Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1890 — A Foreign Built City. [ARTICLE]

A Foreign Built City.

One of the most notable things which any English syndicate has done America is the building of a city, in what was before practically a wirderA ness. This city is to spring up, full grown, with public buildings, banks,v school houses, electric lights, telegraph! and telephone offices and all tho pajrar \ plirenalia of a large city, where a year ) ago there was not a house. It will have street railways and mammoth hotels. Half a dozen railroads will center at this spot. The name of this city is Middlesborough, and its situation is in the Cumberland gap. Fifteen millions of dollars will have been put in there by the principal company: Numerous sub-companies depending on this main company will build gas works, electric light establishments, attend to the sale of land, erect tremendous factories, and so the city will rise almost, as it were, in 8 night, like one of the fabled palaces of the Arabian stories. It will be an English manufacturing town, situated in the heart of the Cumberland mountains;- ■ In the immediate vicinity of the magic town is found coal of all ’ domestic, steam, smithing, cooking and , cannel. There is iron ore of various J kiqds, clay and manganese ore, zinc, r metallic paint, lead, cement, marble 1 and sandstone. The town will be situ- ' ated frpm 1,000 to 2,00 ) feet above the .sea level, and the experiment of build ing a whole city at once will be lookod forward to with interest