The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1860-11-08
THE Upton RAILROAD.

As the state Of the political atmosphere
is becoming cooler, it is proper that some
other subject should engage the atten-
ton Of our readers, and We know Of no
other subject that possesses so much in
terest to the people of Upton, and in fact
to the people of the whole county, as the
completion of a railroad from Wilton
through Upton to the North. Ne. only
the people in the county, but many cut
of it feel deep :n.o-o-. - 49, ..~...-,
deep ic their selEshness, but not deep in
their pockets, unless it is so deep that no
man can get down to it to induce any
material aid to come to our assistance
We last week received long letter from
a man in New England making enquiries
about our railroad prospects. He owns
land in the north part of our county and
very much wishes to have the road COM
pleted, but he has not yet signifed his
willingness to aid US in the only way that
We need aid, in money. Is it not time
tina. something was done that would show
that the Company is not dead? If any
one will take the pains to enquire, he
may find out that we have a Board of
Directors, who have met once since their
elec ton in June last, when they elected
a President and Secretary who occupies
a good Office, but whether the company
pays rent and salary, he will not find
out unless he succeeds better than We
have been able to do. We hear that
meeting Of the Directors has been called
| but we do not know when it is to come
of-perha; that fact can be ascertained
by sufficient enquiry.
We have folded our hands in years
past and lost our best chances. We have
folded our hands in months past and it
may be that in that time We have lost,
perhaps, our last chance-certainly few
more months of such supiness as has
characterised the last few will put US in
a good position to wait till the "crack of
DOOM before we get a railroad. Our
old citizens will rccollect that in former
| times We heard much Of the "Ram $
Horn Railroad project, which was, to
mosa, Marion, Cedar Rapids and Iowa
City, to keokuk. We have heard moth.
ing of late of the "Ram's Horn project,
but the fact is, that a railroad is now
being built and will soon be completed
from DUBUQUE via Anamosa to Marion.
Itrhe people Of Upton and MuscatIne have
been resting in fancied security, because
they thought that when a railroad should
be built North and South, it would be
from Wilton to Anamosa. Is it not time
that they opened their eyes to the pres
ent facts in the case, and to the possible,
if not probable, darker future? Will
they wait till road is built from Marion
through Iowa City to Columbus City, o,
some other point, to connect with the
keokuk and Mt Pleasant road, and see
all the North and South traffic passing
around them, when by proper exertion,
on their part, the road would be buil
, through these points? The people o.
Cedar county and Muscatiue can, will
proper excrtion, secure the completion o
> the road through this place. They cal
better afford to build two such roads, ant
e pay every cent out of their own pockets
8 than they can afford to lay still and let
| railroad be built on the west of them -
, We ask the candid consideration of al
:. interested, to this question: is it not tim
that final and successful effort was mad
: to build cur road
We saw, some weeks since, in tn
Muscatine Jouruai, a statement to thi
/. effect, that the people Of Upton woul'
: have to take hold and build the roa,
from this point north to the Chicago
Iowa & Nebraska Railroad before Musca
r. tine would do anything in the natter
|. We do not believe that the citizens o
II Muscatlne are so unmrdful of their ow,
interests We do not expect they vii
build the road to benefit us alone, bu
:. We do expect they will unite with US il
this, the most important, to them, rail
road now talked Of. If anything is eve
d to be done, We think that this is tn
y time, the only accepted time, to do it.
- We consider this the most importan
subject that We can write upon, and "
y know that there are others interested
" who can WELD better pen than our
and we call on such to send us such art
cles as they may think will be Of benel
to our readers, and the construction
=. the Upton Railroad and its branches.
l. DR.. Franklin says that "every lit
o fragmcn. of the day should BE- saved. -
e Oh, yes, the moment day breahs, St
,e yourselves at once to saving the pieces.
ar Respect for wealth is respect f,
d mower, What we respect in those VIII