Crawford county has finally by a vote of the people,
ratified the contract for the sale of the swamp lands to the American Emigrant
Company, for $200. The company are to
get the title to the lands confirmed by Government, to settle them as speedily
as possible, and to introduce a large number of sheep – about 5000 in two or
three years.
The Cedar Valley Times
announced in its last number a complete change of regime in that paper. Mr. C. M. Hollis is the new editor. At the close of a lengthy review of the
present position of the parties, he says that the Times belongs “to the great party that struggles to maintain the
Union inviolate, which should include all the loyal men of the nation, north
and south.”
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette,
Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, May 19, 1862, p. 2
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