CITI IX A MICHIGAN. (Moscow, NASHUA, NEWBUBYPOBT.) 



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tiU expend it ure is $ir.,r,l?. In |ss;, ijsi; 

 \sere enrolled and 25 teachers employed, 



I- schonl-in.u-e> Uel'e llllil<-r ei.nMrile- 



. private sehools. an academy, and a 

 .; alTord additional educational facilities. 

 An iron bridge across the hnrlior, on the prin- 

 $15,000. The city is the site of 

 te I'riMin north. Important manufactur- 

 ing indu>tries are 4 planing mills and lumber 

 t Hour mill, 4 chair factories refrigerator 

 u-irge car works (established in 1858), 2 

 mills, u brewery, cooper shops, a carriage 

 1-work factory, and a tannery. The Business 

 latioii numbers 100 members. A 

 litrd Stales life-saving station is located at the 

 ty. and lloosier Slide" is the most famous of 

 1 hills that 'surround it. There are many 

 :ic buildings and beautiful residences. 

 Moscow, a city of Idaho, the county seat of 

 tali County, in the western part of the State, 

 the midst of a thickly settled farming country, 

 iii inexhaustible quantity exists on the 

 mntains a few miles dista-nt, and there are 8 

 i\v mills in tin- county, which in 1890 sawed 

 ..IK m.oOO feet of lumber. At the date of the 

 i lion of the county, May 14, 1888, the popula- 

 n of Moscow was 800; by the census of 1890 

 was 2,861, and the place is rapidly assuming 

 aroportions of a substantial city. Two rail- 

 1- connect with the town, and its local trade 

 tit-lids over a large district. Latah County 

 nt a ins 1,100 square miles, three fourths of 

 lich can be easily cultivated, springs abound- 

 11,' and irrigation being unnecessary. The as- 

 valuation is $2,755,295, and the debt in 

 was $45,813. An annual yield of grain and 

 aggregating three and a third million 

 sin-Is has been attained. The receipts at 

 for the year ending Dec. 31, 1890, in- 

 foded 450,000 bushels of wheat, 90,000 of oats, 

 5,000 of barley, and 200.000 of flaxseed. Two 

 curing mills at Moscow have an aggregate ca- 

 eity of 160 barrels a day. There is also a plan- 

 mill, a sash and door factory, and steam brick 

 rks. tin- last employing from 50 to 75 men. 

 le streets are graded and side-walked. There 

 J volunteer fire companies^ The drainage is 

 1, and water is supplied from artesian wells 

 id |uimped by 2 pumps of 65,000 gallons capa- 

 ty an hour. There are 28 fire hydrants. Elec- 

 ric lights are in use. There are 2 weekly news- 

 ipers. and 2 banks and 8 churches. Major 

 V n< lei-son Post No. 5, G. A. R., is the strongest 

 in tin.' State, having a membership of over 100, 

 and owns its hall, costing $8,000, the work on 

 which was performed entirely by Grand Army 

 of the Republic men. The Northern Pacific 

 iii mad is erecting a handsome passenger and 

 eight depot and section house. There are 1 

 and 1 candy factory, 4 blacksmith and 

 wagon shops, and 40 business concerns. The 

 new Court House cost $25,00.0. By act of Jan. 

 ::o. |ss<), the Legislature of Idaho established the 

 Stat.- University at Moscow, appropriating $15,- 

 000 to begin operations. The Seventh-day Ad- 

 vent ists also were considering the building and 

 endowment of a college in 1890. The Ameri- 

 can Trotting Association ha* a line racetrack. 



Nashua, a city of New Hampshire, in llills- 

 boi-nugh County, at the confluence of Merrimac 

 and Nashua rivers, the water power of which 

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was rendered available by a canal 8 miles in 



length and h f.et deep, conM ruHed in 1H25-'20. 

 In 1823 the growth of the city began in conse- 

 quence of the establishment of the Nashua Manu- 

 faeiurinjf Company (at present capitalized for 

 $1.000.000). other cotton mills are valued at 

 $600,000. There is an embroidery company, a 

 shearer manufacturing company, an iron foun- 

 dry, an iron and steel company with capital of 

 $400,000, a card and glazed-paper company 

 with capital of $150,000, a lock company em- 

 ploying 200 persons, a furniture company an in- 

 valid furniture company, edge-tool works with 

 capital of $80,000, sheeting mills (employing 80 

 persons) with capital of $300,000, a leather, a 

 spool, bobbin, and shuttle company, and a fi 

 company with capital of $100,000. The water- 

 works were incorporated in 1858, and have a 

 capital of $250,000. Water is obtained from 

 Pennechuck creek, and is forced two miles to a 

 reservoir on a hill north of the city. The hy- 

 drants number 93. In 1889, $26,460.18 were ex- 

 pended on highways and bridges, $31,866 on 

 sewers and drainage, and $12,099 on electric 

 street lighting. The assessed valuation of the 

 city in 1888 was $9,942,573, and in 1889 the debt 

 was $250,000, of which $12,574 were for the 

 Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument (of granite and 

 brass, to soldiers and sailors of Nashua in the 

 civil war), and $17,529 for a new school build- 

 ing. There are 18 schools, in addition to a high 

 school, in which 46 teachers were employed in 

 1887-'88, the enrollment being 1,841, and in 

 private and parochial schools, 1,176. Of the 

 last class 3 are Catholic. There are 10 churches. 

 A legacy of $15,000 was left to the city by 

 Moses Hunt, of Cambridge, Mass., for a yearly 

 course of free and instructive lectures. The city 

 contains a home for aged women, a Young 

 Men's Christian Association building, and several 

 halls. Two daily, 2 weekly, and 2 monthly 

 papers are published. The 7 banks <:{ national) 

 have a total capital of $495,000. The railroads 

 are the Boston and Maine, the Concord, the 

 Nashua, Acton and Boston, the Nashua and 

 Lowell, the Peterborough, and the Wilton. 

 There are several miles of street railway. The 

 population in 1880 was 13,397; in 1890, 19,311 ; 

 showing an increase of 44-14 per cent. 



Newburyport, a city of Essex County, Mas- 

 sachusetts, in the extreme northeastern part of 

 the State, on the west bank of the Merrimac 

 river, extending from its mouth 5 miles to the 

 town of- West Newbury ; on the south and west 

 it is bounded by old Newbury, from which it was 

 set off in 1764. As a settlement it is two hun- 

 dred and fifty-six years old. and it was chartered 

 as a city in 1851. The river bank rises gradually 

 in about one third of n mile to a height of from 

 70 to 100 feet, a. id then slopes to the long, low 

 pastures back of the city. For two hundred 

 years commerce was the leading industry, and 

 during the eighteenth century this was one 

 of the most important ports of the Atlantic, 

 seaboard, with one of the largest merchant fleets. 

 On the breaking out of the Revolutionary War. 

 and later, when the American navy was formed, 

 it became a great central recruiting station, and 

 large numt>ers of privateers were fitted out, sev- 

 eral frigates being built on the Merrimac: $2,- 

 500,000 were furnished by the town toward the 



