Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-12-11

and the business part of the own rs near
the river as the business part Of Burling-
ton"
Here he runs off into ecstaCics, be-
cause he says that Plattsmouth is immc-
diately contiguous to the river, and IS Ike
Burlington in this respect. Well, we
will say to the correspondent again, had
he visited Bellevue in person, he would
never have penned so foolish a remark.
Does not all Nebraska know, and every
body else who ever visited BE~LLEvuE,
tina, she has two miles of rock landing,
and lies directly contiguous to, and eracty
on, the rock banks of the Missouri, hav-
ing a landing that is as changeless as the
Rocky Mountains, with n shore as bold,
a channel as deep and as changeless for
two miles, as the Straits of GibraIter.
He SAYS, with reference to the south side
of the Platte
"And if the road is ever extended west
of the Missouri river (Which will GER
tainly be done), the south side Of the
Platte will certainly be the route"
Now, does it not occur to everybody
who has only read, and twice more
forcible to those who have experienced a
personal observation Of these great North
Western rivers, which invariably roll on
beds of quick-sand. from some natural
causes hug, for miles, the southwestern
banks, leaving upon the northeastern
side of said river a wide, level bottom,
with an easy and gentle grade up the
entire length of the valleys, while the
south and western banks are abrupt, bro
ken, and in many places, almost impassi-
bic, even to a footman. We would call
the correspondents attention particularly
to the fact, that for hundreds of miles up
the northeastern side Of the Missouri,
there is an even, wide and extended bot
tom. 1t is so from the same great natural
cause with the valley Of the Great Platte.
Who that has been up this valley for
seven hundred miles, make a different re-
port. an agree that these are facts
that up on the northeastern side there is
a wide, level bottom for at least seven
hundred miles. Nature has made on this
side so gentle and continuous n grade
(imperceptible TO the eye), that but q
mere nominal sum per mile will complete
the grade of a road ready for the track
And does not the rough, bold and rocl
bluffs upon the southwestern side hug
closely by the shores of the river, pre-
senting in comparison IN almost inSur
mountable barrier to a respectable grade
Will not a Railroad Company, a mer,
money corporation, having no object, n,
end or aim to accomplish but the en-
HANGING of the value of the capital whel
once invested, have an eye single to
terminus upon the eastern banks of tn,
Missouri, with a due regard to a continu
Gus, feasible and practicable route still O
up the fertile and beautiful valley of tn
Platte.
! In view of these facts, that nature ha
done far moro to facilitate the construC
. ton of a railroad up the north side of III
Platte than the south side, the mere pape
p representations of scriblers, who have L
personal knowledge of this country, ca
only make those who so carelessly al
foolishly m~isrepresent the real facts
they are known and understood by tho:
who know, appear the more ridiculol
and absurd, because they are written ar
published. The idea that a sa;aH town
Nebraska, extensively laid out upon man
. thousand acres of wild farm land, eli
% lots very high, especially corner ones,
full dozen houses built thereon, and Il
% stock being owned by expert letter write
! and scriblers, having an influence to Co
troll a terminus or secure 10 the right
left a single mile, a ~thoroughfare of il
81, p~ortance in the future second to none
4 the continent, to be used for all time
come, is too futile aud puerile to answe
Il. Do not these great thoroughfares NAL
Y, cities wherever they 60? Do not the
D. projectors consider well the future pro
ID poets of so grand and magnificent an e
m terprise as this, regardless of the pri
o. now, and prospective advancement
4 small shares in small towns known on
nd on paper7 for this thoroughfare W
II eventually be the Great Northern PaciI