St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-05-21
Milwaukee and Northern Iowa.

reference to the business interests of
our section Of country and the city of
Milwaukee. We should be pleased to
copy the article entire, but owing to
its length and our limited space we
are compelled to be content with the
folia lug extracts
Since the completion of the Milwau.
kee and Mississippi Railroad to the
Mississippi River the future of Mil
waukee has become indssolubly con-
nectcd with Northern Iowa In this
new field of enterprise she will take
an important part; trade scarcely
yet thought Of will soon burst upon
her, and her geographical position
will be better understood.
Up to the present time, those fa-
miliar with the enterprise of Milwau-
k ,e are at a loss to determine why SO
little interest has been shown in
securing a trade SO directly tributary
to her, while Dubuque, Galena, Chi
cago and st. Louis, have overrun
northern Iowa and Minnesota with
their numerous drummers, posted the
hotels and fences with handbills,
crowded the newspapers with adver-
tisements, and boasted of their superb
or (?) facilities and advantages. 1t
is a well known fact that ever since
the Chicago l. Galena Road has been
completed to Rockford, Chicago has
been steadily striving for the Upper
Mississippi and north west trade, and
with the greatest success. 1t is the
very best trade that goes into that
market, and the most strenuous efforts
have been made during the past
winter to retain it.
After paying handsome COM
plimcnt to Prairie du Chen and Nc
Grcgor, the writer says:
Among the principal leading towns
in the interior, is st. Charles, or
Charles City as it is now known. This
place is situated in the far famed
valley of the Cedar, and for beauty of
location, wealth and society, is de-
cidedly the Madisonof Northern Iowa !;
it is the same distance from the Mis-
sissippi that Madison is from the
Lake, and at the end of the first run
9ipg Division of the McGregor, St.
Paul and Missouri River Railroad,
and at the junction of Cedar Valley
Road. This place was originally
settled by Joseph Kelly, Esq, form
erly of Monroe, Wisconsin, and is
settled largely by people from Rock
ford, Illinois, and contains about 1900
inhabitants. It. has the best mill
power in the Northern part of the
State, l6l feet fall and capable of
propelling twelve run of stone at all
seasons. St. Charles is supported by
the most enchanting section Of country
in the West the prairie rolls in
graceful undulations down flush to
the west bank of the river on the
opposite side lies very heavy body of
timber, Principally maple, black wal
nut and white oak. In break or
opening of the timber the city is built.
partly on the prairie, and partly in the
opening, and from thirty to fifty feet
above the river, the shores and bottom
of which are solid rock. This point
presents as many inducements to the
capitalist and man of business as did
Madison, GAINESVILLE, or any of the
prominent interior towns Of Wisconsin
Ave years ago. In this vicinity, and
at Rockford and Clear Lake, is found
the genuine Milwaukee brick clay
brickmakers have not yet made their
appearance out here, but should some
be induced to come, they can make n
small fortune very rapidly, and so can
Mechanics of every description. St.
Charles promises to become point,
unequalled in Northern Iowa, in Rail
road importancc--it is one of those
favored towns that become railroad
centres because they cannot help them
selves. The McGregor Railroad and
Cedar Valley X. r. cross each other
here branch of the McGregor Road
leavs this point for Mankato +; and the
St Charles and Fort Dodge Railways is
a project intended to cut off the trade
of the Dubuqe and Pacific Road, and
throw it on to the Lake at Milwaukee,
via. McGregor, and Milwaukee and
Mississippi Railroad, saving thereby
forty-seven miles in distance, saying
nothing about superior grades.
Thirty regular first class packets
have entered the Upper Mississippi
trade for the season of 1851 and tran
sient boats from the Ohio and Lower
Mississippi will be there in large mum
bers.
} The McGregor, St. Peters and Mis-
souri, Railroad is now under contract
Here is a project towards which the
attention Of Milwaukee should be i'm
mediately directed; from nearly ever,
point on the Mississippi below McGre
. gor, a railroad has been projected te
take this trade from Milwaukee Du
buque, in her corporate capacity, has
almost unanimously voted loans from
5000, 900 to $75O,000 in aid of them
, with a Jealous eye she has watched
/ the completion of the NJ. and NJ. R,R
and it's contemplated extension thro
Northern Iowa, and is bound to heat
them off if possible. In no RAILROAD
project is Milwaukee more immediate
~ Interested than in this; it is a ma,
ter of vital Importance to her futur
! prosperity; it will open to her sec
G ton of country inexhaustiblc in it
q resources, and unapproachable in it
! beauty.
Secure now the chance that is opcl
i and make the whole Of this grand an
4 magnificent Northwest tributar
and friend to Milwaukee.
The peaches and pears in the vicil
I. ityM Louisville are said to be entir