Nebraska advertiser., 1859-11-24
Report or COMMITTEE.
JOHN L. CARSON, Sec'y.

The Committee appointed at a meeting
of the citizens Of Brownville to ascertain
the encouragement in the way of patron
age our town could afford a Railroad run
ming through or near it, beg leave to sub.
nit the following
Your Committee are of the opinion
that the city of Brownville presents I'm.
doubtedly the most advantageous point or
the Missouri river to command the trade
of the Southern counties of Nebraska
Since the settlement of the Territory il
has been the principal business point of a
large extent Of country; and at the
present time occupies a conspicuous posi-
ton as n of the most promising towns
north of St. Joseph. Possessing a levee
unsurpassed by that of any ~otherplace on
the upper Missouri, and being by good
and practicable roads connected with the
fertile country West and South of it, Its
business is rapidly increasing, and has
evidently attracted the attention of capt.
talists abroad.
Since Kansas has ceased to occupy an
undue prominence in the mind of the
country, to the almost total exclusion of
all other portions of the West, our fertile
prairies have commanded the c~onsidera-
ton and attention they so richly deserve,
and now amply reward the labors of the
husbandman with abundant crops of every
kind of produce raised in any State of the
same latitude East of US. Already hun
dreds of fine farms are to be seen, ex-
tending from the river West fifty and
sixty miles, and our surplus products are
far more than the most fervid imagina-
ton, a few years since, could have anti
cipated. The great mass of this surplus
finds its way to market through Brown
vile, which now is and must continue to
be the emporium for the business of the
immense region West Of it and North Of
the Kansas line. Our most excellent
ferry boat would give us an almost
immediate connection with a Railroad
running North and South through the
Missouri and Nebraska Valley.
Being the starting point from the Mis-
souri, River on n of the most direct and
practicable routes to the Gold Regions,
Brownville presents advantages to the
gold seeker unsurpassed, to say the very
least, by any Of our sister cities. Even
during the past year, when so many rival
routes were heralded to the public, and
every possible means used to attract ira
vel TO them, Brownville, by its geogra-
phical position, commanded a large por-
ton Of the outgoing, and still a greater
portion Of the returning travel, which
unanimous in favorable expressions
as to the BrownviIle route, all of which
especially hat the returning travel dou-
bles that going out-lead US to reasonably
expect in the future an increased travel
from this point. Travel, like commerce,
invariably seeks the shortest and most
feasible route, and no fictitious means can
draw away from us that to which the po-
sitionOf our city and the geography Of the
country declare US entitled.
Your Committee, from the very brief
time allowed them, must necessarily fall
short Of securing figures showing the full
amount of business done at this point,
and which would be bestowed as patron
age upon a Railroad running as near our
city as contemplated by the St. Joseph
and Council Bluffs Road-one and one
quarter miles. Our report is made upon
information derived from u merchants.
Produce Dealers, Forwarding and Com
mission Merchants, Ticket and Express
Agents. We find hat there has been
paid out at this point, the past year, for