“ Manufacturing Company being the largest in the world) , plough and agricultural machine works—the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, founded by James Oliver (1823–1909) , being particularly well known—the wood-working department of the Singer Sewing Machine Company, iron and steel foundries, flour-mills, and paper and pulp mills. The water-supply is obtained from 122 artesian wells, with a daily capacity of about 24,000,000 gallons. South Bend was the site of an Indian village and of a French trading post. ”