Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1851-05-28
Nfuscatine and dskaloOsa Rail-
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roab.
1t is really funny to hear the editor Of
she Enquirer talk about the city of Muscatine'
1t brings to mind our juvenile days, when the
young sojers" used 70 assemble for parade
with their paper cooked Ats, wooden guns and t
tin swords, and red "a y sashes, and wind up
their frolic by telling y they were going to
do when they got to treat big men" and
had plenty of money u they would buy
a nice little bob-tailed 10y, Ia better looking
one than our friend NE Enquirer rides,) a
fine saddle, whip an bpurs, and get a fine
gun and dog, and 90 ting and shoot bear
and build house, ar have fine store; and
plenty of candy, rails and all sorts of good
things, or as PORE MOI sautifully expressesit,
behold the child, BY lures kindly law, II
Pleased with ratt tSkled with straw;
Some livelier playful ives his youth delight,
A little louder, but empty quite
few months ago sCedar Bridge" was
all the rage Indees great was the excite
ment that we serioui began to entertain the
hope that in the cou Of human events, we
should have the exq Ute pleasure of a ride
over it. !. But alasi 4 Cedar Bridge is gone
the way Of all the v, to mingle its dust
with sundry other stiles and clusters of
drift wood that ~ ded it, and the Mus
catine and o. lad, ga little louder
but as empty sharm for the time
being. II the Enquirer Of
the o.
% rail
our ..ht
Oskal4 proportion
to the tral eny, VINO Is
When ~! be finished from
M;cb;gan Tty I'D, and from Musca-
t;ne re Ckaiool &c friends West will
have Yhte on v ey can ship their sur
plus pyduce from Faloosa direct to Boston s;
cat;nTo Rock Island is thirty miles. There
arc n rapids between these places, nothing to
obstN,ct the navigation but ice, which will av-
orr 7. about three months in the year. But lit
,ie produce would be sent by raiload during the
;vT lemepcy Of winter If the road was made from
6 Mere to Davenport, and when there the ice would
ibe in the way OF crossing for the same length
II of time as from mere. NOW the expense oi
RECONSIDERATION is always in favor of the river
Here Then we have a river running thirty miles
from Rock Island. precisely where the road
would 90, if there were no river The expense
If making a railroad so miles would be perhaps
about 100000, which money might well be
saved until the Mississippi shall be bridged
. then make the road to Davenport to connect
with the bridge Now if Company should
make ro,d towards Iowa City from Daven
port, for 70 miles, they would then be further
from, the place where rail road Will cross the
Missouri river than if they were at Muscatine
Thus VS. see the saving to any company by us
inc the liver between Rock Island and Musca
, tine, urtil good railroad bridge shall be bull
across he Mississippi
e Just as soon as the river can be bridged a
. Crock Island" the only place where bridg
>, ever will be made within three hundred mile
up or down. then we want the railroad from
here to Davenport, not before We as wei
use the river for 30 miles, to cross it withou
f bridge, and it will be a saving OF capital t.
do so.'
Very modest indeed, very! After hearing 81
much of Muscatine being point in the Daven
' port and Council Bluffs rail road, the ''metrop
=. oils" of Iowa. and the erection of the Ceda
: Bridge, with the longest span in the world, W
had supposed that folly's cup was about full
but the idea of constructing railroad 50 mile
across the valley of three rivers, by levying
y tax on the taxable property of small village
is something more preposterous than we eS
pected to find in the bills. We think the coun
:, ties named had better permit Muscatine to con
struct the road .r,fAem "right az 'mediatelg.' fo
fear she may get out of the notion, and nc
build it at all. To be serious; friend LA Cos
: SIT, we think portion of the $45 900 loa
, might be judicou,ly expended in filling u
, some of the mud holes and frog ponds abou
E your streets and alleys before the cholera ap
e pears
There are two facts contained in tn
above extract which we must not forget to no
tice-frst, that "when the rail road shall b
: finished from Michigan City to Rock Island
and from Muscatine to Oskaloosa, then on
: friends West will have a route upon which the
can ship their surplus produce from Oskaloos
!. direct to Boston at least nine months in tn
/, year." and secondly, that it will be just q
D cheap for the present, to use the Mississippi
, from Muscatine to Davenport, as it would ;
o to construct railroad for the purpose of cor
It Meeting the two points. Don't doubt it in tn
C least. But what geography and arithmetic hay
. been used by which it is made to appear tn;
Muscatine is nearer Council Bluffs than low
City is more than We are able to determine. Coul
! ell Bluffs is some $50 miles west of Iowa Cit
!, and Iowa City is 25 mills west of Muscatin
u cast up the figures again neighbor, and ent'
Q our name as an applicant for ride on the fir
:, train of cars that leave on the railroad, you al
, going to build for Oskaloosa, and as we a
- fond of good company, we bespeak seats fl
: our neighbors of the Telegraph and Dispatc
= and by way of variety, it may be well to ha'
l. the President and directors of the Cedar Birds
& Company along also
. ~ We are requested by the Superintende
:. of Public instruction. again to call the atte
, ton of the Trustee1pf the State University
5, the meeting =, to be i" this city on wsd"F
it ,..u,, H. T. ~. son,
of Rhode + ay the sth inst, d
lieutera2 kted the followiI
D, lows. Ali~ disabilities gro