Muscatine journal. [volume] (Bloomington, Iowa) 1849-185?, 1853-09-30
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/pillars Commerce, Agriculture, Manufac-
lures. This is true of Muscatine, it is true
OF Iowa, it is true Of the United States.
In this age of steam, no city is ssborn to
greatness !" no city Except S. Louis) has
"greatness thrust upon her !; every city
must ssachieve greatness by the barai
right arm of energy. We must have rail-
roads and plankroads to bring to OUT city
the Productions Of the interior, here to be
exchanged for the manufactured produc-
tions Of our city, and the wares of our
merchants. The rate of increase of manu-
featuring establishments, and improvement
of facilities for trade, mark the degree Of a
city's true and substantial prosperity.
There is spirited Graphing that for
tells truly, when the esprit rappings'
prophesy falsely. The spirited "rapping'
and rafting of machinery in a factory Is
talking all day speaking language you
cannot misunderstood /; telling you from
sunrise to sunset, Of future Improvement.
There is music of tho drum and 6fe that
instigates men to destroy life, and wade
through human 81 bod to preferment. There
is a better music, that aids to sustain life,
md helps men to wade through dollars to
prcferment-it is the music of "drum' and
band, wheel and lover, in the machinery
room. Hero is oil the time being played
the noblest of all marches the "grand
march" of human progress.
just step into DUNsMoRE & CHAMBERS es-
tablishment, in the upper part of the city,
and if you can persuade Mr.. CHAMBERS to
show you through, as he did us last We'd
nesday, you will hear this music, and can
listen to this language we have been talking
about. Look at the 26 men, or when there
is q full crew, 81 men, busily engaged, and
you will understand whence comes part of
the support Of the agriculturist and mer-
chant. Notice the huge, rough logs as they
slip quietly out Of the water and crawl up
the inclined plain into the second story,
there to be cut and butted, and then SUBJ
mittcd to the operations Of vertical and
rotary saw, cutting at the rate of $4,000
feet Of lumber in day of twelve hours
If you have patience to wait and watch a
whole year, you will see 100000 feet of
lumber thus come in one shape and 60 in
another; aad thus you may safety yourself
by ocular demonstration, of one medium
by which more money comes tnfo than goes
0uf of Aluscatine.
But you have not time TO stand in one
place whole year, SO if you please, we will
drawn up into the third story for? 1t is
for bedsteads, tables and other furniture,
and job work, but principally bedsteads, of
which lbs are turned out week. They
are made. as cheap as they can be made in
Cincinnati, and being strongly and we'll
made, command IN extensive market, not
only in the interior, but along the river
from st. Louis to St. Paul. They are made
entirely by machinery. Eight thousand
bedsteads from this establishment have been
sold within tho past year, and csc, 900 feet
of OAK, maple and walnut lumber ore an
nually used in their manafaeture.
But we have run up to the third story in
such n hurry that We have forgotten tho
first story altogether. There we will find
one OF Woodworth's patent planning mills,
which it is claimed is not excellcd in the
United States, and which is capable of
dressing 900 feet an hour. Here is also
machinery by which are cut 10000 laths a
day. s,A.l
In conclusion, ons word to thefour thou
'aad readers Of the Journal -" Eneou,age5
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