The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-28
MISSISSIPPI AND MISSOURI RIVER r.. X
Work 10 be CONNIE nc ed Immediately!

From G. NJ. DODGE, who has lately re-
turned from the East, we learn that corps
of Surveyors will take the field at this point,
next week, for the purpose of making
final location of the Road, with view to
the immediate letting of the contract for
the grading of the same through this county.
This will prove good news to the people OF
Pottawattamc County, and, upon the COM
mencement of work, we shall expect to see
smiling faces where we have long been wont
see nothing, but downcast and lugubrious
expressions Of countenance.
The management of the NJ. 4 NJ. Railroad,
dcspairing of success in negotiating loans
on their land grants, have adopted the policy
Of letting the work through ere'y County
that ,ciA come toruard Nth aid, by private,
County, or other subscriptions, OF Land,
Money, or Bonds, to an amount approxlma-
ting the cost Of grading, tie-ing and bridging
the Road through the Counties, respectively
the Company agreeing, in that case, to
furnish the means to procure the iron and
thoroughly equip the road, from their own
private resources. The commencement of
work in all the Counties that have material
ly assisted the Company in their endeav ors
to build the road, is thought to be the surest
and quickest way Of securing the future
negotiations of their bonds.
1t is for the people of Western Iowa to
say, how far and how fast the work shall
progress from this end of the route. Work
will be commenced at once in this County,
and the Company design, if properly en-
couraged, to let the contract for the first Is
miles, East from the Missouri River. If
the Counties of Shelby, Audubon, Guthrie
and Dallas, will come forward, with lands,
bonds, or private subscription, for which
they will receive stock in the road,) work
will not stop a moment at the East line Of
this County, but will be pushed forward to
Des Moines, rs fast as money and men can
accomplish that object.
The Company, DESTROYS of pushing for
ward this good work, call upon thu people
of Western Iowa to aid and assist them, to
the full extent Of their ability. Finding it
impossible to negotiate aloan, ut the pres
ent state of the money market, they rely
upon those interested in the work, to help
push on the cars. For this purpose they
are willing to take lands, bonds, and eren
money, in payment for Stock. This affords
all of our large landed proprietors, who are
deeply interested in the prosecution of this
work, fine opportunity to put some Of
their abroad acres" to good use, by ex-
changing the same for Stock. They might
also be of service to the Company, and at
the same time, subserve their own inter-
csts, by squirting up the Counties Of Shell
by and Audubon, to a realizing sense of
their own interests, and, if possible, to
favorable action in behalf of this great and
important work. We are satisfied, that it
remains with the people Of the "Alissouri
Slope" to determine whether work
upon this great thoroughfare shall be let
through Pottawattamie County alone this
season, or whether it shall also, be let thro'
the Counties of Shelby and Audubon. Shall
we have IS miles Of Railroad terminating at
Council Bluffs ere the close of another year,
or shall We have only %