The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1858-01-20

Keal tlastate at North McCregor nave bccn
extensive for period of such general dullness.
The sales fer one week alone amounting TO
near 5000, those Of one day Icing over
5000 These sales were made without any
sacrifices and also without any OF the blowing
which usually attends the introduction of new
town property to the public. They were made
too, not to strangers who suffered fine imagi-
ton TO get the better of their judgments, but to
citizens of McGregor and Of the surrounding
towns and country of Northern Iowa many Of
them are among the slrewdcst and most src-
cesslul business men of this portion Of the
State. The prices paid were reasonable, aud
with the excei ton Of a requirement Of one
fourth down, the terms were quite easy. The
receipt If even one fourth on property now, is
crcditable TO the market standing of that which
is offered.
In most cases obligations were taken from
the purchasers TO erect, at once, suitable build
ings on the lots sold, and we may therefore
count quite confidently on seeing by July 4th,
village at the mouth of Giard Greek, large
enough to do homo" to an Independence Cele.
bration. There are already, large Store, a
Steam Saw Mill and several residences, besides
other buildings partly finished and the timber
on the ground for more. Very important I'M
provemcnts are planned, and the opening If
Spring will find the rocky bluffs on either side
Of the wide Cou!ce ecloing the music of the
hammer and the saw. Horie of the firm of
Simpson e. Hoxie will erect Immediately a
Warehouse 40xlO0 for the storing of grain and
merchandise III. d. Exams, who has become
largely interested there, notwithstanding his
extensive property here, has the buildng of
large Store or Warehouse in cnntempla,ion-
J. BRowS T. partner 1--WE did not hear the nance
will build Hotel on the lot Immediately west
of the present Stcrc House it is to be three or
four stories high and 40x76 on the ground, and
to be finished in May. Henry Wilson the sue
ccssful Proprietor Of he st. Julien, has bought
largely, and designs tuilding as soon as weather
will permit. Thomas Arnold, D. D. Fraser, H.
E. Newell, D. Woolliscyof1, L. Metzscr, D.
Drummond and many others Of McGregor,
have bought more or lcss-Mr. Blackett of
Clcrmont. Jacob Conkey of West Urion and
many gentlemen whose names and residences
We have not learned have recently ''r'anted
monny' at the mouth Of "Bloody Run in ex-
recitation that it cannot fail to be business
point Of great value in a very short time.
In all this prosperity of our young ncishbor
we see no reason to be jealous. This Coulce de
Siour or McGregor Coulee, is filling up so rapid
ly with improvements that we already begin to
feel as though We are in each others way. The
town is crawling up the bluffs bench at time,
the shanties along the Main Street are giving
way to handsome residences and large Store
rooms; Mechanics or McCrancy's Addition and
West McGregor arc being sold out to actual
residents, and houses arc now beginning to ex-
hbit themselves quite numerously for or 4
miles in any wcsten direction. The fact is we
have an awful good place for City, an unrival-
led country, either for size or fertility. behind
us, X. Road Project that is being carried out
with pick and cart and shovel for the first 10
miles, with good prospects ahead; set of citi-
zcns who have as much Of the United States
snap in them as any body Of men in America
then why cant We build city-it will build it.
self-that will cover all the territory now sur
veyed for town uses and three or four times as
much more. We have an abiding faith in the
ultimate greatness Of this River-crossng, and
we care not where the improvement begins-it
is destined to result in the general prosperity of
| oil the region round about us-we are will.
ing to leave to.men of sharper vision than We
profess to have, the selection of the most valu-
| able business corner which can be found in q
district two miles square on the 1st of January
1868! Let every man build up his own portion
Of this territory and the relative value of each
can be settled hereafter. There is country
enough back Of us TO furnish cmployent for a
city of Hundred Thousand pcople-when
that country becomes one grand field of grain
instead Of waste Of grass as great portion of
it yet is. who dare say McGREGoR and its envi-
rons will not occury the first position among the
cities Of the Upper Mississippi?
point whose line of trade west and North
West is already Two Hundred miles in length,
with the certainty of its indefinite extension on
the completion Of its projected lines Of Rail
way, need have no fears for the future.
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