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[19] Most of the machinists are connected with the foundries.
[20] This does not include all steamboat builders.
[21] Most of the turners are connected with various factories.
[22] From "Louisville and the Elements of her Prosperity," by H. Smith, Esq., in the Louisville Journal.
[23] Speculation in city lots ran very high at this time, and property bore an enormous fict.i.tious value. As will be remembered, this feeling was not confined to Louisville, but was prevalent all over the western country. This was the era of speculations in western town lots, an era which will not be recalled with pleasure by most western men.