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which rise gradually from these rivers. This produdes an effect at once pleasing and agreeable; affording also the best of drainage, and conducing to the health of the (city, It is far from competing cities, being 358 miles from Chicago, 366 miles northwest of St. Coffis, and 297 miles from St. Paul and Minneapolis, and no city in Iowa approaches it in size. The city is in the center of the blue grass, region,
great corn, belt. and and in the midst of the great coal fields of Iowa.
Des Moines is to-day the greatest rail- road center; and we believe, is destined to become the greatest commercial and manufacturing city west of Chicago. .. It .. has seventeen different railroad, connect tions by which its trade reaches out to every county in the state, and no portion of the state is over ten Hours away, mak- ing this the convenient market for a large extent of territory !! The steady, rapid growth in the volume of trade, the grow- ing reliability of the convenient charac- "ter of the business men of the city all at- test the solidity of our commercial inter- ests and guarantee our future prosperity. IMPROVEMENTS.
The improvements during the last year have been so rapid, that some, even of our
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citizens, 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 metropolitan. | The amount expended in general and public improvements was $1,820,978 besides $1,- 714,030 expended for new residences.
Among the important public improve- men: $ already projected this year may be n'ontioned the grading and beautify- ing (' the capitol grounds at an estimated cost of $125,000. . The City Council has ordered about twelve miles of brick paving and cement curbing for this year, and extensive additions to the lines of the electric railway are assured. This rail- way now has more than forty miles of line in operation, with steel rails and unusually i complete equipment, and is regarded by experts as one of the finest plants of the Kind in the, United States.
Whichever, way you drive activity and industry prevail all over the city. Build- ing is progressing in earnest, and the fine blocks going up in the city' proper are being supplemented by a large number of residence . buildings in the suburbs Here is scarcely now a good vacant store- room in the city; the buildings are all noeded, and more must be built to ac- commodate the growing demand.
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! Ibuses to rent were never scarcer, and maty people who have heretofore rented are buying desirable homes. 'The people of |Des Moines have good grounds for the / faith in the city, for the amount of bui ling that is being done at the present tink, is simply wonderful. New' resi der es are going up on every hand. No ma. er what part of the city you go into thi jound of the saw and hammer greets you ear, and you see the busy workman engaged in building houses!
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, and there is every indication that the improvements in 1891 will exceed those of any previous year. -
SPECIAL IMPROVEMENTS.
City grading, curbing and paying.
City bridges, repairs etc .. . . . City sewering and other work not previously enumerat- ed
Des Moines Water Co. exten- sions, standpipe etc. ... Des Moines Water Power Co. dam, buildings, etc ..... .. Des Moines Street Railway Co. extensions of tracks, - power house etc. Capital City Gas Light Co. extension of mains and electric lines
Des Moines.Edison Light Co. extension of electric lines Central Union Telephone Co. extensions of lines ..
American District Telegraph Co. extensions and im- provements.
Western Union Telegraph Co. improvements
State Agricultural Society, new buildings.
State| Fair Grounds, new buildings by exhibitors State Capitol, grading and other improvements. United States Court House and Post Office, improve- ments
Des Moines Zoological Gar- dens, improvements. Railroads, new tracks, siding etc.
Grading. and sidewalks in new additions Cement walks
$108,906.47 25,224.63
44,247.00 90,000 00 110,000.00
348,585.00
25,000.00 20,000:00 :
21,700.00
20,000,00 20,000.00 ..
. 17,000:00 - 10,000.00
20,000.00
8,000.00
12,000,00
123,000.00 . 169,000.00 136,000.00
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COLLEGESAND SCHOOLS.
Highland : Park | College,
buildings, . equipments, : apparatus etc.
214,600.00
Drake University, improve-
ments :. Bird School !!
Crocker School; addition
4,000.00 16,106.00 15,891.00 3,193.00
Grant School, affdition Washington School, addition Irving School, improvements Hawthorne School, improve-
5,568.00,
2,261.00
" ments. : High School, improvements East Side High School
300.00 1,500.00 40,000.00
East Side Schools, improve- 5 - ments .:
Greenwood Park |school Park Avenue School.
1,000.00 5,500.00 5,000.00; 5,500.00
Like Park School.
Forest Home School, addi- tion. Oakland School Capital Park School, compi ing.
