The Republican journal., 1871-04-20
X NIX AI[EE MPAN Y
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President Hon, WILLIAM CLAFLlN, GOV. Of Mass.

This Company holds one OF the most liberal chart
granted by the State OF Illinois, comforting
pe9pcindi and etC{tSte right to create Navigation
and mater fore} by the construction of Dams and
LOchs on tile kankakee and lroquois Rivers, with
authority to issue stock and bonds, Tx and regulate
its own tolls within the charter limits to condemn
materials, lands for dams, locks, mills, and water
power purchase and hold lands for town and city
sites, and for all purposes of manufacturing; also
power to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose .of any
part all OF its properties, franchises, or possess
ionS ut discretion.
When completed this will give navigation from
the Illinois and Michigan Canal with which it con-
meets to the Indiana State line, distance of nearly
one hundred miles in Illinois and extending more
than seventy miles in the State Of Indiana.
The fertility OF this section of the country is shown
from the fact that tacentieh of the two hundred
and ffty-two million bushels Of alone raised in
the State zone hundred and two countless, in 1870
was produced in the three counties through which
these rivers flow, and from he peculiar richness of
the soil, it has been APPLY termed "The Garden of
Inc crtent and 2ciiuJiiuy of the Water Power is
not surpassed by river in the State or New Eng
land the kankakee River being adapted by nature
for this purpose having solid limerick bed, high,
slopng banks, and never-tailing supply of water.
The works are under contract, and in part
completed h,n miles above and below the City of
Wilmington, and the Company will be prepared the
coming season to sell or lease Water Power for
manufacturing purposes.
The facilities for the transportation, both by
water and rail- to and from the two great dstribut-
ing markets of the West. Chicago and st. Loui =
Is
of coal me best in the State within three miles of
the river, ut two dollars and fifty cents per ton a
fertile SOIL cheap building materials, salubrious
climate and other inducements that will be offered
by the Company, afford most inviting opportunity
for Il rcmuneratve investment of capital and the
employment of SIX lied labor i'll manufacturing inter-
estS, which must of necessity develop western
LoWellS Lawrences and Lewstons,
About two hundred and fifty acres of land al.
ready secured by the Company contiguous to its
largest Water Power, nearly ali Of which is within
the limits of the hourishng City of Wilmington
[only iiity-three miles from the city of Chicago),
whose citizens have Endorsed this enterprise by a
liberal subscription to its bonds OF over fifty thou
sand dollars.
This Company also ownes the entire capital Stock
($79.5O0) of the 'kankakee Coal Company" with
its valuable railroad charter, and 600 acres of the
choicest of the Wilmington Coal Lands, selected by
actual test in boring, and with guaranty OF quality
and quantity.
The Company solicts investigation by manufac-
turers and mechanics OF the merits OF this enter
prise, and offers to capitalists and Others who desire
to make a safe and paying investment one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of its eight per cent gold
beau ing bonds payable in ten years, interest semi
annually secured by ast mogage on all of the
cccds of the bonds to be expended entirely in I'M
prorements.
Hs Pamphlets will soon be issued giving full par
ticulars.
These bonds can be obtained of
Messrs. BREWSTER, WET CO., Bankers, No.
40 State Street, Boston, Mass.
Messrs. r.. l.; DAY & COBB, Bankers, No. 81 kiby
Messrs. GEO. W. LONG & CO., Bankers, No. "a
Congress Square, Boston, Mass.
Messrs. J. Ii. DANIELS & SON, Bankers, vii,
mington, Illinois, and At the Offices of the Com
pany.
KsEFEHsE NCEs.
II. o. ALDEN, Boston, Mass.
EDW. APPLETON. Railroad Commissioner, Penn
berton Square, Boston, Mass.
HILLS & BROTHER, No, III South Street, Boston
Mass.
WILLIS PHELPS & Co., Springfield, Mass.
+. w. STANLEY, New Britain Conn.
WILLIAM ii. ODELL, Mayor City Of Wilmington
ILL.,
d. U. CoBR, Wilmington Ill.
Z. $. WATERS, Company's Engineer, Wilmington
Ill.
WILLIAM GooDING, Secretary Trustees, Illinois
Michigan Canal Lockport, Ill.
W. A. GooDING, Superintendent Illinois & Mich
gan Canal, Lockport, Ill.,
| J. I. SCAMMoN, President Marine Bank, Chicago
Ill.
RICHARD +. MORGAN JR., Bloomington, Ill.
Further information in regard to this enterprise
may be obtained at the offices of the Company, No
~ United States Hotel Block, Beacl
street, Boston, and No. log Water Street, vii
| mington, Illinois.
! 80 i. CARPENTER, Managing Director.