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 in the first year of the Twentieth Century, with many in process of construction.

Electric lines are reaching out from the chief cities into country districts and through the smaller towns, affording rapid and cheap transit of passengers from country to village and city by many cars daily.

Manufactures are assuming formidable proportions numbering nearly 15,000 establishments in which is invested capital to the amount of $102,733,103. The number of persons finding employment in them reaches more than 56,000, whose aggregate yearly earnings amount to $23,391,680. They pay out, for material, annually more than $100,000,000; while the value of their product reaches more than $164,000,000.

There are in the State seven hundred and two flouring mills; nine hundred and seven butter, cheese and milk factories; three hundred and twenty-nine lumber working factories, including saw mills; ten hundred and twenty-five printing and publishing houses; nine hundred and ten newspapers and periodicals and two hundred and four public libraries.

The value of milk, butter and cheese produced in the State was $27,516,870; value of eggs, $10,016,707; and of poultry, $9,491,819.

Coal is mined in the following counties: Adams, Appanoose, Boone, Dallas, Davis, Greene, Jasper, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lucas, Mahaska, Marion, Monroe, Page, Polk, Scott, Story, Taylor, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Wayne, Webster.

Clay is manufactured into brick or tile or both in all but the following counties: Allamakee, Buchanan, Butler, Carroll, Cedar, Cherokee, Chickasaw, Clarke, Franklin, Greene, Grundy, Hancock, Howard, Humboldt, Ida, Jackson, Kossuth, Lucas, Madison, Mitchell, Pocahontas, Sac and Warren.

Gypsum is found only in Webster. It is sold for about five dollars per ton ordinarily but when competition is