CHURCHES, ET
Central Church of Chri Pleasant street,
University .Place University Place,. :0,000.00 Sixth |Presbyterian church; : Cottage Grove Avenue. . S,000.00 St. John's Lutheran and Par- sonage Sixth avenue ! St. Ambrose Church . Church of the Visitation, East Walnut street. First U. P. Church, improve- ments, Seventh street.". Highland Park Presbyterian church, Highland Park. Y. M. C. A. building (expend- 'ed 1890) Grand avenue! 25.000,00 German Lutheran church East Ninth street. 1. 2,000.00
$0,000,00 1.452.00
6,000.00
Methodist: street
church, Lyon
1,800.00
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. To Jour railroads is due more than to any other single | agency the present prosperity of Des Moines. The attrac- tions which our city presents to enterprise, capital and skilled harbor) with all her, natural elements of productive wealth, ... have been developed to a great extent by her extensive system of railroads. Be- sides the immense number of freight trains, over ninety passenger trains arrive and leave the city daily.
The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway reached here in 1867. It is one of the grand trunk lines of the state, I and, ranks ]among the first roads in the Union.
: The Des Moines Valley, formerly known as the Keokuk & Des Moines and Des Moines. & Fort Dodge roads, is one of the principal branches of the Rock is one of the most important and sojth lines of the state. Indianola & Missouri, Vinterset & South- if the Rock Island
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is! of the greatest trunk lines of the state, and is owned and operated by one of the wealthiest of western corporations. It gives Des Moines direct connection with St. Louis as well as Chicago.
The Des Moines & Kansas City road is 50,000.00 ; a branch of the Chicago, Burlington & 70,000.001 Quincy, and extends from Des Moines to Chariton, St. Joseph & Kansas City.
The Chicago & Northwestern was the first of the great trunk lines to connect with the Union Pacific at Commeil Bluffs It is a strong competitor for passenger and freight business.
7 The Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific affords direct lines to St. Louis -and the Est.
An important branch of this roall is the Des Moines & Northwestern, which ex- tends through the northwestern counties of Iowa, making tributary the extensive
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wheat : owing regions of Minnesota and Dakota:
The St. Louis, Des Moines & Northern is another branch, of this same line which runs north to Boone!
The Chicago, St. Paul , & Kansas City extends from Chicago and St. Paul through the state from northeast to south- west.
The Des Moines, Osceola & Southern is a line passing southward, to St. Joseph and Kansas City .!
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul enters the city by short connection over another line.
These roads afford SEVENTEEN different and distinct outlets y rail, and these outgoing roads so intersect, others as to. afford quick and direct communication with the ninety-nine counties of Iowa, and the country at large. These lines are developing some of the richest agricul". tural regions tributary to Des Moines and gather here an immense and growing traffic. ! The facilities this system gives to! wholesale interests, manufacturing, coal mining, lumber, stock and grain ship- ments, cannot be fully estimated, but it is to be taken for granted that our citizens appreciate ' the great benefits.' derived from our railroads. 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 beth, road beds and rolling stock.
COMMERCIAL AND MANUFACTUR ING INTERESTS!
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As a natural manufacturing center, and as a idistributing point Des Moines possesses advantages unequaled by any other western city. To make the place a great industrial center is an object which engages the united efforts of her citizens
Upon the manufacturing industries of a city, primarily, depends its prosperity,
its growth and its metropolitan advance- ment. Commerce and prosperity are supplemental and inter-dependent, like- wise commerce and industry.
The questions which present themselves to the wide awake business men are, what are the facilities for securing the raw material and for shipping the manu- factured product, and what is the extent of territory tributary from which the trade naturally comes? In reply to these questions you have but to consider our su- perior transportation facilities 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.
With the numerous railroad systems intersecting the city and country | like spokes in a wheel in which Des Moines' is the hub, reaching out by direct routes to every |point important to the manufact- urer,, the city affords unparalleled advantage as regards . transportation facilities, The question of raw materials, is of course intimately connected with that of transportation and the advantages of Des Moines in that respect need no comment.
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Des Moines has at present two hundred. and twenty-five factories, many of them employing large numbers of 'operatives The success of the factories already established and the rapid settlement of. the adjacent country, are warrants for the establishment of many more. Our' fac- tories are shipping all over the world, as our goods are ordered in :arge quantities from all parts of the country.
It is of interest to know that in 1890 some fifty new enterprises, manufactories : and industries of many kinds sought and actually found a location in Des Moines. These include some of the largest cap; italized institutions in the city. They are
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backed by men of means, |ability and faith in the progress and the growth of Des Moines-enough faith to invest money and energy in her upbuilding.
We have enterprising and public spirit- ed citizens who willingly donate excellent site's for factories, and the city council, with commendable 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 factories already here.
COAL.
. The matter of fuel is one of so great importance that it alone has been charged with keeping manufactories in the east, because it could not be procured in the west at a reasonable prices This cannot be said of Des Moines. The matter of fuel is the least of the difficulties in the way of our metropolis.
