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"Our city is to day grøntest railroad center, all we believe. is. destined to become the greatest commercial andmanufacturing city west of Chicago. The orders received by our manufacturers and wholesale_merchants last year exceeded their capacity to meet the demand, and there is urgent need of largely increased facilities for: - trade, and present indications warrant us in saying that more indus- "tries will be added to the business interests of the eity, and our trade. and commerce will be more widely extendedl during the coming year. In proportion to the growth and prosperity in business circles. are the improvements in the residence portion of the city. Schools and col- leges are enlarging, and in all departments of the city's life there is a steadily increasing development. The growth of the city has been rapid since the advent and opening of railroads, which converge here from every part of the State, making this the convenient market for a ter- ritory hundreds of miles in extent .. The steady, rapid growth in the volume of trade, the growing reliability of the commercial character of the business men of the city all attest the solidity and guarantee our futuro prosperity, and we congratulate the enterprising people of Des Moines on the remarkable evidence of vigor the city has shown in the .
past ten years, and also on the still more flattering prospect for the future.
· We shall speak of the city as it is, of its advantages and claims in .a commercial point of view, its possession of unequalled facilities of
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DES MOINES-IMPROVEMENTS.
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transportation, its exhaustless supply of cheap coal and water power .. and its present condition and immediate prospects. The statistics and all other data here given have been verified with much care, and can. be relied upon.
Improvements.
The improveniente during the last year have been so rapid, that some, even of our business men fail to realize the aggregate. - The suburbs of a year ago have become more closely allied with the central part of the city, while the business portions have become more metro- politan. The amount expended in general and public improvements - I.was $2,411,310.00. . The special improvements were as follows:
Des Moines Water Co., extension of mains, etc $15,000
Central Union Telephone Co., extension, etc. 25.000 -
Des Moines Street. Railway Co., extension of tracks, etc. 18,000-
Capital City Gaslight Co., extension of mains, etc. 25,000 **
North Des Moines Water Works Co., brick buildings and six poiles of mains 50,000 Belt Line (and_River Line) Railway Co., four and three-quarters faites track, bridge, equipment, etc 57.000
Prospect and Oakland Park Co., grading, etc. 9.700
State Agricultural Society, improvements on Fair grounds 5.000
State Fair Grounds, new buildings by exhibitors 12,000
Des Moines Electric Railway Co., constructing, equipping, etc
75,000
-City: grading and-paving:
30,000
Cement walks. in city and suburbs
40,000
C .. R. L & P. Ry Co .. improvements
10,000
C., St. Paul & K. C. Ry Co., iron bridge, storehouse and coal-trestle $65,000; other expenditures $15,000.
83,000
West Motor Line, two miles # 212 forsteam motor
45,000
Des Moines Union Railway Co., improvements.
3,000
Kingman Place, grading, etc.
3,000
Oak and Highland Parks, garding, etc.
3,200 500
OWl's Head, Greenwood Park, grading, etc.
Forest_Avenue, North Des Moines, three-fourths mile brick paving
16,000
Ninth street, North Des Moines, one-half mile cedar block paving.
7,500
Grand Park and additions thereto, grading, etc. 6,700
Old Orchard Beach, grading. etc 1,400
4,000
Court House park, Polk county, boring artesian well 1.000
In all departments of business, there has been a steadily increas- ing development, due to an increase of facilities, and new and improved forms of procedure, which are being introduced to the convenience and assistance of mercantile operations. The wonderful advances which ...
have been so characteristic of our city are attributable to the energy and enterprise of the people. In no section is there a greater element of industry than here manifested. The stranger visiting our city is sur .. prised at the evidences of prosperity surrounding him here. New buildings are going up on all sides in both the business and Tesidence parts of the city and surburbs. Old houses are giving way to those of the first class fino book's taking the place of the mixed medler of store houses. the creation of earlier times and :good in their day. and good dwellings fast filljug the unoccupied places.
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Hyde Park, grading, and artesian well
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.DES MOINES-TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES ..
Sharp business men, in seeking change from old to new fields, are not apt to be fascinated by mere beauty of locality, nor to invest their dollars where the interest may be only in pleasant surroundings, -with no prospect of the city's becoming a commercial center. Many of the improvements this year have been in the outer portions, suburban or new residence parts of the city, so that in the progress of their erection the work has not been seen by the general public. Very few of the people of our city realize the great number of houses built here during the past year, from the fact that few have explored all portions of our. - corporate limits.
