Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-08-04
The Southern Railroad.

central railroad to connect with the
North Missouri Railroad, both of these
towns are making their best efforts to
secure the route. Oskaloosa, however,
has rather got the start Of Ottumwa in
| that it is situated on the line of the old
Lampman survey, and has already Sc
cured the organization of company
| (the Iowa CentraD for the purpose of
building the proposed North aud South
road. This company was formed last
January, at a meeting held i'll Oskaloo-
50. On the 21st and I'D of June dele
gates from the Iowa Central Railroad
Company had q very satisfactory con-
ference with the officers of the North
Missouri Railroad and the business men
and capitalists of st. Louis. These del
egates, representing every county on the
proposed line of the Iowa Central, re-
turned from the st. Louis meeting very
much encouraged, feeling full conf
dence, in fact, that their road would be
speedily built from the State line to Ce-
dar Falls. .s. ... .... ...
But it is unreasonable to suppose that
q great central road will be built across
Iowa without much elashing of locali-
ties, and much wire-pulling and hard
work for the furtherance of public and
private interests of various sections
Therefore the Ottumwa people are NOV
ing for the formation of company di-
rectly opposed to the Iowa Central, and
to this end have called meeting to as
semble at their city on the 10th inst.
The Ottumwa interest wishes the n.
NJ. r. r. to be extended from the State
line to that place, thence to SigourHey,
Marcngo, and Cedar Rapids, expecting
at the latter place to connect with the
Cedar Valley Railroad, which should
eventually lead to st. Paul The Oska-
loosa interest desires thst the North
Missouri Railroad should be extended
to that point, thence to Grinnell, Toledo
and Cedar Falls, being distance of one
hundred and forty-six miles. ....
The latter possesses the advantage of
having the shortest and most feasible
route, and one already thoroughly sur
veyed, with company organized to
effect the building of tho road The OF
tumwa people, however, noted as they
are for their enterprise and liberality,
are not daunted nor in the least dis
Outraged by the condition OF affairs, but
boldly sally forth to meet their antago-
nists, relying on their strength of lungs
and depth of pocket for success.
II is quite evident that the Iowa Cen
trail Railroad Company has no valuable
time to sauander, and that the people
identified With its interests are called
upon tc Ire active in the eXerciseof their
liberality, and restless in the use of their
argumentative powers. Railroads are
not built without money; neither are
they oblivious to pecuniary temptations
in their regard for localities. ..
Cedar Falls cannot now but fully un-
derstaEd where her interest lies; and
wo be unto her if she disregard the pres
ent golden opportunity! .... ...
n preliminary meeting was held at
Ottumwa on the 18th Of July, and to
show its feeling and the nature of the
enterprise the Ottumwa people repre-
sent, we reprint the resolutions adopted
ut that time. The preamble and resolu-
tons were os fellaws: .-
We citizens of ottumHo,si in public meeting
assembled hereby express our ;F9tifcation IN
! Mccoy, J. iI.tSsuntCrs and G.. IL. Higgins citi-
Gems OF Sigourney, keal<ull Co., and of learning
the terminus of the North Missouri Railroad,
on the line dividing the States of Missouri and
Iowa, to Cedar Rapids, in Linn County y at,
| us, ana that they are prepared to aid largely ia
ttbe construction OF the sane; theroScre
"RcaOiCt8, That We Ie.,ss.d the prospect of a
I'railroad from the state line, passing through
Bloomfield, the county seat of Davis County
| Ottumwa, the county seat of Wappn!lo County
Sigourney, the county seat of Kcokul< County
Marengo, the county seat of Iowa County, and
thence to Cedar Rapids, and connecting at Of
tumwa with the Burlington & Missouri and the
Des Moines Valley Railroads. and at Cedar
RgpiIs, os,at BsaiEstown, some sixteen miles
on the Cedar Rapids d Missouri River Rail-
road, now completed to the Des Moines River)
b,,Tne by Wav OF DnbnSna & south. Westnrn
Railroad, is, not only To the country north of
Us, but to ottumwa and st. Louis feasible
dial approval and hearty corporation.
"Resotced Tha. We learn with much pleasure
that the citizens OF the wealthy counties of Ke-
oIxuk, Iowa and Iinp VIII promote the hriild.
ing of said road by the expenditure efther
means, and In every way necessary to promote
I its success. .H...-. -
| "RCSotrcd, That general railroad conven-
! ton, for the purpose of organizing company
! To build said road, be held at Ottunwa on the
| 10th day of August next and that the citizens
OF all the counties on the line of the proposed
road, and citizens of st. Lctissbe Invited to at
/ tend. ...." ..... '". ..
Resolced, That we deem a road scarcely one
hundred miles in length, passing through the
! most densely populated portion of Iowa, and
connecting with the whole railroad system of
Iowa, and with a road now building up the &C.
dar Valley to Mimi esota, to be of the greatest
Importance To this city, and the whole section
ofcountry through which 1t will pass, as wei
as To ST. Louis, Chicago. Dubuque and IS. Paul"
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