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luildinir, which was completed in 1875 at a 

 1 $250,000. There is al~o ii tianil-ome city 

 The locomotive shops of tin' (irand Trunk 

 illwiiy an- in tin- city, ami car construction 

 mil repair shops at Fort (iratiot, adjoining. 

 Huron has 7 grain elevator-, with a com- 

 ined storage capacity of 1, 450,000 bushels; 3 

 i-.r mills. :( drv clocks (employing l!)l) men, 

 riih an output in 'lM)0 of $200,600), 2 pinning 

 lumber yards, a sulphite filler company 

 capital of $2;">0.000, manufacturing paper 

 .m spruce wood), a paper-Hot him,' company.;! 

 >ilcr chops, 2 engine works, 4 foundries and 

 .him 1 shops. 6 carriage and wagon shops, 2 

 jroom faciories. 4 marble works, 5 cigar and 2 

 indy factories, ~2 lirewerics. 2 lime kilns, har- 

 less factories, a cold-storage plant valued at 



I. l hot t ling works, and other industries. 

 Portsmouth, a city and the only seaport of 

 Yw Hampshire, a United States p'ort of entry, 

 nl one of the two county towns of Rocking- 

 County, on a peninsula 8 miles from the 

 louth of IMscataijiui river, ,17 miles from Boston 

 mil. The harbor, which is free from ice and 

 a depth of from 85 to 75 feet, is capable of 

 intaining 2.000 vessels. The Kittery Navy 

 i'anl. on Continental Island, half a mile distant, 

 which there is a ferry, is in Maine, but is re- 

 as belonging to Portsmouth. It is pro- 

 ided with a fine balance dry dock, 350 by 105 

 it. It is one of the 4 United States naval sta- 

 sns now in use as construction yards, but is for 

 oden vessels onlv. It contains 170 acres. The 

 st settlement at Portsmouth was in 1623, and 

 lirty years later the township received its name. 

 l s l!> the city was incorporated. The popula- 

 ion in 1850 was 9,738, in 1870 it was 9,211. in 

 1880 it was 9,090, and in 1890 it was 9,827. 

 Ship-building has always been the principal in- 

 liistry. Among the famous vessels built at the 

 rt wore the " Falkland," in 1690, carrying 54 

 ins ; the " America," of 50 guns, in 1749 ; and in 

 1 777 t he " Ranger," which, under the command of 

 lohn Paul Jones, received the first salute to the 

 Lmerican flag by a foreign nation. The rail- 

 entering are the Boston and Maine, the 

 incord and Portsmouth, the Portland, Saco 

 id Portsmouth, the Portsmouth, Great Falls 

 id Conway, and the Portsmouth and Dover. 

 assessed valuation in 1888 was $6,353,925. 

 The debt of the city in 1890 was $192.500. and 

 i-ipts and expenditures were $304,789.77 and 

 1.424.97. The fire department has a mem- 

 iership of 126. and a fire-alarm telegraph. Wa- 

 r-r is supplied by private corporations. A gas 

 nnpany established in 1850 has a capital of 

 >. Six banks. '.] of which are national, have 

 . total capital of $800,000, and there are 2 loan 

 mi panics. Three daily and 3 weekly newspa- 

 are published. The total value of the 12 

 ibli, -school buildings in 1890 was $178,100, 

 id the expenditures for schools during the year 

 were $24,909. The sum of $75,606.84 has been 

 appropriated for new buildings, of which $30,- 

 1 H.s - 3 were expended in 1890; 45 teachers are 

 iploved, and the enrollment is 1,152. There 

 6 private institutions, including a commer- 

 il college. There are 11 churches, 1 theatre, 

 ind numerous halls. The Athena-inn has a li- 

 brary of Hi.ono volumes, and there is a public 

 'ibrary also of 9,381 volumes. The charities in- 



Hmle a hospital, a home for indigent women, a 

 female asylum, and a home for children. '1 hen- 

 is a Ix.ard of trade. The manufactir 

 2 breweries. 2 planing mills, a copjx-r and bra.su 

 foundry, a factory of hosiery and gloves, a ma- 

 chine and a shoe company, a soap factory, and 

 the oldest marble works in New KnglamJ. 'Many 

 of the residences are old and surrounded b'r 

 large gardens, while the streets are shaded with 

 handsome bM. Among the notable antiqui- 

 ties are Gov. Wentworth's House (2 miles dis- 

 tant) which was erected in IT'.o. .mil St. John's 

 Church. Portsmouth is the headquarters of the 

 first United States lighthouse district, and has 

 a life-saving station and a signal-sev\ ice Nation: 

 the custom house is in the post-oflice. building. 

 The United States courts are held here, alter- 

 nately with Concord. 



Port Townsend, a city of Washington, the 

 county seat of Jefferson County, on Puget Sound, 

 where that body of water joins the strait of Juan 

 de Fuca, 90 miles from the Pacific Ocean, 40 from 

 Seattle, 66 from Tacoma, and 35 from Victoria, 

 British Columbia. It is on Quimper peninsula, 

 which is 7 miles long and from 3 to 5 miles wide, 

 washed by Port Discovery and Port Townsend 

 bays on either side and has an available shore 

 line of 25 miles. It is the port of entry for the 

 Puget Sound district, and in the fiscal year end- 

 ing July 1, 1890, 1,029 American vessels cleared 

 for foreign and 181 for coastwise ports, the total 

 tonnage, including foreign vessels, being 957,847 

 tons; while the entrances were, in all, 1,362 with 

 total tonnage of 1,066.174 tons. Imports in bond 

 were made during 1889 to the amount of $792,341, 

 the principal article being tea to the amount of 

 $(5(>.789. The goods in bond in transit through 

 the United States between foreign countries 

 were valued at $203.372. The exports reached 

 $2,643,344. of which the largest item was lum- 

 ber, 107.326.280 feet, valued at $1.209.717; 898,- 

 137 bushels of wheat, and 13,566 barrels of flour, 

 aggregating $797,626. The city is the center 

 of the Alaska traffic. Daily steamboat connec- 

 tions are made with the Northern Railroad at 

 Tacoma, the Union Pacific at Portland, and the 

 Canadian Pacific at Vancouver. The Port Town- 

 send Southern Railroad was constructing dur- 

 ing 1891 to Portland, through Olympia, being 

 completed to Quilcene in June, "its terminal 

 grounds, wharves, and warehouses at Port Town- 

 send are extensive and substantial. Two other 

 roads are projected to the city from the east. A 

 site has been recommended for a naval station 

 and Government dry dock at the head of Port 

 Townsend Bay, and the Government has reserved 

 as sites for fortification Point Hudson, Admi- 

 ralty Head, Point Partridge, and Marrowstone 

 Point. A canal will also be opened between the 

 city and Oak Bnv. affording a more direct route 

 to Hood's Canal. Seattle, and Taeoma. Port 

 Townsend was first laid out in 1852. The prin- 

 cipal growth took place between 1888 and 1890. 

 The real-estate transfers for the year ending 

 Sept. 1, 1890, were $6,000,000. The building im- 

 provements projected and completed in the same 

 period aggregated $8.000.000. The population 

 in 1880 was 917; in 1890 it was 4..V.S. the figures 

 for Jefferson County being .it the same dates re- 

 spectively 1,712 and" 8.368. The city has 3 lines 

 of street railway 2 operated by electricity and 



