Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-11-03
Railroad convention q. WaYerly.

Railroad Convention at Wnrerly.
A railroad convention of the farmers
and business men OF Bremer County
was recently held at Waverly, to take
into consideration the grievances result
ing FROM the inadequate facilities for
shipping furnished by the d. & s. G. r.
r. Company. The following memorial
was adopted, and ordered published in
the Phmnir.: ar Eu
TO tie President and Directors If the Dubuque and
Sour Ctr. and nlc klncsuta and Cedar Vdttey,
E RliboGd toapcnies: ..-. ....# .... t.+q
GEETLEMEN Are you aware that for the
last six months you have neglected to furnish
railroad transportation to and from Wayerly?
are you aware that the Entire farming, mer-
smse anu s,9 t ana prsSansn e h ~ m r
by been greatly injured in their business dur
Are You aware that the senators and Repre-
sentatives of the people tributary to the Wa
very market, did you ''yeomans service In
the forfeitures which the law reanires ~
Are you aware that, after the munfflccnt
consideration bestowed upon YOU by the peo-
pie OF this State, and your acceptance of the
same with the franchises, You have some legal
responsibilities to perform relative to the pub
lie aeeommodation of traffic and travel' on
Are you aware that two competing roads will
soon extend their 1aciiitles 10 the people whom
You are now neglectiDg? #.s .. 3d.. q. ...
:. Are you aware of the large increase OF trade
and production in the Upper Cedar Valley
Are you aware that farmers who labor bard
for livelihood, and are compelled to sacrifice
from fifty to two hundred dollars q year on ac-
count OF your unnecessary and unreasonable
neglect, will not forget it when equal, or near
~ equal, facilities are offered by other roads?
Now, we have no sort of idea that the
above memorial will do the people of
Waverly the least particle of good. If
any good is to come Of it, however, it
will be no present help in time of need.
The Dubuque g. Sioux City Railroad
Company are rather indifferent to Wa
verify, because they are sure Of the Wa
verify business. The Cedar Falls & Min
nesota Railroad Company, Tor the Cedar
Valley, as the memorial has it, are per-
fcctly powerless, az the road is leased
for term of years, and consequently
out of their control. r.. . -..' ...,.
There is probably not station on the
line of the d. & s. C. R. r. but has been
badly crippled in its business by the in
sufficient transportation furnished by
the company. Waverly, however, is
probably worse off than any other place
tributary to this road. The company
being sure ofthe Waverly trade, what
eve2 the course pursued, and having to
pay fifteen per cent. of the earnings of
the Cedar Falls e. Minnesota road as
rent to the proprietary company, they
are not going to give our northern neigh
Dor any more cars than can possibly be
helped, when their own road needs
more cars than is in their power to
supply t". a.@G s..af q" f.. ."s. 4
Some business men have went so far
as TO offer to put additional freight cars
ON the road for the mere privilege Of
having the use Of them, paying regular
fEcights to the company beside. Others
have asked to put cars on, and take their
value in transportation. In fact, most
MI sorts of means have been attempted
TO increase the carrying facilities of the
company. That greater accommoda-
lions might be given, we have no doubt;
though there can be no question that
much Of the complaint is groundless, |
and many of the grievances of such |
character that the company is entirely
unprcpared to redress or obviate them.
drei and sixty miles of road to operate,
with but little more rolling stock than
they had year ago. when their entire
length of road was but one hundred
miles. All the energies of the company
have been directed to the extension of
the road from Cedar Falls to Iowa Falls,
which work it is hoped to complete by
the middle of December. Therefore,
increasing the rolling stock, and even
repairing the road, has been neglected
and put off till some more convenient
season. Whether the company are JUS
titled in the pursuance of such policy,
our readers may determine for them
selves.
There is only one thug which will
Ubviate the difficulties besetting NOR
chants and shippers, and that worry OBJ
viously is the securing Of another outlet.
The Dubuque & Sioux City road cannot
be made adequate to the necessities Of
the people. We believe tile citizens of
Cedar Falls realize this fact. We know,
at least, that they are booking anxiously
forward TO the no very distant day when
the Iowa Central shall bo ready for bu-
siness. And the people Of Waverly
would employ their time much more
eifectually by engaging in effort to Sc
cure the advantages of the Iowa Central
TO themselves, than in issuing memori-
ais to the Dubuque & Sioux City COM
pany. So long as they remain in their
present abject dependence, they can
hope for no adequate Or satisfactory
relief.
THE Marshall County Times comes to
usthisweek enlarged to an eight-coIumn