Here is found an inexhaustible supply of the best coal, the present price 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 $2.50 periton.
( areful scientific tests show our 50 cent houl [to have 93 per cent. of the heating WJapacity, and our manufacturers testify that in the production of steam it pro- duces results within 7 to :5 per cent. as good as the best lump coal
It is cheaper than natural gas where, that article must be piped any distance. The cost of fuel for steam purposes, by
actual comparison, is in Des Moines but one-fourth. what it is in Omaha and Kan- sas City, and less than one-fifth what it is in St. Paul and Minneapolis. The very fact of the low cost of fuel in Des Moines has brought many industries here In the past, and will bring a multitude more In the future .. Electric power for small factories can He obtained at a very low cost. We have three electric light and power plants.
WATER POWER.
The laws of Iowa' confer the most power upon water power improvement companies. They have the same power as railroad companies to condemn land for the right of way for canals, water- ways, buildings and other |necessary" uses. Des Moines hold's the scepter for, the best water power in the State. The Des Moines river flows through the middle of the city, giving her an east and west side, thus furnishing us the very best of water. An organization was effected last year known as the Des Moines Water Power Company, who built a splendid new daml across the Des Moines river. at Center street, four hundred and sixty feet long having a fall of eight feet. They also built a new power house where this waterfall is utilized in the production ' of electric power of ififteen hundred horse power, which .can be increased to a maximum of twenty-five hundred. This is used in the production of light, both are and incandescent, and for running the ma- and is amply
chinery of factories sufficient for all the factories, which might be built on both sides of the river for spine distance, giving employment to thousands and profitable investment to vast capital| |The east side of the river, having the same power is now idle, and presents a rare opportunity to locate manufacturing enterprises also. --
1890 FACTORY PRODUCTS.
The following table gives the value of
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manufactured products during 1890 to- gether with the increase over the pre- vions year. These figures were collected with great care, and may be considered correct, as they were compiled from the books of the manufacturers.
Cement and concrete
work.
136,000
68,000
Coffee and spices
481,200
65,200
Cotton.
93,750
31,250
Churns.
1,850
475
Carbonated stone. . .
17,000
4,500
Dyeing.
24,500
6,000
Excelsior
10,000
5,000
. Artificial limbs
5.300 $1
1,800
Art goods (new). ... 5,200
5,200
Agricultural : steam
etc.
50,750
7,750
boilers
38,000
18,000
Flour.
124,000
14,000
Barbed wire
525,000
Feed.
85,750
6,750
Boiler and iron work
Foundry and · mia-
(notime luding
chine work
142,200
28.700
foundry or ma -:
177 240
29,540
holstery goods. :
456,320
73,000
Blank books and
Furnaces
51,000
23,000
binding (included in printing).
new.
28,000
23,000
Bottling Works
55500
16,000
Hams cured .
212,500
62,500
Brooms
1.
17.200
- 2,200
Harness, saddlery, etel.
307,000
7,000
Brick ..
306,366
80,836
Hats and caps
15,990
8,800
Butchers' Blocks,
2,700
400
Jewelry
9,000
8,500
Bee hives and apiary supplies
12,000
2,000
Lithographing
41,000
Linseed oil
387,500
77,500
cialty work.
6,750
Malt.
12,000
Bicycles oto;
15.800 1
3,300
Marble and granite work
113,500
16,000
Mill furnishings etc
195,000
20,000
Boiler :compound.
10,000
5.000
Coke,
21,000
[ bing trad]
175,000
20,000
Cornice, galvanized profite
82,000
2,000
tary
319,600
89,600
Chenfical and phar. maceutical goods
19,000
8,000
Office
fixtures andy
Carriages. wagon;
planing
mill pro-
118,000
29,250
Cigars
240,700 .
20,000
Preserves,
jellies.
14,700
14,500
: iron work
5,950
2,400
Confectiore: y
j 342.000
129,000
Corn meal, ofc.
32,940
5,400
Cooperage.
107,500
21,500
Crackers
275,000
35,000
180,000
34,300,
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Medicines, proprie- .
Oatmeal.
155,000
etc. -
· 253.000
17,000
ducts
Coal screens and
new
Photograp
iers
dry
plate
4,500
- 500
Paints
37,200 1
7,100 .
and = wind
Pumps mills
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Amount Increase produced over 1889.
Electrical appliances
31,000
6,000
Extracts, perfumes,
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Broom holders
5,000
2,000
Knit goods
3,700
2,000
Brass band from spe-
Books law and mis cellinoous. .
73,000
Millineny, for job-
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Furniture and up-
chine.work ). . . . . .
