Paris, Illinois (Classic Reprint)

A city of 8000 inhabitants, is the co'unty seat of Edgar County, Illinois. It is peculiarly well favored in location, being situated upon the border of the most fertile prairie in the world, and yet bounded by timber land to the east and south and within a few miles of the great Indiana coal fields.

The natural products of the surrounding country are, therefore, rich and diversified. 100 bushels to the acre is a normal corn crop for Edgar county, while wheat and oats yield proportionally, and fruit of all kind abounds. The cattle, horse and hog industries are also very extensive.

As proof of the great wealth of the district, attention is called to the statements of our banks, which show a condition of prosperity unequalled elsewhere in the west.

Paris is, furthermore, especially fortunate as to markets, being almost equally distant from the great cities of Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Louisville and Indianapolis. Our transportation facilities are strikingly demonstrated by the fact that morning papers reach us daily before noon from Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati and Indianapolis.

The natural resources of Edgar County are boundless; the peculiar commercial and social advantages of Paris, scarcely equalled. Especially within the past five years has Paris made a wonderful growth. During the year, 1903, have been expended in building. 150 new residences have been erected, 25 business houses, and have been invested in factories and public buildings. Yet this remarkable growth has scarcely kept pace with the increase of population.

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