The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1853-01-06
From the Alton Telegraph.
CITY OF CAIRO.

i We had the pleasure, on yesterday, OF
an interview with s. Stats Taylof, Esq.
the agent for the Trustees Of the Cairo Ci-
|ty property, and also Of examining the plot
Of the First Division Of that city, recently
laid out by Maj Long, engineer OF the
Company. The plan which has been a.
greed upon by the Trustees, we Under
stand, has received the approva! OF the
most scientific and experienced CONNER
icia men in the eastern cities; and tor con-
venience, beauty and symmetry, must
strike every one as uneqaaed anywhere.
The whole city is laid out on scheme OF
fairness, Iberality and maniticence, well
worthy Of the commercial Importance
which il is ultimately destined to attain.
The First Division Of the city OF Cairo,
the survey Of which has just been CON-
pleted, comprehends about four hundred
acres, and lis laid out into seventy nine
blocks or squares, making altogether twen
ty-one hundred lots. The cross streets,
running from the Ohio to the Mississippi,
are alternately fifty and sixty feet wide,
and eighteen in number. The avenues,
radiale out from the jancture OF the two
riyers-to be extended when the other d.
visions Of the city shal! bs laid out--aTs
each Of them one hundred feet wide. Ihsse
avenues are intersected by streets running
at right angles to the cross streets, and
parallel to each other. A number OF pub
lie SOU res and parks are also projected In
different parts Of the city-one OF nearly
fifty acres in the centre, and another cres-
cent shaped at the point, similar in some
respects, 10 the ''Battsry" Of New York
city.
According to an agreement with the
Central Railroad Company, the track OF
that road is to make divergence about
FIVE miles above the point, and circle en-
tireIy around the city. For this purpose,
Railroad avenue, l25 feet in breadth, is
reserved for the use of the company.
There is also reserved strip $50 feet in
breadth, Immediately upon the summit of the
eyee, for the purpose Of double track
There are to be depots on both sides OF the
river, as well as extensive buildings at the
point Of divergence of the two tracks.
We underst aud that the plot OF this Dl-
vision OF Cairo, after few unimpcrtant
alterations. will be recorded, and that in
all probability, lots will be ready for sale
by the first Of January. 4 large number
Of applications for the purchase OF lots have
already been made, and many wealthy ind-
yiduaIs are preparing TO build warehouses;
and establish themselves in business Of this
point.
In regard to the eligibility of the site, or
the praciicability of building city at the
confluence Of the Ohio and Mississippi riv.
ers, we presume there is no longer any
doubt existing anywhere. Typographical
| " considered, Cairo city is situated near
|! !y in the centre of the United States. II
lies al the very threshold Of the most fer
tile region Of The West, surrounded BY the
best timber and coal, and, from the con-
struction Of the Central Railroad, and tho
immense range Of nasigabe rivers. all CEN
,ering at this point, it has necessarily the
advantage Of becoming the great entrepot
ofa large portion of the agricultural and
mineral wealth Of the Mississippi Valley
We have no hesitation in saving that the
city Of Cairo will doubtless be, at no very
distant day, the central depot Of oil the
Western and South Western States Of the
Union.