Transportation Facilities.
The prosperity and development of a city is largely dependent upon its facilities for transportation, and to our railroads is due more than to any other single agency the present prosperity of Des Moines .. The attractions which our city _presents to- enterprise, capital and skilled labor, with all her natural elements of productive wealth, -have been developed to a great extent by her extensive system of railroads. Besides the immense number of freight trains, over ninety passenger trains arrive and leave the city daily.
The following railroad lines connect with Des Moines: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy; Des Moines. Chariton & Kansas City; Des Moines, Indianola & Missouri; Chicago, -St. Paul & Kansas City; Des Moines. Winterset & Southwestern; Des Moines & Kansas City; Keokuk & Des Moines; Wabash & Western; Des Moines & Fort Dodge; Minneapolis & St. Louis; Des Moines & Northwestern; St. Louis, Des Moines & Northern: Chicago & North- western; and Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul. (This latter one at present by short connection over another line. )
These fifteen roads afford secenteen different and distinct outlets by rail, and these outgoing roads so intersect others as to afford quick -and direct communication with the ninety-nine (99) counties of Iowa and the country at large." These lines are developing some of the rich, est agricultural regions of the state. and 'gather in Des Moines an immense and growing traffic. The facilities this system gives to whole- sale interests, manufacturing, coal mining, lumber, stock and grain shipments, cannot now be fully estimated, but it is to be taken for granted that our citizens appreciate the great benefits derived from our railroads, as well as the fact that they have been indispensible agencies -in the development of our city. The principal lines of road in the State which are the great national highways across the continent. nearly all reach Des Moines by main or connecting lines, and are among the best equipped in the country, as regards both road beds and rolling stock.
DES MOINES-COMMERCIAL_AND. MANUFACTURING INTERESTS.
The question of cheaper transportation is now engrossing-the" minds of our citizens and the people throughout the State, and we expect from the agitation of the question, better rates. A largely increased volume of traffic, and the construction of lines into our city from different directions, produces competition, which, in our opinion, is the most successful agency in adjusting the differences which arise. and in securing lower and equitable bases of rates.
Commercial and Manufacturing Interests.
- What is most desired just at present by our wholesale merchants- and manufacturers, is a little better rates, which we have reason to believe they will soon receive; and which will enable them to compete more successfully with Chicago and other cities. Situated as we are, between the commercial centers of the east and the markets of the great Northwest, we are brought into direct competition, and it is not to be wondered at that we should be looked upon with jealousy as a rising commercial center-by those cities which realize that ere long the " trade they now have may be diverted from them to Des Moines, when we secure such rates as will enable our merchants and manufacturers .to handle the goods-at the same prices .. Everything is most encour? aging that Des Moines will maintain her reputation as the best-trading point west of Chicago.
The questions which present themselves to the widle-awake busi- ness man are, what are the facilities for securing the raw material and for shipping the manufactured product, and what is the extent of ter- Titory tributary from which trade naturally comes ? In reply to these questions you have but to consider our superior_ transportation facili- ties in the many railroads reaching out in every direction; also, cheap fuel, good water power, cheap lands for the location of factories, or for "residences for operatives, healthy . climate, low price of living. and . building material as cheap as any place in the West.
-- Des Moines has at present about one hundred and fifty factories, many of them employing large numbers of operatives. The success of the factories already established and the rapid settlement of the adja- cent country, are warrants for the establishment of many more. .. Our factories are shipping all over the workl. as our goods are ordered in large quantities from all parts of the country. Manufacturing lies at the founlation of industrial life in all towns that flourish. . It means a manufacturing population which would otherwise be elsewhere-an aggregation of people in cities and villages.» These people are to be fed. They want precisely what the farmer has to sell; they provide him the very market he desires; and -either directly or indirectly ben -. efit all classes.
"Our broad acres of cheap lands give us a great surplus of agri.
· cultural and meat products. and our labor-saving machinery and the
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DES MOINES -- COAL, FACTORY PRODUCTS.
skill and ingenuity of our artisans, enable us to increase our manu -_ factured products and reduce the cost, to successfully compete in quality, quantity and price with the old established factories of the east. We have enterprising and public spirited citizens who willingly donate excellent sites for factories, and the city council, with commend- able liberality, remits the taxes for a period of years to all factories employing a certain number of operatives. It is gratifying to know that Des Moines is making steady' progress in securing-new industries; - and in increasing the capacity of the factories already here. During the past year, a large number of new and important factories located in the city.
