The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1852-05-27
cRoAKERs.

Yhis i ! clsss Of individuals peculiar 4
thc-west, we had almost said, but We vii
give il ! broader signilcsiion-the ,rorld
We end them in every community. The!
are people Who make themselves miserable
and try to effect the happiness Of other
by seeing only bad in the future. They
do not
stake the good the gods provides
% their mental idiosyncrasy is such, a. Il
turn oil good into evil 80 soou as it Gomez
in contact with their minds.
s.Your town 10 going ahead too fast,
says one Of them, stherc must be a Teac
ton; what is 10 support the great emigra'
ton that has Get 10 this piacs:''
l. not every body busy! Do not they
all appear prosPeroosf
aThat's true, but how long can this state
Of things continue?"
Just 50 long a. our citizens are industri.
ously inclined. The enigranls generally
bring With them the elements Of stability.
They come - producers not as consumers.
"But then you know, sir, towns are do.
pendent upon tho country, and your coun-
try is not settling so fas, as the town.
Measurably they are, aud though set
Ting fast the country does not keep pace
with the Town. We are now prosperous;
the scope Of country included in the trade
ofDavenport is limited. Road, are almost,
impossible, cutting of much Of the trade
that naturally pocld seek Davenport.
3Thesefore, I reasou ;hs, there will be
a reaction here-as trade must seek other
points"
Therefore you reason wrong. Tbs pro-
ducsrs Of Davenport nust have consumers.
Their material 10 much Of it drawn from
the country. Lei the want Of i, begin 10
retard their business and they will wake
up to the fact that something must be done
TO extend the trade Of The place. With
the growth Of the Town business has ex.
tended add competition increased, so that
goods Of oil kinds required by the farmeI
are offered lower than formerly, and thu,
inducements are held ou, to those ., dis
lance to visit this place aud the trade be
coming larger, merchants can sell ant
manufacturers make al smaller profit.
3Bot, sir, what large scope Of countr,
will it require to consume the manufac
lures Of this place, if they continue to 10
creased"
True, but Inc scope Of country is at GU
command. We can find market for al
that our manufacturers can produce, 81
long as the Mississippi can float steamer
erin short time--ihe locomotive car
drag . car. Our logs come down to U,
from tho inexhaustible pipery; our wheat
when the supply is insufficient here. j,
boated down from above q; little expense.
"Bat do you NOT think that the more far
mers that settle in The vicinity the better
il is for the Places'
Assuredly, and if our merchants ana
manufacturers would sugment their bust
ness and increase the emigration TO ihs
place in large. ratio and give greater
degree Of prosperity TO toe town, let then
bring the distant farmers into the immedi
ate vicinity by establishing goods roads
A plank road leading oui ten miles in th
direction of the rich and productive count,
Of Cedar, would not only double The trad,
in that direction, but would pay hand
some dividend upon the capital invested
Extended through Cedar it would com
.aand the trade Of one Of The most produc
tive and thickly settled regions Of lows
all Of which now finds market elsewhere
And 80 Of q plank road extended ,hroug
Clinton to the MaquOketa.
Swell, that may be all true with respec
10 the coustry, but your rents are too big
for your prosperity. You drive away me
who Otherwise would settle here, and tina
:sa reason why think you cannot con
,inue TO thriye.n
Dear sir, every house il the place is &C
cupied.
"That's the fact, could scarcely get
house for my family and know Of some per
sons who have not stopped here because
suitable dwelling house could not be OBJ
tanned"
Instead Of high reats being drawback
TO the place, they may be regarded as a,
element Of prosperity. As you admit
were larger number Of houses TO be cree,
ed our town would populate faster. Ho,
Is that TO be Accomplished by ofcrinI
greater inducements for building. A
the result Of The present high rents, al
who are able are building for ,hemselpe
and as consequence, as every man VIII
10 able should, alive under their own vine
and fg tree" Capitalists are induced L
build houses for reat as i is the securesi
sad most reliable way Of Investing their
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