The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-02-27
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IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.

IMPORTANT D.SCOVENi.
lpcrceivs BY 4 late Number q she wv.
cstiae Eaqaircr thai "a Civil Eas'nesr'
Il hlusca,ins has mads ~ impostant and
wooderlul di.covery. n has discovered
tia. the Davenpor, aud Council Bluff Rail-
road Company vas formed a. Davenport IN
ls44. and that Mr.. Sargent II publishing
his map of Iowa laid down said Railroad
where tho Company designcd i 70 run
This Civil Engineer, ssss thai h's readers
will no,icc that this company determined
lran the Gerry frst movement, that this
Railroad should DO located from Davenport
via Io~a CITY, Every tsur) aud hopes som
10 be favored with now addition Of Mr..
Sarcen,'s map with the Davenport and
Town City Railroad accurately laid down
according to Mr.. Morgsa's survey. That
the acsoaaid Engineer may be saved The
trouble of five years exploration 10 dis
cover tho new addition ! will inform him
TINT the wished for addition is already pub
lished, and as IN item II oews,I will also
inform "a Civil Engineer" that view Of
this Railroad roate was made BY . citizen
&c D .veapnr, in lS42, and report setting
t.rlh tho nature of Tho country, the number
al streams 10 10 bridged, the advantages I"
he derived, the ease with which the Missis-
<ippi river could be bridged At Davenport.
&C.. was made aud published. "A Civil
Engineer" wns mt posted up, when be
gave history of.bis Road, Or else neglect
cd to state that previous to the time that
The citizens Of Musca,ins according TO bis
s,atemeni) had the fret intima,iNn Of this
important undertaking. the Legislature Of
Iowa had mcmorInIzej Congress for grant
of land 10 build Railroad from Davenport,
via Iowa City. 10 Council Bluff. A Civil
Engineer will therefore discover that we
have claims to and good cause 10 protest
On inst the actions Of Aluecatiae, in cndenv.
oring TO defeat the road by insisting that j
should msander the Mississippi river and
get into a pocket under the bluffs at Mus
caiine, which they know would for time if
not forever stop its progress westward, and
lhn, they would prefer 40 road to one tina,
wonlJ run BY their door their leaders hare
publicly declared. A Civil Engineer com.
plains Of Davenport aud Iowa City and says
they would deprive Muscs,ins Of her jus,
rights and natural advantages, but ] am
satisfied after an examination Of National
NV nhough do not claim 10 DO an A No. !
awyer) that you are perfectly safe in your
possessions; your claims | consider doubtful
under our statutes, but you have discover
cred .ha. you are mighty people that you
are wise, wealthy and all powerful, that
you possess the most commerce the mosl
town, the levelest hills and the
best Railroad routes. Your title 10 all Il
good, you can hold possession under the
law 81 discovery, YOU being the first discov-
erers Of your greatness; you can not be dis
yon require no titles 10 your lots
OF FREQ papers for your bodies,l can furnish
precedents aud decisions 10 support your
claims whenever necessity requires il. This
Civil Engineers article would have been
more interesting bad he shown tho cost Of
running railroad via Muscatine, with
twenty bridges and fifteen miles Of emba nk-
ment and shown where and at wha, cos,
he could ascend the Wyoming hills and the
bluffs Al Muscatine, instead accomplishing
about the citizens Of Scott and Johnson
counties because they have been long &C.
lively engaged and resolved 10 connect the
Alississippi and Missouri BY railroad. lido
not know what the public opinion Of the
Muscatine Engineer may be, but my opin.
ion Is that when his paternal paren, pu,
him at engineering he wrooged some hon
est blacksmith or shoemaker out Of a very
poor apprentice. perceive tina, this Girl
Engineer has taken his cue from articles
published over the signature Of S,oddard,
l would not notice il,evague and unreasona-
be statements published over tha, signature
bu, for fear they might be injurious to a
friend Of mine Of tina. name (who resides 10
illinois) and might strip him Of the laurels
he so justly won in searching for streets
among the unexplored hills within tho cor
porate limits Of Musca.ine; consider j, no
more than justice, and my duty to prove to
the world (Which am prepared to do) that
NJ. Stoddard never peaned the article re.
fcrred to. In the FIRST place NJ. S.oddard
knows, - every person in this vicinity does,
that Mr.. Morgan made be survey out Of
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