The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-04-01
DRUGGIsT-GEo, Z, o'HARA,

ever, and persons who had formerly cried
down the town, offering to sell what little
property they had to any one for less than
half the cost, began to invest their surplus
cash in more, and it was then that the build
ing fever began, which has continued ever
since in steady motion. Now in every
part of the city may be seen
piles of bricks and sand and
lumber, and buildings in course Of erection;
our mechanics are all employed, building
material for substantial brick structures is
exhausted, our merchants are all doing
well and there are in course of being ma
tured several grand schemes to give Cairo
two or three institutions that will be to it
lasting benefit and pave the way for her
future rapid growth. These schemes are
the Halliday house, the opera house and
the cotton seed oil mill. The first named
is fact the second will be, shortly, and the
latter can be if the proper efforts are made
to secure il. 1t may be SAID by
some that Cairo's natural advantages ought
to be a sufficient inducement 10 any one to
come here and invest his money. They are
superior to those of any city around US,
and are acknowledged to be so by all who
are acquainted with them. All this is true.
Cairo can offer to the man or party of men
who arc seeking a spot to invest their
accumulated capital such advantages over
any other place within hundreds of miles
around us as ought to satisfy them that this
would be the place above all others where |
Their wealth could be profta- |
bly, invested Its shipping fac
ilitcs alone are worth more TO a |
in a year than the lots and |
that Hickman or any other city
within hundred miles Of us, could offer
him, and would save him more in one year
than the taxes on his property in Unions
City would amount to in twenty five years
All this is true and should be given proper
weight by Mr.. Campbell when the final
decision as to the location of his
great OIL mill is to be reached.
But if, after giving all these things their
full weight, this gentleman and his col
legues should still demur. aud there is any
Of getting favorable decision
by making some advances through our city
council, why then those advances should
be made, for we can very well afford to
make small temporary sacrifice in order
10 obtain a permanent benefit. Form
,rly when Cairo had not the shipping
abilities that it now has, it voted
ponds to the companies that promised TO
make it the terminus of line Of railway,
it with the north, east and west
'ut now, having become by its own exer.
ion railroad centre, it needs hold out no
inducements TO other railroad companies to
ay their tracks here Formerly, when il
vas weak and unimportant in respect to its
abroad facilities, it sought the railroad
ompanies and paid them for coming here
because 1t was benefited there by; but now,
ayng become strong and an important
abroad centre, other railroad companies
eek it and pay it for the privilege of
oming here. And so it will be with
aro's manufacturing interests. II
iuSt expect to make some
mall sacrifices in order to induce men of
leans TO establish two or three large man.
factories here, which will give tone and
Importance to the place and will serve as a
'rtain, powerful magnet to other men of
leans, who wish to embark in similar en-.
,rpriscs.