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The capital employed in other manu-
featuring establishments is over ten mil
lion dollars, and there are employed IN
the neighborhood of $500 hands. the total
numbering of manufacturing plants being
about 375. Among these are bagging fac
tories, envelope factories. fertilizer works,
rice, saw and lumber mills, ship and boat
yards, shoe, factories, broom factOriea,
knitting factories, barrel factories, cigar
factories, soap and candle factories. col
ton tie factories, underwear factories ana
large list of other industries.
The manufacture of fertilizers in Cha
lesion. enormous in it's proportions, and
leading the world, gives employment Ia
many people and turns loose lars'
amounts of cash. The labor necessary
the materials employed, are all cash or
ticles and ample means are necessary !"
keep this great business going
For phosphate rock there are two
classes of mining conducted. Land rock
is taken from the land mines. the dc
posits ranging from six to fifteen feet
below the surface, while the river rock is
dredged from the rivers. The land roc
is used in the local manufacture of fer
tilizer, while the river rock USUALLY
goes to foreign countries.
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ment being at once artistic and pleasing,
the color scheme of gold and olive green
being carried out in the characterization
of each section.
The list of gems is a long one, in the
collection being amethyst, beryls, sap
phires, cats eyes. garnets. rhodolites.
almandines. Hiddenite, valued at $3.50 a
carat, and many others.
The other four sections surrounding the
central space are devoted to exhibits of
mines and building stones, forestry, ag-
riculture and horticulture. In the min
ing section are the gold, silver, copper
and iron ores Of the State, and follow
Ing these the economic minerals, such as
kaolin, asbestos, mica, tale, monazite.
zircon, graphite. Above this superb col
lection are the marbles, granite, gneiss
and brown stones.
In the Forestry section across the aisle
is one of the best exhibits on the
grounds, consisting of splendid selec-
ton of trees, showing cross sections in
a natural and highly polished state, the
discs being magnificent specimens of the
forestry product of North Carolina.
The next section shows the agricultu-
raj display, which is highly praised. On
the walls the .sheaf grain. is ornateiy
displayed, while in $50 glass tubes are
the shelled grains, seeds. etc, from all
sections of the State. In four large
cherry cases is shown the tobacco and
cotton exhibit. jet:.
Then comes the horticultural section,
a. revelation even to North Carolinians.
vegetables from the trucking fields.
peaches, pears, grapes, plums, Japanese
persimmons, apricots. Cherries. ETC., and
great central pyramid Of wines. Then
there is the splendid collection of apples
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ITS BUSINESS And FUTURE
What It Has to Offer to the World as Great Cen
tire of Commerce and Trade and the Many
Advantages to be Obtained.

