Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1883-09-19
CORRESPONDENCE.
Beaver Falls.
BEAVER FAILS, Sept. s, lS8

BEAVER FALLS, Sept. s, 1888.
An hour and half s ride on the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Railroad brings one to the busy, bust
ling, thriving town, whose name ap-
pears at the head Of this letter. | sup
pose it was so named on account of
being situated near the falls on the
Beaver river Just how near the town
is am unable to say, for | have not
been fortunate enough to see them.
This town is situated in a smoothing
iron-shaped valley, with the sharp end
southwark On the east it is bounded
by the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie Il. Il.
and the Beaver river, whose shallow
waters flow calmly on towards the
Ohio. Along the western side of the
town the hand Of man has built the
Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Il. X. and natures forces have piled a
wall of rugged hills, clothed to the top
with dense forest Of oaks and other
deciduous trees.
This place contains about eight
thousaud inhabitants, | am told, and,
like the early church, is adding to It's
number daily. 1t might be called a
miniature Pittsburgh, or q young
Birmingham. The same phenomena
are to be seen here that are to be seen
in Pittsburgh, only on smaller scale.
The laundering Of the cars and shrill
scream of the locomotive keep one
awake at night the longwnded
shrieks Of the whistles Of the different
works awaken you half refreshed in
the morning; and similar foggy
smoke reminds you that this is no dis
tant relation Of the well named Smoky
City" Here are to be found wire
works, chain works, novelty works,
cutlery works, saw works, file works,
and large steel works in process Of
construction, which will employ. it is
said, two hundred men. Beaver Falls
owes much Of its growth and prosperi-
ty to the fostering care and shrcwd
management Of the famed Economic
community, which has bank here.
large interest in the manufacturing es-
tablishments, and which formerly own
ed all the land hereabouts.
Quite a number of the streets are
are paved, but, like most towns Of this
size, there is great room for improve
ment as regards streets and pavements.
A new postollice was built here about
two years ago. A new basin is being
made on an enhance north Of the
town, and water works are being con-
structed to pump the water out Of the
Beaver river into the new basin.
There are three public school build
ings here aud there are thirty teachers
employed, and thirteen hundred pupils
attended school last year. On clear
day an observer in the lower part Of
town can see away to the north mas
aiyc building, three stories high, and o
tower on top. What is it? 1t is
Geneva College, the institution where
the descendants Of the old Scotch Cow
enanters educate their sons and daugh-
ters It's very name carrlea Us over the
blue waters, away into the interior Of
Europe, among the iar-famed mountain
SCtHfIf VI - y" ib<,ti IIIN ~ hhs IL lut
building, grand situation, a corps Of
eight learned professors. a successful
past, cap city for two or three hun
dred students, and the prospects for
glorious and useful future. There were
one hundred and ten students in at
tendance last year, and The propitious
opening Of this week forctells large
increase for this year.
These are few Of the many things
that ! might write concerning this pros
pcrous little place. II time and oppor-
tunity permit, perhaps, at some future
time, shall enter more minutely into
its history, and also tell you concern
ing some Of the Butler countians that
are here. q SQIopRNER.
"A party Of Englishmcn who are
on tonr through the western portion
Of this country were taken one day
last week, while they were Mt Fargo,
Dakota, to the great Dalrymplo wheat
farm, eighteen miles west OF that place
and there saw something that gave
them o more Intelligent idea Of the
wealth and greatness Of the United
States than they could acquire by
years reading. They witnessed one
hundred and thidy rsapcra and self
binders at work in The field Of twenty
eight thousand acres Of wheat AMI gave
free expression to their profound won
der and admiration Tac crop Oh this
farm will average twenty two bushels
to the acre, and viii yield six hundred
and eizteen thousand bushels. Such a
field OF whea, ana such ap aggregate
yield are enough to excite tho wonder
Of Americans as we'll as the rest Of
mankind.