The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-10-23
IMPROVEMENTS OF EVANSVILLE.


the present year, in the erection Of Public
Buildings, Business Houses, Dwellings, &C.,
are probably more extensive than many of our
own citizens are aware, and are especially OBJ
jects of pleasing wonder to strangers as they
should be of pride and qualification to our
selves. It is fact illustrative of the healthy
prosperity Of our city, its unbounded resources,
and the enterprise of our people, that during
@ year of almost unparalleled financial Distress
opening with most miserable currency, an
unusual scarcity of capital, and general pros
tration of business, Evansville should have as
steadily continued her rapid marchof progress,
as though blessed by time, by season and by
opulence, above all other places. Under the
circumstances, the progress of Evansville this
season, has not only been gratifying, but it has
been actually wonderful. We venture to say,
there has been no parallel to it in the State.
We doubt whether the whole west contains
city that in proportion to its population has
advanced more rapidly than Evansville during
the past year. AS we look upon what we
now drawing to its close, we vainly endeavor
to conceive what we may not do next year,
when every department of business must
awaken to new life, and the whole country
must experience springing up as it were in
its impulses and energies, occasioned by. our
present bountiful crops and the prospective
high prices.
Statistics illustrate the fact, that our popu-
lation has increased one-third in the last two
years. Property has sustained its high value
here, contrary to the anticipations of those
who thought that the general depression Of
business over the country, must also have a
serious effect on everything here.
AT present, property is looking up, instead
Of showing any prospect Of afall-and yet. we
now say, that by comparison with the value Of
property in other cities of Indiana having no
better prospects nor anything to make property
more valuable in them than here property in
this city is not overyalued. We venture the
prediction TOO, that three or four years hence,
property in every part of Evansville will be
HUN q taalTu W ONE HdI ulgneF tLdn IL now ID.
Notwithstanding the number of dwelling
houses erected this season, they are still in
great demand, and there are no good houses
for rent in this city. Rents seem too to be
rapidly on the rise. Three hundred dollars
are now being asked for houses that last spring
rented for 1925 to $25o-and proportionally
so with other houses This alone amply sus
tains our statement of the demand for dwelling
houses.
We do not intend in this article OF series O
articles, to allude to those great public i'm
pTovements which are to act so prominent
part in assisting the wonderful natural ad
vantages Of Evansville, in making it grea
city. We now design embodying in severa
articles brief notice of the Public Buildings
Business Houses, Dwellings, &c. erected ir
Evansville this season. including several not
entirely built but completed this year. Being
obliged to collect these statistics in person, and
overcumbered at the same time with othel
duties, and no assistance to relieve us, we may
not probably have succeeded so thoroughly a:
we should have desired, but we feel confident
of being able to give very lively idea of the
workings Of the spirit Of progress in Evansville,
the last few months. We commence the lis
with.
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