The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-05-22

casion to say, that we shall soon expect t.
receive from the Superintendent Of the road
"dead. head" ticket, and that we'll fndit
| pleasant riding on Rail" .. .
Council Bluffs Z Saint. joseph Rsilrsad--Lette
From M. jeff. Thompea, II 81. Joseph.
The following communication explain
itself. 1t was sent to US by a gentleman o.
St. Joseph, with request that We woult
hand the same to the President of the Con
vention. Owing to the misunderstanding OF
the part of the writer, in regard to the tint
of holding the Convention, the letter did MOI
reach us in time, for US to make the dispose
as requested. The Convention met on the
18th instead of the l9th-hence the fail.
ure of connection. Under these circumstan.
ces,we came to the conclusion that we could
subserve the purposes Of the writer in nc
better way, than by giving publicity to his
letter. We ask for it careful and cordial
perusal-it is pregnant with practical in
formation and well-tim suggestions
To the Hon. President Of the St. Joseph and
sieux City Rail Road Convention, Council
Bluffs City. May 10th, 1858.
DEAR SIR: We have received invitations
during this week, to meet she representa-
tives of the various counties interested in
Missouri Valley Railroad, in Conven-
ton to be held in Bluffs City, on the 18th
inst, but from various untoward circum-
stances, our City and County will not be
represented as it should be, and take the
liberty to address you this communication,
so that you can assure the friends of the
road, that We are alive to its Importance,
and anxious for its speedy commencement
and completion.
Those who have not an accurate knowl-
edge Of the geography of our country, and
who do not know the geographicalrequi
which are necessary to build large cities and
thriving communities, may think that con-
nection between Council Bluffs City and St.
Joseph, may conduce to the injury of one
place or the other, and that the whole en-
ergy of the people should be concentrated
upon the Eastern routes. This, for the
time-being, may seem good policy, but any
one who fully understands our position, and
can see but few years into the future,
must know that in a short time, the current
of our heavy business and trade will be
changed, and the communications running
North and South will be of equal, if not
more Importance than those running East
and West.
The Missouri Valley, from the mouth of
the Kansas, to the mouth of the Sioux pre-
sents geographical and physical advantages,
which has no equal in the World. A
man may search the Globe from pole to pole,
and can find no valley, and no district Of
country with equal natural advantages With
this, our great and unparalleled country.
We have soil Of ine1haustible fertility, and
of an unbroken continuity for hundreds Of
miles-a climate, which though changeable,
is yet healthy and invigorating; a popula-
ton composed of the most intelligent, en-
terprising and energetic men collected from
all the States and nations of the earth, with
a future before US, more glorious than the
palmy days of the Pharaoh's.
This portion ofthe Missouri River which
l have mentioned, has entirely tributary to
it, country for thousand miles West,
North West and South West, which in an
other generation, will contain millions Of
people, who must seek and find their mar
ket on the Missouri River and in the limits
l have prescribed. There is an AGRA of
country between US and the Rocky Noun
tains, rs vast as that between US and the
Alleghanies. IT'S true its not so fertile OF
so diversified, but if our country, with SIX
millions of people could drive back the
hordes of savages, cut down the immense
forests, and Gil the great valley of the Mis-.
sissippi, with the millions Of people, the hun.
dreds of cities and thousands Of towns, in
two generations, what should we now expect.
when thirty millions Of intelligent freemen
with all the blessings that steamboats, and
railroads can yield, in their grasp, are fol.
lowing the setting sun in the march of desti.
n.y. Is not the future as fraughs with pro.
gress, as the past? Will not two more gen.
erations find the Anglo Saxon herding hi.
cattle and sheep on the slopes of the Rocky
Mountains? and will not the steam horse, a.
it rushes over its iron track, be ladened will
the manufactures made on the Missouri
River, and return with the Beef, the Wool
and the Golden Corn of Nebraska, Utah
Kansas, New Mexico and Arizona?
The intelligent man knowing these things
must also know that in the Missouri Valley
and between the points have named, viii
be several large and Hourishing cities, and
nature has SO distinctly marked their local..
ties, that it is useless almost, to point them
out. Kansas City upon the extreme South.
West; St. Joseph in the heart of the Platte
Purchase, with her Railroad nearly finished
and her great start in Manufactures, &C..
claims, and will get the trade of Northern
Kansas and Southern Nebraska to the base
of the Rocky Mountains. '".. .'""e
Council Bluffs City being above the mouth
Of the Platte, will get the trade of that vas
country on the Northern side of this lengthy
river, and Sioux City being on the grea
North East Bend Of the Missouri, command.