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 . nts oflered here. It manu-factures the New Method combined hot water and air furnace. OTHER ENTERPRISES. This book does not profess to notice in detail all the industrial enterprises ofMoline, but it aims to present those which show the variety and the extent of thebusiness.
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 . nts oflered here. It manu-factures the New Method combined hot water and air furnace. OTHER ENTERPRISES. This book does not profess to notice in detail all the industrial enterprises ofMoline, but it aims to present those which show the variety and the extent of thebusiness. Among the remaining industries are the following: The Moline ElevatorWorks; several wagon shops; a brass foundry; four large brick-yards; four cigarmanufactories; two furniture fiictories; the INIoline Cabinet-Organ Company; L. pump works; the Moline Screw Company; the Moline Stove Company. 72 MOLINE: jrOLINE PUMPS. Plows, planters, and pails by the ten thouFand, paper by the thousand tons, sothere are pumps almost -without number. The Moline Pump Company, whose exten-sive works are shown by the , has made for itself and its goods a wideand enviable reputation. It has been expanding since 1866, when the senior memberof the company began manufacturing pumps on the island. The first years work. MOLINE PDMP COMPANV s FACTOE\ amounted to 1,100 pumps; the second, 2,000; the fourth, 5,000; the seventh, 15,000,and the increase has been in that ratio ever since. In 1887 the company gave em-ployment to seventy-five hands. The Moline Pump Works, of the Huntoon Brothers, is a growing institution, anddemonstrates that Moline is becoming a pump as well as a plow center. It is a muchyounger institution. BANKS, POST-OFFICE, ETC. FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS. First National Bank.— This institution was organized November Kith, 1863, andbegan business on the following 22d day of December. Its officers are: J. M. Gould,President; J. T. Browning, Vice-President; J. S. Gillmore,
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