The north Iowa times. [volume] (M'Gregor [i.e. McGregor], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1856-10-10
TIE RAIL ROAD.

Public interest Is alive throughout the
country on this allimportant subject, !,
Every man we meet inquiries as to its /.
present situation and probable progress.
We regret much that we can do but lit
tie this week to satisfy public anxiety, as
our opportunities for information have
been extremely limited, and our time has
been so closely occupied in the various
duties incident to the launching of an
entirely New paper.
We had the pleasure however, on
Monday, of seeing for ten minutes the
active business man of the McGregor
Road, Judge j. Brown. as he was start
ing West on business of the Company.
| The Judge informed us that there was no
doubt of its rapid prosecution, and that
the enterprise met with all the warmth Of
interest from the counties and capitalists
of the Interior that an enlightened view of
its great prospective value could prompt.
The counties of Floyd, Chickasaw and
Cerro Gordo, will loan their bonds to the
company in sums of one hundred thou
sand dollars each, which added to the
amounts understood to be pledged by in
diyidual residents of those counties,
will swell the stock to six hundred thou
sand dollars. This, it is to be under
stood is designed to aid the company in
the construction of the Cd Division of
the Road. and has no connection with
the large amount already secured which
is to be devoted to the LIST Division ex-
tending from McGregor into the Interior
40 miles. The Judge has strong conf
dence in the success of the enterprise,
and no man who credits the citizens of
North Iowa, with that enlightened sell
fishness which they are known to pos
sess, can avoid concluding that this vital
commercial necessity will soon be among
the finished uorks of the State. But it
will require energy and capital to do it
and every man who owns town-lot or
Forty acres of land to be enhanced in
value, should lend himself to the cause
with will that brooks no resistance and
faith that takes no denial The man of
small means has an assurance of as great
profit on his investment as he who owns
Township, and he would be strange
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Thousand dollars for himself, because his
mere fortunate ncighbor might from the
same cause secure an appreciation of
property equal to ten times that amount.
! 1t must and viii come. The immense
country West and Northwest of us can
no more exist without Rail Road on
which to convey their produce eastward
and their mercantile tonnage Westward
] themselves and families back to their old
homes on Hudson, the Connecticut, the
Ohio, or the Delaware and their fathers
and mothers from those old homes, to
see their children and "the little ones''
in the new found Arcadias of beautiful
lowa-why We cant do without Rail
Road at all. Commerce for-bids, and So
cial life laughs at, the thought Of .fal-
nre! "The Rail- has become part of
our country; an institution; conven-
fence indispensable to locomotion, trade,
or happiness. We are all familiar with
tit-all of us have talked with that i'm
Iportant character, the conductor"
we have seen the Engineer J" been in
a "smash up and been cleft by the
train" Many of us if not actually born
on train, have been raised on one ; and
yet among us, men who can look over the
vast and varied interests now rapidly de-
veloping under the busy hands Of .peo-
pie the most active and pushing--intcr-
ests that would be no interests without
connection with the Atlantic Sea- Board
there are men who shake their heads
wisely and predicta failure! Such men
may have eyes, but /" they see not" We
tASPS"S 1NOstu lAuot COIuC. Time Is
certain to bring it. Eastern capital seek
ing profitable investment will not long
remain at rest in Wall, and State Streets.
The necessities of WoRLD are to be
supplied from the West, and Ox-teams
are too slow for the rescue of half-famish-
ed Europe. The Road will be built;
but we can all do something to hasten it I
along, we will have it in five years BY
waiting on others. We can have It in
1ro across the entire State and up to st.
Paul, by united, energetic, confident and
liberal action among ourselves. Let but
the men who know the benefits Rail Roads
have conferred exhibit confidence in this
enterprise by trying to help themselves.
and the Hercules of the East will soon be-
along with his money bags to ask admis- B
sion as a narfnar This hoe haar @ha 80 s