Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-10
DUBUQUE d sI0Vx CITY RAILROAD.
Hon. Platt Smith In Reply TO the Farm
ers aha shippers OF Hfemef CGuRtJ.
From the Dubuque Daily Times.

From the Dubuque Daily Times.
! EDITOR DUBUQUE TIMES In your
paper OF the 3lst uit. you published the
( proceedings OF meeting Of shippers
and farmers at Wayerly, in which Ger
tain questions are pTopOunded to the
Dubuque & Sioux City and Cedar Falls
Il Minnesota railroad companies. These
questions may all be answered in the
affirmative. We are well aware that
our rolling stock Is entirely Inadequate
/ to the wants Of the puhiic. We have
! frDught four locomotives in the last if-
J teen months, ana dave contracted for
four more to be delivered daring the
next winter and spring. 1t is tie in
tention ofthe company 10 procUre aie-
Quate rolling stuci< Us fest as possible
and the most vigorous measures are now
being taken 10y the president and di-
rectOr5 to remove that cause OF COM
plant. The two companies have cX
pended over q million Of dollars for
construction aud equipment within the
last eighteen IncHths; q continuance
in the same line Of policy viii bring
about the much desired relief. Three
hundred thousand dollars vii furnish
an adequate equipment ior both roads.
One question pr0rounicd -, Are
you aware that the senators and repre-
scntutiVes Of the people tributary to
the MaYerlY market, did you yeOman
service in the Legislature To save You
from legal forfeitures? ?" To-this will
answer that we are fully aware that
such is the fact, and we are much oblig-
ed. The liberal and enlightened policy
of our Legislators has been one of the
most potent arguments used in obtain
ing. money to build these roads. Shall
we be furnished with like arguments to
procure equipment and further extern
Sions? | think we may safely hope so.
The tide of prosperity is now setting
westward; do not lay n straw in its
way, but hold out welcome and a
helping hand. Confidence is begin
ming to revive; do not dash that conf
dence to The GROUND. Capital is pro-
verbally tinid; we must Go nothing to
drive it away to the fields of our rivals.
! Another question is as follows. a re
you aware OF the large increase of trade
and production in the upper Cedar
Valley during the last year ?n We arc
fully aware that we have already done
7 a business at Waveriy Station at leas,
twice as large as your most saguine res
idents anticipated, and yet we have not
been able to carry away half the prod
ucts which you are able to give. Yer
lily the railroad has done you more gooC
than either you or ourselves expected
we are both taken by surprise the frs
year.
You may look for some relief in th.
shape of new cars in q few days, but i
will be about March before full relic
can be obtained High prices and tn
scarcity of labor has rendered it almos
impossible for either corporations or in
dividuals to accomplish all that is de
sirable in the way of additions and i'm
provements. Other stations have sui
fered as well rs Waverly and the uppe
valley, but probably not to the sam
extent.
Complaints have been made that OF
: ders have been given to restrict Waiver
" station in the distribution of cars
and that these orders have been so Wig
orously enforced, that some of the shiI
pers of stock have been compelled
= drive several hundred head TO Coda
: Fails where cars could be had, where's
tie company aud shippers would bot
. have saved time by sending the cars t
Waverly direct. Such a result wa
probably not contemplated when tn
4 restricting order was given, and shout
not he construed as evidence Of an il
tentOn to do injustice unless it be II
peated. You may rest assured that Tin
2 President ana Board of Directors al
fully aware OF all your wants; and the
;, every reasonable effort will be put fort
to make these roads what they shout
be, and, with a continuance of these II
vors, l have no doubt but these eIori
will be crowned with success.
lie -.s.. Respectfully yours,
fIAAIF SMITH.
, Dubuque Nov. LIST, l5G5. ..E.