Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1851-07-03
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BURLINGTON AND PEORIA RAIL ROAD.
Facts rs. Fancy.
The Eeokak Dispatch with zeal worthy Of
better cause, and recklessness that would lnlnre
a.y cause. however good, is trying TO produce the
impression that the people of Burlington by tax |
inc Stock in the Peoria Rail Road are giving their
money to build road from Peoria to Warsaw;
that when the road is completed to Pennington
its direction will be changed to Warsaw and ke-
ckuk;-that the organization Of the ''Peoria and
Oouawka Rail Road,' is-to use his own Ian
guage-s'a plain, perfect and pitiable faure;.-
that the road is humbug and neverwill be pun;
and that what he calls the ssPeoria and Wafsa"
Rail Road" which he says will be the cheapest
of construction and most profitable, WI DC ohe
only road south of Davenport that will be con-
structed between Iowa and Illinois.
The editors Partially for the interests OF heo-
LuL and hostility to Burlington, furnish the Key
by which all he says upon the subject of our Rail-
road may be best interpreted. Upon any calm
and dsinterested observer, familiar with the sub
iect, his remarks would not be likely TO produce
an erroneous impression;with others, unacquains-
ed with the facts, while they would be little like
" to do his own city any good, they might have
an effect injurious to the interests of the road.
Let us see what there is in this pronunciamen-
10 Of the Dispatch. In the first place, the people
Of Burlington are very well content that the road
should be commenced at Peoria, and finished FIRST
from thence to Pennington; satisfied as they are,
that when completed and in running order that
far, the Judgment and foresight of the company,
independent Of its pllghted faith,) will teach
them, that the interests Of the Stockholders and
Of all concerned, will require that the road be
pushed forward Immediately in direct line thro'
Knoxville and Monmouth to this place. 1t has
never vet occurred to the minds of our citizers,
that there was the least probability of the Com
pany changing the route Of the road from that at
present contemplated; and the imputation of bad
faith cast upon the Stockholders at the Eastern
end of the line and the efforts to create distrust
in the minds Of the people of Burlington to the
fact Of the road coming here, are equally futile
and reprehensible. The Dispatch will have its
labor for its pains. The Directors of the Com
pany understand their interests, and the citizens
Of Burlington their rights, too well to be deceiy-
ed by any such moonshiae.
In the second place, the Dispatch may rest as
sured, If it has not become convinced Of it before
now, that the organization of the company is a
fixed fact" 1t has commenced operations under
favorable auspices. The road WILL BE BUILT
THE WORK WILL Go oN-his assertions and
predictions to the contrary notwithstanding. The
hope Of effecting diversion in favor Of Keokuk
sion; and the hostility manifested to the interests
Of Burlington is only calculated to produce a
smile.
The Dispatch says that when the road reaches
Pennington, its direction will be changed-t will
turn south and seek connexion with Warsaw.
It may be well to ask s'why change the direction
and seek amore southern terminus?o The Dispatch
says the route from Pennington to Warsaw will
be cheaper Of construction and more profitable.
Dollars and cents, it thinks, will induce the
Stockholders to act in bad faith, and forfeit their
plighted word. Such is not our estimate of the
men engaged in this work; and we say besides
that the route to Keokuk and Warsaw is not the
cheapest of construction and riH not be most pro-
ftable when built. We place our assertion a
gainst that Of the Dispatch, and if that is not
enough, we viii bring reasons the most convinc-
ing that ours is correct.
The route from Peoria TO Pennington is par.
tally graded; from Pennington by Knoxville and
Monmouth to Burlington, though it is not YET
surveyed by engineers, it passes through coun-
try, which, we hazard nothing in saying, for IA
vorable location and facility of construction, can
not be surpassed in the West. 1t runs through
the farest and most desirable portion Of the emil
itary Tract.''
Let US notice the population Of the counties on
fhia limo.