The population of the Vineland tract is about ten
thousand five hundred people, consisting of manufacturers and business
people upon the town plot in the centre, and, around this centre, of
farmers and fruit-growers. The most of the tract is in Landis Township.
I will now give statistics of police and poor expenses of this township
for the past six years:
POLICE EXPENSES.
1867.................... $50 00
1868..................... 50 00
1869..................... 75 00
1870..................... 75 00
1871.................... 150 00
1872..................... 25 00
POOR EXPENSES.
1867.................... $400 00
1868..................... 425 00
1869..................... 425 00
1870..................... 350 00
1871..................... 400 00
1872..................... 350 00
"These figures speak for themselves, but they are not all. There is a
material and industrial prosperity existing in Vineland which, though I
say it myself, is unexampled in the history of colonization, and must be
due to more than ordinary causes. The influence of temperance upon the
health and industry of her people is no doubt the principal of these
causes. Started when the country was plunged in civil war, its progress
was continually onward.
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