Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-03
THE IOWA CENTRAL.
Progress OF. the Encouraging
Prospect.

/ FFOSFeSS Vi the HOrk-EncOufaglng~
| Prospect.
AL but fifteen miles of the Iowa Cen
trail railroad between this place and To-
ledo is now under contract, to be COM
pleted by the 1st of next July. The
remaining distance will be let in time
to insure its completion with the con-
tracts already made. @Sa.t.# &. N =
On Wednesday, the oath ult., a con-
tract for grading ten miles from Toledo
North, was let to David Appellate, Clerk
of the Court in Tama county. VIM.
Mccoy, of this place, obtained the con-
tract for bridging. Work will be at
once begun on this contract, and push
ed forward as rapidly as possible.
The people of Tama county are fully
aroused to the Importance of building
the Iowa Central, and are determined
to know no such word as fail. The
county voted SAC, 900 in bonds and 80, 900
acres of swamp land to the stock of the
Company at the recent election. The
unanimity of feeling prevailing among
the people may be understood from the
fact that out of a voting population Of
about 100 they gave 900 majority for the
proposition. They are prepared to cash
this stock as the Company may require.
Tama county is eminently sound. sEIF
The Engineers have now gone to sur
vey the road from the State line to Os-
kaloosa, distance something over fifty
miles, we believe, which will be put u,i-
der contract as soon Us the progress of
the survey will admit. Mr.. a. ID. Barn
UNI, the wide-awake General Agent,
started for that portion of the line on
Tuesday morning, to look after and add
vancegt the interests Of the Company ~
The Oskaloosa Herald, and the people
of that locality, will be happy to learn
that the Iowa Central is not a lifeless
enterprise, and that the people of Iowa
are not, by any means, . letting it Sc
vercly alone," the information of
certain newspaper, of which better
things might Ieasonably have been ex-
pected, to thecontrary Notwithstanding.
There are great many railroad enter
prises now in Iowa; but the Iowa Cen
trail, in the magnitude Of its work and
the surety of its success, overtops them
all. The Iowa Central does not ask as
sistance Of capitalists or corporations.
The people desire to build, own and
control the road; and they are able to
do this--williDg to do it-bound to do it.
With money and disposition, what is
to hinder? That another organization
eontemplates q road on ~ ziz-zag line
from Cedar Rapids to Ottumwa, certain
ly will not interfere. Our Company
would not expect, under any circum-
stances, to get dollar from the people
interested in such other road nor do
the people with that enterprise at heart
have any anticipation of getting dol
lar from those whose interests arc jden-
titled with the Iowa Central. If we had
ever so much confidence that road by
the ottumwa route would be built, we
should have none the less confidence in
the success Of the Iowa Central. Why
Chicago and Dubuque are more friend
ly to the Ottumwa and Cedar RAPIDS
route than to the Oskaloosa and Cedar
Falls route is obvious. All the friends
of the Iowa Central have to do, is to
keep straight forward in their good
work, unmindful of the sneers and con-
coctions of their enemies, and all will
be weiL w hen other companies can
compare stock book and contracts, aud
feasibility of route and grade, with the
Iowa Central, then, and not before, will
they be equally worthy of confidence
and support. AS expressed by one of the
notices at the celebration of breaking
ground at Cedar Falls, 1--WE are rather
quiet people, but the level, chain and
dollars will tell.' Words will not build
railroads; and the management of the
Iowa Central so understand Those
other. companies, which, with affected
unconcern, turn up their corporate noses
at the Iowa Central, may learn some
thing, by careful thought, that will di-
rect attention to stocks, surveys and
contracts, in lieu OF gas--a very INSULT
Gent thing for the heavy work required.
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