Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1917 — Horses Are In Majority In County Livestock. [ARTICLE]

Horses Are In Majority In County Livestock.

The figures recently compiled by the county board of review show that there are 997 automobiles owned in, the county on March Ist, and their assessed valuation was $172,390, or an average of $173 each. Rensselaer led in the matter of ownership with 221; placing the population of the city at 2,500, makes one automobile to every eleven persons} Remington has 75. Marion township has 83, exclusive of Rensselaer; Carpenter township, outside of Remington, has 45; Wheatfield town has 34, and Wheatfield township 37; Barkley has 69, Gillam 43, Hanging Grove 32, Jordan 66, Kankakee 40, Keener 34, Milroy 6, Newton 47, Union 66 and Walker 24. There were 9,363 horses in the county, assessed at $604,471, an average of $64.47 a head. 20,629 was . the number of cattle assessed at $633,468, an average of $31.23 a head; 10,107 hogs, assessed at $73,553, an average of $7.27 a head; 893 head of sheep assessed at $5,110, an average of $5.83 per head.