one Jewish; one Baptist, one Methodist^ and one Presbyterian missionary
chapel. Its pnlpit talent is excellent, and all the various religious denomina-
tions are in a flourishing condition. It has fourteen public schools, including
a High school, with one superintendent, and thirty-two teachers. In the
High school, pupils are prepared for admission into any college or university
in the country. The value of the school property is $100,000. Besides her
public schools, the city has several large and flourishing private schools,
including the Young Jjadies' Institute, Academy of Sacred Heart, School of
the Immaculate Conception, St. Joseph Day School, and the St. Joseph Col-
lege, conducted by the Christian Brothers. During the past year Mr. Milton
Tooble erected a magnificent opera house, with a seating capacity of fourteen
hundred, costing $125,000. Its stage is 40x60, with a proscenium thirty-two
feet, and in its appointments and furnishing it may, without exaggeration, be
styled the handsomest auditorium in any western city. The location here of
the State Lunatic Asylum for the Northwest, to cost $200,000, will cause the
erection, the present year, of a building highly ornamental to the city. The
beautifdl convent, crowning the hill, whose golden cross catches the latest
rays of the setting sun —

" To tell His life of glory run,"
the many handsome residences, the solid and substantial stores, the Pacific
House, of goodly reputation, go to make up a town of unusual solidity and
comfort.
MANUFACTURING INTKRB8TS.
