The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1865-10-19

calties in the interior Of Iowa are up and
doing to obtain the first fruits of their
extension; while We, as community, as
usual have been like Micawber, waiting
for "something 10 turn up"
Now the faces of our case are just this:
If We will sit still and do nothing VIC
never will nave road. We are told by
the pape;s and ci.izens Of Iowa City
aud Cedar Rapids that St Louis capital
lists have given them promises to assist
them TO build a road extending from the
North Missouri road via Bloomfield,
Fairfield, Washington and Iowa City to
Cedar Rapids; or via. Bloomfield, Ot,um-
wa, Sigourney aud Marepgo to Cedar
Rapids. In case either Of these lines are
built We can bid farewell, a long farewell,
to all.our hopes of Railroad to Upton
But let US look over the ground and
SEQ how it lies. The North MissoIi
Railroad is now only just being con'f Ct,
ed to Bloomfield, in Davis county. 1t is
not there yet. 1t may be year or more
before it is completed to that point; and
from thence, by either Of these routes, it
is over one hundred milos to Cedar Rap
ids, over country rough and hilly 10 the
extreme, crossing, diagon.lIy, all the
hills, aud valleys, ana streams running
into the Mississippi through this country.
No Company is Is yet even organized to
7buiads ts,;sa snal22s~zs Not >~...-.ez a. lima
has been run over it. On the other hand
it will require only about eighty miles of
road to be completed to finish contin-
uous line of Railroad from Dubuque to
Keokuk, via Anamosa, Upton, Musca
tine, Columbus and Mt. Pleasant, and
this too viii! serve the interests of St.
Louis as we'll as the other line. 1t will
open up to the trade Of St. Louis all OF
Eastern and Western Iowa. And Of this
eighty miles nearly twenty seven miles ii
already graded and ready for the tics
and all the balance of tho line is in tn
hands of old organized companies, an'
mostly under contract; all that is neede'
is moro money TO complete them, which
the people along the line are unable t.
finish but take car alists for assistance
In short, our line will serve them q
we'll, or better, and can be put in opera
ton in one fifth the time and at ope-tent
the expense Of the other line for whic
Iowa City and Cedar Rapids are MOI
working.
Under this state of facts, what shs
we do! If We remain idle we will neve
get road; but what shall We do7 Ian
swer, we will do as business and success
full men do in all places, and have done i
all times. We must work for ourselves
We must turn out and present the mer
its of our case to capitalists in St Lou
and other places and ask their aid; mus
90 to them, and not wait for them to com
to US; we must 60 and lay our projet
before them and show them that 1t is Il
their interest to build it, and the soen'
the better, and that it will pay. An
we must bear 10 mind the fable Of tt
lark in the wheat 6eld. aud depend upo
ourselves to do this, not wait for Anam
50, Musoatine, w Atou, Columbus, d.
buqus, nor .ny other plsce 70 join us =
Try them to join Us. if they will 1t on
we'll and good; but if not, do as Iowa Gil
aud Cedar Rapids are doing-strike Fl
; it alone, and success will depend aloz
upon our energy and enterprise.
WELLS SPICER