25,671.62 59,026.81
Springfield 56,507.63 108,175.47
$122,095.55 $256,024.54(365)

The receipts for 1828 were for 96,092.91 acres; of 1829, for 196,324.92
acres.(366) From October 1, 1829, to September 30, 1830, sales, receipts,
and prices were:

Acres. Average Price
per Acre.
Illinois 291,401.28 $364,369.87 $1.2504
Indiana 413,253.63 521,715.13 1.2624
Alabama 233,369.27 291,715.20 1.25
Missouri 182,929.63 228,748.12 1.2505
Michigan 106,201.28 132,751.68 1.25
Ohio 160,182.14 201,923.50 1.2606
Mississippi 103,795.61 130,475.87 1.257(367)

The northward movement of population in Illinois is well indicated by the
figures for 1828 and 1829. The Indian barrier was being pushed back, and
the Sangamon country, with its land-office at Springfield, was a favorite
place for settlement. The rapid increase in the amount of land sold is
also striking. As the third decade of the century closed Indiana was the
favorite place for frontier settlement. The sales of public lands in Ohio
were diminishing. A prophetic glance would have seen that as the
ever-shifting frontier passed westward Illinois was to overtake and then
to far surpass Indiana in number of settlers.

The period from 1818 to 1830 saw the Indian title to a great fertile tract
of land in Illinois extinguished, the price of all public lands lowered
and the land offered for sale in smaller tracts, the right of preemption
granted to squatters who had settled before 1830, considerable grants of
land made to the state for internal improvements, the great salt spring
reservations reduced. These changes did much to make Illinois a more
attractive place for settlement. When a committee of workingmen in
Wheeling, Virginia, made a report, in October, 1830, on a method of
escaping from the ills of workingmen, they presented an elaborate plan for
buying land and forming a colony in Illinois.(368) The experience of the
squatter who settled with four or five sows for breeders and in four years
or less drove forty-two fat hogs to market and sold them for $135, with
which he bought eighty acres of land and paid his debts, was not a rare
one.(369)

As 1830 closed there were still problems connected with the lan