Coal. "
Here is found an inexhaustible supply of the best coal, the present prices of which in Des Moines, delivered in the bin, are as follows;
Selected lump, the very best for grates, etc.
$2.25 per ton ..
.Good lump, for furnaces.
2.00
Pea, used to heat School Buildings. 1.25
Slack, used by every factory in the city .50 and :75
The highest price at which the best lump coal has been sold in
Des Moines during the past two winters, is $2.501 per ton, Careful scientific tests show our 50 cent coal to have 93 per cent.
of the heating capacity and our manufacturers testify that in the pro- ducnon of steam it produces results within 7 to 15 per court. as good as the best lump coal.
It is so cheap and abundant that a valuable water-power is left- undeveloped. It is cheaper than natural gas where that article. must - be piped any distance ..
The coal mined in 1888-was 575,361 tons, valued at $1,000,300. The cost of fuel for steam purposes, by actual comparison, is in -Des Moines but one-fourth what it-is- in-Omaha and Kansas City, 'and" less than one-fifth what it is in St. Paul and Minneapolis. Electric power for small factories, can be obtained at-a very low cost. ... We have two electric power and light plants, and, will have a third one soon.
The following table : gives the value of manufactured products- during 1838, together with the increase over the previous year.
Des Moines Factory Products.
Amount Increase
Artificial limbs
3,500
1.000
Barb wire.
900,000
100,000
Boiler and iron works -(not including foundry and machine
110.000
22.000
Bottling works
36.000
Brooms
47.000
10,000
Broom-holders (new industry, three months)
2,500
2,500
Brick
205,500-
DES MOINES-FACTORY. PRODUCTS.
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Amount. . . Increase.
Butcher's-blocks.
2,000
Bee hives and apiary supplies
7,000
Brass and iron (specialty work).
18,000-
1,150
Bicycle work
10,000
2,000
Books, law
75,000
Cornice, galvanized from
80,000
15,009
Chemicals and pharmaceutical goods
10,000
2,000
Carriages amt wagons
211,000
95,000
Cigars_
212,300
18,000
Coal screens-and-wire work
3,500
Confectionery
194.000
30,200- -
Corn meal
25,000
Cooperage
-71,000
Crackers
225,000
5,000
Cement-and-Concrete-work
10,000
Coffee and spices:
300,000
Cotton (new industry, since Nov. 1st)
6,000
6,000
Churns (new industry)
1.000
1,000
Carbonated stone
10,000
Dyeing
15,000
1,000
Extracts and essences, bluing, etc.
40,000
12,000
Hour
110,000
Feed.
75,000
Foundry and machine work
100,000
1,800
Furniture and upholstering
=150,000
Furnaces,
7,500
.2,000
Hams (cured) .:
100,000
Harness, saddlery, collars, etc.
250.000
$0.000
ITats (reshaping, etc.).
7,000
3,000
Knitting
1.500
Lithographing,
:40,000
25,500
Emseed oil .:
260,000 ..
100,000
Marble and-granite work
38,000
16,000
Mill furnishings, etc ._
150,000
40.000
Millinery, for jobbing trade
50,000
-- Medicines, proprietary .:
180,000
-50,000
Oat meal (since Sept. 1).
25,000
*25,000
Office fixtures and planing mill products
89,750
- Photographers' dry plates
- 3,600
1,000
Paints.
15.000
Paper folding machines
40.000
Pumps and windmills
42,000
2,800
Photo-engraving.
2,500
1,500
Peanut roasters.
30,000
Potteryware
15,000)
3.500
Pork-packing (one house lately rebuilt -fire)
1,321,000
146,000
Printing. newspaper and job, book-binding, etc.
1,447.100
64,300
Paper boxes (included in printing) ..
PLOWS
Stiles
10,000
8.200
Shirts
13,200
2.600
Show cases
30.000
Soap
125.000.
. Stone cutting
30.000
Strach-
615,000
10.000
Spring beds and mattresses (exclusive of furniture houses)
5.100
Stamps. stencils seals ofc.
Suspenders
57.000
10.000-
Shoe-uppers
Sewer pipe
72.000
Shears and cutlery
1.500
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DES MOINES WHOLESALE INTERESTS JOBBING TRADE.
