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ELYRIA 



extreme ends of the Continental Divide, hence 

 its name. Since its founding the city has been 

 the natural gateway between the United States 

 and Mexico. It is situated at an altitude of 

 3,710 feet, on a broad plain sloping up to the 

 hills northeast and northwest. Because of its 

 high and dry climate it is a favorite health 

 resort. In adjacent mountains are rich mines 

 and large areas of exceedingly valuable pine 

 timber. The Elephant Butte Dam on the Rio 

 Grande in New Mexico, a few miles from El 

 Paso, is the largest irrigation reservoir in the 

 world, constructed at a cost of $10,000,000. 

 This is one of several government projects 

 which will reclaim hundreds of thousands of 

 acres in the once arid valleys of this vast sec- 

 tion. 



El Paso is a city of fine public buildings and 

 private residences, many of them constructed 

 of reinforced concrete. Prominent structures 

 are many fine banks, hotels, business blocks, 



(copper, lead, silver and gold) is $1,000,000 an- 

 nually. Among the most important manufac- 

 tures are highly-finished white-pine products; 

 smelter, foundry and shop products; cement, 

 flour, brick, cigars, food products and house- 

 hold furnishings. El Paso is the market for 

 the great cattle and agricultural interests of 

 the surrounding country. 



One of the finest office buildings stands upon 

 what was once a part of the Ponce de Leon 

 Ranch. The first settlement was made after 

 the Mexican War and the town was chartered 

 as a city in 1873. In 1910 the commission form 

 of government was adopted, providing for a 

 mayor and four councilmen. The waterworks 

 system, costing $1,500,000, the supply being 

 obtained from artesian wells, is owned by the 

 city. During the border disturbances of 1916 

 several conferences between Mexican and 

 United States generals were held in El Paso 

 (See MEXICO, subtitle History). M.W. 



CONTRASTS IN EL PASO 

 At the left, the American business center ; at the right, the appearance of the Mexican section. 



churches and schools, a Carnegie Library, a 

 Y. M. C. A., a Masonic Temple and club build- 

 ings, a courthouse and a city hall. A new 

 Federal building to cost $700,000 was begun in 

 1916. The city contains the Texas State School 

 of Mines, a summer normal school and business 

 colleges. Fort Bliss, a regimental cavalry post, 

 is three miles east. Through the city passes a 

 large irrigation canal whose banks are beauti- 

 fied by landscape gardening. The fifteen parks 

 contain nearly 150 acres, and are valued at 

 $2,300,000. Cloudcroft, at an elevation of 

 10,000 feet, is a splendid natural park and resort 

 in the neighboring mountains. 



The total imports (consisting chiefly of cot- 

 ton, cattle, silver, zinc, copper and lumber) 

 which passed through the port of El Paso in 

 1915 had an appraised value of $9,149,410. 

 Exports during the same year (consisting 

 mainly of coal, shoes and cotton goods) were 

 valued at $6,146,650. Metal mining is the 

 greatest industry of this great section, and the 

 pay roll of the El Paso smelting companies 



EL 'WOOD, IND., a city in Madison County, 

 centrally located in the state, fifty miles north 

 and east of Indianapolis and 160 miles south- 

 east of Chicago. It is on Duck Creek and on 

 the Lake Erie & Western and the Pittsburgh, 

 Cincinnati, Chicago & Saint Louis railroads. 

 The population in 1910 was 11,028. The area 

 of the city is about three square miles. Elwood 

 has large manufactories of tin plate, shovels, 

 kitchen cabinets, lamp chimneys and lawn 

 mowers, and there are tomato-catsup and other 

 canning factories. It has considerable trade 

 in grain, live stock and produce. The principal 

 public buildings are a Federal building, erected 

 at a cost of $80,000, and a Carnegie Library. 



ELYRIA, elir'ia, OHIO, the county seat of 

 Lorain County, in the north-central part of 

 the state, seven miles south of Lake Erie and 

 twenty-five miles southwest of Cleveland. It 

 has an area of seven square miles and a favor- 

 able location at the junction of the East and 

 West branches of the Black River. Both 

 streams here descend forty feet and furnish 