Gloves, mittens, etc
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Photo engraving.
6,000°
1.000
Peanut roasters. :
35,000
5,000
Potery.
7.7,560
11,560
Pork packing.,.
2,651,250
530,250
Printing.
1,227,050
81,450
Paper boxes, includ-
.ed in printing
Plows
18,500
2,500.
Scales, new
5,000
8,000
Shirts.
19,500
2,500
Show cases
and
stained glass
40,000
3,500
Soap
215,000
74,500:
Stone cutting.
43,000
13,000
Starch
468,750
Spring beds. mat-
Presses, et
95,490
7,680
Stamps, stencils, eto
4,400
1,130
Suspenders.
50,000
12,000
Shoe uppers
7,000
2,000
Sewer pine .
98,000
14,000
Shears af 1 cutlery
3,900
1,200
Sanitary furnaces.
40,000
5,000
Stock fond (new)
10,000
10,000
Trunks.
19,000
10,000
Tents, awnings, etc
12,500
4,50
Vinggar, pickles, etc
101,000
30,650
Washing machines
9,000
4,000
Woolen goods ... 200,000 -
50,000
Wood carving ( -
klusive of fur
thu're).
4,250
750
White bronze mon ments, etc
|85,000
10,000
$13,152,156 $2,049.941
i The factories recently established here fiftve added several thousand to the popu- lation, and will contribute largely to the support and maintenance of the indus- trial classes in the future. . The | people of Iowa's Capital are thoroughly awaken- ed to the importance of manufacturing enterprises, and are determined to make their city what the favorable location and abondant natural resources indicate it should be -- the leading industrial |center of the west. `Among the industries that
are needed and for. the manufacture of which Des Moines is well adapted, may be mentioned the following: |
Agricultural implements of all kinds, brushes, baskets, bags, beet, sugar, boots and who's, canning of vegetables, carri- ditional), cotton goods (additional), door od window screens, fire brick, flour |(additional), feed and mill stuffs (addi: tional), furniture (additional), gloves and mittens (additional), glue, ink, knit goods, linen goods, merchant iron, nails, overalls, organs | paper --- print; and wrapping, pumps (additional), pressed brick (addi- tional), potteries (additional), paints (ad- ditionall), rolling mills, soap (additional), starch (additional), stoves, tanneries, tin- ware, tools, tool handles, twine and rope, terra cotta, " varnish, window shades, wooden ware, wire goods, etc.
WHOLESALE INTERESTS.
Next to our manufacturing interests, the wholesale business is'most important to the commercial growth of the city. .
The pride of any city is its commerce. Let a city become a distributing center of. large quantities of merchandise desired by the people, and the foundations of its prosperity; are deeply laid. Commercial supremacy, except in the presence of great and unusual factors, means manu- facturing/ supremacy.
The greatest advantages which the great cities of the world present is the fact that they are the entrepots of trade. Buyers frequent | their marts and take from them goods to supply the wants of mankind. This being so the factory must be there to furnish the goods re- quired by the merchant.
With a knowledge of this great law of business nothing can be a better prophecy . of the prosperous future of Des Moines than the steady growth of her jobbing trade, which is increasing rapidly in all directions year by year, and the year 1891 will, without doubt, far eclipse all of its predecessors as to the volume of business
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transacti 1. That Des Moines has grown into pro finence as one of the leading commer lal cities of the West, is largely due to E r wholesale trade. As a busi- ness ce ter, no city in the State can comparis with her as evidenced in the statistics of business for 1890, when com- . pared with other cities of Iowa.
. The jobbing trade' of Des Moines in 1800 exceeded that of 1889 by $4,966,451, and amounted to: $28,748,741. 'It employs four hundred and fifty traveling salesmen. A detailed statement of the lines of trade; the amount [ of business transacted and the increase over the year 1880 in each is given herewith for the year 18901
WHOLESALE BUSINESS-1890.
Amount, Increase.
Agricultural imp's .. .. $2,782,550 $364,000 Agricultural steam boil- -
ers.
33,000
18,000
Alcohol and liquor (es- timate).
400,000
175,000
JJewelry, watches, etc. 640,000
75,000
Barbed wire 1 ..
525,000
Leather and findings .. 165.000
30,000
Brick
306,336 80,836
Lumber. 961,500
104,000
Books and stationery . .
503,000 : 76,000
Lime, cement, etc 811,000
151,000
Brooms(from factories)
17,200
2,200
Malt 12,000
Mill furnishings, etc .. 290,000
30,000
790.000
110,000
Butter, cheese, eggs
1,150,000
300,000
Butchers' tools, etc .. . Coke
25,000
15,000
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Clothing
63,000
21,000
Carriages, etc., (inde-
, pendent of imple- ment houses) . .
