Busy Corner - 1896

NAGEL, KREB, BELL, JOYCE, DISBROW

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 3/22/2017 at 16:20:54

The Clinton Mirror
W. D. Eaton, Editor
Clinton, Iowa, Saturday, May 9, 1896
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Busy Corner

The busiest scene in this part of town, except at Joyce’s saw-mill and Disbrow’s Sash factory, is in the northeast corner of the city.

Scores of men are at work building for the lock factory, the walls of which are rising fast under their hands.

Just beyond, some 125 men are engaged in getting out rock from the quarries of Messrs. Bell, Nagel, and Kreb’s and loading it on barges for the Government river improvements but a short distance up river. There are sub-contractors for finishing rock – Nagel working at his own stone bank and employing home men, while the other brought their crews with them from above: Bell and Krebs receiving royalties for the material taken from their quarries.

There are some apprehension that high water might interfere with the work on the river improvements, but that subsided with the water.