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MANUFACTURES AND TRADE 



NORFOLK, Nebraska, has a candy factory. 



BOZEMAN, Montana, wants a creamery. 



A LATE report says frost has injured the 

 fruit iu Arizona. 



A COLONY of Dunkards is to locate in the 

 Grand Valley, Colorado. 



IRRIGATION will be tried on 100 acres of 

 bottom land east of Atchison, Kan. 



THE Western Nebraska fair will prob- 

 ably be held the latter part of August. 



AMERICAN Investments rises to ask if we 

 regard irrigation as an " art. " We do. 



CONNECTICUT claims to lead the New 

 England States in the matter of irrigation. 



THE Iowa legislature has passed a bill 

 forbidding the manufacture or sale of 

 cigarettes. 



LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, will be the scene of 

 the State Grand Army reunions for the 

 next five years. 



THE creamery at Albion, Neb. , paid the 

 farmers in that locality $17,500 for milk, 

 butter and eggs last year. 



NEBRASKA, Missouri and Iowa are fol- 

 lowing the lead of Kansas and planting a 

 large acreage to Kaffir corn. 



IDAHO has repealed the law providing 

 that the obligations of the State might be 

 paid in either gold or silver. 



A NUMBER of settlers from Idaho have 

 laid out a new town to be called Grand 

 Teton, near the Gros Ventre river. 



A PARTY of 100 families from Arkansas 

 and Iowa are going West to settle in the 

 Jackson's Hole country, Wyoming. 



A VINEGAR factory has been started at 

 Albion, Neb., by Sylvester V. Parrot. 

 Sugar beets will be used exclusively. 



WASHINGTON has over fifty creameries, 

 and the output for last year was about 

 2,500,000 pounds of butter, valued at 

 $312,500. 



STATE Labor Commissioner Bird esti- 

 mates that there are $100,000,000 in- 

 vested in manufacturing plants and raw 

 material in Kansas. 



THE Anthony salt plant has been sold 

 at sheriff's sale for $4,000. The city of 

 Anthony, Kans., invested $23,000 in this 

 plant a few years ago. 



THE Bed Lake and White Earth Indian 

 Reservations in Minnesota comprising 

 890,745 acres of land will probably be 

 thrown open for settlement about June 1. 



SHALLOW artesian wells in South Dakota 

 cost from $50 to $300. Deep wells rang- 

 ing from 500 to 1,500 feet cost complete 

 about $3.00 a foot. There about 400 shal- 

 low and 150 deep wells in the State. 



PRESIDENT J. J. Hill of the Great North- 

 ern Eailway Company has purchased 3,00 

 acres of land on the west side of Great 

 Falls, Mont. This will no doubt be made 

 the terminal grounds of this company. 



THE fast-thriving little city of Havelock, 

 Neb., five miles east of Lincoln-, on the 

 main line of the Burlington railroad, is sur- 

 rounded by a very fertile agricultural re- 

 gion, and is soon to become one of the im- 

 portant manufacturing points in the West. 

 The principal shops of the Burlington & 

 Missouri River railroad are located here, 

 employing about 400 men and maintained 

 at an annual expense of nearly half a 

 million of dollars. 



CANADIANS took the initiative in an 

 international deep waterways convention 

 held in Toronto during the summer of 

 1894. This was followed by another con- 

 vention in Cleveland and more recently 

 by one in Detroit. There is already un- 

 interrupted passage from Chicago and 

 Duluth to Buffalo for vessels drawing 

 twenty feet of water, and the aim is to 

 have the channel completed by deepening 

 the canals between Buffalo and Montreal or 

 New York. Community of interest among 

 grain growers in the great West on both 

 sides of the line has joined them or rather 

 those who speak for them in a common 

 effort to perfect water communication from 

 the head of Lake Superior to the Atlantic 

 seaboard. 



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