Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-01-16

town, which is the largest IN the county eX-
copt Toledo. the county seat, must be busy
inland town Already the enterprise Of New
England and other eastern people give char
aoter to the place. A bridge has just been
completed across the river that will concen-
trate travel here. A good water privilege at
the same place is being improved dam is
built, saw mill about ready to run, and ar
engagements are being made for Touring mill
at the same place The steam mill has been
mentioned sit is good mill, and with it arc
connected shingle, a lath and a planning ma
chine, and other machinery. Three stores
and an elegant drug store are OPEN and an
other large one is nearly completed and even
now the trade Of the place equals that Of a
Vermont town Of 800 inhabitants. Two en-
terprsing gentlemen are building a large ho-
tel which when completed will excel anything
Of the kind in central Iowa. Such is Butler
vile at the present time. No colony has push
ed forward a settlement no religious sect has
come here to make themselves peculiar peo-
pie; no Spectator has plotted out the town
put up with the design of catching the un-
wary; but each settler has stopped here with
the conviction that he can find a good demand
for his labor or goods. or that he can purchase
good farm at cheap rate. To such a set
Element there will be no great reverse or re-
action for the demand creates the supply
This the inhabitants see and it gives them
confidence in the results of their labors.--
Hence they are building up the common in
situations of society, for the purpose of maxi
ing themselves a permanent home. They
have erected a large two story school house,
which serves them also, for the present, as a
place of worship, and have secured the SER
vices of Congregational minister for half of
the time, while the Mothodists hold meetings
occasionally,
For two or three years past there has been
a large emigration through this place to Mar
shall, Hardin, Webster and other counties ly-
ing west and northwest of this, and the trains
of emigrant wagons that continue to pass
show that that emigration is rapidly increas-
ing As a natural result, lands in these coun-
ties, of no better soil and in many instances
not nearly as good as in this, are held much
higher than here. More is paid frequently
for even "A claim on the Missouri River, though
not near a town, than would secure the title
to far better land here, which is two hundred
miles nearer an eastern market 1t is impos-
sible to explain this inconsistency, further
than by saying that the western fever pre-
walls here as well at the cast. Now this is
wrong and emigrants begin to see it, All a.
gree that the western and particularly the
northwestern border of the State is less fer
tile and less desirable generally than the in
terror counties. Then, again, when our rail-
roads are built they will all begin in the east
and extend toward the west, so that one liv-
ing here will have the benefit of the road
some two years sooner than one living no far
ther west even than Boonsboro'.
Finally, the great and allabsorbing ques-
ton arises here, viz will the railroad pass
through this place. There is scarcely town
or little settlement that does not expect one
of the four great roads, or at least short
cut, to pass directly through it,-thcrefore it
| is not strange that we indulge the same pleas
ant idea. The Iowa Air Line Railroad is one
of the four great parallel routes to which the
government coded lands to aid in their con-
struction. This road is a continuation of the
! Chicago Air Line Road, from Lyons to Ma
| quapeta and thence on the forty-second paral-
lei, as nearly as practicable to the Missouri
River. The lands coded consist of alternate
sections Of government land, designated by
odd numbers, that has not been otherwise APP
proprated, and lying within fifteen miles o.
the road ON either side. Now until the com
pany recorded the location of their road, thoi
lands could be prompted, and many were a
vailing themselves of this advantage. TC
prevent this they located at random, roserv
ing the right to vary the route fifteen mile
either way. Through this county the road i
located about eight miles north of this, thro
bluff section, whore it must be expensive
grading while, should it pass this place, i
will run on level bottom lands of the cheap
est grading, and be within one and a hal
miles of the forty-second parallel. Again, thu
chief engineer, the president and some of tn
principal stockholders of the road, are said T.
be confident that the road must come here
Then there are other reasons for this ;--th
Company are anxious to effect loans for con
struotion money on the credit of the countie
through which the road passes, This cannc
| be done in this and Marshal counties, unles
, the road comes through Toledo, Indian Tow
! Marshal and Marietta Such, with etheri
: are the reasons for supposing that the car
4 will be here in few years and should the
come, it viii be safe to predict that this wi
! be one of the most desirable towns in centr,
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