The Cairo bulletin., 1910-12-19

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len our would seem very incomplete.
Subjects Treated.
Some idea of what is presented in
this one volume may be gained from
the following Table of Contents;
Chapter ISketch of the Illinois
Country.
Chapter ll,-Early French Ex,
plc@s-Ts 80 missionary Priests,
Chapter IIIs-The Illinois TER,
torial government.
Chapter 1.-THE City OF Cairo
1918.
Chapter ys--The site and Place
From 1918 to 1886.
Chapter vI.-The City Of Cairo OF
s>-- to fsie--The Illinois Central
,ailrc-.ss- ~-ss.-ttt. fSS6--The Illinois Ex-
porting Co.--The Cairo City & Canal
60.
Chapter The Cairo City and
anal CO. Succeeded BY tho Cairo
City Property Trust--Cairo From
June IS, 1886. to Dec. %, 1855.
Chapter vlII-Cairo's Site and Its
Abras. ons BY the Rivers-Levees and
Levee Construction-The Highest
Known Floods.
Chapter IX--Low Lots anil
Grounds-Seepage-The Linegar Bill
Street Filling City Indebtedness
Chapter X,--The Wharf and Wharf
age-Riparian Rights.
Chapter Theological Forma
tions-The Signal Station The
River Gauge-Temperatures, Ram
Falls, Etc
Chapter XII.--The Illinois Central
Railroad.
Chapter XIII-Maps and Plats.
Chapter XIv.-The Ohio and Mis-
sissippi Rivers-The Territory
Drained-The Ohio River as q
Boundary.
Chapter Xv-The Health OF the
City,
Chapter xvI.-Cairo During tn,
War.
Chapter XvIT-The Churches.
Chapter XVIII.-The schools.
Chapter xIX.-The A. B. Stafford
Memorial Library-The Woman !
Tub and Library Association
uary's Inirmary-The u S. Marine
Hospital.
Chapter XX--The Trustees of the
cairo City Property-The Trustees cf
tine Cairo Trust Property-Their
Early Civil Engineers-The Cairo
Newspapers.
Chapter XXI-Cairo in Servitude
to Land Companies.
Chapter XxTT-The American
Notes
Chapter XXIII-The Town Covers
ment OF Two Years and The City
Government of Fifty-three Years
rhe Seventeen Mayors.
| Chapter XXIV.-Darius Blake Hoo
brook-Siiles A Gilbert-Samue
Stats saylor-Wm. Parker Halliday
Halliday Brothers.
Chapter XXV.-The Growth of The
Three States.
Chapter XXVI-Alexande County
land Its Other Towns, and Its Earliest
| history.
| Chapter XXVII.-Harrell's Short
Fiistory-The History Of Alexander
Tnion and Pulaski Counties.
| Chapter XXVIH-Other Railroads
The Illinois Central and the Thebes
Bridges-The Cairo Harbor and Ba
ION Rock-The Ferries, Cairo's Nee
of.
| Chapter XXIX,--Cairo Banks
| Building and Loan Associations-Th
Custom House-The Halliday Hotel =
rhe Springfield Bloek-The Court d
Common Pleas.
Chapter Extracts From
Books, Pamphlets and Letters.
Chapter XXI. Fort Jefferson
Birds Point and The Birds.
Chapter XXXTI. Miscellaneous
Papers-Judges OF the Supreme
Court Circuit and County Courts
Members OF the Legislature and
Other Bodies--List Of Early Resi-
dents Of the City, Etc.
Chapter XXXIIT.--Cairo as a Place
Of Business-The Future of the Cry
Index
Maps and Illustrations.
A very valuable feature Of tne boob
are its fac-simile and verbatim copies
Of official documents relating to i'm.
eortant events, its maps, Illustrations
and its pictures OF all the mayors and
other leading men. These comprise
the following:
Tanners map of Illinois of 1922;
Details OF Maps of l71s and 1855;
Survey of Township Seventeen, 1907;
Map of Cairo of 1918: Shadrack
Bond, Photogravure; Elias Kent
Kane, Photogravure; Thompson's
Survey of 1897; Chancellor Kent's
Letter of 1898: Galena Celebration,
1888, Certificate of Stock in c. c. &
c. Company; Longs Topographical
Map of 1850; Illinois Central Rail
road Tracks Junction OF Rivers
1850; Map of Proposed Canal,
1898. Citv Ordiuonca NJ 1910. Erf