Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1859-01-11
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On the bank Of the Mississippi river
in the county Of Clinton, and all within
ten miles Of each other, there are three
email towns. Lyons, Clinton and Ca
mauche. The population OF neither
ever exceeded two thousand souls, and
At the present time we doubt, if cen
aus taken would find one thousand IN
either. Each of these PSEUDO cities
has q Mayor, Aldermen and city gov
eminent, ss large as life, and more hon
est, for the reason that their powers OF
disbursement are limited and that even
in case there was no restriction, IT
would be difficult to collect from the
impoverished owners Of corner lots, the
wberewithal to make disbursements.
The inhabitants and owners Of "valua-
bic corner lots in the most desirable
portions of the town and near the
railroad depot" are persuaded and sat
isfied of the uncQualled advantages Of
their respective towns and as means
Of inducing eastern capitalists to enter
tain similar opinions, it has been the
custom of the "bIowers' for each, to
present through the press and through
such other mediums as we're available,
the peculiar natural advantages offered
for the construction of bridge at each
point. Very bitter quarrels and fierce
wars of words are .saged between the
newspapers which are spasmodically-
except in the case of Lyons-support-
ed 10 each town, upon the all absorbing
subject of bridge. Some month or
two since, the excitement upon the
question arose to a fever heat, upon
the submission Of the question of the
construction of bridge, to the stock
holders of the Chicago and Galena Il.
R.-a branch of which road terminates
at Fulton opposite Lyons. Lyons was
jublant and her press crowed most ex-
travagantly, over her anticipated sue
cess over her neighbors, while Clinton
and Camanche both held Indignation
meetings wherein they expressed most
unquaitiedly their newly found oppo-
sition, against the Construction of the
waters of the Mississippi" by a bridge;
but as the stockholders Of the Chicago
n Galena X. Il. refused to build the
bridge, both growers and crowed at,
subsidized for time.
The next move was the publication
Of notice in the Lyons papers, for the
organization Of a company for the con-
struction Of bridge from Lyons to
Fulton, by the inhabitants of those
places. This was replied to by the
publication in the Clinton papers of a
notice Of the organization of com
pany in that city, for the construction
Of bridge at that point. Both these
projects however, like dozen Others
Of the same sort, after creating small
breeze, died out. They are now sue
ceeded by new ones At each point.
In a late number of the Clinton
Herald, the "Albany Bridge Com
pany" advertise that "sealed proposals
will be received at the office of the
Company in Albany, for the furnishing
and delivering of 500 white oak piles"
for building bridge across the Missis-
sippi. The advertisement does not
intimate where the piles arc to be used.
but we learn that the following, regard
ing the Albany L. Mendoza Railroad,
the projected western terminus of which
has been at Albany, opposite Canaan
che, explains the matter.
We are advised that the Iowa and Ne
brasks Road, commencing at Clinton, have
determined to change their former plans Of
running to Chicago on the Galena Air Line
road, and have commenced operations to
bridge one branch Of the Mississippi from
the Illinois side to an island, and run "A
ferry on the other branch to Clinton. Thence
they intend, ana have entered into CON
tract to that effect, to run a track to Albany.
and run their passengers and freight by the
Albany and Mendoza Road We are advised
that the Clinton Company commence drlv.
ing spiles the first day of January, 1862
This move is in earnest, and must change. if
carried out, many Of the plans made on the
premises Of the bridge being butt ut Fulton
and LyonA
The affairs Of the Albany and Mendoza
Road are now assuming a tangible shape
and the prospects are encouraging for an
early completion Of the road A consider
able force If hands are at work betw cen AL.
bany and Prophetstown. and we are in.
formed that still another force of hands are
employed between Prophetstown and Men
dota. But so miles of road remain to be
built from Mendoza to Albany. On this the
work sgoing successfully and earnestly for
ward
As an offset to this apparent deter
mination Of the Clinton men to discon-
t'nue talking. and 60 to work, the
Lyons papers publish the result of the
surveys Of one C. L. McAlpine, wherein
ne declares himself firmly ofthe opin
'on' that the bridge should be con-
structed at Lyons and nowhere else.