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part of tin- Harrimiin Coal and Inm Railroad 

 .mil >e \cral i.tlii-r railroads ha\e bren 

 : tn and through it, including the Tcn- 

 Mee Midland, now building uc>t of Na.shvillo. 

 ..aural railroad center, and is at I In- head 

 .it i. in on Kmrry ri\er. \\hich Hows into 

 li :i miles above tin- confluence of that 

 with the Tennessee. Rich and inex- 

 c deposits of bituminous and coking coal 

 4111 n the city site, and extend many miles 

 t. north, ami northeast, with fine beds of can- 

 1 coal r> to 'JO miles northeast in the Brushy 

 ountain Held, to which the Harriman Coal and 

 n Railroad is building. Coal for factory and 

 me.-tic u.-e is mined at the city's edge, and iron 

 is taken out inside the limits of the town. 

 f rich ore extend several miles eastward, 

 d K> miles to die south, across Tennessee river, 

 are iron-ore beds, tributary to Harriman, esti- 

 mated to contain over 50,000,000 tons. The best, 

 building stone is obtained from quarries inside 

 > : and pressed brick, fire orick, etc., are 

 ade from clay, also inside 'the city boundaries. 

 n abundance of timber of all kinds is accessi- 

 1 real estate in the city is sold with pro- 

 ibition of the liquor traffic stipulated in title 

 deed.-. There are 2 weekly papers and 1 daily, 

 cctric lights, temporary water works (with a 

 rmanent system to be put in at cost of $100,- 

 i, supplying the purest of mountain water 

 m Kmery river) 12 miles of graded streets, 

 rt of them macadamized, a central graded 

 houl ui' the highest class, the Lookout rolling 

 ills, considered the finest in the South, a hoe 

 id tool factory, a tack factory, 2 planing mills. 

 saw mill, 1 brick yard, lime kilns, bit and auger 

 orks, agricultural works, foundry and machine 

 ops. an oil depot, a furniture factory, and large 

 ooden-ware works, 3 hotels, 3 banks, 10 church 

 Tirani/.ations with 7 churches, a Young Men's 

 'hristian Association with rooms and library, 

 id a Women's Christian Temperance Union 

 mple costing $8,000. The business organiza- 

 ins. exclusive of the banks, have a capital of 

 17,865,000. Harriman is the natural outlet and 

 urce of supply for at least 1,000 square miles 

 of territory rich in mineral resources, well tim- 

 bered, and comprising a large agricultural area, 

 with beautiful -scenery and a healthful climate. 

 J opl in, a city of Missouri, in Jasper County, 

 the southwestern part of the State, in the 

 eat zinc and lead mining district, the zinc ore 

 reduced within a radius of 15 miles of the city 

 ing 75 per cent, of the total product of the 

 nited States, and one seventh of that of the 

 orld. The production of lead and zinc in the 

 oplin district in 1889 was worth $4.000,000, and 

 n 1890, $6,000,000. The ores are distributed over 

 an area :!() miles square, occurring in blanket 

 formations, or deposits, mingled for the most 

 part with broken flint, reached at a depth of 50 

 to 100 feet, and extending from 175 to 600 feet, 

 'he greatest depth yet reached by steam drills. 

 " pri'fitable xini! mining was done in Missouri 

 mil after 1SIJ4, and no zinc blende was profita- 

 ly mined and smelted until 187:J. By report of 

 he I'nited Slates Census for 1870, the product 

 of lead mining in the State was $201,885. it being 

 "iid lead-producing State at the time. In 

 >plin alone produced $500,000 worth of teed. 

 Webb City. Carterville, Lchigh, Belleville, and 



Galena are the largest mining camps, at equal 

 distances from the city, and one mining company 

 alone has produced upwind of $3,0<>0,000 in ore. 

 A large percentage of the ores are smelted in 

 .at .lolict, 111.. Rich Hill, and St. Ixniis, 

 Init .loplin has now a large zinc smelter, and two 

 other.-, are projected. The only company in the 

 1'iiited Stales manufacturing white lead' by the 

 Lewis-Piartlctt patent is at Joplin, turning out 

 10,000,000 pounds of pig lead yearly and 2,000,- 

 000 pounds of white lead, by utilizing the fume.-, 

 in long flannel sacks. The value of the plant IB 

 $300,000. Railway facilities are afforded by the 

 Missouri Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and 

 Santa !''. the Kansas City. Fort Scott, and Mem- 

 phis, and the Kansas City, Fort Smith and 

 Southern Railroads. The "population in 1880 

 was 7.038; in 1890, 9,943, an increase of 41-28 

 per cent. The population of Jasper county was 

 in 1880,32,019: in 1890, 50,500. The RKI 

 valuation of real and personal property for the 

 county in 1889 was $8,142,878. Joplin ha 

 eral large foundries and machine shops. Four 

 banks disburse $50,000 weekly for mining pur- 

 poses. From 800 to 1,000 buildings were erected 

 in 1890, including a new opera house and a new 

 high-school building. The wholesale trade is 

 $1,500,000 annually. Two electric-light plants 

 are in use, and 4 miles distant, at Grand Falls, 

 an electric light and power plant is constructing 

 at a cost of $250,000, claimed to be the largest 

 plant in the world. This will furnish light and 

 power to the city and the mines. The assessed 

 valuation shows "a taxable wealth of $1,500,000, 

 on a one third basis, and the tax rate is 60 cents 

 on $100. A double-trtfck electric street railway 

 is in operation, also 6 miles of horse-car line. 

 Three daily papers are published, and there is a 

 telephone exchange, good water, and an efficient 

 fire department. 



Kokomo, the county seat of Howard County, 

 Indiana, a city of 12,000 inhabitants, on both 

 sides of Wildcat river, 54 miles north of Indi- 

 anapolis and 142 southeast of Chicago. Three 

 lines of railway pass through the city the Pan 

 Handle (C.. St. L. and P.), the Natural Gas Route 

 (L., E. and W.), and the Clover Leaf (T., St. L. and 

 K. C.). An electric street railway is in process 

 of construction. Kokomo is in the most produc- 

 tive territory of the Indiana natural-gas belt, 

 and since the discovery of gas in October, 1886, 

 has grown with remarkable rapidity. At that 

 time it was an ordinary county-seat town of 

 3,500 inhabitants, with no manufacturing inter- 

 ests worth mention, and its commercial condi- 

 tion insignificant. Natural gas for fuel was 

 offered free to manufacturers. Kokomo has had 

 industrial accessions amounting to over $3,000,- 

 000. The chief industries are furniture, plate 

 glass, cutlery, window glass, steam boilers, wood 

 pulp, paper, pulp board, strawboard, opalescent 

 glass, glass bottles, steel safes, steel ranges, brick, 

 tile, staves, wagons and carriages, canned fruits 

 and vegetables, and grain registers. A fine 

 water- works system has been put in, and also an 

 electric-light plant and a $200.000 natural-gas 

 plant. The city has churches, 5 public-school 

 buildings, 2 national banks, a new post-office 

 building, and free delivery. The public build- 

 in ITS are a $100,000 court house, a $50,000 jail, a 

 .")0.ouo county infirmary, and an orphans' home. 



