Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-02-06
Grattllmg Sktttbss.
The Upper Cedar River Valley.

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Our old friend Jesse Clement has
recently been travelling up and down
the Cedar River Valley, and here is
what he says of some of the towns
he has visited: .a.
CHARLES CIrY.-On a recent visit to
Charles City. late st. Charles-the
seat of justice of Floyd county, we
found things remaining about IN statu
ono. The merchants are doing well,
but no effort is being made to expand
the town. But few buildings went up
last year, and plans for the immedi-
ate future arc humble. Mr.. Milo Gil
bert is getting out the material for a
three story store block, otherwise we
know of no important improvements
under immediate contemplation. The
Bridge across the Cedar is about half
done, and will be completed, we pre-
sumo, early in the spring. The Kelly
House is again open, and is favorably
located for good run Of business
With such tender vcnison as we had
there on the 22d, daily on the table,
it ought to draw we'll.
Much the largest and best Court
House in Northcn Iowa is located at
Charles City. 1t is fifty by seventy
feet is built of limestone, pillars and
all, with walls two feet thick. The
walls to the vault, overhead as well
at the sides, arc five feet thick. Eve
rything about the cdifice is well ar
ranged and thoroughly fuishcd. The
people of Floyd county may feel proud
of their Court House. 1t cost be-
tween nineteen and twenty thousand
dollars.
The inhabitants of Charles City
look well to the character of their
teachers, and have good public schools
on both sides of the Cedar. They ex-
pect to have large town some day,
and they want it should be built up
on the intelligence of the people.
They are right: the town they will
have, for the water power is good and
their circumstances are favorable !;
and we trust the literary enterprise
of the citizens will keep pace with
their enterprise in other directions.
Two years ago the trade of Floyd
county was mostly with McGregor,
but the opening of the Dubuque and
Sioux City Railroad q hundred miles
into the interior draws the trade in
this direction. People can go from
any part Of Floyd county to Cedar
Falls with load of grain, and be alb
sent from home only three days, while
it uses up an entire week to go to
McGregor and return.
NAsHuA-Thc juvenile village Of
Nashua, Chickasaw county, is to have
a future of brightness aud thrift 1t
is located on the Cedar and has most
excellent water power. Many a mill
site in New England, with less hy-
draulic privilege, has originated
town Of five or six thousand inhabi-
tants ahd twenty years hence, when
the Cedar will have it's score of manu-
featuring towns, Nashua will not be
among the smallest.
Mr.. L. p. Greeley, formerly Of Nash
ua, N. H., is preparing to put up a
Touring mill at onr Nashua, that will
be constructed of rock-of the So
called "lost rock, which is abundant
in that vicinity. Out of a single
boulder he has obtained Ill cords |!
The mill will have four run of stoue,
and will probably be in operation next
Autumn.
Messrs. l.. & II. A. Scales have q
tanning mill establishment at Nashua.
and made and sold nearly hundred
mills last year. We like to see the
introduction of such manufactures in
to the interior of the State At pres
ent the only mercantile house in Nash
ua is that of Mcssrs. Vietes & Rupe,
who arc doing a very brisk business.
Another store is being filled and will
be open in few days.
The hotel ut Nashua, now in the
hands Of Mr.. Henry Baker, is clcanly,
orderly and inviting-morc than could
be said Of it three or four years ago.
The character of the people of Nash
ua is improving the district school
is improving and improvement is the
order Of the day.
BRADFoRD. D.-Messrs. Johnson g. Vim,
ton of Bradford, in this State, have re-
Gently introduced between six and
seven hundred sheep into Chickasaw
county. They are fine breed, and
the persons introducing them know
how, we believe, to take care of them
The sheep will no doubt do well
Chickasaw is an excellent grazing
county. Two farmers by the name oi
Jones in Dresden township, in tho
same county, have each about foul
hundred sheep. The recent message
Of our executive, recommending en-
couragemcnt to wool-growing and .
tax on dogs, meets with the hearty
| concurrence Of the agriculturists o
Chickasaw county. The country
around Bradford is of the finest quail
ty, and the village itself is on q
charming site. The rural Marc" 0
the West may yet select it as his home
New HAMPTON Hampton i.
between the east and west branches
of the "Wapsey," in Chickasaw coun
ty. where we spent tho 25th of jam
ary in the Year of Grace, 1862. Tn
place is a prairie town of perhaps
thirty families, with a couple of stores
a few mechanic shops, hotel, cour
house, q school house and a printin,
Office. The village is little off "th
main travelled road,' but it will pa,
one to go there. if he is fond of GOO
society and has any literary ware
y about him. People who have onl.