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 . fully designated as the Lowell of the West, for it isone of the busiest, most thrifty cities in the Mississippi Valley, famed the worldover for the variety and extent of its industrial interests as well as for the qualityof their products. The citys bluffs and the plain stret
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 . fully designated as the Lowell of the West, for it isone of the busiest, most thrifty cities in the Mississippi Valley, famed the worldover for the variety and extent of its industrial interests as well as for the qualityof their products. The citys bluffs and the plain stretching beyond them furnishthe most desirable building opportunities. SPLENDID BOWING WATER. The accompanying illustration shows a part of Sylvan water, between the water-power wall and the Island. It is over a mile in length, by nearly 1,000 feet in width,affording the best sheet of rowing water, protected as it is on all sides, in the entirewest. This course has been four times selected during the last ten years by theMississippi Valley Ameteur Rowing Association for its annual regattas. It is theonly place on the great river where slack water in sufficient quantity can be has its Sylvan Boat Club of 100 members, an organization which takesadvantage of its fine opportunities for pleasure and MOLINE UUIUGi: TO NATIONAL AKSENAL. MUNICIPAL GOVEKNMENT. Moline has a population of over 11,000. The corporation limits are divided intoseven wards, each of which has two representatives in the city council, one Alder-man being elected for two years each alternate year. The rate of taxation, for allpurposes, is 6:| cents on each $ equalized valuation. For 1887 the assessedvaluation was |1,720, The assessed valuation is on a basis of from one-sixth ITS INTERESTS AND INDUSTRIES. 59 to one-fourth of the actual value. The bonded debt is $73, The City Marshalacts as health officer under the state law. The sanitary condition of Moline, asshown by its m
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