Sabula-1854

SABULA

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 4/17/2009 at 22:20:47

Maquoketa Sentinel, December 7, 1854.

SABULA

Our ideas of this enterprising river town are more than realized during a short sojourn last week. We were very agreeably surprised at the amount of business done and the number of mechanical branches which are very successfully carried on. The articles manufactured are all of a superior style and finish, and will compare very favorably with articles manufactured in older towns possessing superior facilities. Sabula, with her beautiful location, the industry, enterprise and the liberal feeling she is manifesting in the Iowa Central Air Line Railroad, bespeak for her (when finished) a population and commercial trade equal to any river town. Buildings of every description have been erected during the past season; and a number are now in course of erection which will have to remain unfinished until Spring, owing to the want of mechanics and the present cold weather. We hope this spirit of enterprise will continue and ere the close of another year, we shall be linked with something more substantial than our present friendship.