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CITIES, AMERICAN. (POET ARTHUR, PROVIDENCE, QUIXCY.) 



The fall in Ogden cafion is 550 feet in five 

 miles. The motors of an electric-light com- 

 pany, a powder-mill, and several flouring-mills 

 are run by this power. There are, in addition, 

 a woolen-mill, and cigar, knitting, and canning 

 factories. Fine fruit is grown in the surround- 

 ing country. The educational and religious ad- 

 vantages are good. The Central School is a 

 handsome building, and there is a fine hotel. 



Port Arthur, a city in the province of Ontario, 

 Canada, population 6,000, situated on the west 

 side of Thunder Bay, at the head of Canadian 

 navigation on Lake Superior, and 60 miles 

 west of the Nipigon river. In 1800 it was a 

 terminal point of the Hudson Bay Fur Com- 

 pany, and in 1872 it was named Prince Ar- 

 thur's Landing in honor of Prince Arthur, then 

 a resident of Canada. It has public and pri- 

 vate schools of the highest grade, a court- 

 house, a town-hall, board of trade, registry, 

 port, and inland-revenue offices. It has two 

 banks, brick blocks valued at $300,000, and 

 first-class hotels. There is a fine harbor in 

 which the Government has constructed 2,000 

 feet of a breakwater at a cost of $150,000, the 

 entire projected length being about a mile. 

 Within the harbor lines are 2,500 yards of 

 docks. It is located on the Canadian Pacific 

 Railway line, and is a terminus for both the 

 eastern and Lake Superior division and the 

 western or prairie division. Its grain-eleva- 

 tors have a capacity of 2,000,000 bushels. In 

 the vicinity are extensive quarries of marble 

 and limestone suitable for building purposes, 

 and inexhaustible quantities of brown and red 

 sandstone, slate, and granite. Silver and gold 

 mines, discovered in 1883, are located forty 

 miles southwest of the town. An unlimited 

 extent of mining land may be purchased from 

 the Crown at $2 per acre. It is the center 

 of exploring and prospecting parties. The 

 mining districts are known as the Beaver and 

 the Silver Mountain, the former employing 43 

 men. The tunnel of the Silver Mountain mine 

 is 1,400 feet in length, and the shaft is 400 feet 

 deep. The value of real estate in 1887 was 

 $1,250,000. It has steamboat connection with 

 Fort Williams four times a day. Twenty-five 

 miles distant are the Kakabeka Falls on the 

 Kaminiotiquia river, a celebrated resort for 

 tourists. A daily paper, the " Port Arthur 

 Daily Sentinel," is published, and a daily steam- 

 boat line runs to Duluth, connecting with the 

 trains of the Canadian Pacific Railway. 



Providence, one of the capitals of Rhode Isl- 

 and, at head of Narragansett Bay, 34 miles 

 from the ocean, was founded by Roger Will- 

 iams in 1636. Seventy years later the popu- 

 lation was 1,500. In 1832, when incorpo- 

 rated, it had 18,000 inhabitants ; in 1870, 

 68,904; in 1880, 104,857; in 1887, 122,050. 

 The manufacture of cotton was introduced in 

 1793, and of woolen goods a few years later. 

 The number of establishments in the State in 

 1885, of which Providence was the natural 

 headquarters, was : Of cotton, 90, capital $21,- 



150,000, product, $21,770,000; of wool, 34, 

 capital $8,560,000, product $18,980,000. 

 Other manufactures are gymnastic apparatus 

 and jewelry which is one of the most exten- 

 sive industries. There is a large British ho- 

 siery mill and colony. Notwithstanding its 

 location, Providence has no foreign commerce. 

 There is a line of steamships to New York 

 and Boston, and the city is the terminus of a 

 Baltimore line of coast steamers connecting at 

 Baltimore and Norfolk with railroad and 

 other steamboat lines. There are local lines 

 to shore resorts, which are numerous. The 

 streets are narrow but remarkably clean. To 

 Sept. 30, 1884, the water-works had cost 

 $6,491,167.60, and the sewerage, $1,685,214. 

 At the same date there were 86 churches ; 1 

 high, 11 grammar, 38 intermediate, and 43 

 primary schools, costing yearly $252,326 ; and 

 14 lines of horse-car railways. Among the 

 public buildings may be mentioned the State- 

 House (built in 1759), the Friends' Meeting- 

 Ilouse (in 1727), the Board of Trade (erected as 

 a market in 1773), the First Baptist Church 

 (in 1775), and University Hall (in 1770). The 

 city hall cost $1,500,000. The Narragansett 

 Hotel, completed in 1878, is eight stories high ; 

 its cost was $1,000,000. It is of pressed brick, 

 and can accommodate 400 guests. The Ma- 

 sonic Hall, Butler Exchange, Arcade, library, 

 and court-house, are some handsome speci- 

 mens of modern architecture. The State 

 Prison is at Providence, and there are numer- 

 ous hospitals and asylums. Roger Williams 

 Park contains 100 acres. The Washington 

 Insurance Company, organized in 1799, has 

 extended its business largely of late years. 

 The new Catholic cathedral and opera-house 

 are fine edifices. 



Qniney. A city of Adams County, 111. The 

 population in 1880 was 27,268, but there was 

 an increase of 30 per cent, by 1887, and it is 

 believed that the census of 1890 will show 

 40,000. This is due to an awakening of enter- 

 prise on the part of the citizens. Previous to 

 1885 trade was stagnant, manufactures were 

 depressed, property was low in value, taxes 

 were high, the city was deep in litigation and 

 debt, and everybody was discouraged. " Then 

 some of the patriotic citizens who had hitherto 

 held aloof from local affairs began the work of 

 restoration and redemption. The lawsuits 

 were compromised, the debt was funded, 

 streets were improved, water, gas, and electric 

 lights were provided, and municipal enterprise 

 awakened the people. . . . The citizens began 

 to realize the enormous natural advantages of 

 their situation, and to seek the trade of the 

 million or more people who live within 75 

 miles of her court-house. Capital appeared 

 from its hiding-places, labor flocked in to take 

 advantage of high wages, manufacturing estab- 

 lishments sprung up like magic, real estate 

 rose in value, extensive building operations 

 began, and everybody prospered." The num- 

 ber and beauty of the public buildings that 



