The Madison guide book, Madison, Wisconsin - Surrounded by Reality

MADISON AS A PERMANENT HOME.71manufacturers. The tobacco business is centering here.•Good farmers make $100 per acre from the tobacco crop,and several large warehouses have been built in the city.Madison as a Business City.The stores and shops are well stocked with up-to-dategoods. On Capitol Square rents are necessarily high,but in other localities are moderate.Shops and marketsare springing up in the suburbs, and there is room formore. The large official and professional class, withgood and steady incomes, and the many artisans andinechanics make intelligent and liberal customers.Billsare promptly paid;the percentage of bad debts is small.Madison as a Permanent Home.ADISON is now the sixth largestcity in Wisconsin.For the past fiveyears the rate of increase in the populationhas been more than one thousandper annum. This gain has beenof a solid and substantial nature.Real estate has steadily increased in value. Hundredsof dw^elling houses have been built. Madison is a homecity, there being over five thousand homes in the place.The water supply is perfectly pure; the death rate but8.5 per thousand; annual rain fall 31 inches. The yearlyaggregate of bank deposits is $5,100,000; postal receiptsover $98,000 for the year past. There are 3,100 telephonesin use on two systems.Five hundred commercialhouses are doing business in Madison.Gas, electric