Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-11-26
rsarIl.sssn II 1859.

/ Very web satisfied are we, of the "Ancien
! metropolis, with our progress during the yea
now brought nearly to close. Oar business mel
have had prosperous years trade, aud the bal
ance sheet shows respectable sum on the RICH
side. Our manufacturers have had constant.
increasing demand for their haniiwork and have
had 70 enlarge their borders put up additional
shops get new aud improved machinery and
employ more hands. Our mechanics have been
busy early and late at good wages, and our ID.
borers have been constantly employed and web
paid. If all have not prospersd it must have
been for the want Of proper thrift or on account
OF sickness This is reason very few can
give.
The increase in population has been such in
numbers aad in character as to be highly salts
factory to every friend of Burlington, while the
number of new houses put up has been very
largely greater than We had any reason to expect
We have seen them go up all the spring, sum
mer and fall, with much pleasure and are glad
to say that most of them are put up by men OF
limited means, who have laid up in year or two
wherewithal to buy lots and build houses for
their own occupancy.
It is useless for US to specify numbers. If we
were to give the correct figures we should fall
far behind, in stead of actually leading, as wc
have no doubt we have done, all the towns upon
the Upper Mississippi. Keokuk editors claim
that two thousand houses have gone up there
this year, when every body knows there is not
town upon the Mississippi from Lake Pepin to
New Orleans, excepting St. Louis. that has two |
thousand houses altogether. We know Of one |
addition to this city, made within 8 months, upon |
which there was not one year ago a. single edi-
ice, and where now stand over sixty comfort
able tenements. We know that South Burlng-
ton has extended itself within the year nearly
mile in a South-westerly direction, while on the
North and West almost equal progress has been
made. These new structures have been mostly
small, costing from six to twelve hundred dol
lars. But many fine and substantial private
edifices have been erected, and some twenty odd
three, four and five story business houses have
gS'.e up. Three Hotels have been greatly en-
larged, and two blocks gone up, in each Of
which large Halls will be finished In Gov.
Grimes block, a fine building costing $4,000,
is to be Hall twenty-three feet high, and six
ty by one hundred and twenty feet. In Mr..
block is to be another fine Hall, the
lrie & Co., have made additions to their Ma
chine Shop in several directions, of stone and
brick and costing probably twenty thousand
dollars. The Barrett House has heen enlarged
until it covers nearly square, and run up FIVE
stories high. 1t is to be covered with slate, and
when completed, in style, finish and size, will
compare favorably with the tip.top Eastern
houses.
During the year, the walls of another fine
brick church have gone up, which will be finish
I'd ready for occupancy next season. 1t is erec
ed by the congregation of the Second Presby-
erian Church, Rev. Mr.. Oviatt, Pastor. The
.di6ce stands upon Third street, between Co.
umbia and Courts Gothic, will present an i'm
posing appearance, and will be an ornament to
The city. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church
erected last season. will be finished in part for
this winter. 5,
The city has erected fine market house, to
contain city hall of large dimensions, offices,
&C., which is now enclosed, at cost, with the
approaches, of $4,000. In addition, the city
las done great deal Of grading and McAdam-
zing-rough places have been made smooth,
md crooked places straight. The hills have
oeen levelled down and the vallies filed. In
short, great improvements have been made in
every direction, upon which every citizen of
Burlington must look with pride, as indicating
wonderful progress in wealth and population.
When we look at the Burlington of to-day,
rising in the form of an amphitheatre, and
two and half miles along the great
Father of Waters, with her busy sounding work
ahops, her crowded marts and her immense
trade and commerce, and recollect that twenty
years ago there was nothing here that could be
called even a village, we cannot be otherwise
than satisfied with our progress. aEs