The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-02-26

er, distance Of four miles, there is q fall Of
thirty.three feet with volume Of 10000 cubic
feet Of water per minute, even at the lowest
stages of the river.
This will b all the power necessary for tn.
propulsion of 10000 or $4,000 spiudles. nearly
5000 looms and will furnish employment for two
thousand operatives.
Between Marseilles and this city, distance Of
eight miles, there is fall in the Illinois river
of eighteen feet with volume of 10000 cubic
feet per minute at the lowest stage of that stream
Thus we see that the aggregate volume of water
derivabls from both rivers is $4,000 cubic feet
per minute, which, by the use of dams already
built and to be built, will increase the volume
to 10000 feet per minute, thus giving US pow.
er that will make Ottawa tie manufacturing
town of the west, attracting to this point pop.
alation of industrious mechanics that would
make Ottawa second only to Chicago, in the
state 1t is not unreasonable to expect that by
the full development of this immense water Pow.
er by capitalists who have, and will feel an in.
creased interest in the city equal TO the amount
of their capital they have invested in the me.
chanical appliance of that power will stimulate
all branches of industrial and mercantile enter.
prise to such An extent that the city, in a few
years, will become place of 10000 or $4,000 in.
habitants. Ottawa is unquestionably destined
to become one of the first manufacturing cities
in the state, and capitalists will undoubtedly
find it to their pecunary interest to invest their
extensive capital here
NATURAL ADVANTAGES
Nature has indeed been bouutiful in her mu.
nifcent bes.owals. She has not only given us
ono of the best water powers in the west, but
she has also been bountiful in underlying our
country with in-exhaustible beds of coal Groves,
too, are spread out before US, not only furnishing
our manufactures with the best Of timber, but
identifying our hills and bluffs SO that we al.
most feel that nature has made this favored
spot in which she fam would play the Goddess
Bountiful to erring humanity. The Illinois and
Fox rivers, which supply all the water required
by our present and prospective manufactures,
makes this one of the best stock-raising regions
in the state
Property is held at reasonable price at all
times but investments in real estate are always
considered good. Ottawa passed the time, years
ago, when investments in real estate were not
SAFE The improvement Of our water power will
give to property steady increase in value II
desires to sell he can always do SO at figure
much greater than purchasing price.
ASA GRAIN MARKET
Ottawa stands almost without rival, and the
reason why it is SO, is the fact that We
have much better shipping facilities than most
other towns in the state. We have the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific Il. R., which gives Us an
easy and rapid transportation of grain to Chica-
go; yet very little of our grain finds its way
ever this line. The Illinois and Michigan canal
is our principal mode of transportation OF grain,
as the tariff is much lower than railroad compan-
les can afford to carry freight for. The canal
affords US commercial communication with Chi.
cago, and east by the lakes, and also with st.
Louis and the south by way of ;she Mississippi
river. A few figures viii. better illustrate the
Importance Of Ottawa as q grain market.
The average quantity annually shipped from
here is $4,000 600 bushels. Add to this $4,000
bushels annually consumed by the Starch Fac.
tory, in this city, and we have a total OF :, $50.
600 bushels, which, in more than ordinarily pro-
ductive years will reach the fabulous amount of
over 100000 bushels, all Of which finds its first
market here The largest shipments were in
1885, which reached 2,g44, 544 bushels. Add to
this the amount consumed by the Starch Factory
and 1t seems that the amount OF corn purchased
from the farmers by Ottawa that year reached
total Of 1924 ,544 bushels; and it may be men.
toned that the cana! tolls on the same amounted
to $64 S4640. The annual shipment of wheat is
much less than that of corn, as corn is our prin.
cpal product The shipment Of oats is also of
secondary importance, amounting to about $780,
600 bushels annually Thus it will be seen that
Ottawa is not only one of the greatest, but tbs
greatest primary grain market of Illinois.
QUE MANUFACTURES.
As manufacturing town Ottawa stands in
the front rank of western cities, aud We have .
pardonable pride in the number and variety of
the manufactured articles sent all over the west
from this city.
First IN the category we will notice for few
moments, ....
THE OTTAWA WINDOW GLASS CO.,
OF which Judge Cation is president, and Thos.
d. Catlin secretary and treasurer, commenced
operations in 1868, employs eighty men, and
manufactured, the fret year, 100000 feet OF
glass. The glass is made from the ST. Peters sand
stone, which underlies all the city to depth of
from 1850 to 175 feet and crops out in bright and