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___* — VWe want mechanics- Oar streets are fitted with bugs piles of building material, and large storey warehouses, churches and several handsome dwellings are only waitin'? for mechanics to build them. Give us plenty of carpenters and masons and wo will keep them all busy at mncb better prices than they can obtain in the East. Mechanics are the independent men here; we fed'exceedingly thankful to them tf they will do our work on their own terms. We want two hundred carpenters and masons forthwith—and good workmen of all other trades may feel sore of plenty of work and good pay.We want more capitalists to engage in manufacture 'No place in the West offers better inducements to capitalists than Alton docs. We have plenty of excellent coal, plenty of the finest limestone in the world, plenty of brick day, the Mississippi river fall of water, a beabby climate, good schools, cbiirches of all. denominations, a rapidly growing city, railroad connections with the Atlantic, n country surrounding us as fertile as the Delta of the Nile, a constant and largely in creasing home demand for all kinds of maim fact ureB, and everything in. favor of the capitalist. We want immediately a locomotive manuFao-tnTy^TOora.hrick jr.nrds, a cotton factory, a boot and shoe factory en the plan ndafttA'! at Lynn and Abingdon, Mass., a furnitnie factory.' a paper mill, and all tbc various
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Alton Weekly Courier
Alton, Illinois, US
Thu, Jun 15, 1854
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