Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-10-28

the ou.eu Ciy-,sid report to be presented
at home.
The delegation held a meeting At the
Board of Trade Rooms on Thursday last.
Mr.. John SimpkinSon was called to the
Chsir. Capt. Il. Fl, Tatem, Secretary of
the Board of Trade, and also of the Com
nitiee, read the following
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE:
CNcISEATI, Oct "a, 1872.
John Simpkinson, Esq, Chairman, dc IL:
DEAR SIR-The undersigned special com
miitse, appointed to draft = suitable testi-
monial In Acknowledgement of the oourtesies
and attentions shown to the delegates of the
Board OF Trade and Chamber of Commerce,
and the representatives of the municipal gov
OF this city who accom- panied the recent ex
Curslon over the Indianapolis, Cincinnati
anA Lafayette; Indianapolis, Bloomington d
Western; and Peoria L Rock Island Rail
roads to the cities OF Rock Island, Dsven-
dort aud Moline, would respectfully report as
follows:
The impossibility Of demonstrating through
the medium of report the appreciation Of
hitting hospitslitiss and entertainments re-
ceived during the trip, has rendered the ful-
6ment of the task thus assigned very en-
bArHssing and difficult, and your committee
have engaged 10 it with diffidence aud rec
ognition of their inability to adequately dis
charge il. Il is beyond the power of ant
language your committee can command to
the full expression and assurance Of the
Appreoistive regard and esteem entertained
by the constant kindness and attention so
lAvishly expended to enhance the pleasures
Of the excursion by the representatives OF
give municipal governments and,th citizens
of Davenport, Rock Island, and Moline. II
is not eKtravagaGt 10 declare that these cour-
tesies have been bestowed with a hberaity
and disinJeresIed friendly feeling which
never has been. AID never can be, eXeelled
lu the interchange OF commercial cIvillties
by The representatives, OF business com
muuigiey. The excursionists have arcept
ed the hoSpsalities thus offered, aud in
She same spili! with which Ihey have beeu
rendered and the obligations so Incurred
eau DO acknowledged, but cannot be repaid
t. borrow happy thought Of Que of the
excursionists, I'VE went, We saw, and we
have been com petely conquered" The
/ benefits OF association and interchange of
views of ~ Vresenlative business men Of
/ different localities which are more or less
tri butsry to each other, we're never more
fully demonstrated than on this excursion
The business men composing the party,
worthily representative of the mercantile aad
manufacturing interests Of Cincinnati, and
we'll informed of the essentials of CONNER
cis success and prosperity, were amazed TO
see the rapid growth, resources and advsn-
tsges of DGven port aud Rock Island and,
without intending any invidious distinction
between "the three cities" the truly wonder
full development OF Moline, 10 mechanics
AID man ufscsuriDg industry No more sur
prising was the discovery Of the fact thar al
important identity of interests connects
Cincinnati w.ta the thriving cities, which
was not merely recognized by their people,
but, what WAS more gratifying to your com
mittee, as it was, dou blless, to the entire par
ty, was insisted upon BY them as . matter Of
so much moment 80 to solicit from them Its
assiduous encouragement and cultivation,
This aud kindred subjects of mutual inter
est we're adequately discussed in their sew
sral bearings upon the future development
of the Northwest, which 40 one who visits
Is will fail to recognize ss the agricultural
center Of the country, and prospectiVsly 60
become It's manufacturing center
Tbs marvellous growth of Davenport,
Rock Island and Moline, If carefully studied
and intslligently applied, warrants the as
serllon that here is the ultimate c1nter for
an immense mercantile and manufacturing
section. The desire Of the people Of these
cities for the cultivation of more intimate
business relations with Cincinnati should be
responded TO in the same liberal spirit tha,
prompts the expression.
/ Ths completeness of the rail line from
our city to this market is particularly worthy
Of commentator.
Although appropriate recognition has
been taken by the delegates of the comph
mentary Invitation of Ene officers OF the In
diAnspois Cincinnati d Lafayette; The In
dianapolis, Bloomington & Western; and the
/ Peoria & Rock Island railroads, which led
to the excursion, aud to whom the psrty are
indebted for its pleasures, your committee
cannot refrain in this connection from re-
commanding that the hearty thanks of the
excursion be again rendered to the manage
msnI Of these roads for their confederate
kindness in extending the invitation for the
excursion, aud enabling thereby the repre-
sentatves of the commercial interests OF
Cincinnati, whose good fortune il has been
to be the recipients of this courtesy, an OPP
portunity 10 judge and comprehend from
personal observation the wonderful re-
sources and development Of the country tri-
butary 10 their lines, and the superior ad-
vantages their roads Ctfsr to Cincinnati to
enter, occupy, and command Its commerce
The communication with this section is
formed by a com DinAtion between the three
lines namsd-All excellent in track, rolling
stock, and management, and all ambitious
to make the route, what it certainly prom
ses to become, one of the great arteries for
the trade and travel of the continent. AS a
connecting link in the through line between
the Atlantic ssaboard and San Francisco,
via Cincinnati, it possesses superior advAn-
tAges, which are being duly appreciated by
the growing patronage of the travelling pub
lie.
1t passes through the most magnificent
agricultural district of the world, through
q score Of cities that are miracles of rapid
development and substantial thrift, and taps
the noble Mississippi, which annually floats
to market $2,0O0,000,0J0 in value of the
grain products of the West, at one of the
important entreports of her commerce. And
your com mitlee urgently cals the merchants
and manufacturers OF this city TO the oppor-
tuhity thus offered them to secure the trade
Of the new, inexhAustible, and invaluable
agricultural, mineral, and manufacturing
section, and earnestly urge upon them the
importance Of its i'm mediate and active cul-
tivation.
On motion, the report was approved in the
following resolution:
REPoRT, that the report of the somnittse Ap =
pointed to draft . suitable testimonial In reeog-
milton Of the eourtesiss and hoSpitalities be-
slowed on the delegates composing the recent
excursion to Davenport, Rock Island. and Mo
line, be accepted and approved as the sense of
this meeting, and that the Secretary of the ex-
cursionists be and 10 hereby instructed 10 for
ward copies thereof to the Hon. A. II. Bennett,
Mayor Of Davenport, W. W. EgEleston, Char
man Of the Rock Island Rsception Committee f.;
II. o. slsight, Chairman Of tho Moline BE
ssption Committees N. f. Ingalls,, Esq, of the
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