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203 hydrants and 3 cisterns. There are 11 

 banks," the capital and surplus being $3,840,000. 

 The clearings for eight months of 1890 were 

 $80,383, 756.08. The aggregate of loans of 22 

 European and American agencies is $10,000,000 

 yearly, and there are 8 local and 2 branch build- 

 ing and loan associations. There are 44 churches 

 and 14 public schools, and the total valuation of 

 school property is $227,600 ; 76 teachers are em- 

 ployed, and the enrollment is 4,685. A classical 

 course can be tatfen in the high school. There 

 are 19 private schools and academies, including 

 4 business colleges, 1 school of fine arts, a con- 

 vent and Catholic parochial school, and an Epis- 

 copal college. A university is also in course of 

 erection under the auspices of the Christian 

 Church. The manufactories in operation in 

 1889-'90 numbered 127, employing 2,700 hands, 

 with capital to the amount of $3,780,000. The 

 capacity of the cotton and woolen mills is 14,000 

 yards daily, and the daily consumption of cotton 

 is 25 bales. A grain elevator has been erected, 

 with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels, and there 

 are 4 flouring mills, with aggregate capacity of 

 2,000 barrels a day. A meat-packery is under 

 construction, to cost $300,000. Other establish- 

 ments are for the making of wearing apparel, 

 harness and saddlery, mattresses, spring beds, 

 and show-cases, and there are 12 lumber yards, 8 

 planing mills, and 2 sash and door factories. 

 The total number of business concerns of all 

 classes is 1,700, of which 29 are wholesale agri- 

 cultural implement houses. The State fair is 

 held annually at Dallas, the grounds covering 

 120 acres, with race-track. Three parks have a 

 total area of 290 acres. A county court house is 

 under construction, to cost $350,000. There is 

 a city hall, a county jail, a United States court 

 house and post-office, an opera house costing 

 $60,000, a Merchants' Exchange, an Armory 

 Hall, a Christian Association, a Hebrew Society, 

 and other halls. The hotels number 32, and a 

 large one, 7 stories high, is under construction, 

 to cost $500,000. There are 2 daily and several 

 weekly newspapers. Dallas County has an area 

 of 900 square miles and a total railroad mileage 

 (in 1889) of 169-46 miles. The assessed value of 

 the county, real estate and personal property, in 

 1888 was $26,856,750. The production the same 

 year was : Cotton, 29,186 bales, valued at $1,225,- 

 812; corn, 2,294,440 bushels; wheat, 978,500 

 bushels ; oats, 1,708,000 bushels. 



Danville, a city of Pittsylvania County, Va., 

 on Dan river, 66 miles abov'e its confluence with 

 the Staunton to form the Roanoke. It is 65 

 miles from. Lynchburg, 141 from Richmond, and 

 236 from Washington, on the Richmond and 

 Danville Railroad, which at this point branches 

 into several divisions. Other roads are the At- 

 lantic and Danville and the Danville and New 

 River, and others are in contemplation. The city 

 is connected by an iron bridge with North Dan- 

 ville. The population in 1870 was 3,463; in 

 1880 it was 7,526 ; in 1890 it was 10,285, an in- 

 crease of 2,759 (36-66 per cent.^ The total 

 amount of tobacco brought in leaf to Danville 

 in eighteen years is 500,000,000 pounds, valued 

 at $60,000,000. The total tobacco trade of 

 1885 was $7,707,348, of which $5,554,599 was 

 sold in leaf and $2,010,084 manufactured. In 

 1888 5,300,000 pounds were manufactured; in 



1889, 7,582,000 pounds. In 1890, 160 large brick 

 buildings were employed in the business, with 

 3 others under construction, and 6,000 persons 

 are employed. Of the laborers employed in 

 the tobacco business, nine tenths are negroes. 

 Whites are employed in the cotton factories to 

 the number of 1,200. The capital invested in 

 mills, aggregating 40,000 spindles, is $1,500,- 

 000. There are 2 grist mills, 1 large flouring 

 mill, 3 cooperages, 2 iron-working establish- 

 ments, 1 furniture, 2 candy, 2 sash and blind, 1 

 ice, 1 chair, 2 box, and 1 buggy factories. Power 

 is supplied from a canal 3,500 feet long. The 

 water and gas works, the electric-light plant, and 

 the fire-alarm system are owned by the city. 

 The rate of taxation for all purposes is 1'65 per 

 cent., and the assessed valuation of property in 

 1885, including North Danville, was : real, $5,- 

 513,357; personal, $2,298,400. Danville has 8 

 banks, with aggregate capital of $1,000,000, and 

 6 building and loan associations. There are 1 

 daily and 3 weekly newspapers and 3 hotels. A 

 tabernacle has been recently erected capable of 

 holding 5,000 persons. The private schools are 

 Roanoke Female College (Baptist) and Metho- 

 dist Female College, with the Danville Military 

 Institute. A home for the sick is maintained by 

 the churches and by charitable citizens. 



Davenport, a city of Iowa, the capital of 

 Scott County, on west bank of Mississippi river, 

 opposite the cities of Rock Island and Moline 

 in Illinois, with which it is connected by free 

 bridges. Between these three cities, on an is- 

 land in the river, is the national armory and 

 arsenal, on which the Government has expend- 

 ed $10,000,000 in buildings and improvements. 

 Davenport is 168 miles west of Chicago. 318 

 east of Omaha, 332 north of St. Louis, and 397 

 south of St. Paul, as the river runs. It is regu- 

 larly laid out, and has many imposing buildings, 

 prominent among them being the court house, 

 recently erected at a cost of $175,000; the Rock 

 Island Railway car shops, $200,000 ; the Masonic 

 Temple, $75,000 ; and Turner Hall, $85,000. The 

 population of Davenport, according to the Fed- 

 eral census of 1880, was 21,831 ; according to 

 the State census taken in 1885, 24,999 ; in 1890 

 it was 28,500. Davenport has 4 national banks 

 and 3 savings banks. The number of savings- 

 bank depositors exceeds 10.000, and the aggre- 

 gate of their deposits is more than $6,000,000, 

 which is four fifths of the amount deposited in 

 all the other savings banks in Iowa. The Chi- 

 cago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Chicago, Mil- 

 waukee and Saint Paul, the Chicago, Burlington 

 and Quincy, the Burlington, Cedar Rapids, and 

 Northern, and the Rock Island and Peoria Rail- 

 ways compete for the business of Davenport, while 

 the Mississippi river provides water communica- 

 tion with the West and Northwest. The product 

 of the Davenport factories in 1889 was valued at 

 $15,000,000. The number of manufacturing es- 

 tablishments exceeds 200, and the articles pro- 

 duced include lumber, glucose sirups and sugars, 

 agricultural implements, malt, clothing, cigars, 

 crackers, candies, blank books, and furniture. 

 The saw mills cut 100,000,000 feet of lumber 

 yearly, and the grain houses and elevators handle 

 grain to the value of $10,000.000. Davenport 

 has an excellent system of water works, with 33 

 miles of mains and 320 fire hydrants. It has 



