The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-05-24

DoMSIoCk BROS.-These enterprisipp
gentlemen have given further evidence
OF thelr thrift, enterprise and prosnorit,,
by the purchase of the extensive Foundrv
works and grounds of b. A, Williams
situated on the corner of Twelfth and John,
son streets, and furnishing manufactur-
ing site unsurpassed, and an establishment
Wnlch, under the vigorous administration
OF these gentlemen, will rival anv in tbe
country. They will takeimmediate meas
ures to repair and increase the machinery
and in two weeks will be prepared to begin
work with greatly enlarged facilities
They hope then to greatly advance the
quantity and quality of manufacture. The
FOUNDRY will become credit and advan-
| tage to Keokuk and the west, and profita-
bic to its owners.
sixteen years ago, when Keokuk was
hedgedn under the hill, with the scrap-
CREST OF scraggy thiokfts occupvinp most
Oh Its present site, when Main street ran
Itself into clay bank and stopped at 4th
street; when the business part ofthe place
was content to locate itself between Fourth
street and the river, then Comstock Bros.
came to this borough. They commenced
In their present business and worked for
success. They have made it. Keokuk
grew ambitious; put off its swaddIing
clothes; got into filter rig; dug down its
bills; filled up its ravines; cleared away
It's thickets; got out of the mud. CHANGED
coW-naths into streets, spread out general
Iy in all directions, built it's business and
dwelling houses, made its Main street the
prettiest streetin Iowa, put on city airs,
got q good population. did large business,
Of q manicipalty. AI6ssrs. Comstock
Bros were active vigiiant, Industrious,
discreet, honest, doing good work, selling
good goods, increasing in popular favor
during all these years, and hence their bus
mess and prosperity Increased largely as
they deserved to 90. Theirextensive house
on Main street is wen filled with stoves
and the articles of theirtrade with which
they meet satisfactorily The demands of a
large trade. Their connected branch heus-
es in Quincy and Ottumwa, increase their
facilities for extending their business and
supplying Iowa, and the adjacent parts of
Illinois and Missouri with stoves.
Popular as they have thus become, with
many patrons to please, we are glad that
our friends facilities for pleasing and meet
ing greatly increased supply, are so OPP
portunely enlarged by the purchase of this
Foundry. Manufacturies are main ar
terry in Keokul business life, and we are
glad to chronicle their growth aud Gevel-
opinent. There are HOW twenty moulders
i'll the establishment. This number Will
be increased TO thirty. Additional pat
terms have been ordered, and will soon be
added. These. with the work done at The
Quincy Foundry, will give our friends
about one hundred different styles and pat
terms, and this will afford them II facility
forsupplying the trade, unsurpassed, prob
ably unequaled, by any house West OF the
Alleghanes.
The aim Of Messrs. Comstock Bros is TO
be able to offer better market and better
bargains to Western purchasers, than Chi
cago or ST. Louis. To this end they work
necessarily, and herein we wish them the
greatest and earliest success. Our citizens,
and the people OF the Des Moines Valley,
and all Southern, central and Western
Iowa should support them in their endeav-
ors.
We visited the property yesterday. The
process of moulding was going on. The
works and buildings are extensive and
will receive additions. With the Foundry
are three and one-half lots, which give the
Company ample room FOR ~pres-nt opeaa-
tons and future improvements. Cisterns
and pumps amply supply all parts Of the
establishment with water. In Il couple OF
weeks, mayhap, we shall call there again,
and under the control and supervision OF
Messrs. G. Bros we expect to find one OF
the finest manufacturing Institutions in
the West. We may then talk more about
it.
By-the7by, ana this is postscript, our
energetic and first-rate business friend,
Mr.. II. b. Ten ISyc!s, Real Estate Agent.
negotiated this purchase, and for all husi-
ness of this kind he is in his Office Gate
CITY. -
RUSH TO OTrUMwA.-T is trenen
dous rush ofyisitors to This city ut this