Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-11-08
From the Dubuque Times.
CEDAR FALLS.

4. CEDAR FALLS.
lis Magnificent -Manutac.
turing interest--Stores,7 Dwellings,
etc. Population 1000, and still they
come-Starch Mandatory Three
Floaring Mills-WO0len Factory Saw
Mills-Furniture Manufactory-The
Iron Works and Fonndry-The O. T.
d l.. G. Railroad--Soldiers' Orphans
Home Hotels-The Fair-Teachers'
Institute.
CEDAR FALLS, Oct. Goth, 1867
If any one is i'm doubt as to whether
the world moves, let them come out tC
Cedar Falls, and they Twill soon be con.
vinced that it does; that is, speaking
as the Paddy said, in the popular &C.
ceptatiOn of the term. Webster once
remarked I'm a fourth of July speech
that the good people of Rochester never
could lose their liberties as long as they
had awaterfall three hundred feet high
and it is also,a self-evident truth that
the city of Cedar Falls can never retro
grade, owing to its magnificent water.
power, which IL conceded, we believe,
| to be superior to any in the State
| Hero is the center Of flourishing man.
ufacturing interest, that isyearly grow
ing richer and more powerful; here are
stores and spacious business blocks;
here is the wide-awake Yankee and the
methodical, patient German, affecting
well, and all making money; here is
practically developed the interior, re,
sonrccs of our young and prosperous
State; and nere are some of the best ar.
ranged private dwellings, Will, the
loveliest looking females inside them,
that can be found between the Missis.
| sippi and the DEVILS Rump to the west
| There is certain citified expression
about Cedar Falls that is not mistaken.
The dry goods stores, BARRIERS shops
and saloons have an aristocratic air,
while there are many sights and sounds
which insensibly lead any one 10 form
the conclusion that they have really
allen upon place that has some
thing more substantial than paperex-
| istence. G#h ~ - t@t
The present population of Cedar Falls
is estimated at four thousand. During
the past summer there has been a
steady influx of immigration, while
| large numbers from the East are pur-
Echasing real estate, preparatory TO NOV
| ing here next year. While tire natur-
AL surroundings of the place may not
he so enticing as those of its sister tow n
Waterloo, yet the superior water. pow
er attracts large manufacturing Inter
est, which is heing developed in a man
ner that must excite the surprise OF
| those who have accustomed to consider
| Cedar Falls an out-of- the way place,
and one that was never destined
to attain much commercial impor-
| tance.
Let IL be known and published, then,
that Cedar Falls is an enteprising man
ufacturing city, surrounded hy n rich
! agricultural country, with an abun-
! dance of stone and timber for building
purposes, with churches, school houses,
stores, business buildings, one com
mere ial college, one bank, one railroad
i'm operation and another graded and
progressing rapidly to completion and
with city government which Is effec-
tive in every particular and disposed to
dc its utmost for the general welfare OF
the whole community. Let it also be
understood that the country East, West,
| North and South of it, is rapidly set
Ting it with hardy, industrious pop
ulation and it will readily be seen that
this is a point which is destined to make
some stir in the world. fT#
We have before alluded to the manu-
! featuring interest and as this is dis
| tinctiye feature of Cedar Falls we give
the names of the following institutions
situated along the banks of the nohle
Cedar. First we have the Cedar Falls
Starch manufacturing Company's
| works, contained in stone building
84x134 feet and two stories i'm hight.
| These works have a capacity for manu-
featuring two tons of starch per day.
Next is the three Touring millswhicb
| Lave capacity for manufacturing three
car loads of -four day. The Valley
mills are owned and operated by Messrs.
Overman g. Wilson, the building being
frame four stories high, 32x90 feet wide,
with three run of stone. The Cedar
Falls mills are operated by S. Fox Il
Co.. in stone building four stories in
! hight 40x69 feet, with four run ofstone,
and lastly tile Brown mill. owned by
Edwin Brown, which is also a stone
building, four stories In hight 35x5d
feet and containing three run oi
stone. ~.
! In addition to these there are the Ce-
dar Falls Woolen mills, running four
hundred and eighty spindles, two Saw
!
i've thousand feet of lumber per day,
with cut off and lath saws, two fHrni.
Eture manufactures, sash and door
manufactory containing a large lot oil
machinery for working In wood. The
Iowa Central Iron Worksand foundry
and machine shop well fitted out with
patterns, lathcs and drills. 1t is esti-
| mated that the whole amount of water
drawn from the race is about seven
thousand fye hupdred inchesunder an
average head OF seven and a half feet,
giving nearly seven hundred and TWEEN
| ty horse power The dam, race and
mills, are built in the most substantial
manner and will be enabled to rnn for
macy years without repairs. RI
At present, the all aliabsorbing topic OF
conversation i'm Cedar Falls. Is the
| Iowa Central Railroad, the work on
which is being pushed forward with
much energy. 1t is now nearly graded
and prepared for the rails 10 Toledo,
distant 40 miles South of this point
and 1t Ia intended to have the road
completed and the cars running from
St. Louis to Cedar Falls by the 1st oil
September 1863. The contract fol
/ Furnishing the road lIas been made by
/ Champiir, Balcil q Co., of st. Louis
and the total length when completed
from that point To Minneapolis, will bs
five hundred and seventy seven miles
The Iowa Central Railroad Company
was organized i'm January, 1860, its Oh
iect being to build a road from the nortl
end Of the North Missouri Railroad up
on the Charlton Divide to Abba, cross
ing the Des Moines river West OF Ed
dyville, to Cskaloosa, thence nortt