Identifier: americanaunivers03newy (find matches)
Title: The Americana; a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc., of the world
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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road cars, $4.553>333 ; soapand candles, $3,818,571 ; flour and grist-millproducts, $3,263,697; planing-mill products,$3.095,760; factory-made clothing. $3,067,723;chemicals, $1,939,378; patent medicines and com-pounds, $1,855,808; leather and leather goods,$1,756,084; factory-made furniture, $1,644,671;besides over $1,000,000 each of carriages andconfectionery, and large quantities of jewelry,saddlery and harness, tobacco products, and oth-er articles, embracing some 200 different indus-tries in all. Notice should be taken_ of fineprinting, lithographing, and engraving, in whichBuffalo ranks high artistically. Finances and Banking.— The assessed valu-ation of the city has increased m 30 years fromabout $38,000,000 to over $250,000,000, nearly allreal estate, with a tax rate of 17.12. The bond-ed debt is some $16,000,000, with an annual^ in-terest charge of about $650,000: but there is asinking fund of about $1,250,000, and the cityowns orooerty valued at about $21,000,000. Also,
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BUFFALO of fbis debt $3,754,382 is for water bonds, onwhich an income is earned. The city expensesare some $6,000,000 a year. The post-office re-ceipts are over $1,000,000 yearly, and the inter-nal-revenue receipts about $2,000,000. There arenine banks of discount (five national), withabout $8,000,000 capital and surplus and$45,000,000 deposits; two trust companies, with•$1,400,000 capital and surplus; and four sav-ings banks, with over $35,000,000 deposits and$6,000,000 surplus. Churches.— Buffalo is the seat of a RomanCatholic and of an Episcopal bishop, and hastwo handsome and impressive cathedrals; theCatholic cathedral being a Gothic structure ofblue stone trimmed with white, and has a set of42 chimes. Besides these there are 2)7 Catholicchurches, 13 chapels, and 12 convents; and 171Protestant, besides 16 missions and chapels, themost numerous being the Methodist Episcopal(24 English, 3 German), Baptist (25 churchesand 5 missions), Lutheran (13 German, 5 Eng-lish, 3 Scandinav

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