The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-05-27
CAIRO. ILLINOIS.
EARLY HISTORY-LOCATION-MAN.
UFACTURING FACILITIES.
j. Cairo Unhealthy 2
TOBACCO MARKET. ETC.. ETC.
From the 81. Louis Journal Of Commerce ]
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FIOIR Ann aAIT

| FLOUR AND SALT.
Within the past two or three years an
immense trade In the two staples has been
built up here, showing what individual en-.
terpriss can accomplish in turning the
currents Of trade to this point. The actu-
| al sales Of -four in this market during
1870 were 241 ,087 barrels. About 75,0Ot
| barrels of -four a year are manufactured
here. This Is mainly done by the " Cit,
Mills Of Charles Gallagher, whose splendid
reputation throughout the Southwest keet
them constantly working up to their
utmost capacity.
Salt is being shipped to Cairo in i'm
mense quantities in bulk, and here put up
in barrels. The Halliday Brothers con-
troll the trade in this article, and VIC be-
ievc it was u plan first conceived by them
10 utilize the commonly considered worth
less cotton-w wood lumber for making salt
barrels. The barrels are put up here in
fine style, with fiat hoops, and are much
better for salt than those Of any other
timber, as for some reason they do not
stain at all. This is an important item in
this trade. The yearly sales Of the Halli-
day Brothers amount TO nearly 30, 900 bar
rels. They have now in their immense
warehouse over 10000 barrels in bulk.
THE FcRWARD1SG BUSINESS,
Of Cairo is immense, and is mainly done
through the wharf-boats, and the Illinois
Central Railroad.
James johnson, Esq, the agent of the
latter, informs US that G6, s35 bales of cot
ton were forwarded through his Offices
last year, and that the total amount of
freight forwarded over the road from this
point was $3.50, ,2S9 pounds, and the total
al A nD
The larges. and finest wharf-boat here
or any whore else is owned by Capt J. NJ.
Philips. /, is 3lS feet in length, " feet
wide and two stories high, with the same
capacity for light freights above, that it
has for neavy freights below, while its car
rying capacity is more than 4, 900 tons. 1t
cost S35, 600, and is without doubt the fin.
est wharf boat in the United States. Capt.
Phillips has full faith in the future of Cal
70 and has certainly shown his faith by
his works.
The Halliday Bros, besides large and
commodious wharf-boat, own an immense
warehouse, and both seem indispensable to
to accommodate their large and varied
business. None are more prominently
identified with the various commercial in
terests Of Cairo, than this enterprising
firm.
IL CAIRO UNHEALTHYP
The popular and almost universally re-
ceived answer to this most important
question, may be found in Chapter xii of
the American Notes" In 1912, Charles
Dickens, while making his tour, as self
constituted critic of this country and
everything pertaining to it, hoated past
Cairo in n steamboat, and, without setting
his foot on shore, proceeded to write
up the place, US follows: AT the juno
tion Of the two rivers, on ground SO fiat
and low, and marshy that at certain
seasons of the year it is inundated to the
house-tops lies a breeding place for fever
ague and death. A dismsl swamp, on
which the half built houses rot away;
cleared here and there for the space of a
few yards, and teeming then with rank,
unwholesome vegetation, in whose baleful
shade the wre,ched wanderers, who are
tempted hither, droop and die and lay
their bones; the hateful Mississippi
circling and eddying before it, and turn
ing of on its southern course, a slimy
monster hideous to behold; a hot.bed Of
disease, an ugly sepulcher, grave un-
cheered by any CLEAN Of promise; 3 place
without one single quality in earth or air
or water to commend it ; such is the dis
NAL Cairo
When one reads this cxtravagant libel,
in the light of the actual facts, he can
hardly repress the indignant exclamation
Of Jack Falstatf, Lord Lord how
this world is given to lying
We might, in refutation of this general
" received but entirely erroneous opin-
ion, cite the testimony Of many of tho
oldest citizens, whose hale and hearty
looks are the best confirmation of their
words on this point, while, to our own
minds, the bright eyes and ruddy counte-
nances of the boys and girls we had tho
pleasure of seeing the other day in the
public schools, is sufficient proof that the
muititudinous children of Cairo are being
reared in no "hot-bed of disease" but
rather under the most favorable climatic
conditions Of health, This is u point of
such vital importance to the interests of
any place, and one from misunderstand-
ing of which Cairo has suffered SO much
that we append the following extract from
spector L. s. A, published July 81, 1865
"Since the autumn of 1862 it has been
my frequently recurring duty to inspect
the post of Cairo, with its troops, camps,
barracks, hospitals and military prison;
W rtuuy Tvs iuWs uiiu dlsNuscs anu
to direct It's military hygiene. AS re-
suit of my observation and experience, l
am prepared to assert that, with filth
enough within its levee to poison all the
people of some large and populous cities
during the summer solstice, it is even then
quite us healthy as any other place in the
Union.
~ attribute the sa.ubrity of Cairo to
several important considerations that are
palpable to every experienced observer,
and also to more important cause which
does not operate in favor of any other
point in the United States, viz;
"ist The fact that having no elevation
of the surface in it, around it, or within
many miles of it, it is tree from the nox-
ious accumulations Of fogs and miasmas
that rest morning and evening, during
much of the year, on the brows of all the
bluffs along our Western rivers, and are
dreadfully potent in engendering disease.
"2d. The free and almost constant
sweep of pure air down and up the Missis-
sippi and Ohio rivers, and necessarily, In
an uninterrupted course across every part
of the town.
"3d. The free, rapid currents OF above
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