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 . resbyterian Church, South Bend, Ind.; the M. E. Church, C4reenville, Penn.;Congregational Church, Fergus Falls, Minn.; Catholic Cathedral, St. Cloud, Minn.;Presbyterian Church, Burlington, Iowa; Swedish liUtheran College, St. Peters, Minn. 70 MO LINE: THE IRON WORKS.
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 . resbyterian Church, South Bend, Ind.; the M. E. Church, C4reenville, Penn.;Congregational Church, Fergus Falls, Minn.; Catholic Cathedral, St. Cloud, Minn.;Presbyterian Church, Burlington, Iowa; Swedish liUtheran College, St. Peters, Minn. 70 MO LINE: THE IRON WORKS. Alfred Williams founded what is now the great iron works of Williams, White& Company, in 1854, and he has been a witness of the steady growth of what wasone of Molines earliest enterprises until now it is one of the largest. The largebuildings, shown by the illustration, are arranged for the special work of the com-pany, and are supplied with the most complete machinery. The officers and principalowners are: Alfred Williams, President; M. H. White, Vice-President, and H. , Secretary and Treasurer. About two and one-half acres of ground areoccupied hy the shops. The foundry is 114 by 60 feet; pattern-shop, 120 by 40 feet,three stories; the machine and other departments are of similar proportions. One. THE MOLINE IBON WORKS. hundred mechanics and moulders find constant work. A specialty is made — thoughall kinds ot work is done — of power-hammers, drop-presses, and the bulldozer, amachine for forging by pressure. The bulldozer has been made to order for suchestablishments as the Pullman Car-Shops, at Pullman, near Chicago; the IllinoisCentral; Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, and other railroads; the Cooke LocomotiveWorks; for shipbuilders, and other heavy workers in iron and steel. MOLINE SCALE COMPANY. Moline scales weigh the grain and the live stock of the northwest. The VictorScale Works continued business here from 1868 to 1877, when Major Josiah Groutbought the
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