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A belt of timber, from Olympia to the 

 . \tend.x fruMi (lie Sat.-op west. 

 !' v.'n h.\\ nships, having over 60,000 

 to the acre of lir and cedar. There are 10 

 i the county. Within three miles of the 

 d inm ore is found in large quantities 

 ee-Mb|e, and bog iron from live to 

 eight miles di-tant. A quarry of light-blue sand- 

 MOIU- ha- been opened -e\en or eight miles away, 

 and native copper is found within eighteen miles, 

 an not reach the wharves of the city ex- 

 cept at hiu r li tide, and a long wharf has been 

 ill out to deep water 4,000 feet. A narrow- 

 railroad meets the Northern Pacific at 

 niiio, and the I'ort Townscnd Southern, con- 

 ctiug in 1MU. will pass through the city to 

 land. Ore. The Tacoina, Olympia and Gray's 

 droad was building the same year to 

 rdeen. There are several miles of logging 

 nches also. Two or three steamers ply daily 

 and from the cities on the sound. During 

 $1,000.000 were spent by the city on public 

 provcmcnts, and since Jan. 1, 1890, over 500 

 - have been put up. The Capitol is a 

 frame building, two stories high, with a dome. 

 "lii-re are also a court house, a county jail, 4 

 blie parks, fair grounds with race track, 2 

 ftdemies (1 Methodist and 1 Roman Cath- 

 olic), 3 public schools with an attendance of 

 800, a Roman Catholic hospital, 7 churches, 

 and a fine hotel. A street railway'was incor- 

 rated in 1889, and there is a motor line to 

 n water. Two national banks have a capital 

 $210,000. Two daily and 3 weekly news- 

 ,pers are published. The State library has 

 1,000 volumes, and that of the Good Templars 

 2,000. The Masons, Odd Fellows, and Good 

 mplars have fine halls. 



Palouse City, a town of Washington, in 

 itman County, in the eastern part of the 

 State, 18 miles east of Colfax and 65 south of 

 Spokane Falls, on the Spokane and Palouse Rail- 

 road (a branch of the Northern Pacific), where it 

 ses Palouse river. The population in 1888, 

 n the railroad arrived, was 800. In the same 

 it was destroyed by fire, but it has been re- 

 t, fire limits established, and by the census 

 of l*!K)had 1,119 inhabitants". It is an important 

 grain and stock shipping point, but the leading 

 industry is the manufacture of lumber, there 

 being 3 large saw mills with cut of 20,000,000 

 feet yearlv, and 2 planing mills, manufactur- 

 h. doors, etc.; 200 men are employed in 

 the wood-working establishments. Two large 

 flouring mills also are kept active. Four grain 

 warehouse* have a combined capacity of 850,- 

 000 bushels. Water works have been erected at 

 a cost of $8.000, a Holly pump raising water 

 from a well to a 100,000-gallon reservoir 204 

 feet above the town. The sum of $5.000 was 

 expended in street grading during 1890, and 

 there is an electric-light plant. The Chris- 

 tians, Methodists, Baptists, and Roman Catho- 

 lics have rthurch edifices. In addition to the 

 public schools, in which 7 teachers are employed, 

 and which are attended by nearlv 400 children, 

 there is a Catholic school of 56 pupils. The 

 Catholics are also building a hospital, Two 

 banks, 1 of which is national, have an aggre- 

 gate capital of $110,000. A weekly newspaper 

 is published. 



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I'arkorHburjr, a city of West Virginia, the 

 county scut of Wood County, on the left bank of 

 Ohio river, at the confluence of the Little 

 Kanawha, 95 miles from Wheeling, and 12 

 miles below Marietta, 884 miles by rail from 

 Baltimore and 195 from Cincinnati. It is the 

 wotern terminus of the Baltimore and Ohio 

 Railroad, and lias also the main ofliecs and shops 

 of the Ohio River Railroad, the wealthiest m 

 proportion to its mileage in the United States. 

 The railroad bridge erected in 1860-'71, one mile 

 and a third in length, cost more than $1.000,000, 

 and has six spans over the river in addition to 

 approaches. Little Kariawha river is navigable 

 for 88 miles, and with its tributaries flows 

 through the best lumber districts in the State. 

 Large quantities of poplar, walnut, oak, cherry, 

 and other woods are brought to the city, where 

 they are manufactured. The output of one mill 

 goes altogether to Europe. A furniture com- 

 pany, established in 1880, employs 100 persons, 

 and there is also a veneer and panel company, 

 manufacturing sheets thin as tissue paper out of 

 the heaviest logs, also all kinds of veneer, panels, 

 bed rails, etc. Other industries are 8 iron 

 foundries, 5 machine shops, 2 boiler shops 

 chemical works, 2 barrel factories, an oil and soap 

 plant, a coffee company with capital of $100,000, 

 and bottling works. Within 25 miles lie the rich- 

 est oil fields of the State, the Volcano yielding in 

 1889 71,500 barrels of crude petroleum. There 

 are 5 oil refineries. Natural gas has been found 

 in large quantities within a convenient distance, 

 and a company was organized early in 1891 to 

 bring it to the city for manufacturing. .The 

 population of the city proper was 6,582 in 1880 

 and 8,408 in 1890. The city limits have never 

 been extended since the earliest days, and out- 

 side growth is therefore larger than that re- 

 ported. The streets are well paved and shaded, 

 and lighted with electricity and gas. The water 

 supply is excellent, and the pressure in tho hy- 

 drants is sufficient for fire protection without 

 engines. Four banks, all national, have an ag- 

 gregate capital of $656,000. Two daily, 2 

 weekly, and 1 monthly newspapers are published. 

 There are 6 public-school buildings and a high 

 school. There are 12 churches, a court house, 

 and a fine new Federal building. 



Petersburg, a city of Virginia, formerly in 

 Chesterfield, Dinwiddie, and Prince George's 

 Counties, but now independent, 22 miles south of 

 Richmond, at the head of tide-water on Appo- 

 mattox river, 12 miles west of its confluence with 

 the James. By the census of 1890 it has a popu- 

 lation of 22,680, an increase of 1,024 since 1880. 

 The Appomattox is navigable for large vessels 

 to the wharves of the city, which is the natural 

 market of a broad expanse of fertile country, 

 and has the largest export trade for manufact- 

 ured tobacco of any city in the United States. 

 In 1885 the exports reached 4,840.1 18 pounds, an 

 excess of 1,071,519 pounds over the year pre- 

 vious, and the home consumption amounted to 

 4,307,810 pounds. The sales and inspections 

 at the five warehouses aggregated IV ' 

 pounds. Between $300.000 and $400,000 are in- 

 vested in the industry, and 9 factories employ 

 2,097 persons, to whom $3:5^.1 4? were paid in 

 waives in 1885. The tax paid to the United 

 States was $845,424.80. A large portion of the 





