The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-08-07
Chicago and GaIena Rail Road.

The Galena Jeffersonan says:-''We feel
sangunc that the road will be completed to Ga
lena in two years from the first of November
xt,-and we hope our citizens will do all they
can to aid and push it along. One determined
and united effort will result to the general good
Our city will prosper, money will be obtained at
easy rates to embark in useful enterprises, ex-
changes will be regulated, and a general and
healthy prosperity ensuc.'
We doubt not but all this is true, and shall
heartily re joice to see 1t consummated.
A connection with Eastern markets, by a
cheap and speedy mode of travel, is what is need
ed for the towns and country of the great North
West, and when the Rail Road shall have reach
ed the entcrprising town of Galena, we shall be-
gin to reap the advantages of this Eastern con-
necton.
The produce of the vast country west Of the
districts of the East, or be sent across the At
lantic to feed the manufacturers of Europe.
The great line Of transportation through this
important section of country, cannot be expected
to stop at the inland town of Galena, but must
push on to the Mississippi, and stretch across
the fertile plains of Iowa, and send it's arms to
Minnesota and Nebraska.
| At point on the Western bank of the Missis-
spp river, where this road shall cross that stream,
must be the depot for the collection and trans
and almost boundless country North and West
of that point. The produce Of that portion of
the country East Of the river will find its depot
on the Western shore of Lake Michigan.
AS "Wcstvard the Star of Empire takes it's
course so Eastacard must the produce of that
Empire find market for it's consumption
Wherever, in this East,card course a great ma
tural obstacle shall be encountered, there, as it
were, will be a damng up of the great flood as
! it pours towards the Atlantic shore, and there
| will the vast accumulation change hands from
the producer to the carrier, or to him who lives
| by traffic with the tiller of the SOIL
Such point is Dubuque, and such points are
| Chicago and it's fourishing giant neighbor, MIL
aoauhee. Every article Of produce, Vest of the
river, must seek the former, and every article
| IuSl, llluSL Scch OHC VI oIilCA VI LilC AuIISA'
The situation of Dubuque renders it impossi-
BILE that she should be other than the largest
Town Of the North West. At present she is
struggling for want Of capital; but when her ad-
vantages shall be known, and when the coun-
try to which she looks for support shall have
been examined and duly appreciated, this obsta-
Gle to her advancement and her aggrandisement
will have vanished away, and she will stand
without rival. .: ,aa. ..u.aa. 1t... "
1t is to be lamented that our citizens have not
the ability to assist in pushing on the important
works which are to connect us with the great ci-
ties of the Lake; but SO it is. Poverty is our
greatest curse There is not dollar of money
in our midst but has found, can readily find
a chance for investment at high rates Of inter
est, or in profitable operations of trade. We
want the idle capital Of the East The location
Of Dubuque, with her present prosperous condi-
ton, and the Importance to which she has alrea,
4 dy attained in the estimation Of the rapidly in
creasing population Of the State, renders it GER
tain that "mastcrly inactivity" will finally win