The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history . uth of the SangamonRiver increased from 70,252 in 1840 to 171,887in 1850 and 299,474 in 1855. But the growth ofpopulation was not confined to the counties imme-diately touching the canal and the upper courseof the Illinois River. As the better tracts of landin these counties were taken up, settlements con-tinually spread further back into the unoccupiedsections. By 1855 more than half the population 1 Senate Executive Document, No. 16, 34th Cong.,3rd Sess., pp. 40-41. 2The population is not obtainable for 1848, thebeginning of can
The Illinois and Michigan Canal : a study in economic history . uth of the SangamonRiver increased from 70,252 in 1840 to 171,887in 1850 and 299,474 in 1855. But the growth ofpopulation was not confined to the counties imme-diately touching the canal and the upper courseof the Illinois River. As the better tracts of landin these counties were taken up, settlements con-tinually spread further back into the unoccupiedsections. By 1855 more than half the population 1 Senate Executive Document, No. 16, 34th Cong.,3rd Sess., pp. 40-41. 2The population is not obtainable for 1848, thebeginning of canal traffic, nor for 1854, the year whenrailway competition began. The figures for 1840 and1850 are taken from the federal census and those for1855 from the Illinois state census of that year. Shipping crowded at the mouth of the ChicagoRiver by the flood in the Des Plaines March 12,1849. This is probably the earliest camera viewof the river in existence, the original being a da-guerreotype by P. von Schneidau. Fort Dearbornis shown at the right. x ?? - 01. - o O . .4
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