, 1863-03-14
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In another column We publish an &C.:
count of the opening Of the Cedar Rapids
and Missouri River Railroad to MARSHALL
town, 282 miles west of Chicago. The
line is composed Of three roads, the Gale
ma Airline to the Mississippi, the Chicago,
Iowa and Nebraska to Cedar Rapids,
cighty-two miles, and the Cedar Rapids
and Missouri River road, 70 miles, to Mar
shall:own. Of the two latter roads the
Galena and Chicago Union hayca perpetu-
llcase, virtually making that road the OWL
er Of continuous line when the remaining
hundred and eighty miles are completed.
to the Missouri. Now the point we wish
to make is the very great importance to
the stockholders Of the Galena and the
other companies named, and to every bust
ness man in Chicago of completing this
road at furthest by the first Of January,
1865. Reliable subscriptions to the amount
ofone million Of dollars will do it. That
amount the people along the line Of the
road, the stockholders Of the different com
panies, and our own citizens; ought to
pledge between this time and the last Of
May. The value added to the lands
Of the Iowa subscribers, to the
business Of the railroads and the
increased growth and the extend
ing trade Of the city, would be an ample
compensation, if not single cent should
ever be realized from the stock. But no
fears need be entertained on that point
Commanding, as the line would, large
share Of the immense trade and travel over
the Plains, and from Nebraska and the Up
per Missouri, it would at once become one
Of the very best paying roads in the coun-
try. We don't mean by the above state
ment that million Of dollars will build
the road; but with the bonds of the Com
pany TINT would be gladly taken at par,
that sum, if promptly pledged, will be sure
to build the road within year and ten
months The Pacific Railway will scarcely
be commenced in earnest before that time,
and when it is, Chicago should have d.
least one line opened to the Missouri. In
addition to the vast trade it will command,
the Cedar Rapids and Missouri Company
have most valuable land grant, which
will 60 very far to rcmunerate the stock
holders for all the money they may invest.
Another thing. This line and the Mis-
s:ssippi and Missouri, the east and west
road through Iowa, lying next south, are
keeping along very nearly together, and
will undoubtedly reach the Missouri at
about the same time, and within some forty
or fifty miles Of each other, To bridge the
Missouri will be a work Of great diff
Gully and expense. These roads must in
eyitab1y compete with each other, either
on the east bank Of the Missouri or some
where west o1 ii. Now suppose the one
road should bend little south, and the
other little north, reaching the Missouri
at or near point on a line with the nortl,
bend Of the Platte, and there build a
bridge that should be common to
both. From the west end o1
the bridge single line would be
al1-sut11cient to the Tooth parallel
where the Pacific Road Will start. # the
Dubuque and the Burlington Roads could
unite in the esame bridge, the expense would
be SO much the less to each, and the bridge
would be the more certainly built at an
carly day. This Of course is mere sug.
gestion, which the managers of the rail
ways in interest will canvass and decide as
heir interests shall dictate.