The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1860-03-21

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McGREGOR, MARCH 81, SIS: 1860.
HEilwaukee and NIissassaPPi RailreaA.
ARasvEs AT PRAIRIE Do snisx. --
Nail and Express Passenger. !. 2:19 A. N.
Thro' Freight and Accom-. -. $3.50 r. n.
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nxpress passenger. ........... 6:OO A. =.
Thro' Freight. 1880 4. \.
I1ilwa.Kse.: Z.
This little city Of McGrssor the Marrow
City, X you please-does . great deal Of
business, in the course Of = year, as witness
our late bona fide report Of the purchase,
during the ninety days preceding the LIST
Of January, Of .toxr Aundsed tAousand dol
lars worth Of produce. The sale Of mer-
chandise, agricultural implements, and all
other representatives of value, during that
period was very large, but from the DISPOSE
ton on the part Of our citizens to keep their
private affairs to themselves, we are not per-
mittcd to inquire Of them as to particulars
We notice that . merchant scarcely gets into
new store here before he is compelled ito
enlarge" to accommodate q trade that he
had no conception of. There is scarcely an
exception in town 10 this rule Of enlarge
mcnt. phi -
lcGrcgor has the best feeder, in the shape
Of soil and area of territory, Of any town
on the Upper Mississippi, and II is destined
1t no distant day to exhibit heavier rec
ord Of business in proportion to its size
Ut never can be overgrown) Of any point
east Of California, and outside of mineral
wealth. That the bluffs hereabouts abound
in Lead, Ut reasonable depth, is believed
by al, but at present the lead of wheat,
corn, oats, barley, hides, furs, pork, beef,
and the smaller articles of land production,
is 50 valuable that no inquiry is made Of our
hills and ravincs as to deposites of mineral
of any kind. In fact, we do not need such
"underground'' assistance, and our people
are far happier in those pursuits which do
not depend so much upon accident, and do
not bring with them class of desperate
fortune-hunters who generally succeed in
turning society upside down with as much
certainty as they tear up the ground. But
the caption Of this article is "N;zsawEee,"
and We must not stop to praise our own "a
vorite locality. &
Milwaukee may be said, commercially, to
be the mother Of McGregor. When the
Brick City completed her line of road to
the Mississippi, she dwelt fondly upon the
idea that the first drink the lion Cyclops
would take from the aqueous father, would
be the signal for profitable trade with the
city OF Prairie du Chen but it was soon
discovered that the terminus Of the Road
was just the width of the River short Of
the focal lens of trade for this valuable Sec
ton Of the Great West, and after spas
modic effort on the part of few Milwau-
kee capitalists to sell lots, build houses, and
force business to the east side of the river.
the job was given up, the Railroad Compa-
ny purchased the Ferry franchise at this
crossing, the depot was virtually transferred
to McGregor, Milwaukee men came here to
settle permanently, they brought with them
their experience, their capital, their energy,
and fairly knitted our young city to the
Lake parent. All of our business men arc
not from Milwaukee, but large portion Of
them are, and our facilities for reaching that
c'ty,-the general accommodation extended
MS BY the Milwaukee & Mississippi Railroad,
renders it so conveniently and SO profitablv
accessible as place Of grain selling or con-
signing, and as mart for our general mer.
camille supplies, that all our dealers are
more or less identified with the business
prosperity of Milwaukee. She is now ex.
tending her line of road towards DUBUQUE.
and, in time, larger slice of Northern lows.
as well IS Through the La Crosse Road) .
comfortable portion Of Minnesota, will be.
come tributary to her. We do not think
Milwaukee will outstrip Chicago-on the
contrary, We think Chicago will ultimately
become the largest city on the Continent :.
but with the great natural, and continually
improving artificial advantages Milwaukee
possesses, her growth must be very rapid.
and her prosperity less subject to fluctua-
ton than any other Western city. Her
merchants are strictly honorable in deal, and
this admitted fact does more for Milwaukee
trade than the accident of low prices at one
time and high prices the next will ever do
for any Of her rivals.
In the columns of the T;nses to-day, NAV
be seen the advertisement Of JouS NAzRo
d Go. Our readers are familiar with this
firm, and dealers know their house to be
the No. Hardware concern Of the West.
BARNES BRorHERs, dealers in Saddiery.
Hardware, Findings, &C., &C., were intro
duoed to our readers few weeks ago they
have large stock, and sell everything right
up to the representation. In the Wholesale
GROCERY line, we commend you to Austin
GCxsIsoS and w. n. SIScLArR, formerly
partners, but now having separate stocks.
and doing each an extensive business thro'
out the West; we know both these men
1eEfonauH I'D n. nHA ...A>ks nf than, ~.
oepe % models Of integrity. D. W. zxvIr
and 1sHAN, PArrEN 4 BLACK are LIQUOR |
dealers OF East Water street, and undoubt-
cdly keep the best articles at the lowest !
prices; we are not So familiar with their
stock As We are with the men, but If the
whisky they sell is as near "proof" as the
proprietors are, there is no danger in buy