Book/Printed Material The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: with reports, estimates and statistics.
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Image 1 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … Ye Vy ABAD MDA Mid Maa ta Mntaeaty Pata gta a be CART Pa TA MD SMD MAUMR MMMM WYRE AMMA ATH WRU HOO AY NMA AER AND De The SAE AMMAN…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 2 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: …- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 3 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: …- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 4 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: …- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 5 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … Th he ay bi pri oy- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 6 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: …- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 7 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … THE PAST PRESENT AND FUTURE OF THE CITY OF GAIRO NORTH AMERICA WITH REPORTS ESTIMATES AND STATISTICS BY A COMMITTEE OF THE SHAREHOLDERS SEPTEMBER 29 1858 ts PORTLAND PRINTED BY BROWN THURSTON…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 8 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: …- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 9 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … CON T EN gis PAGE ReEporT OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 5 REPORT OF THE SuBCOMMITTEE 8 CONFERENCES AT NEw YORK WITH THE PRESIDENT OF THE Intinois CENTRAL RAILROAD COMPANY 6 HisTORY AND…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 10 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 7 jeg Male bo Toa An Taie4 re at Ut nt be ina irs Pag Ay hate ye 7 SMe bs f i dees as hy i Liat ED PAAR A iw…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 11 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … RE Poon P OF THE EXECUTIVE AND SUBCOMMITTEES OF THE C C P AT Philadelphia Sept 29 1858 To the Shareholders of the Cairo City Property GENTLEMEN The Executive Committee consisting of…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 12 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 6 up for the protection of Cairo by that company until the permanent levees should be completed according to the stipulations contained in the above mentioned agreements Your Committee urged the necessity…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 13 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 7 of July 22nd from Mr 8 Staats Taylor to Charles Davis Esquire Trustee hereunto annexed and marked C By the two agreements above mentioned it was provid ed that the levees…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 14 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 8 ually taking possession of the public mind both at home and abroad your Committee delegated Mr Baldwin of Syracuse N Y their Chairman and Mr Neal of Port land Maine to…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 15 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 9 Thursday morning August fifth where they remained until the evening of the eighth occupied in the examination of the levees and embankments as far up as Cache River on the Mississippi…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 16 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 10 their neighborhood as the land lying between the embank ment and the Mississippi was covered with a thick growth of young trees which would not allow such logs to be float…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 17 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 11 the old established grade of eight feet agreed upon with the Ill Central R R Costill if the levees and embank ments had been up to the old grade and properly…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 18 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 12 The climate is eminently favorable to health at all sea sons the winters mild the summers moderate and the atmosphere so dry that in twentyfour hours after the heav iest rains…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 19 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 13 summer and fall arise from low water and a succession of sandbars commencing three miles above its junction with the Mississippi and extending the whole length of the river Ice in…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 20 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 14 and vast relations may be encouraged to spring up of it self The drainage from the centre to both rivers is seven and a half feet to the half mile and…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 21 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 15 was laid off in conformity with the charter for the City of Cairo with banking privileges Owing to deaths commercial paroxysms and other hin drances nothing more was done toward carrying…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 22 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 16 on further loans to be employed in large improvements at Cairo in protecting the city from overflow on both sides in building a Turnpike to the State road from Vincennes to…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 23 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 17 large outlays upon the city of Cairo the buildings levees and embankments amounting with interest to about three and a half millions of dollars might become unproductive and all the unfinished…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 24 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 18 of the United States and holders of the Cairo City and Canal Companys bonds which were to be surrendered and cancelled the remaining five thousand shares to be sold by the…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 25 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 19 The sales within the city had averaged up to January last reckoning from Dec 23rd 1853 when the first lot was sold about 400 per lot and the assessed value of…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 26 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 20 prehension hereafter but on the contrary much to hope and more and more every year if timely measures are taken to strenethen the levees and embankments against the pos sibility of…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 27 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 21 for nineteen years that is from 1817 to Dec 1836 within twelve miles of Cairo that he had a perfect knowledge of the whole region round about and was well acquainted…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 28 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 22 ro that the waters did not reach within two feet of the top of the levee which was unfinished and though intended to enclose about a thousand acres had in no…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 29 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 23 Such being the facts of the case in relation to the height of land upon which Cairo is built and to the common though groundless belief that it lies low and…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 30 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 24 sion of the public mind or that it should have made its own way through the leading newspapers of our country filling the land with consternation and the distant shareholders with…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 31 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 25 such authority and others from St Louis and Louisville Cincinnati and Chicago though somewhat exaggerated per haps were substantially true we were prepared to find the city of Cairo if not…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 32 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 26 Cairo is also of record in letters upon the subject dated March 18 1845 and December 15 1846 and other persons deeply interested in the reputation of Cairo and well ac…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 33 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 27 Admitting the fact of the overflow and the great length of time a large part of the City had been under water we were astonished to find so little evidence of…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 34 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 28 It may not be amiss to add for the satisfaction of all in terested who have had no personal knowledge of Cairo since the drainage and clearing of the outside portion…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 35 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 29 of the excellent Mississippi waters and occasionally of the Ohio without adulteration refusing to carry an umbrella in the sun to wear summer clothing to go abroad with his coat unbuttoned…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 36 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 30 that one hundred dollars would indemnify him for all his losses by the overflow apart from his interest in the Cairo Hotel though he was rather a large proprietor having two…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 37 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 31 business foresight and sagacity and urging them to profit by their experience of the last three months and beliey ing that they the People of Cairo are in a better condition…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 38 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 32 pi three hundred miles below Cairo instead of being dis heartened the people of Cairo are strong with a cheerful and hearty confidence in themselves and in the C C Pro…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 39 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 33 of Cairo has taken the premium at several State Fairs and in the London grain market as well as in our largest home market stand at A No1 By a process…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
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Image 40 of The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: … 34 near a portion of the grounds granted to that Company up on the conditions mentioned But in providing for the future and in reviewing the past it should be constantly borne…- Contributor: Illinois Central Railroad Company - Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Date: 1858
About this Item
Title
- The past, present and future of the city of Cairo, in North America: with reports, estimates and statistics.
Names
- Cairo City Property (Cairo, Ill.)
- Illinois Central Railroad Company.
Created / Published
- Portland [Me.] Printed by B. Thurston, 1858.
Headings
- - Cairo (Ill.)
- - Levees--Mississippi River
Notes
- - Reports and correspondence between the Cairo City Property and the Illinois Central Railroad Company, relating especially to the levees and embankments of Cairo.
- - Also available in digital form.
Medium
- 103 p. 24 cm.
Call Number/Physical Location
- F549.C2 C2
Library of Congress Control Number
- rc01002398
OCLC Number
- 13619400
Online Format
- online text
- image