. 187,500
41,000
China and glassware ..
352,000:
27,000
Crackers .
350,000
110,000
Coffee, spices, etc.
391,200
65,200
Cigars.
326,850
60,000
Commission and .pro- · duce
634,840
126,970
Coal, hard and soft (ex-
clusive local mines). .
167,000
17,000
Paints, glass, etc ...
70,250
7,000
Coal from mines (ex-
Cess local trade) .... 1,064,085
63,785
Confectionery and can- dies (from factories) Dental and barber sup- plies
398,000 184,000
118,000 17,500
533,960 106,790
Drugs and chemicals .. Dry goods (not includ- ing notions)
387,000
160,000
Electrical appliances. . Extracts, essences, etc.
31,000
6,000
50,750
7,750
Earthenware.
67,560 11,260
Excelsior.
10,000
5,000
Feed
85,000 29,200
Flour
547,800'
139,000
Furniture'
205,000
28,000
Frames, mouldings,etc. 25;100
5,200
Groceries.
3,979,000 475,000 1.
Gloves and mittens. . . 37,000
23.000 1.
Hlams, cured
312,500 1
62,50034;
Harness, saddles, etc .. 313,700
10,000
Hardware 555,000.
60,000
Hay
275,000
73,000
Hides and Tallow
266,000 10,000
5,000
Ice
Medicines, proprietary (not included in drugs) 363,600
98,600
Millinery and / fancy goods (not including notions).
825,000
- 35,000 *
Notions and furnish;
ing goods 337,000
70,000
Oat meal).
155,000
Oils (lubricating and. illuminating) 1,422,500
260,000
Oils (linseed ) . 387,500
77,500
Preserves, jellies, etc., (from factory). . :
14,700
14,700
Packed meats (not in- einding cured Hams) 2,651,250
530,250
Photographers supplies Powder, blasting and
76,000
6,000
3,000
Boots, shoes and rub- bers ..
31,000
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sporting. Print paper
69,300
13,300 4,500
Printing presses; type
and machinery !.
41,000
3,000
Scales (from factories).
5.000
3,000
Stock food
10,000
10,000
Suspenders
50,000
12,000
Seeds :
215,000
74,500
Soap (from factories). Subscription books. :
400,000
200,000
Show casos, ' stained
glass, etc
40,000
3,500
Starch (from factories) -
468,750
Spring bed and mat-
tresses !
95,460
5,660
Scrap iron and steel!
44,000
. 4,600
Trunks(from factories):
19,000
10,000
Vinegar, pickles, etc .. .
101,000
30,650
Wrapping paper.
95,000
10,000
Woolen goods.
(from'
factories)
200,000
50,000
Wash'g machin's
{from
factories
9,000-
4,000
Yeast, compressed .
18,500
2,500
Total!
$28,848,741$4,966,45
CLAYSP
The clays found in the hills in and about the city, add 'no small value to the industries of Des Moines, as evidenced by our extensive brick yards, twenty-nine in mumber, , and the buildings of our city, small andf great, demonstrate the excellence and stability of their product A superior article of paving brick is also manufactured. here, and so great -is the demand for it that it is impossible for the manufacturers to keep pace with their orders, Not only is clay for the manfi- facture of common brick abundant, but - the finest quality of white or "Milwaukee" brick may be made in our vicinity. Fire clay abounds in connection with our coal: deposits, as well as the best and most valuable of coal measure clays -potter's; clay- which is found of a superior quality aff the products of our extensive pot]. teries find markets hundreds of , miles
away. We have the largest drain tile works in the state, and their product is greatly appreciated by farmers in' every direction, and this is also. true of our artificial stone and sewerage pipe manu- factories. : Clays have been tested which proved unexcelled for the manufacture of mineral paints: Actual experiment has shown that all around our city, near, the surface of the ground, there exists excel- lent clay, suitable for the finer grades of brick and terra cotta manufacture.
Parties who have made a study of the ceramic arts for years, in the interest of iterm cotta manufacture, 'and ' have visited the leading establishments of Europe, where clay is manipulated for man af itaring lporppsos, declare that our clays are peculiarly fitted for this work, and tests prove them of a quality equal to the European clays, in some localities ithported to manufacture the finer grades of. pressed . hrick, terra cotta and fancy pottery wares. In fact, there are more than sixteen distinct varieties of clay suit- able for the manufacture of all varieties of warps, from the finest to the coarsen and rougher, and these beds have been barely touched, but flie awaiting the de- velopment which will surely come to them in the future.
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