Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1877-10-03

,ut upon its final passage. The I
Jlerk called the roll and the ordi- r
rance was unanimously adopted. It'll
may be said that all the amendments 8
we're adopted by the same vote. The
ordinance is published in full in this |
paper. Il
McGrew made a motion which was
adopted, that the Mayor be instruct
ID to appoint Water Committee, to
report the names at the next regular
The Council then adjourn
ID.
The Ordnance.
The importance Of the matter will
not deter our readers from carefully |
reading the lengthy ordinance in this
issue, passed by the Common Council
last night, entering into contract
with Messrs. Wiley & Co., to utilize
our Water Power by giving us water
works among other valuable consid-
erations.
Certain details are to be arranged
Jet with the Water Power Company
which II accomplished satisfactorily,
important and immediate advantages
viii result to our city.
The COURIER earnestly hopes that
II may be able TO say shortly that ev-
srYthing has been properly arranged.
Salathiel Slavens, living about five
miles north Of the city, was thrown
from horse, to-day, and received
conclusion Of the brain. He lies in q
very precarious condition.
One of the curiosities in the city to-
day was COW following which were
three calves, her own progeny, and
al Of the same age. They were about
six weeks old, nearly alike in color,
we'll formed and AZ lively as calves
ever get.
Col. Bannister handed US to-day .
specimen of paste board made at APP
pleton, Wisconsin, wholly from wood.
II 10 very fair sample of board, in
deed, and for making boxes is per-
haps equal to anything Of the kind in
MSS. Making this board is an impor-
tant industry at that place and shows
what science and machinery will do.
The Col. tells story, which we are
too polite to doubt, that one morning
not long since the workmen cut down
: tree, put it into the mill, ground it
up, made 1t into paper and before
night had printed newspapers on the
paper. That is what this town is
coming to pretty soon if We can get
the right kind of wood.
From Thursday Daily.
Patsey Noonan left for Eldora, to-
day, ct noon, having in charge young
Kirby, Rutherford and Montague,
sentenced to the Reform School at
the recent term of court. The boys
were going of in the best of spirits
and seemingly as careless as though
they were going on visit.
From Fridays Daily.
water Power and water Works-The
Contract closed.
We have already printed the ordi-
nance by which the city contracted
with Wiley & Co. to utilize the unfin-
ished water power by furnishing our
people with water works. This con-
tract involved the necessity of max
ing an arrangement with the Water
Power Company and the bondholdera
which was finally done, yesterday
evening, in . manner satisfactory g
al hands, We believe, SO that there il
nothing In the way now to prevent
the dirt from flying in short order.
This will make it necessary for the
contractors to spend, at an early day,
very large sum of money, perhaps
one hundred thousand dollars in our
midst which will become valuable
permanent taxpaying investment.
II will involve, incidentally, the
early completion of the great Water.
Power project in which our people
have already invested something like
seventy-five thousand dollars, and a
once set the water power to worl
running the mills and manufacture
in the neighborhood Of the works
and many others which will be speed.
lily built % soon IS cheap motive
power is available, and that will b.
available in sixty days if high water
does mot intervene.
The great abundance of pure wa
ter for culinary, sanitary, and manu-
featuring purposes which Ottumws
q just now putting to practical use
cannot be valued in dollars and cents
OF course, we understand tha'
there 10 . great deal yet to bt
done which will take time, but
It seems to be within the bounds OF
reasonable probability that these
great projects are at length, after
much work and heavy expenditure
by the liberal class of our people
about to become accomplished facts
When that day comes, as it assuredly
win come, Ottumwa will have the
best cards in its fist of any city in
lows, for none of them can then lay
over our coal, water-power, water
works, railroad connections, timber,
stone, and illimitable agricultural re-
sources tributary to us.
To accomplish our manifest desti-
ny, which is to become the leading
manufacturing and commercial city
in Iowa, we must all pull together to
the extent of our means and energy,
end each one must add his full share
TO the public and private prosperity,
and the croakers and GROWERS who
are only equal to the task of clog
cling the wheels of prosperity, mus
be showed aside.
It will be seen that the work is to
DO commenced shortly, and that We
are to have the water in our priDci.
pal streets by the first Of next Janu'
ary.
Many thousand dollars will be paid
out this Fall for labor here in our
midst, and several thousand more fOH
material. Next year . still greater
sum will be expended and we want
to simply predict that within five
years to come all our people
will begin to realize as they
don't and perhaps cannot now the
grand importance commercially,
financially and even socially, which
our immense Water Power is to us
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