1901, to June 1st, 1902, is to dazzle all
visitors, is the promotion of more in
innate commercial relation with the
seventy principal islands of the west
Indies. and to point out that Charleston
is the gateway to these, the outlet OF
this country with it's vast ability to pro-
duce, and the open port through which
may flow the return of the products from
those islands. for because of its adj
vantageous geographical position as
seaport and natural outlet for the SUR
plus products of the Southeastern States
and the Mississippi Valley, and it's prox-
unity to the West Indies its mission is
an important one to American commerce.
1t is for the purpose of giving some
account of the facilities and great ma
tural advantages of Charleston that this
article is written, and with these it is
attempted to tell something of it in its
various tangent points to the industry
and activity of the business life, as we'll
as to tell of the local coloring, the touch
of home, without which no line could
probably be written of this beautiful
city.
CITY BY THE SEA.
1t is "City by the Sea" in very truth.
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for as a view is: taken from it's lannon's
Battery, off in the distance are the white
capped waves of the Atlantic, arising
again and again as II to gaze at Fort
Sumter, the grim sentinel in the harbor.
whose guns now silent have thundered
in war and whose very name tells of the
Nations history.
And what a great history has this
proud city, one of the Oldest in the
United States, dating back to 1870, some
232 years ago. In those early days it
was even then a seaport adequate for
the largest sea-going vessels and the OBJ
jective point of the early settlers. A
pioneer in American foreign commerce
it rose to be one of the chief seaports of
the New World, a city Of attractions and
prosperity, standing, at the close of its
first century's history, second to no city
In North America in prosperity and So
cial comfort, and even in luxury as is
stated in a, government report.
1t is one of the best types of the ole
colonial cities of the United States, and
it's situation on the narrow neck of land
between the Ashley ami Cooper rivers is
a charming and advantageous one. Along
the streets there are specimens of old
colonial architecture, and in the beauty
of the sunshine, telling tales of strange
tropic warmth and hints OF summer seas
it's roses blossom in loveliness and its
hospitality keeps pace. When the cold
of winter makes its frozen visit to the
North here is a season OF perpetual de-
light, where from the open gardens there
are gathered roses for the bowl upon the
Christmas table.
What its earlier chroniclers tell of it
sounds like romance, yet these are but
veracious facts. Josiah Quincy. of Mas
sachusetts. guest in the city il 1873,
| says Of it:
PLACE OF BEAUTY.
"This town charleston makes the
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plare By the Spaniards. Evidence OF
these triple factors in the cityts life IS
shown in the French style in the, >archi-
lecture and the courtesy which /: surely
came from Huguenot, in. the customs OF
the place and in its. noble conservatism,
we see the English. and IN the pluck. en-
ergy and endurance we see the energy
and endurance comes the Scotch.
LOOKING BACKWARD.
There can be but passing glance at its
great history, began under the Lords
Proprietors, but in 1929 going under the
direct authority Of the British crowc
when North and South Carolina was
made of the divided Province of Caro-
lima. In 1888 the town was incorporated
as the city of Charleston, which has
grown to it's present population of, nearly
10000 people, the city : standing upon
made ground as much Of it was in its
beginning marsh and creek and ponds.
Then came the Revolutionary war, be-
ginning with opposition to the, stamp act
and in the struggle for American Inde-
pendence Charleston took its full share
and Sergeant Jasper and Fort Moul-
trie are famous names. and tales today
are told by grandsons and great grand
sons of those who suffered privations
during its days of bombardment:
After the Revolution the city grew and
prospered. reaching out Into new fields
and growing in population. While in
1900 there was a population Of near
1900 this had grown to over 10000 in
1860, when the Flag of the Confederacy
Dated over the city.
On December 20, 1860, the State OF
South Carolina seeded from the Union
the ordinance was passed at st. Andrews
Hall, on Broad street, in Charleston
and, ratified that night in South Carolina
Institute Hall on Meeting street, bo:h
of which buildings were destroyed by a
great fire in December, 1861, a year later
From the evacuation of Fort Sumter
on December 2, 1860, to the close of the
Civil War, or rather to the eighteenth
day of February, 1865, when Charleston
city and harbor were evacuated. aftel
567 days of continuous military opera.
tiocs against them its history is one Of
battle and strife Deluged with a storm
of shot and shells. which plowed their
way through streets and homes, leaving
q battle SCARED city, it took up the bur-
den after the war. and bursting through
the terrible bonds of the Reconstruction
era it moved onward SO that it's 10000
people of 1860 amounted to nearly 60 coo
in 1900.
Since the war it's history has been still
eventful. It's srapple with the .pestilerce
of yellow fever. scourge forever driven
away, the terrific cyclone which twisted
ITS homes from their foundations. and
the still more awful throes of the earth
quake of 1886. which shook the city as by
a giants hand. are matters of contcu.
porary history, and Charlestonians with
with characteristic pluck. still push to
the front and >startle a continent with.
the magnihcence of a Southern EXPOSE
ton, made to link it to brighter future.
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money to be changed: The The
tradesman called after him:
Sir, you have forgotten your
change" .,:- =.
well. never mind re-
Piled the ,youngster, dream
lily, .you can hand it to me
in London"
But" rejoined the deal
er, Il am not going to Lon
DON"
mot going to London:
exclaimed the bewiIderca
youth, "then where on
earth are you going?'
So of those visiting our
Southern states. during THIS
year of the great South
Carolina Interstate AID
West Indian Exposition n
is. hard to I. unilerstand'
where on earth are sfe
chiue'' If not to- .Gh&t3eS~
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Agriculture; Prof. J. A. Holmes, STATE
Geologist; Mr.. William Dunn, Board Of
N. c. Exhibit, and Mr.. T. X. Bruner, Sec-
rotary of the Board. AS provided in the
act Of the Legislature, Governor Ay-
cock appointed body of representative
citizens as North Cardinals Commission
ers to the Charleston Exposition, these
being Gen. Julian s. Carr, of Durham;
Mr. Thad r. Manning, Of Henderson; Mr.
w. L. Hill, of Warsaw; Mr.. William
Dunn. .of New Bern; Col. F. A. Odds. of
Raleigh; Mr.. A. Cannon, of Horse Shoe;
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GREAT CITY OF CHARLESTON
Some of the Attractions Visitors Of the Most Historic
City on the American Continent.

