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1.200,000 gross tons. It is the first point in 

 the South where the manufacture of Bessemer 

 steel was attempted. The daily capacity of the 

 Roane works is 250 tons of rails of this steel. 

 Nine lines of railroad enter Chattanooga, 

 formed by four trunk, and one independent 

 system. There is also a narrow-gauge line to 

 the top of Lookout Mountain, costing $150,000; 

 an incline to that point, costing $75.000; and 

 another to Mission Ridge, costing $25,000. A 

 belt road of 30 miles runs 128 passenger and 

 500 freight cars daily. Truck-farming is a 

 profitable industry. During the year 30,000,- 

 000 feet of lumber, 1,000,000 bushels of grain, 

 200,000 tons of iron-ore, and from 5,000 to 10,- 

 000 bales of cotton, with farm produce, are 

 floated to the city from upper points. There 

 are three daily and six weekly newspapers, 

 electric and gas light companies, water-works, 

 five banks (three of which are National), with 

 total capital, surplus, etc., of $1,360,000, a 

 public school attendance of 6,000, in addition to 

 numerous private schools, and two universities. 

 The sewerage system has cost $150,000. There 

 are twenty miles of street-railway, and an 

 electric line is building. The city contains an 

 opera house and twelve hotels. The tax-valua- 

 tion in 1880 was $3,294,992; in 1885, $6,480,- 

 960; in 1888, $12,323,000. The sales of real 

 estate during the year 1886 were $3,028.125; 

 in 1887, $13,264.505. The city debt is $206,- 

 000. The manufacturing establishments in 1885 

 numbered 99. At present there are 152, 132 

 of which employ steam-power. The capital 

 invested is $8,711,700; hands employed, 

 8.432; yearly wages, 3.332,900; products, 

 $10,655,000. There are eight foundries and 

 machine-shops, as many factories of agricult- 

 ural implements, two cotton-compresses, two 

 steam-boiler shops, three rolling-mills, ten 

 planing and eight saw mills, two stove works, 

 two large tanneries, extensive pipe works, six 

 brass and seven brick works, factories of 

 springs, carriages and wagons, scales, boxes, 

 tacks, soap, candy, cane mills, wire nails, ci- 

 gars, furniture, fertilizers, galvanized and ar- 

 chitectural iron, artificial stone, powder, dyna- 

 mite, and many small industries. Chattanooga 

 has twenty-five churches, independent of those 

 of the colored population. Many of these are 

 handsome buildings. The post-office and cus- 

 toms house is a fine edifice. Chattanooga is a 

 United States Signal Service station. 



Cheyenne, a city, capital of Wyoming Territory 

 and county-seat of Laramie County. Chey- 

 enne was first settled in 1867; its population, 

 as given by the census returns of 1880, was 

 3.456 ; but in 1887 it was estimated at 10,000. 

 It lies at the base of the Rocky- Mountains, 

 about forty miles from the western line of Ne- 

 braska, and about twelve miles north of Colo- 

 rado, and is on the line of the Union Pacific 

 Railway, 516 miles west of Omaha, and at the 

 junction of the Denver Pacific, Colorado Cen- 

 tral, and Cheyenne and Northern railways. It 

 is proposed to extend the last road as far north 

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as the line of the British possessions. Another 

 road soon to be completed, the Cheyenne and 

 Burlington, a branch of the Burlington and 

 MisM>uri system, will add another to the city's 

 facilities for communication. The assessed 

 valuation of real estate in 1886 was $2,208,- 

 457: the total amount of real and personal 

 property was *'2. fi75,000. It is understood that 

 the assessment- roll represents only about one 

 third of the actual value of the property. In 

 1887 there was an increase of about half a mill- 

 ion dollars, the amounts aggregating $3,253,- 

 000. A large portion of the personal property 

 in the city and county consists of live-stock, the 

 principal source of wealth ; in 1886 this inter- 

 est in the county was assessed at a value of 

 $4,481,194. Cheyenne is, moreover, the sup- 

 ply-point for a great stock-raising territory, 

 many of the largest owners of ranches having 

 their homes in the city. The manufactures, 

 though a secondary interest, are increasing. 

 There are two saddle and harness establish- 

 ments, a carriage and wagon factory, a plan- 

 ing-mill and wood-work factory, two book- 

 binderies, two breweries, and two cigar-facto- 

 ries. The total value of manufactures for 1886 

 was about $500,000. The Union Pacific Rail- 

 way employs several hundred men in its 

 machine and car-repairing shops. The Chey- 

 enne and Burlington is also to have a shop 

 there very soon. The tax-levy for 1887 was 

 eight and three fourth mills, divided as fol- 

 lows : general revenue, five and a half mills; 

 streets and alleys, one and one quarter mill ; 

 bonds of 1875, one half mill ; bonds of 1882, 

 one mill; bonds of 1884, one half mill. The 

 water-works, owned by the city, were con- 

 structed at a cost of about $150,000. The 

 source of supply is 127 feet higher than the 

 city, and the gravitation affords sufficient 

 force for all domestic and manufacturing pur- 

 poses. The water comes from Crow Creek, 

 the source of supply to Lakes Absaracca and 

 Mahpealutah, the city owning 160 acres of 

 land, controlling one mile of water on Crow 

 Creek, 480 acres partly covered by Lake Mah- 

 pealutah, and 160 partly covered by Lake 

 Absaracca. The system includes sixty fire- 

 hydrants and steam-pnmping machinery, on 

 the line of the main pipe, for extinguishment 

 of fires. It is estimated that with an increase 

 of storage-basins the present system would 

 supply a population of 50,000. The city has 

 the best modern system of sewerage, an alarm- 

 system fire department ; telephone communica- 

 tion, gas and electric lighting, and a street-rail- 

 way. By act of the Legislature of 1886, an 

 appropriation of $150,000 was made for a Ter- 

 ritorial Capitol to be completed in two years. 

 There are five banks with capital aggregating 

 more than $1,000,000, and average deposits of 

 over $3,000,000. Three daily and three weekly 

 newspapers are issued. The Union Pacific 

 Railway has built here one of its finest depots, 

 at an expense of over $100,000, and that of 

 the Cheyenne and Burlington was erected at a 



