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Identifier: somefactsconcern00hawk (find matches)
Title: Some facts concerning York and York County : a sesqui-centennial memento
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Hawkins, Charles Augustine, 1859- Landis, Houston E
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Publisher: York, PA. : (Press of York daily
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
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in the adjoiningcounty of Adams, the sum of $1,369,331.84. J6 York and The great importance of York as a cigar man-ufacturing center will be at once seen when itis remembered that nearly all of this largesum was for cigar stamps. The revenue col-lected at the same ofiice in 1890 was $773,-568.97. That for 1900 exceeds it by v$595,-762.87. York has an area of 2250 acres. In 1890it was 1283 acres. It is a w^ell orderedcity/^ located in the midst of a fertile and ex-tensive valley wdiich from the neighboringheights presents one of the most beautifuland attractive agricultural prospects that theeye could wish to rest upon, York County,it is believed, furnishes a greater yield 0/farm products than any in the state, unlessit be the adjoining county of Lancaster, andis dependent by no means upon manufactur-ing interests alone for its support. *The arrests in 1900 were 451, being at the rateof 13 in a thousand in a population of 33,708. Ofthese 153 were for drunkenness and disorderlyconduct.
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York County jp The ultimate basis of all material prosper-ity is the pitrsnit of agriculture. Such abasis York has. After all, farming is the in-dustry of all industries, because the most es-sential and the one of greatest magnitude.Let it be noted too that farming with us hasbeen in the last generation a subject of devel-opment as well as mechanical industries, aswitness the fact that here in our own countythe yield per acre has doubled in the pastthirty years, the average amount of land un-der cultivation at the same time being large-ly augmented. Stock on the farms has beencorrespondingly improved in quality and in-creased in value. Agricultural methods andappliances have been revolutionized as the re-sult of intelligence applied to farming, forbrains, let it be observed, are just as essen-tial, and just as effectively if not so demon-stratively manifested amongst our farmers aselsewhere. The city of York is the centerof supply for one of the richest of agricultur-al regions. To th

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