CITIES, AMERICAN. (WATERTOWN, WILLIAMSPORT, WINONA.) 



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Watertown, a city and the county seat of 

 Jefferson County, N. Y., on the main line of the 

 Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad. 

 The town lies along the northern and southern 

 banks of Black river, which furnishes water 

 power to rapidly increasing manufactories. The 

 population of the city is 14,700. The leading 

 industries are the manufacture of paper, porta- 

 ble and stationary steam engines, vacuum brakes 

 for locomotives, wagons and sleighs, lamps, 

 thermometers, doors, sashes, and blinds. Milling 

 and foundry operations are also extensive. The 

 annual output of paper from all the mills is 

 about 8,000 tons. Ten thousand wheeled vehi- 

 cles are manufactured yearly. The annual 

 freight tonnage from Watertown by rail is 36,- 

 000 tons. One daily and 5 weekly newspapers 

 are published. There are 5 national banks, with 

 an aggregate capital of $911,240, besides 1 sav- 

 ings bank having deposits amounting to $1,513,- 

 572.15, with a surplus of $160,338.81. The city 

 is lighted by electricity, and an electric street 

 railway is in process of construction. A sol- 

 diers' monument, presented by a citizen, is being 

 erected in the public square at a cost of $10,- 

 000. A Government building for a post-office 

 is also under contract, to be completed by 1892, 

 at an expenditure, including the lot, of about 

 $75,000. Public water works have been estab- 

 lished, and the drainage of the city is excellent. 

 There are 13 churches, and a Young Men's 

 Christian Association, a city hospital, an orphan's 

 home, and the Keep Home for aged people. 

 There are 8 public schools, besides an academy 

 and a boarding school. The streets are well 

 shaded and well kept. 



Williamsport, a city and the county seat of 

 Lycoming County, Pa., on the west branch of 

 Susquehanna river, about 40 miles above the 

 forks near Sunbury. The original town plot 

 was laid out by Michael Ross, owner of the 

 tract, which consisted of about 100 acres. The 

 village was incorporated as a borough March 1, 

 1806. The population in 1810 was 365, in 1890 

 it was 27,107. The present territory is 1 mile 

 wide and 7 miles long. But little progress 

 was made in material prosperity until after the 

 organization of the Susquehanna Boom Company, 

 in 1849, now a large corporation. The lumber 

 business has grown in volume year by year, 

 until the average annual output is about 1,000,- 

 000 logs, representing a board measure in feet of 

 about 175,000,000 ; and 25 saw mills receive their 

 stock of logs through the Boom Company. The 

 amount of money invested in mills and timber 

 lands is about $9,000,000. In addition to the 

 saw mills there are 12 planing mills, 4 large fur- 

 niture manufacturing companies, 2 large kin- 

 dling-wood factories, and 2 paint mills ; of iron 

 industries there are 4 engaged in the manu- 

 facture of wood-working machinery, 2 in build- 

 ing engines and machinery, and machine re- 

 pair shops, also 1 large iron and nail works. 

 Among the miscellaneous manufactures are some 

 large ones lately introduced: The Decorative 

 Works, making patent wood decorations for pub- 

 lic and private buildings, cars, etc. ; the Lycom- 

 ing Rubber Company, with an output of $700,- 

 000 annually ; the Disston Musical Instrument 

 Company ; the Williamsport Brick Company, 

 manufacturing by a new process ; 1 large saw 



manufacturing Company; 3 shirt manufactur- 

 ing companies ; a cigar and paper box factory ; a 

 flint and emery-cloth company ; several flouring 

 mills; a sewing-machine company; and 4 wire- 

 buckle suspender companies. These industries 

 give employment to about 7.000 persons, and 

 have a capital of about $15,000,000. Eight daily 

 and weekly papers are published. There are 9 

 banks and banking institutions with a capital of 

 about $1,700,000. The gas and water and steam 

 heat are furnished by private corporations. 

 The streets are lighted with electricity. Five 

 railroads pass through the city. There are 42 

 churches and missions; a paid fire department 

 with 4 steam engines, 5 hose carts, and 1 Hayes 

 truck ; 1 high school and 14 other school build- 

 ings. The bonded debt outstanding is $698.- 

 300 ; the tax valuation for 1890 was $8,000,000 ; 

 the tax levy for all purposes is 18 mills on the 

 dollar. The city owns two parks, one given by 

 Michael Ross, the other, Brandon Park, almost 

 50 acres, presented to the city by Boyd Cum- 

 mings, of Philadelphia. 



Winona, a city and the county seat of Winona 

 County, Minn., on Mississippi river. It was in- 

 corporated in 1857. The population in 1880 was 

 10,700 ; in 1890 it was 18,264. It has a fine sys- 

 tem of water works with 22 miles of mains, and 

 a paid fire department. The streets are lighted 

 with electricity and gas. There are 6 miles of 

 street railway, and telephonic communications 

 with all the surrounding towns, including St. 

 Paul and Minneapolis. The railroads running 

 into or through Winona are the Chicago. Mil- 

 waukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and North- 

 western, the Chicago, Burlington and Northern, 

 the Winona and St. Peter, the Winona and 

 Southwestern (now being rapidly constructed to 

 Missouri river, with western termini thereon at 

 Sioux City and Omaha), and the Green Bay, Wi- 

 nona and St. Paul. The Mississippi river is 

 open for navigation by the largest steamers for a 

 period of more than 8 months each year. Wi- 

 nona is rapidly growing as a commercial and 

 manufacturing city. It is the mart for nearly 

 200,000 people who occupy the territory contigu- 

 ous to it in Wisconsin and in southeastern Min- 

 nesota, and who are engaged largely in agricult- 

 ure and stock raising. The city has 5 banks, 

 with an aggregate capital of $1,300,000, and 

 with deposits reaching $1,500,000. Winona is 

 at the southwesterly extremity of the great lum- 

 ber region of northern Wisconsin, and at the 

 point where this lumber has its greatest outlet 

 to supply the vast timberless areas in southern 

 Minnesota, southern Dakota, northern and cen- 

 tral Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas. This has 

 made Winona one of the largest lumber manu- 

 facturing cities in the United States. Its 4 

 great saw mills have a capacity of 500,000,000 

 feet of lumber annually. It also has extensive 

 planing mills and sash and door factories. The 

 capacity of the six flouring mills is 1,500,000 

 barrels annually. The other important manu- 

 factories in Winona include wagon works, which 

 manufactures 5,000 wagons a year, plow works, 

 indurated fiber works, Harvester works, and 3 

 carriage manufactories. The number of per- 

 sons employed in the manufactories of Winona 

 is 3,500. Winona has 5 weekly and 2 daily news- 

 papers. Its public schools rank high in the 



