Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1858-10-21
Land Grant for RailrOAds In Ne.
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A~AssS "sAssS hOH Ae"sA1 VouD n %
braska.
We have rcce lived copies of the follow
ing memorial from Messrs. CRAwPoRD and
BaAMBLE of the Nebraska Legislature
We are not aware that il has passed the
Legislature:
MExoRIAL FOR LAND GRAsT--7b Mt
I HonoraIle'the Senate and House Of Rep
resentatires O thd United States o. amer
lea, in Congress assembled:
Your memorialists. the Council and
House Of Representatives of the Territory
of Nebraska, wouldsrespectfully represent
that the wise and liberal policy of the Gen.
eral Government as exhibited heretofore
in a system Of magnificent land grants to
States and Territories, struggling in the
weakness Of infancy, though strong in un
developed resources, has encouraged the
people Of this Territory to ask, through
their Repr esentatives, alternate sections
of the public lands, and the right of way
to aid and facilitate in the construction Of
the following railroads:
LIST. A road commencing at the mouth
Of the L'eau qci Court and running south
through the most dense!y pc pulaied por>
ton of the Territory, to the northern boun-
dairy Of Kansas, near the Junction Of the
Big Nemaha and Missouri rivers.
2. A road commencing on the Missouri
River at or near the parallel Of latitude for
ty degrees forty minutes.
Sd. A road commencing at a point be-
tween the mouth Of the Great Platte or
Nebraska river. and the parallel of la,i-
tude Of forty one degrees thirty minutes.
4.th A road commencing at or hear the
forty second parallel Of latitude.
9Th. A road commencing at or near the
mouth ofthe Big Sioux River. running wss
teri via the mouth Of the Running Water.
The four roads last mentioned are de-
signed to run in a westerly direction, con
verging in the valley Of the Platte a. Or
near New Fort kearney.
Your memorialists would suggest that
the route OF these roads would lie over a
country unsurpassed in beauty of scenery
and fertility OF soil, and when once its re
sources are fully developed by the foster
ing care OF the general government, it
would become an important source of rev.
enue and new pillar of strength to our
common country, and furnish home and
occupation for the energy ard industry OF
that class Of people that has given the
great west its present position and impor
lance in the commerce Of the world. Al
ready in anticipation of such a gratuity
from the government as donation of lands
for railroad purposes, the pioneer hosts
are peopising the hill, top, the valley and
the grove. and civilization is fast rearing
lis alters on the very ashes which mark
the late camping ground OF the savage.
Your memoriaists would further urge in
addition to the ordinary arguments in ia
vor of a land graft for these roads, that
they lie over country rich beyond COM
parison in salines, coal fields, and va De
posts Of iron ore, and recent discoveries
have developed gold mines not less produc
tive than those of California and Aus ira.
liza. Already the stream Of migration is
pouring in solid torrents toward the scene
of the new discovery, aud the settler is
pitching his tent and rearing his cabin in
the very shadow Of the Rocky Mountains,
on the eastern slope Of which, in a very
few years, viii spring up all empire equal
in social, political and commercial wealth
to California ."a: modern wonder Of III
world.
Thus not only the prcsan, but the early
future demand al the hands OF the Gener'
al Government prompt exercise Of its &C
custom ed bounty towards our Territory in
the matter Of land grants. Trusting and
hoping for which your memoriaIists will
ever pray, &c.