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---■ l^fc^^rasda^^tho pleasant andflourishingtown of miUers-burgh. , After|pn' absence of some ten or twelvemonthspromly sui^ri^d y^llxe :g5teal cfaanfesiMt had taken plaoend itarapidgrowtkduring that brief period, Jn fact* pbogress seems stamped upon ehreiytbir^;^sfiapeof business and impiwremexrt^It contains several large and well-filled Dry Goods houses, i number of Grocery stores, a Iafge stearii flouring mill, a good steam .saw- mill;‘ also a carriage riidnufiicto-ly, and in fact nearly every brarich of-me* ehanical business necessary to accommodate the citizens of the place and the surrounding country, is carried on at Millers-burgh. There are already a number of beautiful residences there, and others in course of erection. A large and convenient- j 1ly constructed hotel building is nearly corn-]3pleted. A neat and elegant church edifice!1 has recently been erected by the Methodist: * denomination, and will soon be completed lK throughout JA railway lias just been constructed for j1 the purpose of building and repairing canal ji boats. Coal, of an excellent quality, exists | ^ here in abundance, and is obtained at much i1 less labor and expense than at many other j 1 localities in this section of the country.— * Mr. T. Whetstone has lately sunk a shaft, near the canal, to the depth of forty-five feet, and he is now working a vein of several feet in thickness. Coal is also easily obtained from a bank, close to the Canal, some of j j k \ w hich has been shipped to Evansville, where], ] it has been pronounced equal in quality to; ] k~ | the best descriptions found in the West. | Millcrsburgh is situated along the canal, {-in Campbell township, Warrick county,!*B ?about eight miles from Eoonville. and b the j shipping point and principal business mart j fora considerable scope of rich and fertile]3 country: and should its future growth be at:; all commensurate with the past and present, j j it is destined, ere Jong, to be an important I; business town. We are assured by those!:. Mt who ought to know, that there are moroj] y | Goods sold hero than in any town of its size] j in the county. The present population of 1 Miilersburgh is about 300.
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Boonville Warrick Democrat
Boonville, Indiana, US
Tue, Aug 16, 1859
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