Article clipped from Alton Weekly Courier

fcoTjvTuara.brick jra-rds, a cotton factory, a boot and shoe factory en the piau ndapt4»i at Lynn and Abingdon, Mnaa., a furniture fac* toiy,’ a paper mill, and all the variousbranches of trade which can bo success folly carried on anywhere- These, or any of them, can bu made to pay a far better interest here than in New York or New England* And besides these, there are other openings for the investment of capital at much better rates of interest than in the older States, Ten per cent, and the veiy best of security can readily be obtained. Then we want n first clasB’ *v - .hotel built, a large market house, and above all, tenements .to rent must be erected forth-withi emigrants are flocking in so rapidly that houses cannot be built' fast enough to supply them with shelter^'. Our merchants and manufacturers are behind no community in the W«6t for enterprise and publlc-spirit, bat the channels of prosperity are more numerous _ than they, can possibly , develope. -Every man is bard at work -getting rich; and we cay: to others, *cComfi; on and job shall; be welcome.” Oar hearts are open and the field is. wide enough for all. Wo have gold hidden in the floil of onr prairies, In our atone quarries, in onr coal urines, along the j tract;.of our railroads, and-.all aronod us, and the worker in any sphere may be sure of
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Alton Weekly Courier

Alton, Illinois, US

Thu, Jun 15, 1854

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