The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-01-09
Northern Iowa and Wisconsin
Railroad Convention.

This Convention, which we briefly noticed in
our last, assembled at McGregor, in Clayton
County, Iowa. on the 25th. of December, and
was organized by appointing James II. Lock-
wood, of Praric Du Chicn, President; and Hen
ry d. Evans of Clayton Co. and J. C. Spencer
of Richland Co. Wis. Secretaries.
On the opening of the Convention, E. Price
Esq. Of Clayton, made an eloquent address, ,cx-
planatory Of the objects ofthc convention.
A Committee, consisting of Mcssrs. Riches Of
Prairie du Chen, Price and Jones of Clayton,
was appointed to draft resolutions, and during
their absence, several gentlemen from Wiscon-
sin and Iowa. addressed the Convention,
The committee on resolutions submitted the
following resolutions, &c, which were unani-
mously adopted:
The progressive character of the American
people, in the several departments Of the arts
and sciences the national spirit of enterprise that
pervades the Union, awakened by liberal and
general diffusion Of educational knowledge,
seems to be constantly developing new sources
of commercial prosperity, and national wealth,
which can only be realized with beneficial
results, through the medium Of a more extended
and general system of Railroad improvements.
Experience has forced upon the Nation,
the truthful position, that branch of our
national system of Internal improvements will
compare with the railroad in the transportation
of merchandise, in the diffusion of general intel
ligence, and in the reconcilng of conflicting
national interests, through the medium Of a
more general intercourse, in the social relations,
of the various parts OF our country.
Your committee, with these views, believe
that the northern parts of the STATES Of Iowa
and Wisconsin, present not only great natural
llites, for the cxpediting Of Railroad improve
mcnts, but agricultural and manufacturing ad-
vantagcs, equal and in many respects superior,
to other parts of our State. 10. -.. s.:.. t. .
1t is known that the northern Oregon and
California Railroad route designated by Mr..
Whitney, after careful and laborious Topo-
graphical view Of the State Of Wisconsin and
Iowa, crosses the Mississippi at Prairie du Chen,
directly opposite this place and has been recon-
.ncnded to Congress by the approving resolutions
of 7tcenty-onc Suite legislatures.
The canal uniting the Wisconsin and Fox riv-
crs, your committee learn, is progressing under
the most favorable circumstances, and will speed
iy be completed, thus uniting the waters of
Green Bay with the Mississippi at Prairie du
Chen. . .., ..,s -s........ III sr.t
"A Typographical survey, made during the past
year, has shown that the most practicable ter.
minating point on the Mississippi river, for the
Milwaukee Railroad, is at or near the mouth OF
the Wisconsin river, following in its whole
course, a dividing range Of ofcountry, which s.epe-
rates the tributaries Of the Wisconsin from those
Of the Mississippi
Your committee in view of these considerations
believe that the contemplated Hailroad, com
mcncing at Kcokuk in this State, should be
continued TO McGregor BY way Of Cedar Rapids