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... state agencies had not yet begun to proliferate and the state payroll was well under 5,000 employees . Total state expenditures for the 1864-66 biennium came to just over $ 5,000,000 . The most outward and visible sign of the state's ...
... state agencies had not yet begun to proliferate and the state payroll was well under 5,000 employees . Total state expenditures for the 1864-66 biennium came to just over $ 5,000,000 . The most outward and visible sign of the state's ...
Page xiv
... state's largest industry was agricul- ture . Large portions of the state's fertile mid - section lay still un- drained and unfenced , but farm production composed the state's greatest wealth . The plainly adorned farmstead symbolized ...
... state's largest industry was agricul- ture . Large portions of the state's fertile mid - section lay still un- drained and unfenced , but farm production composed the state's greatest wealth . The plainly adorned farmstead symbolized ...
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... state numbered over 10,000 . Peoria was the state's second city , with a population of 56,100 in that year . More and more of the population were becoming city dwellers . They were dour New England merchants and fiercely indepen- dent ...
... state numbered over 10,000 . Peoria was the state's second city , with a population of 56,100 in that year . More and more of the population were becoming city dwellers . They were dour New England merchants and fiercely indepen- dent ...
Contents
Of People and Places | 1 |
Structure of Governmental Power | 35 |
Of Men and Machines | 72 |
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| Title | Building for the Centuries: Illinois, 1865 to 1898 Volume 4 of Sesquicentennial history of Illinois |
| Author | John Howard Keiser |
| Publisher | University of Illinois Press, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 Aug 2006 |
| ISBN | 0252006178, 9780252006173 |
| Length | 386 pages |
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