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the amount of $2.584,144. Four cotton factories 

 represent $1,480,890, and employ i,o;{.s persons. 

 Then- arc also knitting mills, 5 planing mills, !i 

 brick ami tile works, 5 foundries and machine 

 shops, "> furniture factories, as many carriage 

 ami wagon shops, guano and phosphate works, a 

 brewery, ice works, factories or wheels and 

 spokes, agricultural-implement works, flouring 

 mills, barrel and broom factories, canning es- 

 tablishments, gin shops, cotton-seed-oil mills, 

 granite quarries, a candv and cracker factory, 

 and smaller industries. Immediately adjoining 

 the city is a fine supply of clay for brickmaking, 

 and there is a large area of hard-wood land 

 along the Ocmulgee. At Bellevue, a suburb of 

 Macon, with which it is connected by an electric 

 car line, there is a handsome clubhouse. 



Menoininee, a city of Michigan, the seat of 

 Menominee County, on the west shore of Green 

 Bay, at the mouth of Menominee river, on the 

 south bank of which, across the State line, lies, 

 directly opposite, the city of Marinette, Wis., with 

 which Menominee is connected by a new iron 

 swing bridge, 2 railroad bridges, an old wooden 

 wagon bridge, and a foot bridge. The county 

 covers 1,275 square miles of the southern end of 

 the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, and, extend- 

 ing north from the city, the land rises to the 

 great divide that separates from the Lake Supe- 

 rior region, reaching an altitude of 1,000 feet 

 above Menominee in places. The city itself has 

 an altitude of 594 feet above sea level. In 1880 

 it had a population of 3,288, which increased to 

 10,630 in 1890. In addition to the transporta- 

 tion facilities afforded by the Chicago and North- 

 western and the Milwaukee and Northern Kail- 

 roads, there are 3 lines of steamboats. During 

 1890 the arrivals and clearances of schooners at 

 the port were 697, and of steamers, 593. The as- 

 sessed valuation of property in 1890 was $2,427,- 

 862, and the actual value $7,500,000. The city 

 is well lighted by electricity. A complete sew- 

 erage system was under construction in 1891, the 

 est limited cost of which was $75,000. Consider- 

 able work has been done in paving with cedar 

 blocks, and an electric street railway is in opera- 

 tion, the company of which is capitalized at 

 $100.000. Water is drawn from the bay, and the 

 plant of the water works is valued at $150,000. 

 it has been enlarged since its erection, in 1885. 

 The fire department has an electric alarm sys- 

 tem. In addition to a high-school and 5 public- 

 school buildings, valued at $50.000, in which 27 

 teachers are employed, there are 3 parochial 

 schools 2 Catholic (French and German) and 1 

 Lut heran and a commercial college. Of the 11 

 churches. 9 are Protestant. There are 2 hospi- 

 tals, numerous hotels, a city library, 2 national 

 banks, a county courthouse which cost $30,000, 

 and a county jail completed in 1888. Three 

 weekly newspapers are published, 1 in the Ger- 

 man language. The leading industry is lumber- 

 ing. Tn the decade from 1880 to 1890 the city 

 showed the greatest increase in the production of 

 lumber in the United States. In 1880 it ranked 

 sixth in the 9 principal lumber-producing points 

 in the country, and in 1890 it was found to be 

 thf second. t)uring the winter logging is car- 

 ried on, and sawing in summer in 12 mills, which 

 in 1889 turned out 332,469.247 feet of lumber, 

 45,047,550 laths, and 131,104,000 shingles, as well 



as planed lumber, the total being valued at $4.- 

 .")7!i,d','4. Three thousand men were -mplo\ed. 

 In addition to almost unlimited quantities of 

 pine, in which the county abounds, there is ex- 

 cellent cedar, and traffic in this wood has at- 

 tained large proportions. The shipments of 

 lumber from the. port in 1890 amounted to 202,- 

 452.000 feet, in addition to 11,474,000 laths and 

 2,341,000 shingles; about 100,000.000 feet of lum- 

 ber were also shipped by rail ; 642,137,818 feet 

 of logs passed through the Boom Company's 

 boom in 1889. The northern part of Menominee 

 County is rich in iron mines, and the product of 

 the range for the year ending Dec. 81, 1889, was 

 10,416,859 tons. The industries include a pulp 

 mill and a mill for making manilla paper, the 

 offices of which, and a mill for making print pa- 

 per, are in Marinette, on the opposite side of the 

 river. The pulp from the Menominee mill is 

 carried by means of an endless cable across the 

 river. The company is capitalized at $175,000, 

 and the pulp mill requires 40 cords of pulp wood 

 a week. About 100 skilled laborers are employed 

 in the mills the year round. There are also saw 

 works, boiler works, and 2 breweries. A feature 

 of interest is the " Mascot Kennels," just within 

 the northern limits of the city. It is one of the 

 few large kennels in the country, over 3,800 feet 

 of netting being used in the yards, and is de- 

 voted entirely to St. Bernard dogs. There are 

 more than 60 specimens of the finest strains. 



Muscatine, a city of Iowa, the county seat of 

 Muscatine County, on rocky bluffs which here 

 form the bank of Mississippi river, 30 miles below 

 Davenport, about 300 miles above St. Louis, and 

 220 miles by rail from Chicago. It is on the 

 Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific and the Bur- 

 lington, Cedar Rapids and Northern Railroads, 

 and being nearer the center of the State than 

 any other city on the Mississippi river, is ad- 

 vantageously situated for trade. The river, after 

 flowing westward many miles, here resumes a 

 southern direction, forming a great bend. The 

 city is the natural terminus of the Hennepin Ca- 

 nal. It has a population of 11,454 by the last Fed- 

 eral census, having increased from 8,295 in 1880. 

 It was first settled in 1836 and known as Bloom- 

 ington, and was incorporated as a city in 1853. 

 In 1891 half a million dollars were expended for 

 improvements. Natural drainage is afforded by 

 the gradual slope of the site, which varies from 

 531 to 562 feet above sea level. The streets are 

 wide and well kept, and there is an electric sys- 

 tem of street railway. In addition to gas, there 

 are 2 electric-light plants. Two daily newspa- 

 pers are published, also 3 weeklies, and 2 Ger- 

 man weeklies. The churches number 17, of 

 which 4 are Methodist (1 German and 1 Afri- 

 can), 3 Baptist (1 German and 1 Holland), 1 

 Presbyterian, 2 Congregational (1 German), 1 

 Episcopal, 2 Catholic, 1 German Lutheran, 1 

 German Evangelical, 1 Friends, and 1 Dutch 

 Reformed. Several of these have chapels, and 

 there is a flourishing Young Men's Christian 

 Association. In 1892 there were 8 public-school 

 buildings, 1 of them a high school, 2 commercial 

 and several parochial schools. One sixth of the 

 population is employed in the factories. These 

 include 8 large sawmills, 1 of which in 1891 

 cut 27,500,000 feet of lumber. 7,000,000 shingles, 

 and 8,900,000 laths, 2 sash and door factories, the 



