Demoine courier., 1856-01-24
HKMnF MI EaURFRR.

wall appear in an entire new dress and
every branch Of the mechanical! depart
menl OF the paper proportionaliy i'm.
proved.
Ia respect 10 other Improvements in.
our town you will no doubt be interest,"
ed TO know tina, Eddy vile is progress
ing beyond all former precedent. Dur
ing the pas, season some ninety houses
were erected and the population increas
ed about five hundred. Among the build
lngs erected are som very fine two and
three story brick store houses and resi-
dences, besides a large Lutheran Church
ard also a W story brick School Hon.e,
'hs largest. said TO be, on the Des Noines
River. The Strengthening establishment,
OF Mr.. McCrary, late OF Burlington,
also erected the last season, is very
large, and although il wa no, completed
IN lime TO do oil tina I il would Other " Use
nave done, yet up TO the present time
sboutthree thousand and five hundred
hogs have been slaughtered in il, with
quite a number TO be slaughtered the
coming two weeks.
With respect 10 the pork packing
business, Eddyyifle will, we think, as
compared with other TO more Than
hold her own. If, am no, mistaken
there was more pork packed at this poin,
The last year than in any other town of
q The mississippi in the Stale, and
with three exceptions more than any
town in Iowa. or course we are no,
sufficiently posted q, the. presen, writing
to be able TO s'ale The amour, OF pork
that will be packed in the dlfferen,towns
throug bout the Stale, but from the hes,
Information we have besn able TO obtain.
VIZ think we may assure sour readers
that Eddyyille will pack more pork The
present season than any town in the in
terror, and with the exception of a town
or two on the Mississippi more than
any in the State of Iowa, Last year
there was packed by merchants Of this
place moi far from 5000 hogs. This
year the number packed may be Sc,
down very nearly as follows:
Messrs. Manning & Corwin, 5000
Butcher & Cox, 1000
Fish & Dunlap, $500
others, say 300
making ten shousand and eight hundred,
and employ ing a capital OF not less than
one hundred thousand dollars; bu, this
does not embrace the whole amour, of
capital invested in The hog business here
by any means. Aside from the mum.
Der INA, have been slaughtered and pack.
ed by individuals not taken into the es.
innate above and besides wha, have been
driven away TO be slaugh.erei aud pack
ed elsewhere by private individuals. n
gentleman, no. a resident of this place.
has purchased and drove away upwards
Of six thousand hogs a: a cos, OF be-
tween fifty aud seventy thousand dol
lars, SO the entire amount of catital.
lha, has been invested In the hog article
in This place the presen, season, canno,
be less than sl75, 900. Pretty well
you will say for even the best town of
of the Mississippi River.
When we sa, down we intended be-
fore we 60, through, to give you the
amour. of other products being deposit
ed in our ware houses; about the way
The Mutual Institute was getting along;
about the " steam mills now being
built, and of the numerous projects now
on foo. and in prospects: but the length Of
this admonishes me thatI am perhaps.
already t~respassing upon your time and
space. will close therefore, by saying
,ha' in Gaze the Free Press does moi pe,
so as 10 evolve ideas in the time slated,
you may hear from us again, bu. until
then we sav good hve tEF