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 . w survey did not actually locate the route, andthat the estimates made did not include cost of right of way and fencing. Thereforethat congress appropriated $30, for a new survey and complete estimates, bothas to the Hennepin Canal and the enlargement of the Illinois an
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 . w survey did not actually locate the route, andthat the estimates made did not include cost of right of way and fencing. Thereforethat congress appropriated $30, for a new survey and complete estimates, bothas to the Hennepin Canal and the enlargement of the Illinois and Michigan report of Major Benyaurd is the result, as heretofore quoted. The Hennepin Canal is the grandest national work ever undertaken in theinterest of cheap transportation. The seven northwestern states whose commerce itwill cheapen produced, in 1879 (according to the United States census), in roundnumbers, 1,300,000,000 bushels, or 70,000,000 tons, of grain alone. The saving oftwo cents a bushel on one-half this amount would net $13,000, in one year, orenough to build two such canals. 98 ROCK ISLAND: ^ 5 ? tt s lis •^ • a Ji ?|^ il f t^> ^ SS S tt ^^ 5 J !^ go? e I. AArmh the oa, o e ?- ^ ^ S s g § e C5 ^.= fe i •H ^ =, 5 -ii t 5 S Ci *~^ 8 ^ S » ?« •^ ^?^^1 §?« h^. ITS INTERESTS AND INDUSTRIES. 99 MILAN AND VICINITY. THE ROCK EIVEK incorporated town of Milan, an important factor from every point of viewin the quartette of cities, is located three miles south of the city of liock Island, onEock river, near the confluence with the Mississippi. The chief feature of the placeis its great water-power, which in volume is some three times that of the Merrimacriver at Lowell. It includes all the water of Rock river. The fall is twelve feet, andmay be increased to fourteen feet. The bed and shores of the river are, as the namesuggests, of solid rock. The river frontage, suitable for mill-sites and the use ofwater, is one and one-ha
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