Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1857-04-30

PACIFIC CITY,!
MILLS COUNTY, IOWA.
Terminus of the Burlington g. Missouri
RiUer Railroad.
THE Proprietors of Pacific CITY will offer
for sale, at Public Auction, on the ground,
On Thursday, the 2Sth day of May 1857,
TWO HUNDRED LOIS y
Sale to commence at 10 o'clock and continue
from day to day until the same are sold.
Pacific City is situated in Mills county.
Iowa, on a beautiful plateau of ground in the
Great valley Of the Missouri, three miles east
of the mouth of Platte or Nebraska river, four
miles east of Plattsmouth, the Nebraska ter
minus of the B.. & NJ. II. r., thirty miles north
east of Nebraska City, twenty-five miles south
of Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Omaha City in
Nebraska. 1t is adjoining the bluffs of the
Missouri river, at the entrance of Poney creek
into the bottom. 1t extends into the bottom
two miles and within two miles Of the channel
of the Missouri river, the bottom gradually de-
scending to the river. The uncertainty of the
river banks for a mile east Of the river disap-
proves of the propriety Of building within that
distance of the river. .
The location is a healthy, romantic, and
beautiful one, being backed by bluffs two or
three hundred feet high, upon the top of which
may be seen the great Missouri bottom for
thirty miles south, and twenty miles north.
The site has long been looked upon as one
of the most beautiful sites in Western Iowa
for a large and thriving City, and has been
held by the first settlers in Iowa for that pur-
pose, only awaiting the improvement of the
country, the demands for such a town, and
the Railroad facilities which are soon to be
completed.
A branch Of the Burlington and Missouri
River Railroad will be built both north and
south Of this place. The st. Joseph, Council
Bluffs, and Sioux City Railroad will undoubt-
edly run Immediately through the town site.
Stone of the best quality and most extensive
in Western Iowa lies one mile south, and fode
miles north of the town.
-Four steam mills within five miles of the
town are in successful operation, saving from
number of water mills.
Another steam mill is on the way to be put
up in the town.
A newspaper will be published there by the
first of June next.
Lumber is now on the ground, and being
sawed, to erect fifteen or twenty houses.
Contracts have been made to burn two and
a half million brick this season.
The advantages which this place has over
all others in western Iowa-the Railroad ia
%cilities which Pacific City cannot miss hav-
ing, together with being supplied with the
best water in the world, with timber, and the
best agricultural counties in Western Iowa and
Nebraska lying east and west Of it, is a sure in
dication that long ere the Railroad is compile
ted that Pacific City will be the largest city
west of Burlington.
Terms of sale will be one-third down one
third in four, and one third in eight months
This will be the last and only chance to pro-
cure lots of the Company, as the remaining
lots after the sale will be devided among the
members of the Company, and hence will be-
come the property of private individuals, and
prices, as a matter of course, be advanced.
J. w. COOLIDGE.
WIN. STREErE,
S. III. MoER,
M. w. GREENE,
c. N~UcKoLLs,
VS.. ARMSTRONG,
ID. G. CAKES,
and other Proprietors.
]. w. COOLIDGE, Pres.
C.. NUeKoLLs, Sec'ty. t-d-o-s