most beautiful appearance as you come
up to it, and in many respects magni-
ficent. 4 can only say in gen
eral that in grandeur, splendor OF build
ings decorations. equipages, numbers,
commerce, shipping, and indeed almost
everything, it far, surpasses all ever
saw or ever expect to see in America.
"All seems at present to be. trade,
riches. magnifcence, and great state In
everything; much gaiety and diss1pa-
ton" Estate and magnifcence,
the natural attendant on great riches,
are conspicuous among the people.
'There being but one chief place
of trade, it's increase is amazingly rapid
The stories you are everywhere told in
the rise of the value of lands seems ro-
mantle; but I was assured that they
were facts ~
It's history has been a succession Of
stirring events and romantic Incidents
To it has been allotted more than Its
share of war, pestilence. fire, cyclones
earthquakes and the horrors OF misrulc
These have all been clogs upon the
wheels of progress, but they have not
deferred her people from endeavor upon
endeavor. Arising buoyant among the
wreckage of tempest tossed waters Of
calamity, her people have ever turned
with hope to the future, and their pluck
and ind0mitable energy mean that aDlc'
ing success and prosperity must come.
It's people are a distinctive people, ane
this comes legitimately from a union Of
a trio of ancestral races whose predom1-
mating characteristics are all saftenee
and toned by the native CharlestOnian
To this place came in the days of the
Lords Proprietors many sturdy English
colonists, followed little later by the
prosecuted Huguenots. and then thu
Scots, driven from their first landing
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ON this side Of the Atlantic one \. can !.
hardly find city offering more to inter
est. than Charleston, whether considered
historically socially OF physically.
CITY OF CHARLESTON.
Charleston: the city. What world OF
history is contained in the very name.
How it makes one peer back into the
misty past, and find scattered through
its years events which have borne, a
great part in shaping the history of this
country.
And then, with start and in a twink
ling. We see the Charleston of today,
shaking of the lethargy of years, and
with the activity of the Twentieth Cen
fury pledging itself by one stupendous
effort to step once again into prominece
in the new Industrial and commercial
life of the world. With energy and pro-
gressive ideas as aids we can look for
ward to its future, and see these things
an accomplished fact, for the"creation: o!
new ideas in this year of 1902, the influx
of new people within her celebrated por-
tails, the opening of new yistas to her
young men will surely make for her pos
sible the attainment of the good she has
in view.
That which brings these thoughts into
existence is the South Carolina Inter-
state and West Indian Exposition, which
IS now in blaze Of glory in Charleston
1t is an Exposition, with an idea, and the
development of that idea is of transcen
dent importance to the Nation as well
as to the State of South Carolina and
Charleston, for it aims at the expansion
of American commerce in neighborhood
fields, open and profitable markets, want
ing but the touch to still wider open
their gates.
The chief purpose of the Exposition
which for six months from December LIST
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CHARLESTON NEWSPAPERS.

The city is supplied with it's news ser
vices by two able newspapers, one
morning daily, the News and Courier
with Mai. J. c. HemphiH as the edit"
and strong corps OF assistants in ever,
department. The Evening Post is
modern afternoon daily, progressive an
energetic. and it's editorial and news co'
umns show that it is in charge of N
of ability.
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hay, hats and caps
foreign and domesli1
fruits. drugs and med
icines. doors, sash ana
blinds, clothing, dry
goods, crockery, 10
bacco. and cigars boots
and shoes and furnl-
ture. There is room
for new corners and
these will be WEI
come.
The Manufacture
ing Industries.
The chief manufa"-
turing industry of th
city is fertilizer and
there is much capital
invested in this. Th'
total output OF tn
mills passes 400. 49,
tons.
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CHARLESTON'S WHOLESALE
TRADE.

