The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-08-30

tidal-wave. Prospectively, the United
States does not present more attrac-a
tive and assured community for inves.a
tors and homeseekers than the new
Illinois electric power city Of Hamil-
ton. now teeming with opportunities.
The creation OF the Mississippi
Hamilton dam Is destined to not only
|reshift the manufacturing and popu-
lous center OF the American republic,
but it is restoring the United States
Amazon to its pioneer supremacy OF
waterway transportation perorgatives
and pleasures. What with modern
locks and restored depths Of rivers
and lakes, there has already been q
remarkable stimulation OF local steam
boating and barges. harbors and piers,
and the picnicking parks In the be-
loved shore groves OF aud lang syne.
Notably at Hamilton the authorities
are establishing metropolitan har-
Dor. port and piers at the mouth Of
the Cheney Creek inlet and lagoon to
the sylvan haunts OF Wild Cat Springs
Park. The Hamilton harbor will be a
distinct feature Of the great dam lake
and its beautiful shore-winding drive.
Hamilton Parks.
Hamilton is naturally parked city
throughout It's half dozen square
miles OF undulating topography but
with particularly beautiful features
and metropolitan possibilities in Wild
Cat Springs forest. Gordon's Grove.
and the woody terrace. valley view
slope and dam quarry at the junction
base of Second and Keokuk streets.
The landscape embellishing OF these
beauty spots will rapidly follow the
development of the new lake and riv-
er shore drive.
A Manufacturing Center.
Is Hamilton the destined manufac-
turing metropolis OF the coming dens-
ely populated central Mississippi val
ley? Why not? With It's 100000
power plant, It's one hundred and fifty
thousand horsepower for local sale,
its impending monthly payroll of
100000, its huge operating force and
that of the attracted factories, total
ing into thousands of new population,
and it's rich agricultural background,
the Hancock empirerwhat can stem
the inevitable Hamiltonian eclipse OF
the Birmingham, Niagara and Gary
promotion predecessors? Statistics
have established that each horse
power in America supports five per
sons This fact alone fairly assures
Hamilton of an early half million
| people, and double that number with
1 the energetic development OF the
power possibilities within the lifetime
of it's creators.
cooper,s Lively interest.
Engineer Hugh L. Cooper, who is
building the dam. takes real inter
est in the development OF the local
communities In which he temporarily
/ sojourns, and Is heartily esteemed
I personally in Hamilton and vicinity,
which he has inestimably benefited
and where his colusses OF water pow
ers will stand eternally as his monu
ment. Mr.. Cooper Is still comparative
~ a young man in the midst OF his
forties.
4 The new center and seat Of factory
power will speedily transform the II
linois, Iowa end Missouri junction ter
ritory from a hitherto reposeful agri
cultural region of cereals and chick
ems and ruralic factors into fifty
mile circuit of whizzing wheels, met
ropolitan products, novelties and lax
uries, and the varied pressures OF pop
ulation that animate the mill region.
i of MASSACHUSETTS and the manufactur
+ ing cycles Of New York, Philadelphia
]. Detroit, Chicago and st. Louis