Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1865-03-23
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Editor Missossgs Demscraks
| DxAa sSrRs: The sitisaas Of the Mia.
souri slope, IN fowa, regard With mual
Interest Ne acslon Of the Legislature h
yoar Ssass, 10 rsferenes 10 the PLATTE
GanntEy ralgfesd. Aa early as Jaiy,
1858, o compaay Has gormea nc thia
place, styled the q Ceunall Bluffs aad Ss,
joseph railroad Cdnpany, p having for its
object The construction o. railroad ste
connnenrs At Coaaeil R.uffa City, aud q
reach and anlss wikh the sarvsyed lina Oh
The Platte Country Railroad. as and apou
tho boundary bne between the States 81
Missouri and Ioaa,n q dissaaSe of fsgsy
nails*, ard Euuaing ice entire leagsh alsna
TIA MissenFi baEsoan. tbs grade OF the
tFaek not exceeding, an IA average, twe
feat 20 ths mile. AZ fks data pg ths or
gahisation Of thFs company. ID was en-.
Peeted that tha Platte Country railroad
weuld be completed BY the 6rsf Of Msrca,
1852. In anticipation Of such event the
Council Bluffs and ST. Joseph railroad
eompany caused survey to be made OF
a route for their road and secured the
righs OF ways together With dsgos
grounds. la the month of Hovsmhas.
1860, this company entered into con.
tract With responsible party TO furnish
materials, grade snd construct their road,
for the sam OF ten thousand dollars per
mile, The work 10 be elmpisted within
three months after the Platte Country road
should have been buils and open for pub.
iio use Mt the point Of Junction of the two
tsads. Under this contract s1ns fifteen
or tweaiy miles of road were graded but
il haTi x become apparent that the Platte
Country railroad would not be e1mpleted
by The first Of March, 1862, nor pfthin any
reasonable time thereafter, tho work on
the counetl Bluffs and ST. Joseph rail-
road was suspended, 10 be renewed when
ever there was a prospect that the piatte
Country railroad wouid be finished. IL
vas tboaghs at The time this contract sas
catered into, thas the price 30 be paid for
its construction vas very loE, but the
grading being comparatively nothing, The
contractor was coa6iens OF making a
good thing aut of H.. Although the pFiee
Of natHrials ana labor has more than
doubled since tha date OF that contract,
strange as IL may seem, the contractor,
Who Is to- day worth perhaps three haa-
dred thousand dasIars, is anxious 20 full.
GIL bis part of the aSssema ant as original
ly made. So c0nfdeEt il be Ia the ulti.
mate success OF this railroad, that be a..
gFses to take ia part payment shirty thoas-
and dollars in stock at par. VITA saeb q
contract snbsistiAgs and With eseEy assa-
rance on ths part Of the contractor that
he vii perform bis part, is Ii surprising
that not only chs Directors OF the Conn
ell Bluffs and ST. Joseph railroad, bat
that all the eisizsns at largs in the vieini-
ty shou.d feel deep interest in the iEa-
mediate completion Of the Platte Coun.
tray sasiroadP When these two roads are
esssn plsted shs line Of ccmmunicatisn by
railroad between st. Loais aud Conncil
BlufYs wili be perfect~-a cousummasiou
dsvootiy prayed for by this Community.
Since the frst settlement OF shis city
81. Louis has hasn regarded as the nata-
raj paist Of trade for ali ths upper Mis-
sauei country. Until within . year or
two past your city has perhaps enjoyed a
mQaopiy of the trade, Chicago 10 now
eSnpesing for 1t, and wishin less ehan
tao years there may be direct sosama.
nication between that city aud this by
railroad. II ST. Louis expects TO retain
her former precedence, these railroads
should be built at once. | need hardly
SAY that the agricultural and other pre-
ducsiens Of this region, and the trade OF
Conneil Bluffs City, have mose than
qaadrupled within the last ave years.
AZ Caaneil Bluffs, sas numheE Of hogs,