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Title: Marvels of the new West : a vivid portrayal of the stupendous marvels in the vast wonderland west of the Missouri River : comprising marvels of nature, marvels of race, marvels of enterprise, marvels of mining, marvels of stock-raising, and marvels of agriculture, graphically and truthfully described
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Thayer, William Makepeace, 1820-1898
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Publisher: Norwich, Conn. : Henry Bill Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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r 1885, was over thirty-eight millions of dollars ($38,000,000). The average deposits carried for the first six months of 1885, wasthree hundred ninety-tJiree thousand four dollars ($393,004). ** The average amount of deposits carried for the second six monthsof 1885, was four Jinndred 7tinety-one tJioiisand one hundred forty dol-lars ($491,140). The average daily cash balance carried for the twelve months of1885, was two Jiundred fifty thousand one htrndi^ed sixty-three dollars($250,163). The average per cent of available cash to deposits for the year1885, was fifty-seven per cent (.57). The number of depositors at the present time is ten hundj^ed andfifty (1050). MARVELS OF MINING. 467 The number of drafts drawn during the year was eleven thojisandthree hundred thirty-six (i 1,336). The total amount of the drafts drawn was five million nine hun-dred seventeen tJiousand dollars (5,917,000). The average number of drafts drawn was thirty-seven (37) foreach business day during the year.
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LOOKING WEST FROM PRINTER BOY HILL. Leadville schools would be an honor to any city of New England.In February, 1878, the first school was opened in a rude log house,where thirty boys and girls were taught by Mrs. A. R. Undergraff.In eighteen months from that time, there were twelve public schoolsand thirteen teachers. One year later, there were twenty-one teachersand two thousand pupils. In May, 1881, an elegant school building,built of brick and highly ornamented with stone trimmings, was com-pleted at an expense of sixty-two tJiousand dollars. It is eighty-one 468 MARVELS OF THE NEW WEST. feet long and seventy-nine wide, two stories high above the base-ment, the latter portion being devoted to play rooms, janitors room,and office of the superintendent of the city schools. Each story ofthe building is sixteen feet high, the whole heated by four furnacesin the cellar, and supplied with water and gas pipes. The erection of this schoolhouse was followed by the building ofanother at a c

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