The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1863-12-08
Railroad NEonopoly.


and other counties in Northern Iowa,
are wronged and robbed by Forsyth and
Merry, and complaining generally of the
outrageous detention of freight occur.
ring at DunleiIh and Dubuque.
You purpose that the Legislature OF
Iowa shall intervene and apply a RENE
| dy, by gislating against the D. 81 S.
c. r. r., for the reason that Merry,
Forsyth, the lllinois Central Road, and
others are out OF the jurisdiction of the
State, You show that many weeks de-
| lay occur on their line, whereas BY the
iiue from Marshaltown via Clinton and
Chicago, grain is taken 10 Chicago
promptly, without breaking bulk, thus
giving an advantage of five cents per
bushel to shippers on that line.
Suppose that the legislature, at its
ne1' session, shall find, as you suggest,
that the D. d. S. G r. r Company is
n default in building the road as fast as
required by law, and the legislature
shall declare the land grant forfeited
and shall pass an act requiring the Com
pany TO compel Merry and Forsyth TO
pass the grain forward as fast as i, ar
lives Doyou suppose the Company has
! the power to enforce such reouisiton /?
Merry is the transfer agent Of The Hi.
nois Central Railroad. He takes rreiyh,
from the Dubuque side aud loads it up
on the cars at Dunlei;h. He is moi an
employee Of the D. d s. c. r. r. Com.
Pany. IN any sense, nor will he pay any
attention TO any orders given by that
Company,
The line from Dunleith to Chicago is
made up of two roads. The |. C. r. r
Company consider he road from Chica
90 to Cairo to be their main line. They
care very liule about the business from
Freeport to Dunleilh, distance of 67
miles, but look after the business be
tween Cairo and Chicago.
The Galena and Chicago Company
have lease for ninety nine years of the
road from Clinton 10 Marshalltown, and
they very naturally want all the business
sent by that line, hence that Company is
comparatively Indifferent TO the interest
OF shippers via Dunleith and Freeport
These are notonous, papable facts, and
and evils which cannot be changed or
remedied by the Iowa legislature.
| learn by the Dubuque papers thal
the Milwaukee r. II Company ure ma
king survey of a route from Monroe
Wisconsin, TO point opposite Dubuque
The Milwaukee papers contain the pro
ceediogs of meetings held by strong par
ties, for the purpose OF making arrange.
menls 70 complete that road. 1t is SAID
they intend 10 bridge the rive. at Dubu
que. This will give the shippers of
Northern Iowa, route eight miles near
er 10 Chicago than by the Illinois Cen
iral and Ga,ena roads, ard will, | be.
lieve, pretty thoroughly remedy the
evils YOU complain of. Nothing less
than this viii do any good. The follow
ING are the figures by the proposed
| route:
/ From Chicago to GAINESVILLE, by the
Chicago and Northwestern road 81 Miles
From GAINESVILLE 60 Monroe, ..-.... 81
/ From Monroe to Dubuque, . 50
,oo
WI ---- 49,. .s-..-.---- leo
BY proposed cut off of three miles
the route will. as stated, be eight miles
less than The 1873 miles Of The Illinois
Central and Galena route.
What influences, do You suppose, have
walked up the people Of Milwaukee to
build road to Dubuque ? | am told
and thi' k il is a fact, that the people OF
Milwaukee believe that the D. IL S. c.
r. r. and its connections will be pushed
forward, aud that the large business that
is now brought 10 Dubuque will be great.
" augmented, and lhat they Will find
profitable business that will remunerale
them for the investment, in building the
road SO miles, from Monroe to Dubuque
But if The legislature Of Iowa should un.
derrake 10 retaliate upon Merry and For
sytb, by Legislation against the d. & S.
9. r.. Il. Company, which would embar-
rass the extension OF our own roads, the
people Of Milwaukee would be injured,
the Milwaukee road might be dscour-
aged, and Merry aud Forsyth might en-
JOY their present privileges without fear
or competition.