St. Charles Republican intelligencer. (St. Charles [Charles City], Iowa) 1856-1857, 1857-06-04
KOSSuth County.

KOsSuth County.
We had the pleasure, few days
since, of making the acquaintance OF
Hon. a. C. Call, of Algona, kossuth
County, Iowa. Algona is the County
seat of Kossuth county, situated
IS miles directly west Of St. Charles,
and in the heart of beautiful and in
wiling country. Kossuth county was
sometime since organized, and Judge
Call is the present county Judge. This
gentleman made his claim at Algona
some two years since, then far remote
from civilization, but now he has
settlers all around him. There are
some twenty buildings in the place,
including a saw mill, grist mill, store,
&C., and had it not been for the panic
caused by Indian War rumors, there
would, this spring, have been large
addition to the population. Judge Call
is a frontier man of just the right
stamp, a gentleman of education and
talent. and full of the enthusiasm and
wide-a-wake enterprise necessary to
open up, develop and make available
the great resources and vast mines of
wealth which have so long lain hidden
or dormant in this Eden world, the
North of Iowa. The Judge having
started his town, and organized his
county, is now in pursuit Of a railroad,
and at the time of our seeing him he
was on his way to McGregor to attend
the Railroad meeting which was to be
holden there for the choice of a new
board of Directors and the transaction
of other railroad business on Tuesday
last
The McGregor Railroad being under
contract to Clear Lake, and Algona
being but some 35 miles west Of there,
Judge Call naturally supposed that a
little effort on the part of kossuth
county would hurry along the iro1
horse to the magnificent valley of tn
Desmoine. Consequently procla
nation was issued, and next weel
Kossuth county is to vote upon tn
proposition to loan the credit Of tn
county to the McGregor Railroad 70
one hundred thousand dollars. Thi
is taking step in the right directio
and coming up nobly to the work, a
the people in evey county east OF Their
along the line of the road have done
We can assure the people Of kossut
county, that in no surer way can the,
help forward this railroad enterprise
in no safer manner invest their credit
to no greater extent enhance tn
value of their property, than by votin
to loan the credit of their county IL
railroad purposes. Hancock cou1
ty, on the east, and Palo Alto count,
on the West of Kossuth, are eac
soon to organize, and will at ono
take measures to aid in the construt
ton of the Railroad.
All this exhibits the wonderful &c
ahead-ativeness of the pioneer settler
of Northern Iowa. The railroad en-
terprise, the most stupendous ant
woodworking of this or any Other
age, is to extend it's net work all over
and through our magnificent prairie'
until every where "the wilderness
shall blossom as the rose" Wh'
doubts it when, as in this instance, i
is seen that the "squatter" has hard
" erected his cabin and conceived tn
thought of railroad, ere he at once pro
ceeds to put that thought into execu
ction with such men, to acIl is to no
We learn from Judge Call thai
Kossuth county presents some OF the
TareSt lnuuCcIHcHlS III nottiSAo w Nv
found in the State. The prairies are
even finer than in this vicinity. There
is an abundance Of the very bes
quality of timber along the streams
and the country is generally well VIZ
tered. Prescriptions can at any tim
be made, and excellent claims secured
which in few years will become yer
valuable. A mail route has been e.
tablished in the valley of the Desmoin'
connecting Algona with Fort Dodg'
and communication between the tw
places is frequent and direct. W
wish Judge Call and those associate
with him the best of success, and cal
not doubt that prosperity and wealt
are in store for them. We would ais
confidently recommend hardy and e.
terprising emigrants in search of
home to take look at Kossuth count,
PUBLISHING NEwspApERs-Thurlo,
Weed, the veteran editor of the Alb;
ny Journal, recently said to persol
who applied to him for advice with re
gard to starting a newspaper: "Wit
all my experience should shudder q