The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-09-16
M'GREGOR.

FELT of the Bradford News was down
here not long since and in one Of his
racy chop, skip and jump" letters he
gets off the following notice of our busy
place. Andy, what'll you take?
ut is common and very truthful re-
mark by travellers and strangers, that,
"McGregor makes no show for town
of its size and importance" and the
stranger is always surprised, when he
learns the vast resources of this unpre.
tending city. For us to attempt to des-
cribe all the natural advantages of this
point, would be idle but we may notice
some of the more prominent features,
as fully as the limits Of brief letter
will allow.
In point Of LOCATION, as respects
health and commercial interests, Nc
GREGoR stands first IN Iowa! This is
probably what the friends of rival towns
will term "big story" or "whop-
per-" but if the results Of the next ten
years are commensurate with the influx
both Of wealth and population for the
past year, the truth of the story will be
too eviden. for dispute. The bluffs
here are high, and but far enough back
from the river to admit Of two or three
wide streets, but the great demand for
room will level them, and the coulees
leading from the prairies will become
the thoroughfare of business. The
Levee is directly opposite the western
terminus of the Milwaukee and Mis:is-
sippi r. R. The Steam Ferry Packet,
runs in connection with this road. trans
porting passengers, baggage. mails, and
freight to and from McGregor. The
amount of freigh. landed at McGregor
from steamers and by Railroad is efior-
nous, and a source Of great surprise,
to those unacquainted with the mighty
resources cf the country, tributary to
this point. Until the present season,
the FERRY has been neglected, but NOW,
thanks the to indomitable energy, and
abundant resources of that sterling capi-
talist, Mr.. ALEX. McGREGoR, there is
large, commodious, we'll built Steam
Packet, that has driven off the old horse
ferry that run last season. That Nc
Gregor is destined to become the "River
Market" of North Iowa, we are we'll
satisfied. Our attention has lately been
called to the comparative advantages of
McGregor and Dubuque, as concerns
the counties North and West of the two
places, and we were surprised to find
that the former is, naturally in the
most central position. We shall refer
to this subject more at length in anoth-
er article, and those who doubt the
soundness Of our conclusion, can in the
satisfy themselves, by an i'm
partial and minute examination of the
MAP of Iowa." Dubuque is consid-
erably east of McGregor-a fact of
importance in the growth of these
towns.
But we have said enough about its
location, in fact, it's nonsense to say any
thing about that. for every body that
comes to Iowa, is sure to find McGreg-
or. Yes and they are sure to remem-
Der achere and hov it is located too -
Ask one of the thousands who visit it
every season. and they will tell you "It
is long 'cluttered up place, with
streets full of men in such hurry that
the 'Ague' cant catch them, with dis
order and confusion on all hands, stage
coaches, drays, emigrant wagons, OK
carts, team wagons, molasses barrels,
crates of croekery, bales of dry goods,
loads of produce, market women, far
ners boys. city bellies, long shanked
SPECTATORS, and country girls, all mixed
up like garden sauce in Dutch soup )"
1t least, that's the way twas painted by
Mr.. Stonehammer, an acquaintance Of
'urs. who has lately arrived from Ver-
mont, or some other state in the region
If sunrise, and if he had left room in
he middle of the group for JUDGE
WANzER, the daddy of 'the great un-
in these diggins, we should
credit him with considerable talent, as !
! truthful painter.