Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-02-25
CEDAR FALLS IN 1870.
improvements, Business,
and Manufactures
" In 1867
Location and Future Prospects |!

In reviewing our city we shall
vary from the custom heretofore
adopted of going back to the early
settlement and confipe our history
to the improvements and general
business for the year 1869. The ear
Tier history of Cedar Falls is already
known and need not here be repeet.
ed.
Prominent among the towns OF our
State In enterprise and general adj
vnncpipent, has been Cedar Falls.
Though her Improvements have not
been so rapid as In the past, the year
has witnessed healthy and substan-
tial growth-a gradual moving for
ward in the essential elements that
60 to make up the aggregate of what
q town really is. and what its future,
promises to he.
LOCATION.
In point of location, no town IN
Iowa presents greater inducements
to those seeking home. Lying on
the west bank of the Cedar River
about three hundred and seventy. five
miles north of st. Louis and three
hundred west of Chicago. 1t is sBr-
rounded by a farming country I'M
surpassed in the West. The land is
gently rolling and the soil Is rich
with good supply of timber to meet
all practical demands.
wATER-PowER AND MANUFACTURES.
In manufacturing advantages Cedar
Falls has few equals. The excellent
water power, the best natural fall on
the Cedar River, has been improved
with extensive mills and manufac-
turtles, and still offers great induce
ments to those desiring to engage in
any department of manufacture. II
is appropriate here to state that the
water-power, or fall as we term 1t, is
eighty rods in length and has fall
OF fourteen feet. The aggregated
value of manufacture for 1899 were
over 100000.
The Cedar Falls Wooden Mills
Company have kept two teams run
ming for the distribution of cloths
cassimers &C., i'm the several counties
north and west, and their sales dur
ing the year were $50,0o0. Their
manufactures were $4,000 yards OF
cloth, and about $500 pounds OF
yarn, a sufficient evidence, We think,
that the mills are running on a pay
ing basis and that the company know
how to run the business successfully.
L. M. Stead, in the manufacture
Of sash, doors and blinds, has I'm.
creased his business immensely dur
ing the year. He is supplying the
wants Of all towns west and north,
and some east of this, in his line.
His sales amounted to $40,
Fsbrick Bros, have manufactured
some $4,000 worth of pumps. They
have had a number of teams EN-.
ployed supplying their numerous
customers I'm Hardin, Butler, Chick.
asaw, Floyd, Bremen, Tama, Grun-
dy, Franklin and Black Hawk Coun-
ties. The firm has since changed,
J. A. & ID. III. selling out TO l.. n.
Fabrick, who is now running 1t alone.
Messrs Van Saun & Benjamin OF
the stove mandatory, have found it
necessary 10 enlarge their building.
They have turned out over 700 stoves
during the year, and their sales
reached $4,000. Their Business is
rapidly increasing.
The Potteries of Sherwood & Co,
and Martin White, have had to keep
hard at it to meet the demand upon
them for wares. Their sales during
the year were some $4,000.
The large Touring mill, of Over
man, Mcclure & Co, which was in
creased 10 six run of stone i'm 1868,
turned out IS, 900, barrels during the
year of -four, in value worth $I42,-
600.
Oyerman & Wilson, since changed
TO Van Saun, Wilson & Co., shipped
5000 barrels of flour. Their sales
for the year, were $4,000.
+. Browns mills manufactured
1900 barrels. of -four, and the sales
were S63, 900. These mills are among
the finest to be found i'm The State.
The barrels. manufactured for the
use Of our mills, numbered some So
600.
w. III. Bloss and w. III. Stickney,
are opening out in the manufacture
of Tanning mills. They are meeting
with good success. Their manufac.
lures amounted to s., 600 during the
year.
The enterprising firm OF s. w. |
Harris & Bro, have built a stone
smith shop during the year. and they
have been pushing work in manner
indicating business. Their sales
were 81 200.
r. Wild has manufactured during
the year 500, 900 brick. His sales
reached $685.
Chas. Hesse has been unable dur.
Ing the year to meet the demand for
lime. He burnt 5000 bushels. His
sales were $4,000.
Owing to high water he could |
do business but a part of the
year. His manufactures usually run
from $1,000 to q, 900 bushels.
The two saw mills, one run by |
steam and the other by water power, |
have been driving business rapidly
during the year. The two firms,
have turned out about $50, 900 feet of
lumber.
The foundry and machine shop of
Overman Bros, turned out q large
amount of work during the year.
Their sales were So, 200.
The Cabinet Makers Union, G.. J..
Stearns. Agent, have manufactured
during the year SIS, 900 worth. Their
sales have been large as they are IA
vored with wholesale trade, from
the towns west and north.
CHURCHES.
cedar Falls contains nine religious
denominations, and eight handsome
church edilices. The Episcopal
church has been supplied with a reg.
ular pastor only part ef the wear,