Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1863-07-18

Aoo o4citeuent OF tno war 0aS 200 long
Withdrawn the attention Of our citizens
says the DUBUQUE 7Tmes-from their own
local and commercial interests. Let %
for the moment, at least, forget tho War
and party politics, while We look to our
home business. Dubuque il destined to
be the chief Railroad, River and CONNER.
cial City in the Mississippi Valley north
Of st. Louis. Indeed it may be said to
hold that position now, but there is an
active competition from several points,
which unless counteracted will soon place
it in the back view. 1t has the means
within reach to establish its CONNER cial
supremacy above all contest, if it will now
promptly and thoroughly avail itself of
them. Within the last year a better
Wholesale trade has been done in this city
than ever before aud much of it comes
from remote places which have sent their
business to Dubuque for the FIRST time.
Capital is concentrating here, and our
Wholesale merchants are conducting q
heavy traffic. The organization Of Board
OF Trade is an excellent step, and We
would urge every merchant to take hold
Of it with . determination to make il a
powerful instrument in up>buildinz the
commerce OF the city. The most impor.
tant step for US now is to hasten forward
the construction Of Dubuque aad Sioux
City Railroad to the latter point Dubuque
and the interests Of all concerned in that
Road, have suffered by the dilatory man
ner in which its progress has been con.
Quoted. While it has been taking its long
and almost death sleep at Cedar Falls,
every other Railroad ia the State has been
shooting ahead with zeal and energy, and
the legitimate business of this Road is fast
travelling off on other routes to other mar.
kets. If it had reached Fort Dodge it
would now be drawing q large and lucra~
tive trade which is 10 danger Of being
permanently diverted. We trust that every
man in Dubuque who has any influence
on the managers of that Road, will en-.
deavor to stop them from further suicide.
The present is most auspicious time for
the extension Of the Road.
Every mile that it progresses beyond
Cedar Falls will attract more and more
strongly the business of four Of the best
agricultural districts of the West, which
are fast filling with settlers and rapidly
developing their treasures of wealth and
commerce, South West Minnesota South
East Dakota, North East Nebraska and
North West Iowa.
The natural medium for tho Eastward
traffic Of oil this great and valuable gesion
Of country is tho Dubuque and Sioux City
Railroad, and the point which can most
readily invite and control its wholesale
trade is Dubuque. The result of the re.
cent Indian war in the removal Of the
Indians from Minnesota, will prove .
great benefi. to this region. The presence
Of the Indians in South West Minnesota
had deferred immigrants from settling in
that part Of the State, and also 10 the
North West counties of Iowa and the
South West part of Dakota. Their removal
not only opens up their extensive reserva.
tons to settlement, out all the surround.
ing country kept in dread Of them, for
hundreds Of miles in extent. The Winnie,
bago reservation is in the heart Of the
richest and most beautiful portion Of
Minnesota 1t is situated mainlv in Blue
Earth county, but extends into Waseca,
Oh its eastern borders. Its north line is
within three miles of Maukato. The
whole tract contains POI 1850 acres. It is
traversed by four fine streams, the Blue
Earth and its tributaries, the Maple, Cobb
aud LeSuer, whose wooded borders divide
the landscape in alternate belts of wood
and prairie. The soil is perhaps the rich
est in the State.
The Sioux reservation contains 7lO 900
acres extending in a parable loeram along
the south side OF the Minnesota river above
Fort Ridgely.
In Dakota the Indians have been with.
drawn from tho Southwestern part of the
Territory and placed farther up the Mis-
souri,, so that all the region to which we
have referred, is now happily free from
their presence and the dread Of them.
The lands seeded by the Indians to the
Government in south eastern Dakota, are
about fourteen millions Of acres. Nearly
opposite to Sioux City, the Territories Of
Dakota and Nebraska meet together and
are waiting to pour their growing wealth
and trade along the Dubuque and Sioux
City Railroad, as soon a. it approaches
them. They are endeavoring to antici.
pate ito arrival, by beginning the con.
struction from that point, Of the Northern
branch Of the Pacific Railroad, and Ara
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