The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-26
Son of Judge Love Deceased of
Keokuk. Plans to Build City
Across River From r.
Madison.
IS A GIGANTIC SCHEME
Options on Ten Thousand Acres Of
Land Are Being Taken-Fif-
teen Thousand People
in Sixty Days.

FORT MADISON, Ia. Jan 26.-Atl
g public meeting held at East Fort
Madison Tuesday evening and seem
ingly attended by every farmer with
in q radius of several miles, there
was launched a plan the success Of
which will put town of 5000 In
habitants there in fifteen or twenty
days and result in city, metropolis
of half million population, in very
few years
The enterprise is the most stupen-
dous ever undertaken in the west.
It will require sum OF money ten
times as large as required to build
the Keokuk dam. The plan is to-
make the city one of instantaneous
growth somewhat similar to the plan
followed on Oklahoma lands, where
towns of several thousand sprang in
to existence in a few hours
The utilization of power to be de-
yeloped from the Keokuk- Hamilton
dam provides the base of the founda-
ton of the plan; added to which are
the advantages of the Santa Fe, the
pipe line. the river navigation, the
scenery. the possibilities of the great
lake furnish the other requisites
which can be presented to holders of
moneys ready to be invested in a
growing western city.
VIM. Love the Promoter.
The promoter of the plan is vii.
liam T. Love. son of Judge Love
fdeceased) OF Keokuk. who at one
time held the federal court position
now occupied By Judge Mcpherson.
Mr.. Love has made lifelong study
OF town building, has had experience
in the promotion of successful enter
prises and for the last eight years has
i been living in Alaska, where he has
/ the acquaintance and confidence of
] the people whose money Is ready to
I be invested in SOME safe proposition
I in their home country. His plan, in
brief, is as follows: !.
The Proposed City.
! For more than twenty years Mr..
Love has been planning the building
of a great manufacturing city, on
/ original and progressive lines, that
i should make it model for all sub
I sequent attempts at city building or
municipal Improvements The study
/ has been to make it practical, to as
/ semble such forces and methods as
I would assure success.
The fundamental prerequisite for
such an enterprise is a great water
power, located in the central portion
of the country, surrounded by mar
kets and having cheap and adequate
transportation facilities for raw ma.
terial and factory products.
An ideal location OF this kind near
1 the southwest corner Of the state OF
Iowa, not far from the center of pop
ulation OF the United States. is now
being created by the building of a
great power dam across the Mississip
/ pi river, between Keokuk, Iowa, and
Hamilton, Illinois This work is now
under way. financed by one of the
strongest contracting firms in the
Union. 1t will be finished probably
in two years time. An act OF con
gress gives the necessary authority;
225.000 horse power is to be devel
oped, to be used for all kinds of man
ufacturing and other purposes. It's
utilization, In this favored locality
will create and support one of the
greatest manufacturing centers I'm the
world
/ The Z. s. census f1seo) shows tina
in the "matured' water power cite.
of our country there is population
Of 4.s8 persons per horse power O
water power In use in such cities. Or
this basis Of actual experience. safs
one to Judge by, the development ane
utilization of less than half the poweI
at Keokuk f100,4 92 II. P.) wouls
create and support q city of half ;
million.
In addition to the compelling ad
vantage of this gigantic power deveI
opment the locality has railways ant
waterways in competition with eacf
other-to create the most Favorable
freight rates on raw material an
manufactured products. The Mis-
sissippi, connected with the Crea
Lakes by the Chicago drainage canal
will provide water freights to tn,
east. With one transfer at New Or
leans ocean shipments can be mad
by an all-water route 70 any seapor
of the world; and through the Pans
ma Canal, when completed. to the Pa
cific coasts Of North and South Ame-
lea and the Orient
To take advantage Of these cond
tions and secure the enormous profit
of the urban development that mus
result therefrom is the purpose Of tb
| promoter and his friends.
The special plans and methods I
the promoter are the result Of Owe
twenty years of study and experfenc
They are proposed to be utilized !