Lots have been purchased on the corner of Main avenue and Third street and money appropriated for a government building to cost

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$110,000.00 and the structure will without doubt be completed soon.

In 1912 the magnificent Masonic Temple was erected on Main avenue. The entire building and equipment cost $18,000.00, and the same year the Mildred Block, now occupied by the Citizens State Bank, and the most pretentious building in the town, was erected at a cost of $24,000.00.

The Intermountain Railway Light & Power Company, with their plant valued at $75,000.00 furnishes a continuous day and night current for light and domestic power purposes. The Chadron Journal and Chadron Chronicle printing and folding and type-settings machines ; the machinery of the Chadron Garage Company ; Chadron planing mill ; Christensen wagon shop; J. F. Stanton and E. P. Scott, shoe repairing machines are operated by electricity and many families make use of the current for cooking. An ice factory and cold storage plant, with creamery in connection have been erected,

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which with equipment cost $60,000.00. The Chadron Telephone Exchange was established in 1891. Since that the time the plant has steadily grown till now there are 2,230 phones in the country and communication with Omaha and all eastern cities has been established. As the industries, so has the population and area of the town increased. G. A. Birdsall platted several blocks on the west side, the greater par of which have been improved by elegant and substantial homes. Normal Heights, a beautiful tract, was platted as an addition on the south side and many residence lots sold. Kenwood addition and Houghton's sub-division on the north side have been most successful. They were platted in 1913. Three hundred seventy-five lots were sold in ten days.