Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-09-19
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Commencing Town The Prospects Of
Fulton

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Commencing a Town. The Prospects Of
attended the sale Of
( lois heseXst Fulton, ON last Saturday, and
as many Of your readerswho were no, pres
/ en-, may wish u know something about
I Fulton Its location and future prospects,
Twill endeayor to give short description
( of the town site and the surrounding coun-
/ Try,
/ We left Davenport in the cars on Satur-
I day morning, in company with some three
\ hundred OF your citizens, and ailer run Of
4 an hour and ten minutes, including twenty
minutes s,cppage to shoot prairie chickens
4 we arrived stthe new town, where We
were joined by many OF the farmers OF the
neighborhood. l~ A4s<
Fulton Is located on the Mississippi and
Missouri Railroad, about eighteen miles
west .ofsDsvenport 1t is surrounded by
some OF the best farming lanes that our
State contains. which are being rapidly
brought under cultivation by thorough-going
farmers from Pennsylvania, Ohio and New
Jersey. and tbs, these are of the right kind,
is sbunds ntiy proven by the cultivated fields
and numerous wheat stacks that bear wit
ness to their thriftness and industry. I'm
mediately alter our arrival, We proceeded TO
the site selected for the erection Of the
Steam FIGURING Mil, where was TO be per-
,ormed the ceremony of laying the corner
stone ofthe new building. This was done
in a satisfactory manner. AT the request
Of Mr. A. c. Fulton, an appropriate prayer
was osered by Judge Burris, Of your city;
after which, Dir. Fulton, with the aid OF the
representatives Of four OF the European Ma
,ions, laid the Corner Stone. This being
done, Mayor Tiehenor, by request, made
brief and sensible address, applicable to the
occasion. Mr.. Fulton then set forth the
nature Of the improvements which the
Company intend TO Immediately establish,
and particularly informed those who were
about TO become the purchasers OF lots. that
Mr.. Farnam had assured him and others that
side track should certainly be put down,
for the purpose of accommodating the bust
ness ofthe town.
The preliminares having been completed,
Mr.. Kilboura took the stand, and after in
forming the company thst the name Of the
town had been changed from Farnam to
Fulton, proceeded TO the main business OF
the day. Some fifty lots were sold at rates
OF remarkable MISUNDERSTANDING from
sos to $50, and one or two going up TO $50
The large majority Of the purchasers intend
to locate permanent y at Fulton. They APP
pear to be energetic and enterprising men,
and venture the prediction that they viii
cree, a, Fulton monuments worthy OF being
commemorated by much abler pens than
mine.
To show the character OF the bargains
which were made on the day Of the sale, !
may mention that some of the purchasers
resoyd their lots at an advance of ten per
cent, and others were offered an advance
as high as.twenty per cent, but declined
selling. may also mention the further
fact that the first carload of wheat trans
ported on an Iowa Railroad, (and which |
perceive you have already noticed in the
GG-ette.) was raised by Mr.. Putnam, Of Ohio,
who has opened large farm three miles
northwest of Fulton. Such, Mr.. Editor,
is brief sketch OF the facts attendant upon
the first days history of the town of Fulton,
and such are the auspices under which this
lates thorn OF the inland towns Of Iowa
commences its career. Beneftting, and be-
ing benefited by surrounding country Of
unsurpassed fertility, see nothing TO hin.
der the career OF Fulton from being one Of
eminent prosperity think this would be
the case if it were fostered only by the grad
ual development of its natural advantages;
but am assured by the proprietors, with
whose abilities and enterprise you are vel
acquainted, that they intend spariug no ef-
fort nor outlay to make Fulton have
healthy and continuous growth from the be-
ginning; and placing reliance upon those
assurances. ! have no doubt that the en-.
bryo city will be source of satisfaction to
its founders, and Of profit and pleasure to
its future citizens.
Yours &c. W
FULTos, September II. 1855.