Iowa
Old Press
Maquoketa Sentinel
Maquoketa, Jackson, Iowa
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.
[transcribed by K.W., April 2009]