Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1890-04-16
AUSTIN'S GREATNESS.
No Cessation of her GrOWth.-The Favor
able Prospects of this Year.


able Prospects of this Year.
With the coming of the sprlngt,me thu
signs of another season of large improve
ments IN building and of renewed COM
mercial prosperity promptly appear
! Already foundations for new buildings
are going in, our manufactures are plan
ming for an enlargement of their products
and our architects are crowded with
their plans for tasty improvements tt
be made this season. This city rejoices
| with the surrounding country in the
bright opening Of the present year
We who live here hardly stop to realize
how radidly has been our growth during
the past few years, but those who come
back to visit US after few years absence
tell US that the half has not been told
them of Austln's progress and the i'm.
portance of her position in the northwest.
Last week one of our former county
officials returned for brief visit and he
said the same that hundreds of others are
continually saving; that Austin has had
of late a pbenominal growth. Why
should we not stop occasionally and take
a review of our surroundings and recall
some of the sure elements OF our increas-
ing prosperity? Why should we not, in
a conservative way. speak of those things
that many another city envies US for, and
which. if possessed bv others, would be
heralded far and wide? The fact is that
we are not half awake to appreciate the
imperial position that we occupy, i'm
perial whether we consider natural ad.
vantages of soil and climate, of splendid
water power not yet fully developed. of
our untold wealth in clay, and of central
geographical position, Or think OF our
unexcelled railroad advantages and in
terests our busy mills and manufactures,
our costly system of water works COM
plete, our superior electric light plant,
our massive business blocks, our com
modious opera house, our metropolitan
banks, our court house, our splendid
school facilities and advantages, our
churches and social surroundings or
best of all, think of the tireless and re-
sistless energy of our wide awake bust
ness men, without whose nerve and
pluck Austin would today be on a level
with the other cities of southern Mime
sofa. Austin is at the front. No other
city in thlsisection of the State may even
be mentioned as rival so far have all
the rest been outstripped in the race for
supremacy, It is the old rule of the sur
viyal of the fittest. Twenty five years
ago he would have been q true prophet
who could have foretold surely which
one was to be finally the Queen of the
South, but after the boasts and booms
and disbursements of those who started
in the race with us, Austin is at the head
of the procession. We are at the hub.
ing III each year. This spring the North
western Car Seal Works and the Austin
Broom Factory are already established,
and there is room for more. We have
unexcelled facilities for transportation.
we have good Water power and also
cheap access to the coal fields of Iowa
and Illinois. We would like to see es-
tablished here twine factory to use up
our flax straw and release US from the ty-
ranny of the monster twine trust. We
would give liberal support to large
and we'll conducted wollen mill where we
could exchange our wool products for
fine fabrics home made. We ought to
have a mammoth starch factory planted
here at once; an enterprise that has paid
handsomely at other points. We are the
banner flax county of the state, according
to last years statistics, and an oil mill
here would be splendid investment for
capitalists; and we have for years claimed
that paper mill here was almost a
necessity. We are glad to know that
the eyes of the whole northwest are
turned towards us. We welcome all who
will come among us. Our position is
central, our advantages unnumbered. our
resources practically exhaustless, our
lands of exceeding fertility, and our busi-
ness men progressive and genial Our
continued growth and prosperity is as
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