The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-20
|OPEN LETTER BY
| Mr.. BALL|NGER
Chairman Of Committee in Charge
Of John NoIen Fund Speaks
to the Public on
Question.
HEARTY SUPPORT URGED
Expects People to Cooperate With
Committee to Make Decid-
ed Success Of tho
Work.
HEARTY SUPPORT URGED


committee in charge Of the campaign
for subscriptions to the John Nolen
fund, presents the following:
Since the first announcement that
the great dam would be built the
march towards the greater Keokuk
has been steady and continuous. Be
sides the dam itself costing many mil
lions of dollars and furnishing cheap
power at our doors for all time the
water power and Stone & Webster
people have become owners of large
quantities of our real estate and also
owners of our street railway system
and of our gas and electric plants.
Far seeing men like these do not ac-
quire such vast interests simply for
their health. They have done it be-
cause they knew in advance and
clearly saw that Keolluk is to be a
city. Knowing this fact they did not
hesitate to cast their lot with us. All
Keokuk welcomes co-partnership
with these splendid acquisitions to
our city.
AS the dam approaches completion
coming events are shaping themselves
with greater rapidly. The Water
Power Company has purchased q
large Industrial tract and we may be
sure that this industrial tract is moi
intended for a summer resort. The
water power people will soon have a
vast surplus Of power flowing anc
wasting to the sea. They do no. in
tend that it shall waste too long.
am very sure that they do intend thai
wheels shall go around on the Indus
trial tract and that manufacturing en-
terprises building on the industrial
tract shall become consumers of {
portion of their surplus power. l
| has no other meaning to me.
Planning the Tract.
A great industrial planner, the NAL
who SO successfully planned industrial
Chicago heights, Mr.. Kilgallen, ha
been engaged to plan our industrial
tract and with the assistance of al
eminent Chicago engineer and loca
egineer is now rapidly engaged in thu
preparation of this great work. Ont
great need for any city that expects
to be a city is fine hotel. Through
many ups and downs but with ;
steady purpose those at the helm hav'
steered the ship until definite an
\ nouncement is now made that we ar
to have one of the finest hotels IL
the state. The work Is now unde
way and all details are finished ant
this fine structure SO necessary t
what is to follow will soon begin tt
! show its head above the ground.
Though | am not an officer nor ;
4 director nor in any way connected
with the work Of the Keokuk Indus
trial Association / have tried to be |
close observer of what it is doing ant
| think | have seen its hands In al
1 most everything that has been accom-
plished for the good of the city sine
I its organization. A great Statesman
once said IF man needs help, offe
! him a helping hand, but if he does no
take it and respond, let him lie wher
he is and pass on to the next Will
/ the water power and Stone & Web
ster people have done SO much TO
/ Keokuk and have extended a helpin;
hand they have not only found a cob
slant response from our industrial as
ISOLATION but better still the industrial
association has been constantly takin!
the initiative in the good things tina
are being done. If the rate question
alone where Mr.. Thorne says that Nh
Dewitt has rendered such splendid
effective service shall be decided il
our favor and ! believe ]. will, 1t will
be worth many times more to the cit,
4 of Keokuk than our entire subscrir
lions to the industrial association
fund.