The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-15

SAlCkDA1, JAM AM ~, Aooo'
S-sEE FIRST. THIRD 4 FOURTH PAGEs.-E
formation Gra,is-Newspaper Articles for
Eastern Consumption.
Some well-informed (f) and philanthropIc
individual, writing to the Miners Journal,
Pottsviile, Penn, from Elida, Winnebaso
Co., ILL.,, under date of Dec. 7, 1858, winds
up with the following piece Of rdtacd'e IN
formation
Pacific City is stopping place for several large am
or, on the Missouri, besides large steamers tdnhs
his last sunmer) lett Pacific City daily Tor SeaIoliS,
Is mile. Up Platte River, which has eei' found 10
be nar:s cable go miles further up ihcFe are tHo
Railroads already located Pacific City au IN prosress
and another Will doubtless soon be made me Dur
and Pacific City Railroad will be done n2 years Pdcihc
City will the great Western terminus OF the toaa
The joe and Sioux City Raj road VIII oe hi.e W
Pacific City in year. All must discover ,hat lne
great River valley must be hencefcrth and forever
the great thoroughfare pixies Peak orce" ana al
ifornia nhs place Is by-theway, only 800 miles from
pres Peak, In view the grea. Platte River pass,
all contemplated Railroads seem to concentrate t"se"tf
a. the mouth Of that river. Those great aaVaHlases
will make Pcifc CIty the largest city west OIL 81
Louis, a'uf'' @''
To persons living in Western Iowa and
full understanding of the ridiculous falsity OF
the above extract. 1. is a tissue of msrep-
reservations, from beginning to end, and
was got up by "corner-lot Spectator" in
Pacific City, for the consumption OF Eastern
readers, and for the sole purpose OF besull-
Ing some unwary reader into an investment
or MS means into that sunken ''IIottentot
village" But for the fact that some Of our
eastern ncighbors may be misled by such
gaseous badinage as the above, We would
pass it By without notice, trusting that, in
time, the supreme righteousness of the state
ment containeds therein would prove their
surest refutation. AS it is, we will briefly
refer to the several Representations to.
uit:
l."Pacifc City is a stopping place for
several largo steamers on the Missouri
SO are q thousand and one other places on
the large turbid. The idea is conveyed by
the words above quoted, that Pacific City is
the terminus of line Of large packets ply
ing upon the Missouri. To that insinuation,
we object, for it is wcll-known here upon
the border, that Council Bluffs, Omaha and
Sioux City, are the only termini of river
packets ADORE St. Joseph.
.. The statement that Charge steamers
During this last summary left Pacific City
daily for Neapolis, 65 miles up the Platte
Rirer, Which has been found to be nariqable
200 miles further up" is the most shame
less Of fabrications, or the author must be
IN ignoramus Of the very first water, or the
celebrated 'DamphooF' himself. Neither
large or small steamers, hatboats, or canoes,
erer left Pacific City, daily for any place onthe
habtable, or inhabtable globe. Steamboats,
do not noU nor ercr did nav gate the Platte
River for the distance of even one mile. So
our eastern readers can see how much reli-
nnce can be placed in the statements of in
terested spectators, when writing articles
for Eastern papers.
3. There are not two Railroads located to
Pacific City and in progress, neither will
"another soon be made.'
i. There is no such Railroad rs the Bur-
.ington and Pacific City Railroad-nethcr
will any road be built to that place within
two years.
5. There is no such road as the St. Joe
and Sioux City Railroad, so, of course, it
will not "bc made to Pacific City in one
year."
e. And the only true statement, viz -"All
must discover that the great Platte River
Valley must be henceforth and forever the
great thoroughfnrc to Pixies Peak, Oregon
and Californian
:. 'This place (pacifc City, is, by-the-
way only 500 miles from Pixies Peak is a
rght-no such thing. 1t is over coo
miles from Pixies Peak. Emisrants can
come from Pacific City to Council Bluffs,
and travel up the North side of the Platte
and reach the mines with .itiy miles less trar-
Ell, than by the South Platte route, via PIatts
mouth. This cannot be successfully con-
tr0ycrteI.
S. ''In view Of the great Platte River
pass, all contemplated Railroads seem to
concentrate together at the mouth of that
river" Bosh-all bosh There is no con-
ccn,ration Of Railroads sat the mouth of
that river" No line of Railroad proI o,cs
to tap the Missouri River sat the mouth Of
the Platte'-let alone the "concentration of
MI contemplated Railroads." at that point.
9. "These great advantages will soon
make Pacific City, the largest city West of
st. Louis" We do not know how larqe
cities will be built Vest of St. Louis, but we
know the advantages (?) as claimed above,
and improved and cmasculated by US, uiN
not make Pacific City the largest city North
of St. Louis. The torn of Pacific City is
one Of the smallest on the Missouri River,
from its source to its mouth, and it has no
other advantages (:) than those given above,
SO that our readers can judge for them
selves, how soon it will surpass St. Louis in
point of population. We have written the
above ''morc in sorrow than in anger and
for the sole purpose, rs before stated, of
correcting the misrepresentation generated
in the article in question. Judging from the
past, We shall be roundly taken to task for
this candid aud truthful statement-but the
spleen Of our neighbors may BIO allowed to
work OF, We believe, without any serious
consequences, so we bid them "pitch in'
and spare Motive can stand it.
Ho. For tho Gold Mines.
The NebrdIidn, of the 18th inst. says
",he Western Stage Company have COM
plcted their arrangements for daily line
Of coaches between Omaha and the Gold
Mines. Several persons in the employ of
the company, have already been sent out to
establish stations from Fort Kearney to the