Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-06-16

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Yard of Daniel Wild, besides the
FIGURING Mill of A. Norris which
runs by steam, and an extensive
Cracker Factory here. .. ... ....a
THE AMOUNTS MANUFACTURER
during the year 1870, are about as fol
4 lows: ." #.t .~.... .s#. "#l " 1
/ woolen Mills, ..... &c.,. .N ... 55Oo0
| Furniture, IlOO0
Pumps. an000
Stone Ware, ....... sO0OO
wagons and Carriages % 500
Iron and stoves, -. . ....E| - 800
Sash. Doors and Blinds. 1000
| Tanning Mills, s.#. ..." .. .... . 75OO
| Lime bushels 1000
Stone quarried perch, F5 $500
Brick, S58OO0
| Flour, @t'. o5OOOO
A very fair showing. we think. for
city that twenty years ago had
scarce an inhabitant, and that has
had railroad facilities less than half
that period, and the country about
US being until lately sparcely settled.
Cedar Falls Ia fast becoming one of
the important railroad centers OF
Iowa. In addition to three roads al.
ready I'm operation, there are Others
looking this way to seek the connec-
tions that can be had at no Other
place so advantageously. Then Il
behooves us under these eireumstan.
ces to take advantage of these cir.
cumstances, and turn them To good
account, which will return u lasting
benefit for the amount of money we
have been expending to possess these
railroads. Then let us see what
q az Gt OUR WANTS a aa#
are and having learned them, make
every exertion to attain them. We
want such factories as require small
amount OF power and will employ q
large amount of worhmen. Every
mechanic brought here with faml.
ly, increases oar popslation, and
each will receive Mt least $3.50 pei
day, which he will spend among
our merchants for tire necessaries oil
life. #41@.a#a iif1 #i@ @. @t
Then II IL evident that the more
mechanics we can give employment
here the more money is put into the
hands or our merchants, and the
more houses we could build at prof.
1t. Let us make an estimate: Sup.
pose our factories should be multi.
piled so that one thousand mechanics
would be trequired TO operate them.
We could calculate at least three in-
habitants to each workman, most oI
them having families. This would
add three thousand to our population
saying nothing of the others that
would be attracted hither by the ad.
ditional trade that would be done In
merchandise, etc. Now each OF
these mechanics would receive sal.
airy of from $3.50 to $3.50 per day
averaging $500. We might safely
say that each operative would spend
$500 Of this money In the city. This
would give us on additional mercan.
tile trade Of $1,000 per day. or in 0
year OF 300 working days o grand
total Of sic hundred thousand dollars
Any Of our readers have imaginative
powers strong enough TO see at once
what the result would be to our city
financially and In every other poin
of view.
/ Now can this state of things b.
brought about9 Emphatically yes
Other towns with far less advan tagel
and facilities have done 1t, then why
not Cedar Falls. Clinton 1--WE men,
tion that place because we are NOR,
familiar with it than Others, ha.
built up manufacturing trad,
which commands the admiration O
everyone. Now what are her natur
al advantages. She had the Missis
sippi river, which is navigable bu
half Of the year, and was at th,
mercy of the Northwestern railroad
| IL Is now town OF nine thousan,
Inhabitants, and employs nearly tw,
thousand mechanics.
| Cedar Falls has the finest waite
l power in Iowa, she has large an,
constantly increasing grain trade
three railroads to carry away the su
perabundant products, to bring to U
everything needed at reduced rates O
transportation, and others to be built
She Is located as we have shown, Ii
the midst Of the finest agriculture
country in the West, in a climate @
the most desirable character.
seems that nature has outdone itseI
In placing here every advantag
that Ii requisite In building larg
J interior city.
II A very serious question to settl
here Is, "What factories shall we In
troduce.r Many cities make mis-
takes right here. 1t surely shoul
J be OF branch that Is not aIread,
overdone in this part of the State