The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1849-09-20

ted. Many Of these are substantial
brick houses, and although nearly all arr
in,e nded as dwellings, yet not a house thai
we vot Of, is for rem. 10 Davenport. The
prospects are favorable for larger add
ton the ensuing year, and among Others
some that will prove valuable acquls
ton to the business Of the place.
Among those already in existence, none
contribute 80 much to the business OF the
place 40 the two steam mills that putting
almost continually, turn out about one hun
bred and seventy.tive barrels each per day
Of -four. Our lie Claire House. known at
one time as the largest on the Upper Mis-
sissippi, and which caused strangers to
smile at the folly Of erecting building 50
far in advance Of the town, is found to be
too small to accommodate the amount Of
travel and the number ofvisitors that each
season brings to the place, consequently
its proprietor is now making arrangements
| for an addition Of the same size.
Davenport already contains as many or
ganized religious bodies as il should have
to accommodate the tenets of ten thousand
people, and We trust if it ever reach
population Of double that number, not to
find more than exist at present; although
We would expect to see larger, ssatelier
buildings for public worship than the nea,
little ones that now exist. AS institutions
of learning, besides several well-conducted
private schools, we have college ed!1ce,
one excellent professor, and we hope ere
long, will have full faculty. En- passant,
we were questioned while at Muscatine in
respect to this institution, and informed
our friends, as we now tell them, that if
they desire their children TO have the adj
vantsges Of healthy location, pure air,
extensive, ergo, insigorating play grounds,
cheap boarding, low tuition, with few in
ducements TO extravaganza and all the ben
eG;s of collegiate institution, send them
10 the Iowa College, located in Davenport.
A building is now in progress Of erection
and is being fitted up for Medical Col
Iege. 1t will be completed this fall in
readiness for lectures the ensuing winter.
The faculty to be composed Of the same
professors, with one or two exceptions, that
constituted that Of the Rock Island Medical
School of last winter.
In addition to the two steam Touring
mills which contribute SO much to the bust
ness Of the place, and steam saw mill
now running, next year we will have in
operation within the corporate limits anoth-
er steam saw mill and boat yard, upon
an extensive scale.
In brief, our town is progressing with
that certain though rapid degree Of ad-
vancemen,, that must ultimately make it q
place Of consequence. 1t is now unques
lionably one Of the most favorably located
towns 10 the West, and all that is required
TO make available its hidden resources is
an iron connection with the city Of Chca-
go. Such work, and capitalists canno,
long be blind to its Importance, would in
effect remove the barrier presented BY the
Lower Rapids, while at The same time the
Upper Rapids, coming under the obserya-
ton Of monied men, would soon yield their
wate.sth the powerful servants d, machinery,
and, from the situation Of Davenport i'm
mediately at their termination, make it the
Lowell Of America.
We have thus hastily and with little
method, in part told what Davenport is,
and perhaps more than predicted what it
will be. We may be too sanguine in rela-
ton to the latter, but certainly the voice Of
Nature in no feeble tones reterates all that
we have said, and it only needs personal
observation to satisfy the most skeptical
man, if he be capable of close reasoning,
that we have good grounds upon which to
base such prediction.
EXTRA GAZETTES.
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