, 1865-03-08
IOWA RAILROADS AND CHI
!: CAGO INTERESTS.
f1,tcnro md Dcsmplnes md st. Louis
ono DesMoInc& KzlrOad C0nnec.
ffocs-The North Miss ouFt and 8es.
Mplnes Valley NaI1roods.
From Our Own Correspondent

DEsMoMEs, Iowa, Feb. q, 1865.
The magnificent and rapid expansion Of
Chlcago In population, business and wealth,
though vastly facilitated by Lake navigation,
gould have never been realized without her
railroad connections. She is the center Of q
system. Tho iron lines oflocomotion radia-
ting from her, reaching out their arms into
Indiana, searching into every part Of Illinois,
gathering nourfsbment even from Missouri.
giving eastern Iowa cold, timid, modest and
and 1esftating embrace, and then to
the northwa1d/ throwing vigorous
grasp all over Wisconsin, and into
The heart Of Minnesota, are the real
inyigo1ators Of her exuberant prosperity
ctnter: The lakes gaye Chicago founda-
ton. Railroads have built her grand super
structure. They have made Der past, and all
western Tnilrcnd interests, systems, enter
p.ises and connections must effect her future.
To these facts her capital and hopeful enter
prise Is ever ready to accede. To these facts
TOO, her capitalists and business men are sen
sitivc. Not less sensitive is her great rival,
st. Louis. Nor Is st. Louis less sagaclous
thun Chicago in deyising and executing plans
to rcanimate md sustain for the future her
old Importance In view Of these matters,
beg, to cali the attention Of tie Tn1nusE
,eade1s to thoE ailr9ad a., "ettuation Of the De--
=
Unfortunately, as believe, for this State,
our Constitution contains the feeble and
short-sighted provision that the credit Of the
State shall In no manner be given or loaned
to any Individual, association, OF corporation.
Almost a, ,ftlo de 50 ut her birth, was Iowa, by
pr0cur1t.On Of Tanters, demagognes aud
babes in political economy. I'VE do not
agree with our corfespondent.-ED. TRIu.
So all great enterprises Of internal improve
Eent in the Sfate must look for ali the aid
that can be given them here, to the spasmod-
ic, uncertain, unequal, and usually ilIy.excr-
cised action Of the smaller communities and
the enterprise md munidcence Of individuals.
The latter, Of necessity. must be limited in
a1l young States ; and the former never can
he efficient, comprehensive, and systematic.
Thus arc VIC left for the deyelopcment Of
great enterprises that onght to be projected
and controlled here, to the money interests,
necessities, enterprises and flyalries Of. for
efen States and cities.
With less debt upon the State, than now
rests upon few counties, We might have had,
years since, two direct railroad connections
. Of this city. with Chicago, with now one
not Tie State bound hand and foot By her
fundamental law. As 1t is the Chicago, Iowa
md Nebiaska Company hare their road forty
miles 10 the north Of us, with no intention
Of voluntarily stretching q branch to this
point. That road and this city will be con-
ntCted SClHcIl1nts uut uOl uutll LIE luLefeStS
Of Chicago and this city demand and build 1t.
That time must Dc within lew years.
The Mississippi and Missouri River Com
paDy have their western terminus at Grinneil,
where It has been for more than d ycar-nfty-
three miles from thfs city. There it is likely
to remain until some new and living energy
il infused into its management. How 1t can
be done, do not know nor do know what
induccment the company lacks. or the into
rests identiGeAwith ii, 10 push lis way west
ward. I only know it don't "push.'
The Burlington and Missouri Rigc1 Road
st1ikcs tue Des Mo!nes river ut Ottumwa
aud b,lrgs it into direct connection with
Chicago. At Ottumwa the VatleyRoad from
Kcokuk intcrsccts the B. s. II. Tic Valley
Road is now within ferty.three miles Of Dee
Moines and it is believed the company will
push their work with such Tlgor during thu
coming season as to give us sight Of q rail-
read engine within these corporate limits by
next New Years. That will rise Des Moincs
her first raiiroad connection with Chicago by
the circnitous way of Burlington with the
privilege to passengers Of changing cars nt
OttunlWa, taking q boat across the Mlssis.
sippi at Burlington and conducting according
to The regulations for the remainder OF the
trip But passengers and freight once On tho
Vni}ey road and bound for Tie East Will go
on to Keokuk, take the Wabash Valley route
and cross the Illinois Central at Decatur !;
and Chicago will ne1er smell surface indf-
caticn eyen Of the o1eaglnous matter that q
direct railroad connection would plump into
her ample and open la1der.
