The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1871-04-06
TO MANUFACTURERS,
MECHANICS AND CAPITALISTS
DEVELOPMENT OF
Great Western Enterprise,
COMBINING EXTENSIVE
Navigation, Water Power and Lands,
With beautiful sites for
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
X ANKAKEE COMPANY
Capital 100000.
Presilent-Hon. WILLIAM CHAPLIN, Goy Of Mass

| This Company holds one of the most liberal chart
ers ever granted by the State of Illinois, comforting
perpetual and erclmSire right to create Navigation
and Hater PoUer by the construction of Dams and
| Locks on the kankakee and Iroquois Rivers, with
authority to issue stock and bonds fix and regulate
| its own tolls within the charter limits to condemn
materials, lands for DAMS locks mills, and water
power, to purchase and hold lands for town and city
sites, and for all purposes of manufacturing; also
power to sell, lease, otherwise dispose Of any
part or all OF Its properties, franchises, possess
| ions, at discretion.
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 shown
from the fact that onetcentieth of the two hundred
and ftytwo million bushels of corn alone raised in
the State Gone hundred and two counties), in 1870
was produced in the three counties through which
these rivers flow, and from the peculiar richness of
the soil, it has been APPLY termed "The Garden of
Illinois,
The ertent and reliability of the Water Power is
not surpassed by any river in the State or New Eng
land the kankakee River being adapted by nature
for this purpose, having solid limerick bed high
sloping banks, and never failing supply of water.
The works are now under contract and in part
completed ten miles above and below the City of
Wilmington and the Company will be prepared the
| coming season to sell or lease Water Power for
The facilities for the transportation, both by
water and rail- to and from the two great distribut
ing markets OF the West, Chicago and St. Louis,
of coal (the best IN the Stote) within three miles Of
the river, at two dollars and fifty cents per ton a
fertile soil, cheap baildng materials, salubrious
climate, and other inducements that will be offered
by the Company, afford most inviting opportunity
for a remuneratiye investment OF capital and the
employment OF skilled labor in manufacturing inter
ests, which must of necessity develop western
Lowells, Lawrences, and Lewistons.
About two hundred and fifty acres of land are al
ready secured by the Company contiguous to its
largest Water Power, nearly all of which is within
the limits Of the flourishing City of Wilmington
(only ffty-three miles from the city of Chcago),
whose citizens have Endorsed this enterprise by
liberal subscription to its bonds of fifty thou
sand dollars.
($79,500) OF the ''kankakee Coal Company with
its valuable rairoad charter, and 600 of the
choicest of the Wilmington Coal Lands, selected BY
actual test in boring, and with guaranty OF quality
and quantity.
The Company solicits investigation by manufac
turers and mechanics of the merits of this enter
prise, and offers to capitalists and others who desire
to make It sale and paying investment one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of it's eight per cent gold
bearing bonds, payable in ten years, interest semi
annually secured by FrSt mortgage on all of the
Companys property and improvements; the pro-
ceeds OF the bonds to be expended entirely in i'm
proUements.
~ Pamphlets will be issued giving full par
ticulars.
These bonds can be obtained of
Messrs. BREWSTER, SW EET & CO.. Bankers, No.
10 State Street, Boston, Mass.
Messrs. r. L; DAY COBB, Bankers, No. 81 Kilby
and l6 Lindall Streets Boston, Mass.
Messrs GEO. w. LONG & CO., Bankers No. "a
Congress Square, Boston, Mass.
NAeSoAos H. DtaN1LlLo q DUN, DanKerS, VIII
mington, Illinois, and at the Offices of the Com
pany.
ENCEs.
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.
y. w. STANLEY, New Britain, Conn.
Ill.
2. y. COBB, Wilmington, ILL.,
ILL.,
WILLIAM COOLING, Secretary Trustees, Illinois &
Michigan Canal, Lockport, Ill.
". A. COOLING, Superintendent Illinois s Michi-
gan Canal, Lockport, Ill.
Ill.
RICHARD r. MORGAN, JR., Bloomington, Ill.
Further information in regard to this enterprise
may be obtained at the offices of the Company, No.
y United States Hotel Block, Beach
street, Boston, and No. 1o6 Water Street, viii.
mington Illinois,
80 E.P. CARPENTER, Managing Director.