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Ohio is under contract, and 24 lines of railroad 

 radiate from the city, while ten years since 

 there were but 15. There were 6 national 

 banks, with an aggregate capital of $4,400,000, 

 and 17 private banks and banking-houses, with 

 a capital of $2,385,000. There are now 13 

 national banks, capital $9,600,000, and 7 pri- 

 vate banks, capital $1,513,000. The assessed 

 value of property in 1875 was $184,498,565 ; 

 in 1885 it was '$170,086,968. The disburse- 

 ments of the city government in 1875 were 

 $3,865,274, including interest which amounted 

 to $900,566; the revenue, $4,186,570; the 

 bonded debt, Jan. 1, 1876, was $17,325,500. 

 In 1885, the disbursements were $5,047,858.- 

 90, including interest, $1,694,956.23; the rev- 

 enue was $5,866,524.33 ; the bonded debt, Oct. 

 1, 1886, was $25,940,707.25. The following 

 table shows the value of some important man- 

 ufactured products in 1875 and 1885 : 



In 1875 about 61,000 hands were employed ; 

 in 1885, about 91,000. The table below gives 

 statistics of the receipts of important articles : 



Clarksville, the capital of Montgomery County, 

 Tenn., 40 miles northwest of Nashville, on 

 the north side of the Cumberland river, at the 

 mouth of Red creek, the head of navigation in 

 the dry season. It is on the Louisville and 

 Nashville system of railway, and is now the 

 southern terminus of the Indiana, Alabama, 

 and Texas Railway, a projected road from 

 Evansville, Ind., to Birmingham, Ala. The 

 population is 8,000. It is the seat of the South- 

 western Presbyterian University. There are 

 also three seminaries for girls, and a system 

 of public schools. There are street-railways, 

 a system of water-works, and gas and electric 

 lights. A small amount of manufacturing is 

 done, but the city is noted as a great tobacco- 

 market, It is in the center of that part of 

 Kentucky and Tennessee known as " the 

 Clarksville tobacco-district." In the sale of 

 natural leaf it ranks as the second tobacco- 



market in the world, and the first in the sale 

 and shipment of export tobacco. There are 

 seven large warehouses for the sale, and six 

 stemmeries where the leaf is made into strips 

 for direct shipment to European ports. These 

 establishments will handle about 90,000,000 

 pounds the present year. The Tobacco Ex- 

 change is one of the finest buildings in the 

 State. 



Cleveland, a port of entry and the capital of 

 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the second city in 

 size and importance in the State, on the 

 southern shore of Lake Erie, at the mouth 

 of Cuyahoga river, latitude 41 30' north, 

 longitude 81 46' west, 120 miles northeast 

 of Columbus, 225 miles northeast of Cincin- 

 nati, and 170 miles southwest of Buffalo. The 

 population in 1870 was 92,829, of whom 

 38,815 were foreigners; in 1880 it was 160,- 

 146. The police census of 1886 shows a 

 population of 214,013, while the directory 

 canvass for the same year, which takes in the 

 suburbs, the census being confined to the cor- 

 porate limits, places the number at 238,953. 

 The present entrance to the river has been 

 extended by two piers 200 feet apart, stretch- 

 ing several hundred feet into the lake. A 

 breakwater, just west of the river's mouth, 

 the cost of which was $1,200,000, incloses 

 180 acres of water. This is to be extended 

 eastward of the entrance to the river. There 

 are 34 improved public docks, with a frontage 

 of 2,415 feet and 82 unimproved public docks, 

 with a frontage of 2,071 feet. The river and 

 the two runs flowing into it, are crossed by 

 9 city swing- or draw-bridges, 10 railroad 

 swing- or draw-bridges, and 40 stationary 

 bridges, city and railroad. The most impor- 

 tant of these is the Viaduct, 3,211 feet long, 

 begun in 1874 and finished in 1878, at a cost 

 of $2,250,000. In 1886 was begun the Cen- 

 tral Viaduct, 2,838 feet long. Another is to 

 be built, 1,092 feet long, over Walworth Run, 

 to the west side of the city, making altogether 

 a belt elevated roadway, connecting the three 

 divisions of the city. Still another elevated 

 roadway, finished in 1886, is the Kingsbury 

 Run Viaduct, 835 feet long. The total area of 

 the city parks is 93 acres, and plans are under 

 consideration for additional parks. In Lake 

 View Cemetery, on Euclid Avenue, a monu- 

 ment has been built to President Garfield. 

 Adelbert College, of Western Reserve Univer- 

 sity, was removed to Cleveland from Hudson, 

 O., in 1882, on a conditional gift of $500,000 

 from Amasa Stone, one of the conditions be- 

 ing the adoption of the name Adelbert, that 

 of his dead son. It occupies an elevated po- 

 sition on Euclid Avenue, near the fine building 

 of the Case School of Applied Science, founded 

 on a bequest by Leonard Case, Jr., of landed 

 property valued at $1,250,000, which, by in- 

 crease in value and subsequent bequests, has 

 risen to an estimated value of over $1,500,000. 

 The Cleveland Manual Training-School was 

 built and equipped in 1886 by a corporation of 



