Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-02-13
amount received Cor freight both ways sT2,.

amount received for freight. both ways ST2,.
$40.
Among the business items il is stated
there passed thrsnglltho express office ovev
81 900, GOoin bankable funds that several
firms sold goods ~to'the. amount of $50, 0Oo
each that 81 ,0(O -four barrels were made
and that II, 900 cordsof wood were sold.
1t appears also from a comparison with
tie business figures OF Davenport that Cedar
Falls exceeds that city in the shipment Of
wheat and pork for the last year and is only
| little behind It in the items of -four and
wool. The fact that out of 600 buildings in
the town nearly 200 are used for shops, mills,
manufactures, stores and places of some kind
Of trade, indicates. the business activity that
a stranger will not find IN any town or CITY
in the State. 1t is Of course far exceeded in
business aggregates by Dubuque but not SO
when considered in connection with the rel.
alive population. 1t is true that the c.rcum
stance of the town having been at the termi.
nus Of the Railroad for two years, has given
it an impetus beyond those Of its good nat
ursl advantages, still it will always be a good
business center for that portion OF the Cedar
Valley. ,' a#oAE'
!. Waterloo, the County Seat of Black Hawk
county, is alsoa Furnishing town, only sven
miles from Cedar Falls and has nearly a.
many inhabitants-ha a good water power.
mills, &c, and commands a large trade also
from the district of the country north and
west Of its "a. - - &f4 Il :
+ But Cedar Falls is a. point where the best
agricultural part Of the country on the line
nj, the Dubuque and Sioux City Railroad re-.
ally commences. The counties OF Grundy..
Butler, franklin, Hardin, Hamilton and Web. |
ster, all on the line Of the road within the
hundred miles from Cedar Falls to Fort
Dodge, have all been tributary to the bust |
ness Of Cedar Falls. Ii will become their
turn as The road progresses, to grow and
prosper. Iowa Falls with its good position
and water power on the Iowa, and Alden !
seven miles above 1t on the same river. Web. |
ster City on the Boone river, and Fort Dodge
on the Des Moines, besides several other in.
termediate points will be hourishing towns
soon after the work is resumed for the ex.
tension of the road. @ "@
We speak from personal observation of the
natural resources Of the country west Of &C.
dar Falls, when we say that for agricultural
purposes, stock growing, mineral wealth in
the coal on the Iowa, Boone and Des Moincs
rivers clay for pottery and brick, gypsum
ut Fort Dodge, large growth Of the best ma.
tive grasses, adaptation to sheep raising and
indeed in many other respects the country
for q hundred miles west of Cedar Falls il
y ter than that Of a hundred miles east
But it 10 evident that Cedar Falls will be the
mos, prominent business point between Du-
buque and Fort Dodge, and it is probably a.
certain, that the country we refer to west of
it viii eventually meet the high expectations
We have expressed Of it as rich sgricultur-
al district whose freightss will swell the bust
ness of the Railroad and continue to make
Dubuque the commercial metropolis Of the
State. .-.rr. - Il
) But in order to retain the trade of that re-;
glon to much extent west and southwest of
CEDAR Falls, in view of the recent extension
Of the Cedar Rapids and Missouri river road
i will be essential for tho d. & S. e. R. r.
20. to extend their road further westward,
md the next effort in this respect should be
10 build the road from Cedar. Falls to Fort
Dodge. -..- ,-s'-. ,..~..- E,"