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In liberality for the purpose of establishing and maintaining public schools, Cass County is one of the foremost in the state. In 1873, its school houses numbered 81, valued at over $60,000, and during the year previous the county expended in building school houses and maintaining schools upwards of $45,000. This, at a time when its population numbered about 7,000, may be considered a fair sample of its enterprise in this direction. The county has made excellent use of the land set apart for permanent school fund, and thus realized a fund of $47,533.70. With her means for adding to the wealth stored in the mind and all that can be required for the body, who can arrest her progress?

"A. T. Andreas Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Iowa" Chicago: Andreas Atlas Co., 1875, pg. 487.