Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-08-17

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from hsg grasp and he aecessi-
N of &c eaea giving 10 the West BraneA
n the North Missouri Railroad zach inAs
lerial aid ~ viii seaurs It's eomplstian III
IN early day. The dsss temn ADORE So.
10 Brownyilias about eighty miles
oy lard, which eenssiaa several hnndrsd
|uhabisanss, dces considerable bassnsss In
lreigheing end aatEsting sanigranss, and
ssssas 10 be In . Hourishing eoadisioa.-
Thirty miiea above is Nshraska City. too
Yaass old, aad variously estimated 70 cen.
Iain from Gre TO eight saeusand pa5pls,
like Tyrs, shs ID the creature Of
snEngaegea alone. Up 10 the Isl Of July
bad shipped s2,000.00 pounds 81
freight across she prairiss, besides NJ
mash more On hand awaiting tFansporta-
lion. Much CT shia was machinery and
goods for the miaes, and nearly alI par
In Chicago. She has % railroad
facilities In prospective sxcsps being on
ths lice Of the Sc. Joseph aad Council
Bluff Road. OMAHA the Capitsl Of Ne
IL beautifully situated upon the
Missouri river, one handred and hfty
milaa abavs 81. Joseph hv land. and about
ave hundred and twenty from ST. Louis,
and fs one Of the points upon the Nilsson
ri river whsra the Psoiae Rosd oGmmen-
ess TO aross cur great western plsins, and
IL destined to be . piaes Of great import
aacs "a 10 the easrepot Of the teas. ailks,
spices, &C., Of 0eylon, China and JapaS.
She 10 doing a large agaounk OF freight
Ing, bas ] wAs net abls to proeuEa seeu-
rate statistics Of the business. was out
whsEe tha track vas being laid and Wit
messed the forging Of several Of shs iFoa
links destined 70 cennect the granite coast
Of the Atlantic and the gslden sands Of
the PaeiRe. Osancil BluGs, just oppo-
site, 10 growing rapidly 10 Importance "a
a railroad esntrs. There are two roads
bang constructed to her from the Missis-
sippi, and eoanscfing Der with Chicago
and the lakss; fret, the Mississippi and
Missouri completed TO within thirty On
forty miles Of Fort Des Moiacs, and be.
ing prosecuted With com sneadahls energy;
nsxs, the Cedar Rapids Road nov running
to Boonsboro, within one hundred and
thirty miles Of Council Bluffs, and being
rapidly bails, and by a company amply
able to complete Ii In the shortest possi-
BILE period. Il will strike the Boyer and
run into the Missouri Valley above Coun-
oil Bluds, and then down TO the city. IL
10 believed from resent surveys thai the
bFansh of Abe PaeiGc Road that bad its
iaitiatory point at Sioux City cannot
be built across the plains Of Nebraska
westward, bat will, With it's rich eadow-
msnt Of lands and Government aid, be
bailt down TIE valley Of the Missoari riv-
81 on ita eastern aide 10 Gouaeil Bluffs,
and thea located over the Omaha branch.
Bot the great road desired by the people
residing there. and one 30 which they look
forward 10 9Th more anxiety than all
others, la the ST. Joseph and Council
Bluffs, rs 1t IL merely o ~cnutinsaation of
the Vest Branch Of the North Missouri
and Platte Country Reads. The Couacil
Bluffs and st. Jaaeph Railroad Company.
of which R L. Dsagisss is President, j.
2. Cassidy, Secretary, and Horace Eve
rest, Treasures, fall nen Of marked abil-
ity, are about slosing q contract Nth
some Massachusetts, capitalists 20 eorn-
pless and have running their road dowa
to the State line Of Iowa and Missouri, q
distance Of afty miles, in twelve months.
Ii has DO grade except tws fest 10 the
mile, and fsw, IL any, curves, and can be
onerated as oheHp'y . any road In the
Uuion, and will DOT cost "a exceed four
teen thousand dollars per mile Il IL
probable that the Platte Country win con-
tract With the same parties TO build down
from the Stass line 4 Forest City, which
viii leavs ealy the gap Of tweuty-four
miles between Savannah and Forest City
to I'll np, which the Platte Country Road
could do Ia % days, IL the Legislature
will, In the spirit Of iiberality that has
been extended to all otbsr roads in the
State, perEnis il 10 use It's earnings In ex-
tending the road. instead of compelling
them 10 pay their bonds "a years before
they are due. Besides paving the interest
promptly in July last, il has to pay three
hundred and RftY thousand dollars the
arst'of January 10 retire the bonds Of The
State due IN 1899. This SUM wonld have
completed the read to Forest City this
simmer, aad IL the L~egislatara, to sis
this fall, viii meet ths people Of the
Northwest In juss spirit, By requiring the
interest TO be promptly paid, and then
enough of the principal, say thirty Oh
thirty THREE thousand dollars per year, to
retire the State debt by the time it 10 daa,
this road eaa be Enishea at enae, and St.
Louis secure sha valuable and growing
trade Of the western slope OF Iowa ts
Sieax City, Nabraska and the Missouri
Valisy, which otherwise will ssca psas In
10 ne lap Of Chicago and the Atlansis
eo~ask--newer 10 BE- Eegained by ths
West Branch ovsF these lines and ovel
the 0maha Branch Of toe PasiHe Road
there will always be . heavy travel, ow'
Ing to ahe low grades Of the route from
So. Louis 10 the valley Of the Platte, a
there 10 not In The whole route much heavy
gradiag or any high divides 10 cross from
S. Louis 10 the handredsh parallel. whers
ell che branches are 10 unite. Council
Blnfa is aboas Eve handred and sweat,
miles from ST. Louis.aRd IL naturally
tributary 10 = eensge in tbs Mississippi
Valley; bat for PEARS past all thai trad
from Sc. Joseph and north hAs been los
10 81. Lonis and forced north by the incl
dents OF ths war, and she superior enter
prize Of the Northern merchants. Thi
thing need not exiss for . moment II 81
Louis people will only wake aa~to her IN
sesess and the magnitude Of the trade b
he eontsnded for.
Yours.
Holm D0NrpuAN.