the best samples of 200 lbs. and 30 lbs. respectively, made at Newberg factory, Edgewood and Hebran. |