ENID, Okla., city and county-seat of Gar field County, 361/2 miles north by east of King fisher and 88 miles by rail west by north of Okla homa City, on the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and the Saint Louis and San Francisco rail roads. It is a banking city; owns its water works, and adopted in 1909 the commission form of government. It contains a College of Fine Arts, Saint Francis Institute, Phillips Uni versity, a business college, a State institution for the insane, an excellent high school, a Carnegie library, courthouse, two hospitals, Federal buildings, opera house, etc. Among the industrial establishments are tile and iron works, sash and door factory, electric supplies, nursery, marble works, washing machine factory, metal silo factory, planing and flour mills, bottling works, manufactories of binders, candy, bricks, corn-seeders, steel posts, boilers and rugs. The
United States census of manufactures for 1914 showed within the city limits 45 industrial es tablishments of factory grade, employing 383 persons; 276 being wage-earners receiving an nually a total of $175,000 in wages. The capi tal invested aggregated $1,667,000 and the output was valued at $2,611,000: of this, 63,000 was the value added by manufacture. here are two parks. Enid is situated in a rich agricultural section and is one of the largest poultry centres west of the Mississippi, shipping in 1913 more than $3,000,000 worth of poultry and eggs. Underneath the city from 35 to 45 feet flows a subterranean river, with an inex haustible supply of pure soft water, which is pumped to the reservoirs at a cost of less than six cents per 1,000 gallons. Pop. 20,000.