The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-03-03
For the Miners Express
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa, !
Feb. 10th, 1852.

! Feb 10th, 1904
At mass meeting Of the inhabitants Of Bre.
mer, Butler and BIackhawk counties held a,
Israel Trumb o's, in Bremen county, on the 10th
of Feb. 1852, the following resolutions were
unanimously adopted, and the following persons
were appointed committee to forward copies
Of the resolutions to our Representatives in
Congress and for publication, to wit: E. ID
Adams of Blackhawk. S. L. Vail of Bremen
and Seth Wilson of Butler.
"Whereas bill has been introduced into
Congress by the Hon. d. Hem for the creation
Of three new Land Offices IN this state and
whereas our great distance from any Land Of.
fee and the Situation ofour country account
of water courses, want of direct roads, and
the unprecedented influx of emigration and &C.
tual settling of the country, rel der it necessary
that Land Offices be established among us, and
whereas Cedar Falls in Blackhawk county &C.
cupies nearly a central position between Dubu
que the east and Fort Dodge on the West,
the State line on the North and Iowa City on
the South, being situated in township 80 North
of range IA West at the head of Steam Boa
i navigation on Cedar River and the location OF
a Land Office in that place has been already
flvorably considered IN our stale Legislature
Therefore resolved that we consd,r and ac
cordingly recommend Cedar Falls IN Black
hawk county as the most suitable place for the
location of Land Office.
End Reso'red, That committee OF three be
appointed to forward copy of SO much of the
proceedings of this meeting related to tho
adjustment Of Land 0 ihce at Cedar Falls to
each of our Representatives in Congress and to
several of the principal papers in the State for
publication.
JOHN GOFORTH, Pres
S. T. VAIL, Sec.
E. ID. ADAMS Cha i'm Of Com.
RAIL ROAD MEETING.
An adjourned Railroad meeting was held in
the Globe Hall on Saturday evening Feb %,
1852. Col e II Booth was called to the Chair
and Jas. R. Goodrich acted as Secretary.
The committee appointed at previous meet
ing to raise funds to defray the expense of send
ing an Agent to Washington, for the purpose OF
the Dubuque and Keokuk Railroad North,
reported through their Chairman, Maj MOLLY,
follows:
The committee recommend that the City
Council be me,norialised t. raise the amount
necessary at the expense Of the City.
B. Rupert Esq offered the following resolu-
ton:
Rcso'rcd, That the plan recommended by the
Committee be adopted.
This resolution elected considerable discus.
sion, in which Messrs Thos. r gers and w. }
Barney, Esqrs. adverse to the resolution,
and Messrs NJ. Moblev, J. D. Jennings, j. J.
Dyer, F. Z. Bissell and b.. o Halloran Esqs,
IN favor Of the resolution, participated.
On vote of the meeting, the resolution was
adopted by a decided majority.
L H. Langworthy Esq thought the remarks
of Mr. Rogers, respecting the report Of the
Agents, uncalled for as only part Of it had yet
appeared.
Mr.. Rogers replied, that the explanation of
Mr.. Langworthy was entirely satisfactory and
he took back all he had said respecting the re-
port of the Agents Of the Company.
The meeting adjourned to meet on Tuesday
evening next, at this place.
G. H. BOOTH, Chairman.
"