Three cities and their industrial interests, with an historical and descriptive sketch of the national armory and arsenal, the location, manufacturing facilities, and business advantages of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and Milan, Illinois--their commerce, population, schools, churches, and present condition . e dam and obliterate the 62 MOLINE: power, paying the Water-Power Company by a similar appraisement. But moststrenuous protests were made against such a proceeding — although a sale would havebeen advantageous to the company — inasmuch as it involved the blotting out of theto
Three cities and their industrial interests, with an historical and descriptive sketch of the national armory and arsenal, the location, manufacturing facilities, and business advantages of Davenport, Iowa, and Rock Island, Moline, and Milan, Illinois--their commerce, population, schools, churches, and present condition . e dam and obliterate the 62 MOLINE: power, paying the Water-Power Company by a similar appraisement. But moststrenuous protests were made against such a proceeding — although a sale would havebeen advantageous to the company — inasmuch as it involved the blotting out of thetown, and meant virtual ruin to the industries built up by the water-power anddependent upon it, as well as surrendering the finest power site on the Mississippiriver, with all its great posibilities of future advantage. CONDITIONS OF THE AGREEMENT. A final agreement, however, was made, by which the power |was saved to thetown, by the Water-Power Company surrendering the entire power to the govern-ment without consideration, save an agreement on the part of the government toenter at once upon plans for its complete development, and to maintain the same,and give the company one-fourth of the entire developed power^^free of charge forrent. As to what degree the power was capable of development, both the government. AR&ENAI. \\ ATER-PO^V ER .MACHINERY. and the company agreed that a twelve-foot head was practicably obtainable, therebeing a fall of twenty feet over the rapids to this point. At this transfer to the gov-ernment, appropriations were made and improvements begun on plans having suchultimate development in view. CHANGES IN THE PLANS. Subsequent changes in the plans were made, however, to enable the governmentto bring the power down to a point opposite the shops in the middle of the extension of the power entirely changed the plans for the dam, and largelyincreasedjthe,amount of the work and the consequent expense, and took precedenceover the general improvem
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