Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1865-06-30


Reported for the Cedar Falls Gazette.
AT meeting held in Oskaloosa il
April the following committee was ap
pointed to visit st. Louis in the interes
of the Iowa Central Railroad:
4. L. wolfard. Appanoose county; Hon. ]
county; II. D. Ives and W. IL. Dunlap, wapel
10 county; W. I; Smith and I. w; Tullis, Ma
Il. Miek sSu PSwesRie c O. f. a. aga GRAHAM
and w. F. johnson; Tama county; r. Melends
and John II. Brown, Black Hawk county.
The delegation, with the exception O.
Mr.. Brown of Black Hawk, and Mr.
Grinnell of Poweshiek, went to ST
Louis, as desired, to attend a meeting Of
the officers of the North Missouri road
on the 2lst Of June. The committee was
received by the railroad and business
men of st. Louis with the greatest cor
diality and attention.
A meeting was called at the Lindel!
Hotel for our special benefit on the
evening of the 21st, where the Iowa del
egation was received in one of the mag
nificent parlors of that great hotel by
about one hundred and fifty of the rail-
road men and capitalists OF the city,
The meeting organized by calling Hon.
II. Barnum to preside, and appointing
II. p. Bonner Secretary. Hon. Isaac III.
Sturgeon, President of the North Mis-
souri, road called on Hon. John Hogan,
Member of Congress from st. Louis, to
make the welcoming speech.
Mr.. H., in pleasant and well-timed
address, welcomed the Iowa gentlemen
to the Inequalities of the city. He also
discussed the great Importance and ne
cessity of completing the North Missou-
ri road, so far as st. Louis was concern
ed, to tho Iowa State line, and Of aiding
the Iowa Central Railroad to secure the
trade Of the rich valleys of the Des
Moines and Cedar, and of developing
the great agricultural wealth of the
great state of Iowa.
Mr.. Hogan was responded to, on the
part of the Iowa delegation, by Colonel
Daniel Anderson, of Monroe county, in
which he expressed the pleasure the
delegates had in meeting the entcrpris-
ing men of st. Louis. Mr.. A. gave a
promise that the counties through which
the Iowa Central passed would at least
be able, without exterior aid, to grade
and tie the road its entire length from
the State line to Cedar Falls, and thus
make a safe basis for the capitalists Of
st Louis to afford the means for its COM
pletion. He referred to the producing
capacities OF the region through which
the Iowa Central would pass; the adapt
ability of the road fer transporting the
pine lumber of Minnesota, and distrib-
uting the products of the great coal fields
of Iowa, and how it would afford us an
outlet to waters open to navigation at
all seasons of the year.
Hon. Geo. Partridge, a heavy whole
sale grocery merchant, spoke on the i'm
portance of conveying the products of
the west to the seaboard and to foreign
ports by line of steamers now running
from st. Louis. If our system of rail-
roads was properly developed, western
products would becarried direct to Euro
pean ports. He was in favor of pushing
the work Immediately, and of giving
their Iowa friends all of the aid they
wished.
He was followed by Hon. James S.
Rollins, member of Congress and
director of the North Missouri r. r., in
a telling speech on the benefits to ac-
crue to st. Louis and to our State in
opening up and developing the natural
resources of Iowa, closing by making
the assertion that the proposed line
would be the best paying road in Amer
lea.
We cannot give even synopsis of the
remarks of all the gentlemen who
spoke, but it is sufficient to say our
presence among the st. Louis people
created an intense interest to shove the
work in both States.
After adjourning to meet the next
day at the Chamber of Commerce, a
sumptuous rcpast was given to the Iowa
delegation.
AT 10 A. NJ. of the next day another
conference was held with the officers of
the North Missouri road, at which meet
iug'measUres were discussed for the i'm
mediate commencement of the work.
AT II NJ. q large meeting convened
at the Chamber Of Commerce for the
purpose of listening to suggestions in
regard to the great railroad line from
st. Louis to Cedar Falls and st. Paul.
The attendance was large. Over 500 OF
the business men were in attendance
The meeting was called to order by Bar.
ton Able, President of the Merchant's
Exchange, who stated the object of the
meeting and gave the Iowa delegation
hearty MISUNDERSTANDING the Elk.
change to aid all that they could in fur
thering the object.
He then introduced The ZION. II. D
Ives, of Eddyville, Wapello county
Iowa, as the first speaker. Mr.. I've
made telling speech for our project.
He was followed by the Hon. H. T
Blow, ex-Mayor of 81. Louis, and a
present member of Congress from tina
city. He made an excellent speech, an
closed by offering the following resolu
tons, which were adopted:
1.-THE merchants of St. Louis extend a heart
welcome to the delegates present from the Stat
of Iowa TO our city, and resolve as the sense
The merchants and citizens present as follows
" RESOLVED, That we deem 1t of the utmo
irnD0rtauce TO the interests of st louis an
the state of Missouri, that the North Nilsson
railroad should be extended at the earle
practicable day SO as TO connect with the sy
fem Of railroads In the state of Iowa.
" ResoTred, That nothing shall be wanting
the part of st. Louis to secure the continuatit
OF such roads in this State and the State
Iowa, as will give to the business interests
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