Charleston does large wholesale bust
ness, and this is increasing. the growth
being steady and sure. The figures
which cover the wholesale and retail
trade exceed thirty -two million of dollars
year, and in the wholesale business new
business is being obtained. Among tn"
wholesale business conducted there is
the trade in groceries, stationery. watches
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Mr. $. P. Ravenel, Jr... of Highlands;
Mr. Osmond Barringer. of Charlotte:
Mr.. w. c. Heath. of Monroe; Mr.. E. K.
PROCTOR, Jr., of Lumbertcn; Mr.. James
Sprunt, of Wilmington: Mr. D. S. Cowen.
OF Columbus; Mr.. N. A. Sinclair. of Fay-
etteville; Mr.. E. P. McKissick, of Ashe-
vile; Mr.. J. B.. Kenney, of Charlotte:
Mr.. Garland Webb, of Winston; Mr.. !.
G. Hunt, of Oxford: Mr.. James p. Cook
OF Concord; MIR. W. H. Smith. CT Colds
ooro; Mr.. B. II. Dillon. of Charlotte:
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subject, and handled it extremely
well, though his dates were some
times mixed. Still he demonstrated
with good deal of vigor the lowell
ness of the tariff, the beneficence of
republican rule and the disasters, i'm
mutable as fate, which followed
every practice of free trade Every
great panic he ascribed to the demo
cratic free trade doctrine-that he
related-but the great panic of 1873
he overlooked. Because that was
preceded by the administration of
Lincoln, Johnson and Grant? Well,
perhaps. He may have forgotten it.
However, his presentation of the
tariff, dry if fruitful subject of de-
bate for, 10, these many years was
not uninteresting, and with a little
more practice in country school houses
the mayor will find his proper place
with the foremost spellbinders of the
republican faith.
The personnel of the county tick
cts were let severely alone by both
| speakers, and it is perhaps as we'll
that the precedent should be fol
lowed, it will result in a cleaner cam
paign, less bitterness and encourage
speedy reconciliation after the ides
of November are past.
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AS Tom Marshall, the Kentucky
colonel from Missoula, failed to put
in an appearance and weave a spell
for the republican cause last night,
local talent had full sway. The band
was out and drew quite a fair sized
audience to opera hall, where p. N.
Bernard presided over a classical
presentation of the tariff and other
issues of the campaign.
b. J. McIntire first tried his silver
tongued eloquence. but in speech
of nearl" an hours duration failed
to warm his auditors until with a
grand peroration he painted halo
about the form of the hero president,
who, from tending his f1ocks and
herds in Montana, went to paralyze
Tammany in New York, defeated
Spain at San Juan Hill, and finally
brought the coal baron to his knees
day before yesterday. The principles
of party only were dilated upon by
this speaker.
Mayor Logan was next introduced
to the remnant of the audience and
prefaced his remarks by apologizing
for his appearance in Kalispell, as
he was still on probation from a de-
lection of six years ago, and had
been retained this campaign to prac-
tice his wiles in the district school
houses, where he could not do any
harm. Tom Marshalls failure to
keep his engagement had embarrass-
ed the central committee and he was
one of the available speakers, SO was
allowed the chance.
Mr.. Logan brought down the house
with a little campaign anecdote, re-
flecting more or less upon the man
of-all-work of the county democratic
committee, F. Joe Rice. His version
of F. Joe's performance in unearthing
the issues of the campaign was that
after deriding the republican opposi
ton from coroner up, he eXtolled the
virtues of the democratic candidates
from Andrew Jackson down. And
then what did the candidates on the
platform do? They rise solemnly to
their feet, Andy Dunsire in the lead
and all join hands and sing, Don't
it hi how Jesus loves me.
This may have been little outre
but the audience was so immensely
tickled that for fully minute theii
merriment prevented speech, ant
then they applauded the sacrilegiouS
mayor with extreme heartiness.
Mr.. Logan had the tariff for his
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CIGAR SMOKERS
Patronize Your Home Factories and
Get Good Goods.

