Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-09-11
TO THE FRIENDS OF THE PEORIA AND BUR.
LlN0T0N RAIL ROAD

The undersgae the Burlington Directors in
the Peoria and Burlington Rail Road Company,
beg leave to submit to the friends Of that Road IN
Iowa, the Following exposition Of its affairs aud
prospects.
The amount Of public and private subscriptions
to the Stock Of the Company upon Which tn.
required amount Of five per cent, has been paid,
IS about S3o0.Ooo. The Old grade from Peoria to
Farm'nston,a distance Of twenty-four miles with
the right OF way, stations, &c., has been purchas-
ed OF The State at cost, to the Company. of
SoS4,Oo; but IN consequence of high grade up
on the old route, and the discovery of a much
better one further north, by which there will be
SAVING OF some six miles in distance, all of the
old grade has been abandoned, except about Sc
ven miles on the eastern end. The Company will
be benefited, however, by the purchase from the
State to the amount OF several thousand dollars.
The route from Peoria to Knoxville has been
surveyed and located upon very favo able ground,
and pFopo' sails for grading and bridging betwe
those points are to be received and acted upon on
the lst Oct. next. The Engineer whose services
are secured to the Company, he's had great expe-
rtence IN locating other roads, and ss.ains high
reputation for ability and fathfulnesS in his pro-
fesson.
His report is aattering to the prospects OF the
road, and he uahesitatin,ly expresses the opn-
ION that 1t can be made at very moderate cost,
with low grades, and that it must prove to be a
shortly be published.
The Company have the most reliable assuran-
ces that all the roa that may be required to com.
p.cte The road, can be procured with the bonds Of
Company so soon as It is graded.
The road from Peoria to Springfield, and thence
TO Alton, ST Lolis, &C., IS already lo.ate and
partially completed aud our charter allows us to
run all over the State, so as to connect with any
other road. When the road is completed TO Peo-
there ha an oil Rail R,,A
comm lnicat!ol from Burlington to Chicago, st
Lons, Cairo, and all over Indiana and Oaio, and
So Oh further east.
Shall the road be made? 1t is for the people of
Des MONIES county to answer this question. If
the additional sam of fifty thousand dollars is sub
scribed west of the Mississippi river, before the
lst of October, next, the entire grading between
Peoria and Burlington, will be let on the lst of
next January, and in eighteen moaths thereafter,
the whole work will be completed. Oaly five
per cent, is required TO be pad at the tima OF
sabscrlbing-ao instalmant can exceed ten per
cent, and only twenty five per cent, can be call
ed for in any one year. II is needless for US TO
speak of the advantages of the road. All admit
them. Every ne familiar with rail roads and
acquainted with the co mtrv through which this
will pass, is OF the opinion that it will be protta-
BILE stock. Are the people of Des Mones deter
mined that this work shall progress? 1t is an
easy matter to build the road IL they are deter
mined that it shall be done. The amount requir-
ed, called for in the way it will be, vii! not Grip
pie the business of the country, bat win greatly
advance IFS prosperity.
In view Of the many considerations which
should iudace all to take hold Of this work in
earnest. and that there nav be union Of feeling
and concert of action, we have deemed il advsa-
BILE to cali public meeting OF the citizens OF Des
Moaes county, TO b, held at the MethoIist
Church in Darlington, Oh Saturday the Goth inst.
at O'Clock, P. NJ.
In the mean time. books Of subscription will
be open az the Offices OF the County Judge, the
County Recorder. and of Grimes & Starr, in Bar
liaston, AMI of William Thompson in Mount
Pleasant, Henry county.
Subscribers can o5taia certificates of Stock By
calling upon either Of the undersigned, or upon
J. F. TALLANT, Esq.
CHARLES MASON,
JAMES ". GRIMES
Burlington. Iowa, Sept. 5, 1851.
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