The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1905-06-06
BUBBLE BURSTED
And the Emporium City Degen'
Grated Into Plain Mound City
NEARLY FIFTY YEARS AGO PAR
TY OF IMMIGRANTS LANDED
AT cAIRo's SUBURBAN
TOWN.

On March 10. 1886. three large dat
boats dashed together and loaded with
20 men. 3 women and . children. be
sides lumber for large hotel, furni-
ulre. provisions. etc. left the Ohio
river wharf at Cincinnati Ohio. des
tined for new homes at and near
where Mound City now stands. These
boats with their occupants who were
seeking new homes floated down the
beaut full Ohio with the current ar
irving here safe and sound on the
night OF March 2o--being ten days en-
route. Next day they Columbus ike,
landed and took possession Of the
land The country hereabouts then
was thickly studded with heavy and
small timber and underbrush-a com
plete wilderness. Land was soon
cleared and the hotel was soon erect
ed near and upon the ground where
the chair factory now stands, was
named the Shelton house, and there
remained until destroyed by fire short
ly after the war. Among this number
Of our 70 emisrants. Mr.. T. c. Ma
honey, residing five miles north OF
tbs city and who Is now chief carpen
| ter for the hospital at Anna. is the
| only known living person. Cairo was
| then a town Of 200 inhabitants, ant
the first Sunday after their arriva
| here several Of their number started
south to find the town They cut theil
way through the brush to tAe moutf
II Cache river. where they found
saw mill and a man with a skiff, wht
'erried them across. The above Is
short synopsis Of the earliest histor,
# Mound City, and VII oh has befor
aeen published On the 20th day o
March next it viii be just fifty year
iimce those pilgrims landed upon tn
plymouth Rock earth Of Mound City
md 1t would he very appropriate an
zery much in order for the people @
Mound City to celebrate the even
Such celebrations do every countrl
city or town good. II learns the peopl
% admire and love their homes an
one another more and helps to Fl
them W tn loyal enthusiasm, and
make them more prosperous. Noun
City Enterprise.
The Bulletin is disposed to eeh
he sentiments Of its nelghbor Thu
such celebrations to good to evel
! community even though they col
aemorase blasted hopes.
A Calroite who has lived in southe
Illinois for half d CENTURY, SAYS tn
= 1e remembers well when the party !
J uded to in the above article pass
be little town where he lived boul
Of what they fondly thought to
j he future greatest city n the worl
Cine nnaH promoters had launch
/ scheme to establish city fe
niles above the junction of the y
greatest rivers on the continent. Th
7 organized company and plaster
Z he whole country with gaudy, brig
v solored Autographs .picturing magn
p cent hotels, bank buildings, hrari
= shurches, etc.
II They called il the Emporium Cit,
d4lu at DlE Ltllc IL lEdliS bAu AhFA
e. come up to thu expectations Of
y sanguine dupee Town lois are said
ch nave sold for higher prices than fro
lots in the business districts Of etf
oi Cincinnati or Louisville
&c But the bubble was bound TO burs
to The strain upon the credulity Of
re lambs was too great, ana even thou
BIZ he United States government ail
te the project (unconsciously, perhap
ID by establishing its western navy "
all there during the Civil war, finally
In 2eedad from its Wanted claim as
by future Capital of the Nation 3
IN, he foremost city in the world, and
he a0w cont emit to be known as v
lat thriving. prosperous little manufact
in ng village with a good, substant
The hough not gaudily brilliant future
ion lore t
,ra Still, II might be a good thing
or celebrate the time when 1t INDUCED
lct pipe dreams
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