Patronize Your Home Factories and
Get Good Goods.
Since last Saturday, Luke Kelly,
chairman of the Trades and Labor
assembly of Butte, and accredited
business agent of the Cigarmakers'
International union of America, has
been interviewing the trade in Kalis-
pell in behalf of home manufactured
cigars or at least union made goods.
Mr.. Kelly has met with encourage
ment in his efforts and is in hopes
of eventually routing out the tene,
pretty generally in the cheaper grades
handled in Kalispell, of course, with
out the union label. He says if every
smoker would insist upon union made
cigars part of his mission would be
successful. his pet project, however,
is that the home industry should be
fully recognized. According to his
estimate $4,000 per month is sent
from Kalispell alone to eastern fac
tories for cigars which could as we'll
D6 hSpI mere dl uOllG, anu 1uSI6du
of four or five cigarmakers employed
the business would admit of Is or
20 men working here at good wages,
and all that money would remain at
home. Even the cheaper grades of
cigars can be profitably made and
disposed of here at as good profit to
the retailers if consumers would
only demand the home made article.
In the superior brands, he says that
Kalispell factories produce as good
goods for the price as can be shipped
in from Chicago or New York. This
is an item, $4,000 to remain at home
and circulate through the city finan-
cial circles, and each and every
smoker of the town has it in his
power to bring it about Mr.. Kelly
leaves tonight for Great Falls to pros
ecute his mission further
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ORCHARD PARK ADDITION.

Acre Property Within Five Minutes
Walk of the Business Center of the
City.
Inquire of the Conrad National
Bank, or of j. q. Gibson, room Is
Conrad Bank Building.
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Mrs. E. B. Stanley, wife of the
assistant engineer at the picking
plant at Somers, is quite i'll at the
hospital in this city.
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A marriage license was issued on
Wednesday morning to George E.
Snyder of Bolton and Miss Ida M.
Walter of Columbia Falls.
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Music.

Those who wish to educate them
elves or their children in music
lave an opportunity of taking les
ons at Miss Tate's studio, Sherman's
Music store.
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For Sale-SO acres prairie land, 7h
miles from town; IL acres under
cultivation. Will make a good
home. Address Lock Box 25S.
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William Davis of Tobacco Plains
was in the city on a business trip
yesterday.
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Ex-senator Carter and J. M. Dixon
of Missoula, republican candidate for
congressman, will speak at the opera
house next Tuesday night
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Charley Olson and Frank Valen-
tine were down from their home at
Columbia Falls yesterday.
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KALISPELL BRIEFS
Ske %dni
TIE lyszysl TO saw TlzsII5I

Virgil Harris of Allyn is visiting
with Kalispell friends this week.
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No. was run in two sections
Wednesday night to accommodate
the large number of fasteners who
had taken advantage of the reduced
rates to come west to seek new
homes.
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Largest stock of fur coats in the
city at Wilson's department store.
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D. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

Meteorological summary for the week ending
Oct. %, 1902.
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ONLY LIGHT
ARTILLERY
In Place of the Heavy Guns Promised
at Last Nights Republican Rally.
MAYOR LOGAN RE-EsTAeLIsHED

After Probation of Years, Gives a
Good Account of HimseIf-Hon. 3.
J. Mclntire Breaks the Ice for the
Republican Campaign in kaIispeII.
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w. H. Griffin and J. w. Johnson
were in Missoula this week in at
tendance at the grand lodge of Odd
Fellows of Montana. Mr.. Griffin is
grand master of the order.
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John HUSKY, who has been sick
with stomach trouble for some time,
died Wednesday morning and was
buried yesterday afternoon at 2
o'clock at the Demersville cemetery.
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George Haigh, who has been con-
fined at the Kalispell hospital for
some time with an attack of typhoid
fever, has recovered and was dis
charged from that institution this
week