There Is another great enterprise In which
this city and Chicago have joint and equal
Interest, though not precisely In the same same
| direction. Thut IS. the North Missouri Rail
| rcad. By it and the Valley Road, venture
The prediction that Des Molnes will bs in d.
t rect railroad connection with st. Louis be.
fore 1t is with Chicago. Such an assertion
| oT.fr4 q
dream or the raearJ Of diseased mind but
now it has the countenance OF Inevitable
fate. Il It Is a truth that has no charms 70,
Chicago, it Inns for st. Louis aud as l write
not to charm, but to MD in bringing the at
tention Of men to mattcrs concerning thel.
tcmpou1 salvation, write 1t, md let Il
charm or not, as may be.
| To show your Chicago and Iowa readers {
better c!ucidatioh OF the interests affected b.
the construction Of the North Missouri roat
to the Iowa line, than am prepared to con
dense for their benefit, I cail their atten tto1
/ RsJi1er.
Ii have given you longer article thar
! ypu commonly des1fe 10 receive from a cor
|. respondent, only say that the importauc
Of the subject to Chicago Md Iowa IL sui
ncient apology for its length though 1t be no
for any other fault 1t has.
.[From the Daily State Register, FebruaE12Al
Two tund1cd and atsy miles In direct ltnc rzuu
st. Louis-ahout forty miles less than IT is ffor
Chicago. The former city Ia one Of the best maj
kits il the Wct1, and often, as at present, til
twenty per cent more there, according to the pull
cn9esao A. % eaeasted
absiaee the distance between MS and the met1uPc
liz Of the Mississippi valley !. Of great imp9rtanc
pst passed by Tie aseon legsaar
to lii the Stale lien on the North Missons. Raj
1ond, as 10 allow 1t to borrow $&ooo,oeo leE ~
Of Ssnda s nY na ts sa bss n sa c31ast
With the Iowa system Of railroads. St. Louis sses
With no very pleasant feelings, the extent
which Chicago has already tapped The ~ tr3as
enter On vigorous contest with her rival for th
Sf th,s hioss ss' i sse R RSsse seSr Of III st
|ins Vii claim thc rat attention. Of he conpan;
The connection must Of course be made a ~, With t6
Tint road il now only forty miles from !, D. e
Molnee, which d.st1nce, It is expected, viii ,
anis1gd some lime ~ ne TEE }sg not 90 e
Hannibal and St. Joseph road. Thus obout on
bali The distance between this city and ST. Lon
o ha a1f Ma Wa
possibly before we have direct Gom93untcatt .
With Chicago: The hcncat u the DesNosns
f. be as5saa e ct
very email portion Of the year, and some season
not At all. This 1aci will reliere The trade Of til
valley from the cztoEtions praetieed on otuer cor
| uaufes on the grest through lines TO the seaboar
Whi.e ne will have at all times In the yaar, tn
Distinct m! ans OF communication With the gre
world, and chclce OF rivu markets IN which
t1trokc Of the produce OF thia rich country. II
viii kefp our readers posted IS to tho uoscmeA
toward carrying cat shas grand project.
tFrCn the Daily State Register, Feb 201
| IN = 1ata u,1rnher IF fin st Inr!s Uef10EFut u
find m artcIe from which sc clip tho following
s'Eorth Missouri bus been favored in tho lcgi
letIon Of she Psessns Winter ssTsrsi ,a1s o. sfe
hcen enacted. The chief Of ttose hare been &C
smcHdatny Of psey'ops isEis'at,sn e.; aaset,ni !,
Companies, although como action Q! fmportan
to he Interests Of thy Hannibal and ST Jose{
has bssn az safeq Ths s e
layv adopted In ala Of the completion OF the Nos
M,ssorfi Road. This act is much more eompi
Aepeive 10 ~ contemplated operation than 4
T dcrstood to be the extent OF the North Ais5ou
line. Not only does that enterprise, as nc
RG1sI 70 i6e Town iine,16nt likcwtse an independc
Western extension to the State Of. Kansas.
: the main line, one. hand1ed ~ and seven
: tanee @ Of nearly ono hundred. miles to Ion
au5 Of one hundred and fifty miles to Kansas.
5 to be added, making road, when finished. 81 70
: hundred mi1cs In extent As this road Will r
y through the richest portions, q Missouri, a
cnnetuctiou viii not only be OF fncalcuable 81
vice In developing the districts It pencttatcs, b
viii supply one d the chief tributaries to t t
Of he Whole Of this great road, the action Of
Leeielaure, in ita Inst proceedincs in reference
j the matter, has been directed. TIE mode ID ADOPT
'a by TIE ra1lrosd compsay, Of bonds to the amol
= Of eix millions Of iol1srs the proceeds Of VIII
y are TO 60 to the roads completion, four 1ntilie
!e Of the amount to be used In building the VI
l. Branch to Kansss, one million and hau In Tar
,e ing the man line to Iowa, md the bG1ance Of
% snm, one-half million. Is to be applied to tbs q
j. strnetion Of a bridge over the Missouri River
I, | St Chht1een
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