The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1853-12-07
NUMBER 70.

psny, with whom We can have possible in
huencc' ? And is il not probable, tha, some o
our directais!n The Dubuque and Pacific r. )
I Company have injured themselves well as lh,
community, by deserving their first love, tn,
Southern Wisconsin Il. r. and denying to he
their pronli sed support?
| have now done asking questions, for must
| confess, have no good opinion of this Yankee
mode of discussing subject, and will claim tn,
Indulgence If Enquirer, for a momen, or two.
The revenue arising The pas, seas. II for wharf
age amounted to about the sum of 81 ,000 which
is more than the interest at / 0 per cent on tn.
cost of all the wharf improvements up to the
present date, and should the City continue anc
complete the channel fro,u the river to the pres
en-! wharf, the annual revenue arising from
wha rfage will within three years be Sufficient te
defray large proportion of the City expenses
which now have to be raised by direct taxation
Add to this the immense saving of drayage anc
travel that this improvement would etfcat, rather
quite snificieI, to deisay the expenses of the
City. In view OF the foregoing considerations
aud ten thousand more, quite as important,
conjure you by all that is past by every CON
sidera.ion Of the present and prospective pros
pcrty of this city and County, not TO be led away
by the founting promises of monied companies
whose pledges to us in reference to the compile
ton Of our Western road have ended in present
disappointment and left us worse off than before
we had the pleasure of their acquaintance. Ant
now that We have been disappointed and decev
ed by such pretensions in the pas, (warn yor
aguin) not to endenger the interests of this City
BY granting 10 any company the Island or any
other property of the community without having
first obtained the consent Of msjority of the
yotesin the City.
(Who are they amongst us, except few who
have been gulled by the influence of Strang-
ers) that would consent to abandon our Leyee
Improvements, fill up our harbor, Grant, give
away, or sell any portion Of the Islands East o,
The City, for Railroad depot, around which
would be congregated all the Steamboats, in
their turn, and pay over their MARRIAGES to the
R. Road Company, instead of contributing TO
the Revenue Of the City. Suppose you were
to grant the Island to the Pacific r. Road Co.,
and they go on ana e it n,. ard make ~ good
Steamboat Leyee, on either side of their depot
would the Company not have The right to charge
and collect Wharfage their own land, and
on their own Levee, and would they not do il
to the exclusion of the City, and by that means
monopolise all the trade of the river and bust
ness Of the back country that now comes to Du-
buque. The city itself and all its best resources
would thus be swallowed up; and this commun.
ity be deprived Of their only and best source of
revenue from without and COMPEL us to resort
to direct taxation for city revenue. BY grant
ing this Island you also give perpetual and
exclusive Ferry privilege 10 this company,
which is the real property of every man, woman
and child of this city, guaranteed to then, by
law; which Ferry privilege ought to bring into
our city Treasury at least 900 per annum, and
could now be rented to responsible man for
that price or more, Tor term of years. And
now own the land and the Ferry privilege on
the opposite side, it will not surprise you that
the friends of the Ill. Central b. R Co should
be willing to buy out the city of Dubuque; o,
what would be the same thing, the Islands op
posite for the sum of 800 or 100000. Who
cannot plainly tosesee that if this grant is made
and road built up the Catfish costing from
500 10 $50, ,0oo per mile that the whole contro
of its affairs must pass into the hands of For
eign capitalists, whose present power over u
seems 10 cast it's shadows far into the future
and induces the undersigned respectfully +
protest against any such grant or privilege be
ing given to any person persons whomso
ever.
Respectfully, Yours,
ANTHONY" )"