Iowa capitol reporter. [volume] (Iowa City, Iowa) 1841-1855, 1853-03-16


) This fact of itself renders it incumbent upon
us TO define our position with regard to this
new scheme which has dawned upon us. View
ing it as feasible and knowing it to be in row.
erful hands, we would, to the utmost of our
resources facilitate and encourage this work ,as
We would any ,rork, Immediately or prospect
lively affecting our interests
Engineers have been making Their prelimi,
nary surveys between Camanche and Upton.
ria Buena Vista, and the Waps ipinicon river and
Dewitt in Clinton county. Buena Vista. Tip.
ton and Covers Ferry. we believe to be inevi,
table points on lines starting from the Missis
siPpi at Lyons or Camanche. Which company
shall first avail themselves of these great natu.
raj advantages, remains to be seen
We are informed that their preliminary re.
connoissance would have been extenoed at
once to this place, had not the contract
ors upon the second division of the road
(from Dixon to Albany required the services
OF the engineers to complete the estimates and
surveys, necessary to the immediate prosecu-
ton of their contract.
That this road is indeed an actual undertak.
ing and in a state of successful progression and
not mere scheme on paper. we append The ar
ticle below, taken from the Rock River Demo.
ocrat of the 22nd ult:
eve learn that at a meeting of the Board of
Directors of this road held IN this city on the
10th inst, the second division (from Dixon to
Alhany,on the MissssippD was put nder con
tract. Messrs. Henry Doolittls d Co, of Day
ton, Ohio, are the parties to whom the work
was awarded. embracing the grading, bridging
masonry, furnishing materials Except i.on)
and preparing the road ready for he cars.
The amount of reliable stock subscrb.
cd is sufficient to insure the speedy completion
Of The road. which is contracted to be done
within eighteen months Mr. Doollttle's char
acter for energy and ability, is well known in
Ohio and e sewhere-his connection with the
Cleveland and Pittsburg, the Cincinnati and
Dayton, Dayton, Troy and T"cdo, Sandu ky
City and Indiana roads as wei. As Others, is
sufficient guaranty to the company that his part
of the contract wi Le fulfilled.
We are informed that measures were sdopted
for taking the necessary steps 10 get the divis
ion between here and Dixon under way at as
early a day as possible 1t seems to US that
this is work of Importance as much TO our
citizens to any at the various other points
along the route, and We hope to see IA hearty
co operation with the company to secure the
bchtHtS lfitt must accrue on me opening
this line from Rockford to the Mississippi -
The advantages OF road connecting Us at all
seasons of the year with a market ia the south
will present themselves to the mind of every
man, and will engage an energetic action 10
make the matter available in the shortest pos
sible time. Not only, we are told, are the gen,
temcn who have contracted for the work of
the road men of persevering business habits,
but the officers also and the engineers are all
persons in whom confidence may be placed and
upon whom the public may rely for the acc ON
Pishment of the enterprise.
This project in contemplation, it will be seen
that three railroads are destined, in al! human
probability, to strike the Mississippi within 8
space Of forty miles, and 10 he comp eted with
in eighteen months or two years at the farlh
est.
That these roads will pursue westwar,
course, in partial union or total disconncction
we believe, to use the words of a contenporar,
not thousand miles from Muscatine, as "tru
as the rising of to-morrow's sun" They can n,
more halt upon the eastern bank of the Missis
.ippi, than mountain streams check thei
flow midway of the descent. There is vas
raileay slope from the Mississippi to the Paciti
- nof communication must be forced
is upon us.
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