Trunks
Amount. Increase. 8,000 . S: 2.000
Vinegar, pickles, etc
67,000
Washing machines
4.000
Woolen goods.
150,000
Wood carving. (exclusive of furniture. houses)
3.000
1,000
White Bronze monumental work
20,000
Total.
$9,485.950 $1.002,650
Wholesale Interests.
Next to our: manufacturing interests, the wholesale business is most important to the commercial growth of the city, and that Des Moines has grown into, prominence as one of the leading commercial cities of the West, is largely due to her wholesale trade. As a busi- ness center, no city in the State, can compare with her, as evidenced in the statistics of business for 18SS, when compared with other cities of Iowa. The city directory of Des Moines shows that she also has more wholesale houses than any other city of Town. Yet there is still for others in most lines, as well as for capitalists: manufacturers and skilled. workmen. The excellent facilities for-the distribution of 'mer- chandise in every direction wake this a desirable place for the jobber. as well as the manufacturer :-
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"_Des Moines Jobbing Trad 888 .-
Amount-
Increase_
Agricultural implements
$2.188,550
S. 495,000
Alcohol and liquors (estimated)
-200,000
Barbed wire a !.
900,000
100,00-
Brick
75,000
Book's and stationery
100.000
Brooms (independently_of wholesale grocers).
10.000
Boots, shoes and rubbers
605.000
8,000
Clothing
. 42,000-
Carriages and wagons (independent of implement houses)
120.000-
35.000-
China, queensware and glass
300.000
50.000
Crackers
225.000
.5.000
Coffees, spices, etc.
300,000
: .
- Cigars
230.000
25,000
Commission and produce.
459.000
25.000
Coal. hard and soft, independent of local mines
150.000
100.000
Coal from mines in excess local trade
500.000
Candies and confectionery
205.000
35,000-
Dental and barber supplies
75.000
15,000
333.500
21,000
Dry goods, taple ..
210.000
Electrical appliances
8.000
1,000-
Essences, ete
40,000
12.000
Earthenware :
15.000
3.500
Feed
50.000.
Flour
352.500
$7.(XX)
Furniture:
350,000
Frames, mouldings, etc
18.000
Groceries
3,20,000
164:000
IFarness, saddles, collars, etc
267.500
60.400
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Drugs and chemicals
(57,000
Butter, cheese and eggs
DES MOINES-JOBBING TRADE.
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Amount. Increase.
Hardware.
$150,000-
Hides and tallow
260.000.
10,000
Jewelry
525,000
25.000
Leather and findings
110.000
20.000
Lumber:
665.000
Lime, cement, ete ..
160,000
Mill furnishings.
230,000
40,000
Medicines, proprietary (not included in drings)
200.000
60.000
Millinery and fancy goods (Hot melding notions). -
240,000
30,000
Notions and furnishing goods .: : Oat meal.
25,000
25,000
Oils, lubricating and illuminating:
500,000
200,000
Ons, linseed ...
260,000
100.000
Packed meats.
1.321.000
140.000
Paints, glass and painters' supplies -
$5.000
5,000
Suspenders
57,000
10.000
Seeds
Soap
Subscription books
200,000
Starch"
615.000
200.000
Scrap-iron and steel
40,000
20,000
Spring beds and mattresses
74.500
5.100
Vinegar, pickles, etc
+0,000
Wrapping paper
50.000
5.000
Woolen goods (exclusive)
150,000.
Yeast. compressed.
15.000
Total ..
$20,349,650- $2,178,500
We have for the year 1885 the following figures giving the
Increase over the previous year .
Manufactured- products
$=9.485,950.00 $1.002.650.00 ---
Wholesale trade
20,348,650.00
2.175,500,00 :
Insurance premiums
21,284.092.00
·202,200.00
Coal output.
575,331.00 -
154,052.00
Grain business.
750.000.00
Postoffice receipts.
108,966.70
0,034.70
Pension office disbursements
3.386.682.00
Internal revenue receipts
35,142.00
Electric light companies received for light
53,000(X)
4.500.00
"Electric light companies received for power
36,000.00
Gas-light receipts.
90.000 00
Aggregate salaries and wages
2,700,000.00
Real estate transfers
12.849.073:78
Buildings erected.
636.300.000
Among the improvements of 1858 were rapid transit -lines, as follows: .
