The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1857-06-20
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Mississippi 4 Misssuri Railrsad

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Mississippi 4 MisssurI Railrsad.
It viii be seen by the following letter,
which We copy from the Davenport Gazette,
that all the energies Of the NJ. & N. r. r.
Company are to be directed to the early COM
pletion Of the Road from Iowa City to this
point. They decline, attempting at present,
prosecuting a branch road to Cedar County.
The President says that the Directors have
come to this determination, Gas a matter Of
good faith to Congress and the State."-
Read the letter carefully, and you will per-
ceive that the Company are determined to
prosecute the work to completion sat the
earliest possible day!'
OFFICE OF NJ. & NJ. RAILROAD Co.
Davenport, June 3, 1857.
His Honor, GEORGE B. SARGENT, Mayor of
the city Of Davenport:
DEAR SIR:-I have communicated to the
DIRECTORS Of the Mississippi and Missouri
Railroad Company the offer made by you
verbally, in behalf of the Common Council
Of the City of Davenport, Of a subscription
Of three hundred and fifty thousand dollars
to the stock Of the company, with a view to
construct a railroad from Cedar Rapids, to
q point on the company's road not West of
the town Of Durant; and l have also stated
to the Directors, as you requested, that a
private subscription had been obtained, for
the same purpose, to the amount Of sixty
thousand dollars, with a probability Of its in
crease, if desired, to one hundred thousand.
In reply, | am instructed by the Directors
to say that they have been engaged for
sometime in negotiations for funds to COM
plete, at the earliest possible day, the line
Of their road from Iowa City to Council
Bluffs, and that they have reason to believe,
should nothing unfavorable occur in the
money market, that these negotiations will
be successful. The Directors are exceed
ingly anxious to work on this
part of their road Immediately, and to has
ten it to completion. They believe that the
interests of the company, of the State Of
Iowa, and of the city of Davenport espec-
tally, are deeply involved in the prompt ex-
~ecution of the work. They are already en-
gagged in extensive operations, having put
the whole line from the city Of Muscatine to
Oskaloosa under contract. 1t is also a mat
ter of good faith to Congress and the State
to complete the line from Iowa City to
Council Bluffs as speedily as possible, as the
company has received a grant of land for
the specific purpose. Under these circum-
stances, they consider themselves bound to
devote all their means and their efforts
to the completion of these two lines; and
they feel that any diversion of their resour-
ces to other objects, would MOI only be in
furious to the company by impairing its util-
ity to 60 on with the work referred to, but
would, at the present moment, greatly en-
barrass the negotiations in progress for pro-
curing the necessary funds.
They beg you to make this communica-
ton to the Common Council of the citv. and
to suggest, that if the amount proposed to
be devoted to the Cedar Rapids road could
be applied to the Road West Of Iowa CITY. it
would enable the Company to comply with
their obligations to the contractors, SO that
the work may be sub let and commenced i'm
mediately, and they do not doubt that it
would essentially aid them in the pending
negotiations.
am, very respectfully,
T Your obedient servant.
JOHN A. DIX,
President Nj. & NJ. Railroad Co,