The daily Gate City., 1856-03-24

La the Rochester Daily Democrat o.
March 18th we notice an article from cor.
respondent, headed as above, which we giF'
below
tsON THE MISSISSIPPI, March 1886.
sS'Away of west,' where the tvinkling OF
the star of empire can be seen by any far
reaching eve. perched upon the farther bluff
of the graceful Mississippi, 200 miles above
! St. Louis. is one of the most attractive and
progressive young cities this wonderful age
has reared
Ten years ago it was exclusively monop-
| slized by a few boatmen, whose occupation il
was to eighteen the Mississippi steamboats,
! oyer the Rapids extending ] i miles above.
! Some FIVE years since, as / see by the inaugu-
raj address of its Mayor, the first wholesale
establishment was opened. There are this
| time SO wholesale houses-three Of which
! sell each between 100000 and S300,OOO In
value Of goods--some of which are teamed
beyond the newly located capital, Fort Des
M0nes 200 miles in the interior. Several
of these are importers, there being an L. S.
custom house there.
''There are % retail stores Of all kinds
In the entire town, which is one mile north
and south by II east and west, there are four
hundred dndUtyplaces Of business Among
these are steam stone cutting and saving
mill; banking houses 3 daily papers IA
slaughterlng and packing houses; | type and
printing press wareroom; steam engine.
machine shops and boiler manufactures s
wagon and carriage do, and . soap and can
die do. Several Of these concerns employ
from 90 to 70 hands each. while one not
specified above has about 200.
THE past season every inch of lumber
and piece Of brick that could be procured,
was placed in buildings more than 60
stores and manufacturing houses were then
erected, nearly all of costly and substan-
tal character, and three or four stories in
height.
sit is estimated that 500 additional dwell
ing houses Will be IN request this spring.
The place is lighted with gas. Although the
healthest town on the Mississippi river, the
Legislature had the assurance to locate the
State Medical College there probably from
the known fact that NJ. DIS dread sickness
awfuily themselyes.)
Large investments IN mercantile and man
utacturlng interests, rs we'll as in real estate,
have been made by st. Louisians and Cincin-
natians, at this point; and the river traders,
below, insist that it is destined to become the
largest city above st. Louis on the Mississip-
pl
s'Two Railroads into the interior of the
State are being constructed, and will be in
operation this season, and greatly demanded
by the wants of trade for the commerce of
this beehive Of town, whose inhabitants,
as class, are as energetic, intelligent, NOR
al, and as independent III their resources. AZ
those Of any other juvenile of the aye that
can be named in any part Of Uncle Sans
domain.
''Can SO saucy a little upstart continue
such dashing career long is the natural
query. This is readily answered, when you
learn that the county in which it Is located,
contains nearly ms great population as it is
estimated is now III Minnesota and that the
portion of the State Of which il is the natur-
al eitrepof, now numbers over one quarter
If a million of prosperous inhabitants
! "Do You ask, Messrs. Editors, what place
tins is, attracting 50 much capital aud emil
grafton wrte-it goes by the d5- original
name Of kEokr9, the Gate City Of Io,cd.'