The Great Resources And Superior Advantages Of The City Of Joliet Illinois

Author : Hopkins Rowell
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ISBN 13 : 9781332133253
Total Pages : 42 pages
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Download or read book The Great Resources, and Superior Advantages of the City of Joliet, Illinois (Classic Reprint) written by Hopkins Rowell and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-04 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Great Resources, and Superior Advantages of the City of Joliet, Illinois Joliet is the shire town of Will county, Illinois. It is forty miles southwest of Chicago, and has a population of about ten thousand inhabitants. The Des Plaine River, and Illinois & Michigan Canal pass through the city. The broad plain or valley of the river, with its fall of thirty feet, within the city limits affords a spacious, pleasant and healthy site for a great manufacturing and business city - while the undulating bluffs on either side furnish thousands of charming locations for city residences. Its railroad facilities are not surpassed, except at Chicago, Being parallel with the head of Lake Michigan, it is on the great central air-line route of trade and travel, from ocean to ocean. This advantage can hardly be over-estimated. It is causing an increased yearly divergence of trade from Chicago, over the Joliet Cut-Off route. It also affords us local shipping facilities to Boston and New York as cheap as that city possesses. Few towns can be more healthy or as well supplied with the purest water. The gas works are ample for thirty thousand inhabitants. And there are over thirty miles of finely graded streets. The generous support of eleven flourishing churches; and of schools in like proportion, are evidence of the liberality and public spirit of our citizens. For a fuller exposition of our superior advantages, we refer to the following pages. Does any one ask why we advertise our city? We reply that it is to spread abroad a knowledge of those advantages, and strive to build up here what nature formed us for - a great industrial and manufacturing city. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.