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Dubuqe Harbor Improvement Co Stock

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Dubuqe Harbor Improvement Co Stock
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Issued and reissued #609 Julius Graves 1 share 1859 signed by President Bell. Great steamship and train vignette. "In 1854-55, the Harbor Improvement Company was organized for filling in the sloughs and making other improvements required by the growth and wealth of the city. Investors included were Mordecai MOBLEY, Lincoln Clark, Lucius Hart LANGWORTHY, James LANGWORTHY, Thomas S. WILSON and James Ogilby. The Mobley proposal, which was substantially accepted, planned to fill up Seventh street extension and bridge the sloughs with double track bridges in three months or fifteen months at the most; fill up Seventh street forty feet on top in twenty months; build a levee 320feet long and sixty-four feet wide. Payment was to be a strip of ground one block wide out to the river on one side of Seventh street extended, blocks to be 206 feet deep, as soon as the work was half done; also alternate blocks on the other side; also the right to use the dredge boat for three years. The Dubuque Harbor Company sold many lots at good prices to private individuals. In April, 1856, the Harbor Improvement Company asked permission to extend Fifth street to the river. Many warehouses were going up along the levee and along Seventh and Jones streets. Eighth Street extended was the northern boundary of the Harbor Improvement Company's tract. The work done by them had lasting value, but the officers decided to discontinue active operations when a financial panic struck the city around 1857. The PANIC OF 1857 lasted about three years. In 1860 the Dubuque Harbor Improvement Company was back in business." from encyclopediadubuque.org .5" and 2 small seam tears. Prag Collection. State: Iowa City: Date: 1859 HWAC# 83449