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the furnishing of power at a comparatively reasonable price, and it 

 is believed by inhabitants of Keokuk, of Hamilton, and the vicinity 

 that manufacturers requiring large amounts of electric power will be 

 attracted to the locality in the years to come. This, in a region here- 

 tofore mainly agricultural in its pursuits, can not but be quoted as 

 an indication of one direction of economic development of this coun- 

 try during the next generation or so. 



