The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-08-29
From An Old
Citizen.

GREENWOOD, INDIANA, August Is, 1873.
EDITOR REPUBLICAN-Through the
kindness of my old friend. Judge Nc
Lain of your city, I received by mail u
copy of your paper, and now enclose
you $50 as n of your subscribers
for one year. in order that I may know
what is transpiring in the county in
which ! was raised and spent twenty
three years of my life. And l now beg
the privilege of talking to my old
friends and early associates through the
medium of your paper.
have been citizen of my native
State. Indiana. Stree 1916. and have he
come more or less attached to her insti-
t~utions, until l have come to look upon
her as nv home. Yet it was a good
while until l could convince myself
that Missouri was not. One eason was,
the warm attachment / have for SO many
of the old settlers of Missouri, and es-
pecially those in the ''Platte Purchase"
many of whom seem as e a and dear
to me as brothers and sisters, and for
them / have the most pleasing recollec-
tons. But ! will not dwell upon things
of the past. for l want to tell your read
ers something about the city of Indian
apolis, a city that has been my home for
the last four years. Doubtless many
of your readers are natives of Indiana,
and would like to hear something about
the capital of their native State. Indi-
annapolis can to-day truthfully boast Of
of having $1,000 inhabitants, and still
growing very rapidly. To show you
what she is doing, I would say that the
building permits for the year up to this
time amount to near 81, 600, 900, and the
suburban improvements will reach S1,-
O00, OO0. Besides that, large sums are
being expended on street Improvements,
&c. One can stand on the Post-office
corner and within one square from
there, see buildings now in process of
erection which will cost not less than one
half a million of dollars. Buildings
going up on three squares Of Washing
ton street will amount to over three
hundred thousand dollars. We have
also a Courthouse commenced, and
now up to the first story, which will
cost when completed over n million of
dollars. Add to that u eleven rail
roads coming iuto the city, and mani
factories of almost every kind by the
hundreds, and more locating every
week, and we find good proof that Indi-
annapolis is destined to become the
greatest inland city of the United States.
Among the many manufactures of In
dianapoiis which l can name, and
which gives employment to thousands
Of workmen, the most prominent are the
rolling mills. one sewing machine
cabinet company, one al factory, four
boiler machine shops, and one "Sarven
wheel factory" and by next spring
there will be in operation another sew
ing machine factory and an AK factory
which will each give employment to
five hundred workmen. The many
railroads converging to all points of the
compass, give an easy access and places
her in close proximity to the block and
bituminous coal fields and timbered
lands of Indiana, which r among the
best in the world. and surrounded as
she is by some of the finest agricultural
lands in the State, which makes her,
with her railroad facilities, n of the
best markets for all kinds of products,
can not but place her upon the ascend
Ing scale of greatness and wealth. I'm
like Chicago, she is not under mortgage.
Eastern capitalists do not own Indian
apolis. She is being built up mainly by
the wealth of her own citizens. Her
business men, as a general thing, de-
pend upon their own resources; and de.
pending. as they do. upon themselves,
are better qualified to give life and vi
taltty to her every branch of business
and trade. II really seems as if every
city is alive to the interest of our city,
and works for the good and prosperity
of It in every respect. ] have been in
thelumber business for the last four
years, and my business calls me away
from my home and family most Of my
time. ! visit many Eastern as well as
Western cities, and have watched very
particularly the growth of other cities
besides indianapolis. and, 80 far as ]
n .lln Ia s,.xIsxo <,.,r .tf.. IL hohipA f,ly