POPULATION:---White, 24,717; colored, 786; American born, 24,455; foreign born, 1,048; total, 25,503. Farm homes owned, 2,211; rented, 644; other homes owned, 1,600; rented, 1,309; total families, 5,764.T

FINANCE:---County tax 32 cents on $100 valuation; school tax average 50 cents; total assessed valuation $7,005,000; one-third of real valuation. No county debt; no township debt.

MINING:---Eight coal shafts operating; 307 men employed; 79,221 tons annual output, worth $139,440. Veins 26 to thirty inches thick, 130 to 210 feet deep; mines located near Brookfield, Marceline, Bucklin and Ste. Catharine.

TIMBER:---Once covered sixty per cent of surface, being the eastern one-half and ten per cent along streams of other portions. Embraced white, burr, black, red and pin oak, ash, sycamore, hickory, walnut and elm. Two-thirds removed. Portable saw mills in every township. Walnut logs have in past made an industry, and are yet exported from Purdin, Browning and Brookfield; likewise white oak railroad ties. Hickory cord wood is shipped to Omaha for meat curing.

LAND:---Western one-half of Linn county is a rolling prairie with occasional small streams. It is seldom flat except in creek bottoms. Eastern half embraces strips of a billowy sort of prairie, though this part is mostly hill land, once covered with timber and contains infrequent bluffs and ravines. Blue grass is indigenous. Best prairie land sells at $50 to $65, with good farms at $40. One-half of this land brings $50. Eastern half sells at $20 to $45, a few farms reaching $50. One-half of this sells at $30. Around Brookfield land is in increase of price over the same land less favored in location with reference to market. Hill land reaches $90 in rare instances. Bottoms along Yellow, Locust, Parsons, Turkey and East Yellow creeks are from a quarter of a mile to two miles wide. Farms bring $20 for first or low bottom subject to overflow, up to $50 for that more elevated. Soil is black, alluvial. Prairie soil is black, vegetable mould, ten to thirty inches deep, favorable to grass, vegetables, corn, oats, rye.

MANUFACTORIES:---Hay stacker manufacturing companies at Linneus and Browning; pressed and vitrified brick yards, iron casting works, cigar factory at Brookfield; railroad shops at Brookfield and Marceline.

TRANSPORTATION:---Railroad interests cover four roads, two of which, the Burlington and the Santa Fe, have shops and division points within the county; former at Brookfield and latter at Marceline. Other roads are Wabash, St. Louis to Omaha, and Chicago, Burlington & Kansas City, from Carrollton, Missouri, to Burlington, Iowa. Dirt roads are well graded and dragged; steel bridges

HIGH SCHOOLS:---Brookfield, Linneus and Marceline

TOWNS:---

Brookfield: Population, 5,484: railroad, farming, mining; sewerage, waterworks, electric lights, gas, fire department; business streets vitrified brick.

Marceline: Population, 2,638; railroad, farming, mining; electric lights, waterworks. Railroad salaries in both towns amount to $80,000 monthly. Each town is location of railroad shops, division offices and the home of trainmen.

Linneus is county seat; electric lights;

Meadville, Bucklin, Laclede, Browning, Purdin and Ste. Catharine are vigorous farming centers.

FURTHER INFORMATION:---For further information address Secretary Commercial Club, Brookfield.

NEWSPAPERS:---Brookfield Gazette, Budget, Argus; Marceline Mirror; Laclede Blade; Meadville Messenger; Bucklin Herald; Browning Leader-Record; Linneus News; Linneus Bulletin.