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fl-li through tli' 1 i'-' 1 i" largely carried on, iiml at 

 on.- tiinr o\er J.i'iMI persons liiivt- camped out on 

 in small shanties. The other industries 

 I included -J llonring mills in Bay City 

 i -J in West Hay City, 1 brewery, 10 furniture 

 Ties, 7 planing mills (6 in West Bay 

 i. oiler .shops, l> factories of mill ma- 

 iiiery, ti foundries, 1 pump factories, 5 brick 

 : lir.'oin factories, 1-1 carriage factories, 5 

 1 4 lime factories, wood-pipe works, etc., 

 addition to one of the chief railroad machinery 

 niifactories in tin- I'nitcd States. There are 

 miles of street railway. 

 Heat rice, a city of Nebraska, the county seat 

 County, in the southeastern part of the 

 M Hit,' Blue river, in the center of a rich 

 iciilt urid region. Seven railroads center in 

 from Chicago and 4 from St. Louis 

 Kansas City. The streets are paved with 

 rick from factories in the city, the cost of grad- 

 ing, paving, etc., to April 11, 1890, being $159,- 

 .'10. The cost of sewerage to same date was 

 . The water works, of the Holly system 

 valued at $85,000, and the" fire department at 

 ,500. The assessed valuation is $1,100.000, 

 the tax levy in 1889 was 18| mills. The 

 det.t, bonded and floating, is $256,160.96. 

 ere are gas and electric lights, horse and mo- 

 lines of street railway. 6 banks (4 national), 

 th aggregate capital of $465,000 and surplus 

 $101,700, a building and loan association with 

 apital of $250,000, and 3 daily, 6 weekly, and 

 monthly papers. The population in 1880 was 

 in 1890 it was 13,836, showing an increase 

 465'43 per cent. A million and a half dollars 

 invested in manufactures. During 1890 real- 

 ,te transfers numbered 1,774, representing a 

 ue of $2,500,000. The churches number 19, 

 d there are 9 city schools, 7 of which have 

 ck buildings, a private academy, a Roman 

 thqlic school, a business college, and a State 

 ' it ute for feeble-minded youth. The Chautau- 

 Association has a tabernacle, at its grounds 

 the river just beyond the city limits, capable 

 seat ing 10,000 persons. The city has a public 

 >rary and 2 opera houses. 

 Benton Harbor, a city of Michigan, in Ber- 

 n County, in the extreme southwestern per- 

 il of the State, at the confluence of the St. 

 ph's and Paw Paw rivers, one mile from Lake 

 ichigan, with which it has direct connection 

 v :. ship canal of ample capacity for the largest 

 lake vessels and steamers, 60 miles from Chicago 

 water, and 98 by rail. A steamship line has 

 ently been established with daily service to 

 ilwaukee, and there are 2 lines of steamers to 

 icago. The Chicago and West Michigan, 

 e Cincinnati, Wabash and Michigan, and the 

 andalia Railroads, the last with through train 

 > St. Louis, afford additional transportation ad- 

 aui ages, and 3 other lines are under construc- 

 tion to Kalamazoo, Columbus, Ohio, and South 

 Hend. Ind. Twenty-three trains arrive daily, 

 and then- is a street railway to the contiguous 

 city of St. Joseph. Benton Harlx>r is the chief 

 port in Michigan shipping domestic fruits, which 

 grow in the surrounding country" to great per- 

 fection. The annual income of the berry snip- 

 is upward of $600,000, and as many as Hi.- 

 (XX) half-bushel crates of strawberries have been 

 loaded at one time on a single steamer ; 5,000,000 



(juartsof berries and 300,000 barrels of apple* 

 \M -iv | rodnced by Berrien County in one season, 

 in addition to other fruits. Two canning, evap- 

 orating, and cider factories employ 250 persons 

 during the season, and by one linn 400,000 cans 

 of tomatoes are put up yearly. There are also a 

 cider and vinegar factory and pickle and vine- 

 gar works, manufacturing yearly 500,000 gallons 

 of cider vinegar and 10,000 barrels of pickles. 

 Another large plant is under construction, with 

 warehouse and office in Chicago. Fruit-packages 

 are manufactured by several firms. 2,000,000 pack- 

 ages having been produced in 1890, exclusive of 

 a great ipiantity sawed and shipped in bundles, 

 to be made up on arrival at destination. There 

 are also 8 barrel factories, 2 brick and tile 

 works, 2 ship-yards, 8 planing mills, 1 flouring 

 mill with a grain elevator, 2 furniture companies 

 with capital of $120,000, a chilled-plow factory, 

 2 shoe factories, a wagon and carriage factory, 

 and marble works. The Standard Oil Company 

 has invested $5,000 in a distributing plant, and 

 a cold-storage plant has been erected at a cost 

 of $15,000. Lumber, received by boat from 

 the great lumber centers north, is manufact- 

 ured and shipped inland. One saw mill turned 

 out 1.000,000 feet of lumber, mainly hard-wood, 

 in 1890. The highest grade of wood-working 

 machinery will be produced by machine works 

 erected in 1891, removing from Grand Rapids, 

 and patent steel hand-car, with steam pumping 

 and engine works, have also removed to Benton 

 Harbor from Detroit. The assessed valuation of 

 Benton Harbor is $1,200,000. In 1888, $175,000 

 were invested in new buildings ; in 1889, $266,- 

 960 ; and in 1890, $368,600. Two banks (one na- 

 tional) have a capital of '$50.000 each. There is 

 also a building and loan association. Electric 

 lights have been in use for more than two years, 

 and the gas works have been enlarged to a ca- 

 pacity of 240,000 feet daily. Water works were 

 under construction in 1891, with a capacity of 

 3,000,000 gallons daily, the source of supply be- 

 ing a series of wells 40 feet deep. The popu- 

 lation in 1890 was 3,692. Baptists, Episcopa- 

 lians. Methodists. Congregationalists, and African 

 Methodists have churches, and the Catholics are 

 building. Three public schools and a normal 

 and collegiate institute afford educational ad- 

 vantages. One daily and 2 weekly newspapers 

 are issued. The City Hall, a brick building, con- 

 tains also the fire department and jail. A com- 

 pany has been organized to develop the water 

 power of Paw Paw river, by a dam 1,100 long. 

 The city has no debt. 



Boise City, a city and the capital of Idaho, 

 county seat of Ada County, in the southwestern 

 part of the State, on the north side of Boise 

 river, 50 miles above its confluence with the 

 Snake, in a commanding position both as re- 

 gards the large and fertile valley in which it lies 

 and the rich mineral region in the mountains 

 beyond. It had its origin in the establishment 

 of 'a I'nited States military post in !*<;::. though 

 the name belonged to a fort of the Hudson Hay 

 Company. 50 miles below the present site, in 

 1s:;.-). It was incorporated Jan. 11, 1866. The 

 population in 1880 was l.S'.i't. and in IS'.H. 3.".!M. 

 Irrigation is carried on in the uplands, and the 

 city is supplied by two canals winch send little 

 rivulets through every street. Shade-trees are 



