Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-24

Davenport is enjoying a wonderful
era of prosperity after slight depres-
sion during the so-called panic. Dur
ing the early part of the year the
Glucose works employed about 500 men
was closed down for few months. 1t
is now in full operation with 700 men.
Street paving, costing several hundred
thousands of dollars is being COM
pleted. An immense me- wagon fac
tory occupying nearly a full block is
being built. The Pettendorf Axle COM
pany which has an ored of $500 steel
underframes for railroad cars has con-
third of million. The big Silvis
shops of the Rock Island road are run
ming full time. The water. light and
street railway companies are spending
about a million dollars on improve
ments. A new six story office building
in the heart Of the business district is
being erected, and three interurban
companies connecting the community
with the richest territory in the vcin-
ity are ready for construction work
Had it not been for newspaper re-
ports Ames would not have known that
business depression existed. The
bank deposits increased 20 per cent.
Immense public and private improve
iHClilo nave DceH Ildue. ElSnty-InTGp
new houses were constructed. Factor
les increased their number of employees
The attendance at the Iowa State col
lege increased Is per cent Agricul
tural implement men report the great
est year in their business lives
If there was any real panic it was
not felt at Atlantic or in the sur
rounding country. The farmers of the
vicinity, the largest depositors in the
banks. are coming to town in their
automobiles, spending money freely
ard living better than they ever haze
before. Business among the mer-
chants is good and everyone Is salts
fed to allow the present conditions to
continue.
The Abba and Monroe county an
swer to the query of business condi-
lions is an array of facts and figures
that leave no doubt but that the fight
ing sixth district will be in line for a
continuation of prosperity. In the face
of the so-called panic Abba merchants
having pledged $4,000 for an interur-
ban to Hooking, paid every cent of the
amount and then proceeded to raise
$4,000 more for an extension of the
line In another direction six miles to
Hlteman Now the merchants of the
town have 100000 tied up in interur-
BANS eVecy cent of which will be paid
up before election day. New coal
mines are being developed in all
directions and the companies interested
and the railroads carrying the product
to market are spending several hun
dreds of thousands of dollars on the
improvements. Everyone has employ
ment.
There is not and has not been. an
idle laboring man in Centerviile. Only
one factory closed down during the
depression and tina. was merely to
make improvements and extensions
There is not a coal miner of Appanoose
county out of work. More residences
We're built this year than during any
three previous years of the citys his
tory No less than &c residences cost
ing over $4,000 have been erected and
scores of others costing from $500 to
$4,000.
Marshaltown is enjoying one Of the
best periods of commercial activity in
her history. Railroad reports show
larger shipments than in previous
years. new public and private buildings
are being erected and the city has
been making many improvements in
its streets. Factories are running full
time and prosperous conditions pre-
vail throughout the surrounding coun-
try.