The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1856-04-24


ration through its whole length. The ada
cent county is beginning to advance more rap
idly under its effects. People use more
and more as they become acquainted with its
advantages. tits already doing paying busi-
ness, as may be seen by a statement of its
President, to be had at the Office. It's future
effects upon Evansville arc destined to equal
all that has been promised by it. Thus far, our
city has only Just begun to reap the advantages
of these great works Of internal +impro yement
Since 1912, Evansville has grown with year
fIy increased pace from eighteen hundred to
ten thousand inhabitants. Pretty well, in
fourteen years for a town without any public
works, not even turnpike or plank-road-
At what rate may we now expectto grow with
these works completed, and additional i'm
provements under construction
Already since their opening, the bushes: of
Evansville is increasing more rapidly by one
half than ever before; and the present springs
business, with every disadvantage from the
great fall Of produce and stringent money
market, is showing an increase far beyond any
precedent. There is no doubt but this place
is far enough from every large city to insure
her rapid growth as great commercial cen
/ tire. Madison, New Albany and Lafayette,
all heretofore before us in population and bust
ness, are yielding the palm to Evansville in
present success and future prospects. Neither
Of those cities has been able to hold its for
mer population and commerce under the, late
revuIsion, whilst Evansville built more hou es
and better ones last season, directly in the
face Of the drought and commercial crisis of the
previous year, than ever before, and will con-
struct an equal or greater number the present
year under all the disadvantages of the
season.
Her manufactures are already respectable.
Her Iron Foundries and Machine Shops, just
sprung up almost as by magic, are OVERLOOKING
with orders. She manufactures lard oil,
coarse pottery ware, chairs, wagon and car
riage hubs sash and doors, shucl and hair
mattresses, coopers ware, furniture, clothing,
boots and shoes, tin and copper ware, saddlery
and harness, four corn meal, oak and poplar
lumber, wagons and carriages ploughs, tobac-
co and cigars, malt liquors, marble nantels
tombs and monuments, ami Numerous other
things. Many of these branches of industry
are just started, and all arc increasing and
prosperous. There are more than double the
steam engines at work in Evansville to-day,
ard more than double the men employed in
manufactures, that there were two years ago
A gentleman of as much reading and uni
versal information as almost any man in the
West predicted four years ago, that Evans
vile would be the largest city of the Westin
fifty years, and he based his prediction upon
+, her already ascertained facilities for manufac-
turing, because, she was, inaddition to her
commercial position, upon the extensive coal
beds Of the great western coal field and in the
heart ofinexhaustable supplies of wood and
j timber and iron and food. Since then, and
lust lately, these coal beds have been rerlora-
ted right under the edge of the city. and though
the mine thus opened is not yet in extensive
Operation, it saved the city from deep distress
and piivation during the long frost of last
winter, when all other coal supplies were cut
off; and only yesterday, this coal was pro
} nounced by the officers Of one Of the first
steamers, and which has taken the coal re-
f peatedlY. the best steam coal they ever burnt.
To insure against monopoly, and that we Shall
forever have cheap supplies of fuel other ex-
eellent mines are opened on our canal, at from
twenty to sixty miles distant, which are week
~ pouring their treasures into the lap of Ey-
ansville, and both Green River and the Ohio
just above u.s. are ready to do the same when
ever such competition shall be justified by the
demand. l-a11 ss4l
Our future supplies of iron are near us up
the canal, up Green River, up the Tennessee
all round US. What shall hinder us from
manufacturing and selling cheaper than cities
:. less fayoraby located?
| Our real estate and our rents are low in
comparison with all the larger cities, and with
f the cities Of our own State, lower than in La
ayette, indianapolis, New Albany, and than
f they were in Madison. g l9a
i Our highest business property has never
been sold higher than from one hundred to one
hundred and fifty dollars per front foot, and
on such property houses do a business Of a
4 quarter of a million ann tally
In indianapolis, where the wholesale bust
ness is not halfwhat it is here, property has
sold at three hundred dollars per foot, and is
held still higher at this time. In the other
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