- Belt line motor
Lx miles:
East and west motor line
miles.
Electric street railway 12- Titles.
: Several miles of extension are now-under way on each of these lines as well as on the horse car lines, which, have seventeen miles of trackage.
56,000
23,500
Photographers' supplies
-55.000
35.000
150.000
Public improvements
DES MOINES-BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Persons Employed and Wages Paid.
** There are employed by the manufacturing industries, wholesale houses, insurance companies, and coal companies of. Des Moines, clerks, accountants, etc., as follows:
Traveling salesmen
325 4-
TCcountants, mechanics, etc., mate 1.109-
In various: auties, female. 582
Total
The salaries and wages paid to these employes aggregated in 1880- the sum of $2,700,000.
Business Directory.
The following table gives the number of houses engaged in the various branches of business, trades and professions ...
Abstracts of Title:".
6
Broom Ifolders (mnfrs)
1
Agricultural Implements.
Broom's (mnfrs) 2
Architects
Hisiness of
2
Butter and Eggs 5
Carpets and Oilcloths
Carpet Weavers
8
-fuctioneers 3
Automatic Boiler Cleaners (innifrs). 1
'Bakeries-
25
Baking Powder (mnfrs) ?
Baled_Hay 20
Banks.
-Barbers 46
Barbers' Supplies.
Bath Rooms 11
Bed springs and Mattresses (mnfrs) 3 Bee- Keepers' Supplies 1 · - .Clothing 18
Belting
Bicycle Riding Schools
Bicycles and Tricycles.
Bill Posters.
2
Billiard Halls 17
Blacksmiths. 24
Blank Books (mufrs) .-
5
5
Boarding Houses 54
Boat -- Houses ::
Boilers (mnfrs)
Bonnet Bleacheries 1
Books and Stationary 12
Book Binders
Book Publishers 12
Crackers (mufrs)
3
Boots and Shoes
Cutlery Grinding
Dairies.
20
Dental Supplies
1
Dentists
13
Directory Publishers
1
Bridge Builders
3
Brokers
Bronze Statuary (mmfrs).
1
District Telegraph Companies.
Dress Makers
35
Drugs and Medicines (wholesale)
. 3
5.
Carriages (mnfrs).
7
Carriage Painters
10
Cattle (Fine Stock)
Cement Paving
2
Chemists (mnfg)
China; Glass and Queensware.
Churns (mnfrs):
Cigars and Tobacco (mnfrs and deal-
ers)
3₮
Civil Engineers
8
Coal Dealers
28
1
Coal Screens (mnfrs)
1
1
Coke (mnfrs)
1
Collection Agencies
Commission Merchants
10
Confectionery (mnfrs)
Confectionery (dealers)
22
Constables
4
1
Consulates,
Contractors.and Builders
59
Contractors (Grading, Sewering and
Paving)
2
Coopers
Cotton Mills
-
Bottling Works
Brass Works. 3
Brick Machines (mnfrs)
1
Pricks (nonfrs)
20
2
6.
5
Boarding and Feed Stables
- 4
Butchers' Blocks.
Artitieal-Limbs (mnfrs). 1 trt Rooms Artists. 18 Artists Supplies + 13100 1200
DES MOINES-BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
27
Drugs and Medicines (retail) 40
Dry Goods
23
Dve Works
Electric Companies .;
Electric Light Companies 2
Electric Motors
Electrical Supplies
Loan Agents
38
Electrotypers
Grimber.
Malt (mnfrs) 1
.
Elocutionists (schools).
1
Engravers ..
Ment-Markets
Excelsior (mnfrs).
.
Express Companies
Fast Freight Lines
Feed and Sale Stables
Feed Mills
6
Flax Seed
1
Florists 12 *
Flour ( wholesale).
10.
Flour and Feed
25
- Flouring Mills
>1.
Foundries and Machine Shops
Fruits (wholesale) 10
Furnaces 7
Furniture.
Galvanized Iron Cornice.
3
Gas Companies ::
1
Gent's Furnishing Goods
25
Glass (wholesaler
Grain Dealers
9.
r
(Grocers (wholesale)
1.2
Grocers.(retail).
17
Gun and Locksmiths 3 Hair Goods:
- Hardware.
