The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-08
Directors Meeting,

! At n meeting Of the Board of Directors oil
the Council Bluffs and Sioux City Raiiroa,
Company, held on the 3lst day Of December
\. D., 1858, J. p. Cassidy was called to thu
Chair, and II. c. Bacon, was elected Score.
tarv.
On motion Of Hon. S. II. Cassidy, the
Board proceeded to elect President, Vice
President, Sc :retary and Treasurer; where
upon the following gentl men were elected
Officers of the Company.
! President, l.. W. BABBlTT.
| Wee President, W. NJ. I'LL.
Secretary, NJ. F. Moore.
/ Treasurer, S. II. Casady.
J On motion committee of three was ap.
pointed to draft a code Of By Laws for the
government Of the Company, consisting of
Messrs. Rabbit. Hill and IIazrett. On mo-
ton the Board adjourned.
J. P.CASADY, Chm
H. c. BACON, Sec'y:
Pacific Rai!rond
! lhe following is Il synopsis Of Senator
( Rice's bill for Railroad to tho the Pacific:
sit was introduced by Senator Rice on
the l4th inst, read twice aud referred to
the Committee on Public Lands. 1t is en-
titled a bill to aid in the construction of
certain railroads to the Pacific, to cncour-
age settlement on their lines, and for other
purposc>':'
! Section authorizes the President to
cause the public lands to the extent of forty
miles on each side of the routes (after
mcntoncd) to be surveyed and the Indian
title cxtinguishcd; and that, on payment of
ten cents per acre by present settlers, the
pre- emptlon laws be extended thereto.
Sec provides that every alternate Sec
ton, for ten sections in width on each side
of said roads and branches be granted to
the States and Territories upon the lines Of
the proposed roads, namely, from Lake
Superior to Puget's Sound, with branch
to the navigable waters Of the Columbia;
from the western border of the State of
Texas to San Petro or San Diego to the Bay
Of San Francisco.
See. 3. The said lands so granted to the
States and Territories shall be subject to the
| future disposal of the legislatures thereof,
Tor the purposes above expressed. and for no
other.
Sec i defines the conditions of the sale of
said lands: that two hundred sections NAV
be sold along every twenty contiguous miles
of the road, as completed; but if such road
or branches be not completed within twenty
years, all unsold lands shall revert to the
United States.
Sec requires that the United States
mails should be transported over the said
roads at prices to be fixed by Congress, the
President being authorized to name the price
temporarily till fixed by law.
Sec. 6. Government shall have the pri-
orty of right for all purposes of transport
tation.
Sec sets aside the sixteenth and thirty
sixth sections for school purposes.
Sec. s. The President shall determine
the termini, with consent of the States and
Territories in which situated.
Pork Crop in Iowa.
The Muscatine Journal thus speaks of its
mportancr:
GAS will be seen by our market report the
number Of hogs already packed in Muscatine
this season is nearly 10000 and will reach
Is 900.
From our exchanges we learn that the
packing season is about closed at keokuk
and Burlington. They claim 1000 hogs
Mt tho former place and 10000 at the lat
ter.
The Davenport Gazeite says 10000 hogs
have been packed in that city.
AtDubuque the number falls short Of q
600.
These are the only places in Iowa where
any considerable number of hogs have been
packed this season. The PORK crop of the
State for 1858, it may be 81 ely estimated,
will bring into the hands of Tue farmers a
million and half of dollars. Quite a
help.