Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-02-16

NAV be seen at our office. 1t is present
and prospc ctivc, and, the n. y. Tridua,
adds, .'the most comprehensive and us lu
Map of our country ever Published" We
shall give more general description Of il
tomorrow, and in the meantime, let every
man who is able supply himself with a copy
as the A gent is now canvassing our city
The following article is from pamphlet
we find on our table just issued from the
press of the No. Republican and bearing the
title of annual Review of the Commerce
of ST. L1ui-, for the year 1894, together
with statistical information of the trade OF
many OF the prominent points on the rivers.
above aud below" II bears the impress of
is authorship
Davenport, Iowa.
A correspondent at Davenport, Iowa,
sends US the following
Since the commencement OF The Rock Is
1 Hand Railroad, connecting Davenport with
Chicago and the East, in ll85D our city
has moved forward with rapid strides. Our
Fpopulation has increased from about 1000
liz 1000, and the quiet Of a country village
HAS given way TO the hustle of thriving CT
|tg. We have two Touring mills. six saw
Fms, two planning mills, one piow factory,
|t8o s1sh and blind factories, aud two foun :
Fries, al operated by steam.engines and do
6Hga thriving business.
4 The stores, numbering over one hundred,
b1ye passed through the transition state
from general country groceries TO distinct
bad we'll appointed estab!lshm ,nts, repre-
ken,ine separately each prominent branch
kf commercial enterprise. Ihe various
Churches anj public edtices have emerged
from their temporary chrysuls to large com
m5doas buildings Farms OF unsurpassed
Fertility, stretch their broad acres from our
klburbs mtny miles into the interior, over
hrarjes, cred.tlble to the enterprise OF our
kgrculturists supplying our city with every
luxury. and a commerce commensurate with
hhe Importance Of our locality. Oar streets
kearm with emlgrants, our hotels, SIX IN
humber, are insufficient for tue accommoda-
Won OF strangers. Our banking houses OF
which there are three, are sound and healthy.
Dur real estate Offices which are too hume
t1us to cnumerate, are converting money M
IL property into money daily, at prices,
which. although comparatively high, make
Aoh buyer and seller rici All kinds OF bu.
bness aud classes OF business men, thrive
Ind prosper. Two abutmenls and three
ers Of the great Mississippi bridge are com
ple,ed
Preparations for gas light on massive
keale, stamps new feature of city privilege.
DIR suburbs spring up with distinctive APP
eations, aud North, West, and East DAv-
faport, and II imburg, would pass tor res
pectabr villages apart from the nucleus
Onions ana potatoes alone, hav a!most
Enriched our farmers this season; upwards
J one hundred thousand bushels have been
$aised around, and sold in our city Oar
TORN crop has been very fair and wheat Of
Excellent quality and average yield, winch,
Win much extended area over past sea
ons, will Civ. our mills all they can do to
nanufacture IT, The past summers
irought SO generally complained OF, South
&nd L lst Of us with lenient hand, and the
general murmuring Of tight times for mon
&y, finds no response in ths section of 10
ka.
davenport Is bpCNlulliH al va Ppi taAiti""
per depot. Besides the six saw mills in OPP
fFa'ion here, cutting some fifteen or twenty
nlislons of feet per annum, It Is supplied by
ATS from the pineries, which, on account
f the spacious eddy at Eist Davenport, are
p luced to touch here before seeking another
market
East Davenport contains 800 Inhabitants,
PM has one flour and one saw mill. IL pre-
fents inducements for the extension OF the
lumber business beyond any other point on
he NJ ssissippi river above ST. Louis. Inc
nain avenues penetrating the interior Of the
rt1te, Concentrate at this point, and the
ssssippi and Missouri Railroad depot IS
Contiguous to the village between 1t ana
davenport proper, and doubtless branch
Filroad will be extended to the eddy next
Eeason. Here also, the supplies OF lime ana
Fhullding stone are derived. and the brick
EM4nuiac'ure extensively carried on.