19
Harness and Saddlery (mnfrs wholesale) _ _ 5
and
Harness and Saddlery (retail) 14
Hats and Caps 15
Hat Works. 1
Hay Markets. 2
Hides. Pelts-and Furs 3
Hosre Tail Holders (miifrs}
1
Hospitals
Hotels 28
Hotel Registers (mmifrs)
House Movers 9
Tee Cremm and Oyster Parlors
15
- Pension Offices
Ice Dealers 4 Insurance Agents. 45
Insurance Companies (home) 16
Insurance Companies (agencies)
111
Intelligence Offices
Investment Companies
6
Jewelers (wholesale)
Jewelers (retail)
obleers Associations
1
Instices of the Peace (city)
f+
Planing Mille ·)
Plating Works
Lawyers
135
Leather (wholesale) .. 3
Leather and Rubber-Belting 5
Lime, Hair and Cement
Linseed Oil Mills 1
Lithographers __
2
Livery and Feed & tables
Mantels and Grates. 4:
Medical Institutes. 1-
Medical Dispensaries
Mercantile Agencies
Merchandise Brokers
2
Merchant Tailors
18
Metal Sky Light's
Mill Furnishers
Millinery and Fancy Goods (whole-
sale)
5
Millinery and Fancy Goods (retail)
16
Momnnental Etatuar
Mouldings 3
Music Dealers
2
Music Schools and Halls - 3
Music Teachers
19
News Depots.
Newspaper Folders (mnfrs) ..
Newspapers and Publications 32
Notions (wholesale)
10
Notions and Fancy Goods. 20
Nurseries
5
Oat Meal-Mills.
. Oculists ..
3
Oils, Illuminating-and Lubricating (wholesale)
Omnibus Lines 1
Opera Houses
3
Painting and Paper Hanging 17
Paints -(mnfrs).
. 1
Paints (dealers)
Papier Mache (mnfrs).
1
Paper ( wholesale)
Paper Boxes (mnfrs): 1
Patent Offices
Peanut Roasters (mnfrs)
Photo-Engravers
1
Photographers
Photographers' Dry Plates (mnifrs). 1
Photographic ' Supplies Physicians
Pianos and Organs (muffs).
1
Pianos and;Organs (dealers)
3
Piano Repairers and Tuners
Pickles (mnfrs).
1
Pictures and- Frames
Plows (nnfrs)
2
3
.
Medical Colleges
Elevators
3
Law Book Publishers 1
28
DES MOINES-BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
Plumbing, Gas and Steam Fitting
Starch Works.
Stationery (Wholesale). 4
1:
Steamship Agencies
Stenographers 50
Preserving Companies.
Printing Presses and Machinery 2
Printing Houses.
25
Proprietary Medicines
Pulleys and Shafting.
Pumps ..
15
Rags and Old Metals
Ramroad Agencies
Railroad Contractors
Railroads :. 15
Ranges (mnfrs)
Real Estate.
156
Rendering Works.
Restaurants.
35
Rooting
16
Rubber Goods
2
1
Rubber Stamps.
Taddlery and Saddlery Ihadware (wholesale) 2
Saddlery and Saddlery Hardware (Retail). 14
Safe and Lock Companies:
Sanitary and Cremation Companies.
Scales (minfrs) 1
School Supplies
Seals, Stamps and Stencils 2 Undertakers
Second Hand Goods
Seedsmen 3
Sewer Pipes 1
Sewing, Machines (mnfrs)
Sewing Machines (agencies)
1
Shirt Factories.
3
Shoe Findings (wholesale) 2
Shoemakers 21
Show Cases (mnfrs)
Sidewalks-Cement, Stone and-Con- crete
.
Well Diggers .
Wind Mills (mnfrs) 2
Window Burglar Alarm (mnfrs) 1
Wire Goods:2.
3
Wood Dealers
Spice Mills
. Spring Beds and Mattresses
Stained Glass
Stamping and Patterns
3
Woolen Mills
1 .-
Yeast-Compressed mirsi
1 -
Zoological Gardens 1-
Paving, Sewerage: Water, Gas, Electric Light, Etc.
Cedar block ant brick paving, 20 miles: stone, from and concrete curbing, 25 miles; water mains (N. Des Moines, 6 m. ) 60 miles: sewers, 25 miles; gas mains, 35 miles;, are electric lights, about-875; incandescent electric lights, about 5, 100; wagon bridges, 4. wach 1994 feet long: railway bridges, 7, enel: 400 feet long.
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