Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-05
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sIoux CITY LAND COMPANY.

! Eaton, Boston, w m. IL W HcoA, ."a. -
} Mass, Frank c. Henderson, Sioux City,
Iowa, Geo. Dennison, Boston.
tn. Sioux Cit, Land Company is chartered
under the laws of Iowa with an authorized
CAPITAL of $500, 900 over $500 600 OF which mas
been already subscribed.
The Company owns 800 acres OF land within
the city limits of Sioux City, Iowa, and pro
: nose 10 develop the same By grading streets,
J setting ont trees. and building houses for par
ties as they may desire. Twenty acres OF the
above is situated in the finest residence portion
az the CITY and commands fine view of the
river and city, and is easily accessible by ca
Bile ears,
from 81 900 to 81, 700 per lot six lots to the
acre.. which makes it net the Company from
SlOO. 900 10 $4,000. Wepropose to build dur
ing the coming spring several houses OF differ
ent styles of architecture, costing from $500
to $1,000 each.
Houses of this class are in great demand in
the city and ind a ready sale, and the directors
OF the Company feel very confident that this
will prove very remuneratiye investment Tor
the stockholders.
Two hundred and eighty acres of our land is
Immediately adjoining the manufacturing vii
lage of Leeds which is being rapidly develop
ed by a syndicate of gentlemen representing
capital of over Sl5,O00,0O0.
They have purchased tract Of 6l3 acres of
from the center of Sioux City.
They are now erecting large manufacturing
establishments, stores, schoOlhOuses, church
and dwellings, and expect within one year to
have manufacturing establishments in opera
ton which will employ from coo to 800 men.
1t will be readily seen that the development of
this tract will rapidly advance the value Of the
land adjoining, owned by the Sioux City Land
| Company, especially as the managers of the
/ Leeds Land and Improvement Company are
also largely Interested with us, and will have
the western management of the Company.
| This land is near the Illinois Central Rail
road. ana hourly trains are run from Sioux
City to Leeds at five-eent fare, which brings
this tract nearer for residence purposes in point
of time than land less distant from the center
of the city
The rapid growth of Sioux City during the
past eight years has been phenomenal, and its
geographical position. in the center Of the most
fertile region on the globe, with the rapid in
crease Of its rural population, assures us that
the growth OF the city, for the next five years
at least, will be much more rapid than it has
been in the past. A few facts in regard to the
growth of the city viii suffice:
IL 1880, Sioux City had apopulation of 200;
in 1891, 1914; in 1856. - ,3js; in 1887, 30,sI2;
and in 1888, 10 1862; and good judges nov esti-
mate the population at between 5000 and
10000.
In the territory tributary to Sioux City there
are over 10000 square miles Of the richest
land the sun ever shone on.
This vast territory has not seen one-tenth Of
its possible development as yet, and is capable |
OF sustaining population of at least 2.695, 900
The opening Of the Sioux reservation will |
add l,00O,oo0 fertile acres to Sioux Citys ter
ritory Ian empire Of itself
Sioux City is the gateway Of this great and |
rapidly developing section, and the natural |
center of trade for a scope Of country capable |
MAKING al atfx 81 at l..at
jO0,0OO people.
Sioux City has the largest jobbing trade in |
Iowa, and has no competing city within over a
hundred miles.
Its iobbing trade extends through the vast |
domain consisting Of Northwestern Iowa, the
two great Dakotas teach an empirel Southern /
Minnesota, Nebraska, Wyoming; thence west
ward TO the Pacific coast
Occupying the position that Sioux City does.
II must Of necessity grow. as the trade and re-
sources Of this mighty territory expand and de-
velop to degree even beyond the incompars-
BILE record OF the past.
The Jobbng trade of 1885 was upwards Of |
twelve millions of dollars. aud will aggregate
not less than fifteen millions IN 1850.
Sioux City has the largest linseed oil mill in
the world. Daily capacity 100 bushels.
Sioux City has the largest stoneware and
pottery works west of Ohio.
sioux Clty has material for pottery. brick
Sioux City offers the best inducements to
that can be secured at any
point.
Sioux City is great railroad center. Six
great trunk lines, with their branches. radiate
from ON tins point into the tributary territory:
The Illinois Central
The Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul.
The Chicago st. Paul, Minneapolis Il Oma-
The Sioux City q Pacific, and the Fremont
Elkhorn & Missouri Valley.
The Chicago a. Northwestern
And on the 18th Of May, 1889, the Union Pa
'ihc entered Sioux City. adding great trans
continental line to the already superb railroad
'ystem.
The freight handled at Sioux CITY proper.
ior 1883, amounted to upwards of 62.000 car
oads
Ihirty-hye passenger trains. daily, leave
ms CITY Inc business for 1885, of the vari-
rus lines centering in Sioux City. shows an in
rease OF from % to 80 per cent over 1887.
sioux Oity has magnificent railroad bridge.
osting two million dollars across the Missouri {
liver, upon which all roads have a right to
ross; and pontoon bridge for wagon and
DOT travel.
apid transit of any city in the world of IL
ne 1t has twenty-six miles of cable. motor. ,
nd horse car lines
Sioux City will soon have the only elevated {
'ity ''''' q
Sioux City has more banking capital $
han any other city in Iowa.
In 1887 It had eight banks, with a COM
,ined capital of 81 ,1O0, 900 and a surplus of
l04 500; now it has thirteen banks. with j,
Z, FAC, 900 capital and $4,000 surplus. I
The clearing house at Sioux CITY shows I
anger clearings than that of any other :
ity in the state
Inc sioux City postoffice shows a much
arger growth than any other postoffice in
owa- The gross money order receipts /
nd disbursements for 1883, amount to {
l w, 1922 as against S625, 200 in 1857.
Sioux City distanced, in 1855. every citv Il
the State in the amount of business h
transacted by the express and telegraph
sioux City has handsomer business $
locks than cities of twice its size general l
: have, and by far the best in the State. .
sioux City erected nearly one thousand A
ONES in 1855.
The public and private improvements in
loux City for 1888 were $4,394, 412, against
I, $4,000 in 1887 and :, POI, 52s in iSs6.
Sioux City has fifteen miles of cedar a
lock paving. e