The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-09-18
FROM COUNCIL BLUFFs TO cALIFORNIA.
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FROM COUNCIL BLUFFS TO CALIFORNIA.
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Postmaster General BRowN, having be-
came satisfied that the route from Fort
Kearney to Council Bluffs, on the North
side Of the great Platte River, and along the
4lst parallel, was the shortest and most
practicable, has issued orders for the carry
ing of the mail between these two points, in
four mule covered wagons, tri-reekly. At
Fort Kearney this connects US with the
Great Salt Lake mail that now leaves St.
Joseph, Mo. This is but simple act OF
justice, and is all the more appreciated, from
the fact that our claims have so long been
overlooked. BY this act We are placed d.
rectly on the great overland mail route from
California. By this route, the overland
mail will reach the East from tUo to
three days earlier than by. any other route.
The distance from this city to Fort kearney
is only $50 miles-or in other words, We are
serenity miles nearer Fort Kcaruey, than any
other town or city on the Missouri River,
and at least one hundred and t,centy miles
nearer that point than St. Joseph is-wlth d
better road than any other route furnishes,
all the streams being bridged with the ex-
ception of two. By this route, mails and
passengers can reach Des Moinss from Fort
Kearney, as soon as they are now enabled
to reach St. Joseph, on the other route
Passengers and mails from Fort kearney,
by this route, will be enabled to reach this
city in two days; Des Moines,i in four days;
the Railroad at Iowa City or Fairfield, in
five days, and N. Y. city, in eight days!
Tho Western Stage Company has the
contract for carrying the mail from this city
to Fort Kearney, and We learn that the route
will be stocked and service commenced
about the first of October. According to
the conditions Of the contract, the Govern
ment gives the Company the right Of Pre-
emption to one section of land every twenty
miles, for stations, and II. G. MUTT, of the
C. B. & St. J. R. R., goes out next week
under the auspices of the Company, to select
the aforesaid lands. He will DO accompanied
by some of the agents of the Company, and
the necessary arrangements will at once be
perfected for the carrying into effect the
orders of the Postmaster General.
When this route is opened up, and four
horse coaches running regularly thereon, as
they will be next month, fine opportunity
will be afforded for those afflicted with the
gold fever, to visit the diggings at Pixies
Peak, as we understand the company intend
to extend their line of stages to that aurif-
erous region With the Western Stage
Company to carry out the orders of the
Postmaster General with the shortest and
best route-and being also directly in the
range of the great Railroad enterprises of
the day, which now flourish and transact the
enormous business of the country-we have
no fears but this route will become o fav ored
one, and that Council Bluffs will eventually
reap the benefits of her natural advantages,
and surprise old fogy dom with her gigantic
strides in population, wealth and commercial
Importance. The people Of Western Iowa
and Nebraska owe Postmaster General
BRowN, debt of gratitude, for this recos-
milton of their rights, and for this act of
justice, so long and loudly demanded, but
yet SO persistently, and without cause, with
held. Hurrah for the Valley of the Platte
the great and natural thoroughfare to the
Pacific may we live to chronicle the puff
ing of the Iron Horse from Council Bluffs
to San Francisco