The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-05-29

when are included the three whole-
SAFE fresh meat houses, ice plants
IRON Work. foundries, liquor, beer.
soda water, vinegar, produce and
commission houses, cigar jobbers.
wholesale drug business, wagons:
buggies and agricultural implements
and an immense coal traffic. The
annual business of these firms
amounts to large sum.
Cairo has factory site with river
frontage.
Cairo Is the gateway between the
North and South.
Cairo has splendid hotel facilities.
Levee System.
The Levee system is so complete
hat any danger which formerly ex-
sted from overflow has been elimi-
lated. This has been effected by the
construction of an immense levee
comparable to the famous Holland
lykes from the mouth OF the Cache
liver on the Ohio to the Mississippi
! distance of five. miles. This leyee,
quilt to the fifty-flve foot level. in
'ures protection, not only to Cairo.
ut also what Is known as the drain.
&c district, wing northerly from the
city limits and inclgling thousands
81 acres of alluvial lands. Since the
completion of this levee both rivers
have risen to the highest mark with.
out inflicting injury, impeding traffic
or creating any uneasiness among
the inhabitants. The result is that
when other cities along the Ohio are
submerged and business suspended,
here no inconvenience is felt, not a
wheel stops, factory suspends or mill
ceases to run.
Cairo Soon to Have Another Railway.
1t is contemplated that the Cairo
Thebes Railroad Company will
rave its 27h miles OF line between
Cairo and Thebes In operation about
the first of December, 1910. This
line will bring Cairo into direct com
nercial contact with Thebes, Beech
Ridge, Santa Fe and Fayville, and
make physical connection with the
ines using the Thebes bridge The
opening of this line will be of great
ivantage TO this city as it will per-
ait close commercial relations with
Communities on the ST. Louis, Iron
Mountain and Southern and st. Louis
Southwestern that the city is unable
10 advantageously reach at this time.
In fact 1t will give it an outlet to
he West and an inlet not heretofore
Vailable. 1t Is essentially a terml-
nal road. which will furnish trackage
ABILITIES to any railroad that might
ant to enter Cairo
lis, equipment will be the most mod
I'm that money and experience can
locure, laid with S5-pound steel and
)e standard gauge. The investment
win represent approximately $4,000
lC0, s1,000,000 of which will be spent
ana about Cairo for terminal ia.
Titles, etc.
This company will have excellent
actory sites available in the drain
age district, within five miles of the
city. also river front property that
will also be useful for industrial sites.
Hotel Accommodations
Cairo has several hotels, of which
the Halliday Is the largest and most
important 1t is conducted upon the
American plan and ranks in point Of
service, equipment and management
with the best class of modern hotels
tho country over
cairo's Extensive Internal Improve.
ments.
Great extensions and improvements
have been constructed during the
past year, improvements and exten.
sions that have contributed toward
the facilities which every modern
city nowadays furnishes the indiyid-
ual, and which have placed Cairo in
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following article will show a sum-
mary of what has been accomplished
Sanitary Sewer System.
The installation of complete and
sanitary sewer system has
been one of the greatest improve.
ments Cairo has had. A main outlet
sewer, 24,S29 feet in length has been
at 4 cost OF $108,813.10,
and turned over to the city. Lateral
sewers, making total of 1S7,4 5S lin
cal feet and costing 1921 ,269.10, have
been completed and will be connect
ed with the main outlet sewer. This
OF one Of the most important i'm
proven ents Cairo has had, and one
which shows that the citizens OF
Cairo are progressive and insist upon
having the most modern system OF
physical betterments that
1t Is possible to procure.
Hospitals.
Cairo has two magnificent hospi-
tails st, Mary's Infirmary, established
and operated by the Sisters OF the
Holy Cross, and the United States