CITIES, AMERICAN. (ARGENTINE, BANGOR.) 



PAPBB AND PULP HILLS, APPLETON, WISCONSIN. 



in six ward schools was 2,119, with 48 teachers. 

 There are also a high school, and two Roman 

 Catholic parochial schools. Lawrence Univer- 

 sity, founded by Hon. Amos Lawrence, of Boston, 

 Mass., was chartered in 1847, and in 1888-89 had 

 284 students, of whom 94 were women, and 11 

 professors and instructors. The observatory has 

 been completed recently. The churches number 

 11, including a Jewish synagogue. Appleton is 

 known as the " Paper City," $2,500,000 being in- 

 vested in paper mills, which turn out 250,000 

 pounds of paper, valued at $7,500, every twenty- 

 four hours. A sulphite pulp manufacturing 

 company has a capital of $350,000, employs 150 

 men, with an annual pay roll of $75,000, and 

 has an output of 30 tons a day. In all, 130 

 tons of wood pulp are manufactured every day, 

 and 120,000 cords of spruce and poplar are con- 

 sumed yearly in the mills of this kind along the 

 river. Appleton has also 2 agricultural-imple- 

 ment works, a woolen mill, carding, hub, and spoke 

 mills, linen, flax, and Turkish-towel factories, 2 

 planing mills, 4 flouring mills, two large brew- 

 eries, 2 factories for paper-mill machinery, fac- 

 tories of boots and shoes, sash, door and blinds, 

 chairs, toys, furniture, and cigars, a wood-veneer- 

 ing plant, screen plate works, lime kilns, a grain 

 elevator, and foundries and machine shops. 



Argentine, a city of Kansas, in Wyandotte 

 County, in the eastern part of the State, on the 

 south bank of Kansas river and adjacent to 

 Kansas City, Kan., had a population in 1890 of 

 4,732. It is connected with Kansas City, Kan., 

 by a cable line of street railway, and is supplied 

 from its water works. It has also good sewers, 



a fire department, electric street cars, a library, 

 a new city hall, 2 State banks, an opera house, 4 

 large school buildings, and 10 churches. The 

 assessed valuation of property is $599,665.80, of 

 which $76,120.80 is in railroads. The shops of 

 the Santa Fe Railroad Company here employ 

 between 600 and 700 men the year round ; they 

 embrace a roundhouse and extensive yards. To 

 accommodate the great quantities of grain com- 

 ing over this railroad 2 elevators have been 

 erected, one having a capacity of 60,000 bushels. 

 The leading industry is an immense smelting 

 and refining works, erected in 1881, the grounds 

 of which contain 18 acres, one third of which 

 are covered with buildings. The works have a 

 capacity for handling 23,000 tons of ore a 

 month, and a total refining capacity of 50,000 

 tons of lead and 20,000,000 ounces of silver. 

 Gold-separating and copper-refining plants have 

 been completed recently. The output of the 

 smelter for the year ending Dec. 31, 1891, was 15 

 per cent, larger than that of the previous year, 

 and was, approximately, 25,000 ounces of gold, 

 8,750,000 ounces of silver, and 50,000,000 pounds 

 of lead. The smelter is claimed to produce one 

 fifth of all the silver and lead smelted in the 

 United States. It employs more than 900 men. 

 There is also a factory o*f radiators, employing, 

 in 1889, 100 hands, and reporting a capital of 

 $200,000. A corrugated-iron factory, with capi- 

 tal of $100,000, employed 40 men. 



Bangor, a city and port of entry of Maine, 

 county seat of Penobscot County, at the head of 

 ship navigation on the west bank of the Penob- 

 scot, the largest river in the State, 25 miles above 



