CLAY COUNTY ILLUSTRATED 



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Orient Hotel, Ulen — J. F. McDonald, Proprietor 



erected last year, and over 200 pupils 

 are now enrolled. 



Ulen owns and operates a municipal 

 water and light plant, and pure arte- 

 sian water is forced through mains, 

 extending throughout the village, by 

 pressure from a high tank. Among 

 the industries of the village are a co- 

 operative creamery and a grist mill. 

 There are four elevators and one po- 

 tato warehouse. Shipments aggregate 

 about 500 carloads annually — 150 car- 

 loads each of potatoes and hay, 140 



carloads of grain and about 60 car- 

 loads of cattle and hogs. 



The combined deposits of the two 

 banks were $313,000 on the first of the 

 present year. A first class hotel — the 

 Occident — is conducted by J. F. Mc- 

 Donald. All branches of trade are well 

 represented. There are two garages, 

 two livery barns and a newspaper, the 

 Ulen Union. 



H. P. Henrickson of Ulen selected 

 seed potatoes true to type for about 



First National Bank. Ulen 



