The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-04-30
Correspondence Of the Nonpareil.
Council Bluffs 4 st. Paul Railroad.
Denison Iowa, April 18th 1859.


W. w. MAYNARD,
Dear Gr-ln times Of Rail
Road enterprise, as the present for instance,
when commerce is restless for avenues,
and money flush, it becomes matter Of in
terest that the people bo kept posted on tia
subject, that they may know where to in
vest their surplus means, to the best ad-
vantage.
Allow me to say, then, the railway con.
nection between your favored city, Council!
Bluffs, and St. Paul, is beginning to assume
a high place in the judgment of the public,
as among the fixed institutons-that will
be at no distant day. The following is an
abstract from length editorial upon the
subject in the st. Paul Daily Times.
"a Railroad nvcntion recently held at Ohm
sed on the Boyer River small stream falling into the
Missouri near Council Bluffs at which place or
ganizel the Council Bluffs, Boyer Valley and Minnesota
Raj Tread Company Some of the most substantial eiti-
Gems Of North Western Iowa, connected with this
company All the papers published in that section Of
the State favor the enterprise warmly and it be-
avails of Swamp Lands, in the Counties along the line
of the proposed road be secured for its construction
The line runs through beautiful section country,
with easy grade conflicts with road interest
East Of it, opens road to Pincries. for the sup
ply Of all the lower Missouri Valley and the valleys Of
tributaries with lumber and commends Itself there
fore to the favorable notice only Of Western Iowa
Nebraka, and large section Of country south of St.
Joui lint tn Ea forth Yves
ern Wisconsin opening for item an unlimited mar
for their lumber to say nothing OF other kinds Of
commerce
The great against the vast region Of country which
this road would penetrate, is the want Of timber and
lumber. Our correspondent says Give US but a rail-
the Pneries of your section Of country, and
can be supplied with pine lumber cheap we now
pay for oak or bass-wood The distance from Council
Bluffs to Minnesota State line, is about ITO miles, and
and from there to St Paul about lC0 miles, maksng
the distance less than TO Davenport which is about 800
miles Our pine lumber is taken from your vicn-
y down the Mississippi thousand miles to St Louis
and thence up the Missouri, 500 miles Council Bluffs
where it costs $40 to $40 per thousand"
The proposed road strikes us as being an
enterprise of great mutual benefit to the
citizens Of both States. All our Iowa
neighbors have to do, is to push forward
their end Of it, up to the Minnesota State
line. In direct course from Council Bluffs
it will intersect the Southern Minnesota
Railroad-which is a land grant road run
ming from St. Paul in the direction of the
mouth Of the Big Sioux river, somewhere
near the State line. The Southern Minne-
sofa road. it may be interesting for our To-
wa ncighbors to learn, is now in course OF
construction, an! some forty or fifty miles
Of it on this end already gradcd.'
You perceive therefore that the proposed
road is already commenced at one end Of
the line. How long shall it be before the
same can be said Of The other.
Our county, Crawford have just voted
to appropriate all the avails of our Swamp
lands, for the benefit Of the road, and Sac
county is ready to appropriate the avals of
So 900 acres of her Swamp lands for the
benefit Of the road, if i, runs through Sac
City.
From all the counties along the line, we
hear encouraging words. g Good times are
coming, Boys" Wal, for the Wagon"
Respectfully,
j. W. DENIsoN.