The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1852-02-04
NUMBER %,
For the Miners Express,
STEAMER TO GALENA.


MEssRs EDIroRs noticed your article on
Monday in reference to Mr. Estes proposition
for Steamer to run between this place and
Galena, and although, as on every other qucs-
ton, there are two sides which admit of argu-
ment, ! am inclined to think the plan good
enc. | do not like, however, the idea broached
in the IrituHe If having season passage tick
cts The chief objection to the whole plan that
I see is, that it will not be for our interests to
open up too much facility for people and trade
to 20 ,from this place md riciniiy to Gaiena,
and season tickets acouid increase the .faciiny.
The Mississippi is 4 natural barrier, and tie
fact that we are the West side, the right
side to command back country trade, and Ga
lena is not, is what will eventually secure for
us success and he triumph in our rivalry with
that place if we do not neglect our present du-
tv. Galena knows this, and hence she is ma
kinr plank road towards, and establishing n
free ferry at Tete des Morets TO draw business
from this side and cut off our back country
(And by the way if we do not build plank
road towards Maquoketa and Cascade she will
succeed in that directon)
But to return, there can be no doubt that a
small daily steamer between this place and Ga
lena would be good property. Some little time
since in conversation with Capt. Orrin Smith
of Galena, he expressed his decided conviction
that it would be a profitable investment, and
told me lie ,rould take haIf the requisite amount
| of stack to start one He said she might be run
very cheaply, going one way in the forenoon
and returning in the afternoon and haring no
meals on board. He said the fare should be
ftiy cents, and thought the travel would be very
considerable, besides the business in freight. No
doubt the intercourse of the two cities would be
greatly increased and the citizens would pass
back and forth much more than now, on bust
ness and for pleasure, besides the transient
travellers.
1t is probable such boat will be started, and
it is very important that it should be 0acaed ana
controlled here. This should be its starting
point in the morning and its stopping pface al
| nirht The officers too should be interested in
Dubuque, and the boat should be connected
| with the D. river line, so that efforts shall be
made at Galena, to secure passengers and freight
| there, for up-river boats instead OF theirs.-
| This boat, it seems to me, will be essential to
the success of the main line If Galcna owns
the boat between this city and that, and espe.
cialIy if the persons interested in the St. Paul
packets from Galena, control it, they will be
sure not to let single up-river passenger OF
pound of freight for that destination come to
Dubuque If Frink, Walker q Co, too give
the mail 10 the boat, and take off their stages
an arrangement should be made with them TO
TICKET PASSENGERS THROUGH FROM CHICAGo
TO DUBUQUE AND TO ST. PAUL, VIA. DUBUQUE
WITHOUT sToPPAGE AT GALENA.
One thing more, Dubuq que through her Con
gressmen should insist the mail arrangement
being carried out that makes Dubuque the ter
minus of the Chicago route, and have it come
directly through without detention at Galena.-
Passengers then would come directly through
and stop here to take the up-rircr boats, instead
| of stopping, as they now do, at Galena, to take
! the m there This arrangement too would give
our daily papers all the advantage that those Of
| Galena now possess.
| am glad to see our people waking up
TINS YEAR will perhaps decide the question Of
our supremacy the city of the North West
Let every property holder, merchant, mechanic
&c. take shares in the stock of the steamboat
Companies. Poor as am, have taken one.
| | ... 3D. A FRIEND OF IMPROVEMENT.
P. S. need hardly add, that if the above
plan were carried out, it would increase oul
Hotel business very essentially. The owner.
of our two large Hotels would do well to put or
the little boat to Galcna alone, if they coulc
get no help.