8 HISTORICAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT. 



Products. The principal animal products of Lewis are 

 cattle, horses, sheep, hogs, poultry and mules, in the order 

 named. 



The principal agricultural products are corn, potatoes, 

 hay, apples, wheat, and oats. The soil of the county is espe- 

 cially adapted to forage crops, most of it being known as blue 

 grass land. 



The principal mineral and manufactured products are 

 natural gas, oil, coal, brick, clay, building stone, glassware, 

 and carbon black. 



Property Valuation. According to Hon. J. S. Darst, State 

 Auditor, the following table shows the property valuation for 

 the two years ending with 1914: 



1913 1914 



Real Estate $11,676,600 $11,908,905 



Personal Property 5,860,410 6,280,460 



Totals $17,537,010 $18,189,365 



According to the above figures, Lewis ranks seventeenth 

 in the State in point of wealth. 



Postal Service. As is true in many other counties of the 

 State, the reorganization of the Post-Office Department and 

 the establishment of rural free delivery routes has caused 

 many of the small post-offices of the county to be abandoned. 

 The following table compiled from information supplied by 

 Assistant Postmaster Reger, at Weston, shows the post-offices 

 and rural routes now (November 11, 1914) in existence in the 

 county : 



Lewis County Post-Offices. 



