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 MISTOKY OF G00DH1 E COTJNTI « 647 dustries are two potteries, two sewer pipe factories, two malting plants, two breweries, two flour mills, a Linseed mill, a large tan- aery, a launch factory, marine engine works, brick factory, hat factory, two shoe factories, two furniture factories, a large advertising novelty concern, and with them other in- dustries, each growing and successful. The newest of these numerous enterprises is the Forest Products Company. It has purchased large tracts of timber along the river, has a saw- mill and plant in Eas1 Red Wing and contemplating the manu- facture of many by-products of the foresl and the introduction of a system of practical forestry on its extensive timbered areas, promises to become one of the most important of the city's com- mercial assets within a very few years. From a business standpoint. Red Wing's busy factories are the mainstay of its prosperity, combined with the wealth which flows in on all sides from the fertile acres of an exceptionally splendid agricultural region, on which dwell a thrifty, industrious and intelligent people. Red Wing is the trading center forHhousands of sturdy farmers, who raise things worth raising and readily sold at high prices; Ked Wing is the home of twelve thousand people who are intensely busy making things worth making, which command attention for their excellence and are eagerly sought for in the world's markets. Under these conditions its workingmen, retail and wholesale business men. as well as those in professional lines, are thriving. The city is making rapid progress along the avenues of com- munity life which uplift, beautify and ennoble. A strong organi- zation is its civic league, whose purpose is to stimulate and further the beautification and tidiness of the town. Its effective work has been shown in a crusade which ridded the city of many old signs, in the placing of waste paper cans at the corners of many streets, the care of ••Webster's Way.'' which leads up Barn Bluff, and prizes offered to the children of the "Junior Civic League" for best kept flower gardens, vegetable gardens, neatest front yards and neatest back yards. A ride through the city with its boulevarded streets, lined with shade trees of many kinds, its well kept lawns and tidy yards, will reveal how thoroughly the people have caught the contagion for the city beautiful. The city itself is emulating the spirit of its citizens. Its park system is both expanding and improving. It includes two miles of river frontage. Already a portion of it. called Levee Park, is com- pleted and, with its concrete river wall, beautiful drives and shaded walks and steamboat landing, it has become a favorite resort of the people during the summer season. Leading up from the park is Broadway, the gateway of the city. This has been beautifully boulevarded and parked through the generosity of