Daily Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1854-1855, 1855-12-06
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A correspondent of the 81. Louis Democrat
wrisiae from Council Bluff, gives the fol-
lowing items which are especially interest
ng - far as they relate to wheat and
dour - &
"Our beautiful fall b nearly past, and to-
day we have I tovch Of winter. Land.
.Auntep and cmigrsnts are al housed, and
land decidedly Il q Discount. For the fret
time ,hia season there has been no crowd q
the land Office From this on. the entries
will be for actual settlers. until spring again
opeus the country 10 the speculator. The
sales at this Office for the three months end
ing the 30th September were nearly Soo.ooo
rcres, taken generally by farmers from
Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, ohio' IN
diana nd Illinois. Considerable amounts
Of land along the proposed line OF the DaV'
export and Council Bluffs Railroad have
been taken by spectators, and it ID sup
posed by parties having an interest IN 'ne
road.
Council Bluffs is increasing its Importance
daily as a place Of business, although TO .he
stranger !, presents nothing ensicing. Inc
cost Of building and the interest Of money
is SO high, that no one, until recently, mas
felt willing to divert his capital IRON reg
ular forty per cent. business to the building
of houses TO rent. Now, however, there are
Elk large three story brick stores in process,
OF erection and nearly completed. that would
do honor to st Louis. What this place
needs, however, more than anything eise'
are some good Touring mills. wheat Is
selling here AZ Sl.l0 the bushei, and nour
sixteen dollars the barrel What an OPP
portunity for millers, and yet with bonus
Of $1,000 offered by the citizens OF the place
to any competent miller who would erect
and run for one year mill with two run ol
stone, we are unable to have one oui't.
Glasgow now furnishes US with the best
flour We use, although the 81. Joseph mills
send US fair article. There is an immense
quantity Of wheat accommodating in the hands
Of our farmers. MIR. Underwood, near town,
raised 2 400 bushels from 90 acres, and some
farmers have two crops TO dispose OIL"
The writer goes ON to state that the peo-
pie in that section of country must have an
outlet, and something better than the Mis-
sour. The natural difficulties Of navigating
that river, and the enormous rates which
are chafged by the steamboat combination
who appear to have an exclusive monopoly
Of the business, cause the people and bus
mess men especially, to look anxiously for
the completion of the Davenport and MIS-
souri, Road 10 Council Bluffs. Between that
place and St. Louis, freight is now $4,000
per tor. salt sc, 90 per sack, lumber cents
per pound, the steam boats even weighing
shingles aud charging cents per pound
Pine luu Der is selling at 800 per thousand.
The writer, who is addressing his st. Louis
readers, says
with such = tariff on all business that
passes through your city, it will not be Won
dered at that our business men are anxious
ly looking for some other market than st.
Louis. Heretofore and now, nine.tenths Of
the goods sold here are bought in 81. Louis;
in twelve months hence there will not be
one-tenth, unless there is a successiul effort
made BY the St. Louis merchants to break
down the steamboat combination on the
river and give Us our freights on reasonable
terms"
Such facts as the foregoing. very con-
clusively show the importance Of hurrying
on the Road westward, after it shall have
reached Iowa City. II is difficult to estimate
and would be almost impossible to place too
high. the immense advantages which will
accrue to the region surrounding Council
Bluffs and all the intervening country from
that to Davenport, by the completion of the
road. Even good river navigation can
scarcely successfully compete with Rail-
road and the unusual difficulties which EN-.
barrass the navigation of the Missouri. and
fix freights by it at such exorbitant figures,
render its supersession by Railroad a mat
ter Of certain and easy attainment. And i,
is also proper as well as desirable that the
resources Of Iowa should advance the pros.
thing. the completion OF the Road to ,heMis.
souri, will be Of greater benefit to Council
Bluffs aad the country between that and
/ lows City, than it will be 10 the country be-
tween the latter city and Davenport, but it
/ will be of immense advantage to all.
1 The race now is, which ofihe contempla-
| ted roads shall frs, reach the Missouri. We
are pleased to think that Davenport has now
the best chance. The magnitude ofthe prize
cannot be over-valued. Give us the first
railroad connection with the Missouri, and
we fear no competitions
I'VE gain the weaiher-2agc of fate,
| II others come, they come too laie.''
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