, 1865-03-10
DryEkKp TO TIE MISSOURI.

Ne published on Wednesday morning
a letter from our Desmoiues cores.
poudcnt giving an account Of meetings
and efforts likely to result At an car
~ day in connecting that city direct
" by rau with st. Louis. We hare no
complaints to make on that srorc for If our
sister city has the money md the enterprise
to build the road referred to she is entitled to
all the advantages to be derived from it. We
haze inquired into tie position Of the MIS-
sissfppl and Missouri Railroad, and are sorry
to add that there is no immediate prospect
Of IN energetic movement to reach Dcsnaoines
so as to compete with the routc about to be
opened. It seems, however, that thc inter
csts Of that company and Of the Rock island
Railroad, and Of our city as well, arc so deep
ly involved In completing this line to Des-
moines at an carly day, and 10 the Missouri
as rapidly as possible, that some arrange
mcnt ought to he effected to accomplish
this great work.
Eut while there seems 10 he little doing
to reach Dcsmolnes direct, our readers Will
be elad to learn that the Cedar Rapids and
Missouri River Railroad, the extension Of the
Air Liuc division Of tue Northwestern Raii-
way, is progressing finely, and will be opened
to. Booneboto, on the Desmoines river:
some forty mics above the capital
Of Iowa, by the 10Th Of April. The
iron is now laid to within seven
milcs Of Boonsboro. and should the
weather be favorable, the cars will be run
ming to that town cyen before the time speci.
fed. Booushoro is only about one hundred
Fr<.Y
the untiring energy and great wealth Of the
Hon. John l. B1air, Of New Jersey, who Is
mainly engaged in extending the road, backed
as he IS hy the powerful Northwestern Com
pany, II is hoped that this last link between
Chicago and the Missouri will be completed
about Us fast as men and money can do it.
Twenty four and six mule teams are now
regularly engaged in hauling goods from the
end Of the 1oad to Council Bluffs, and The
number will be largely increased Us soon as
tho roads become settled. Boonsboro, as
soon ns the railroad rcacheslt, must become q
very thriving place, d the tradc Of all the
upper Des1noi1es Valley Will be eoncentra.
ted at that point. Immense beds Of coal
proved to bc nearly I not guile equa
in quality to tue best Oh.c
Arc found ut Boonsbofo, aad
it is eyen nov hauled to the road by teams te
supply the locomotives running east from
the end Of the line. Already the cmiyratlcr
to that part Of Iowa through which the roai
nov runs, and is soon to he extended, is yer,
large, as the scores Of cars starting from Gin
ton, on Che Mississippi, loaded with cmi
grants and their goods, abundant'y testify.
We need not speak at length of the i'm
pcrtance Of this road, and its early ccanple
ton, as rclated TO the opening Of considernbl
portions Of the Pacific Ra'lwny. That topI
has already become familiar to our readers
The sooner the Northwestern secures it til
better for themselves end for Chicago. Grasp
irg Within few weeks the rich trade Of LAX
Superior at Marquette, and Mt no distan
day that of Minnesota and the valley Of th
Red River of the North and the Saskatchewan
and also that Of the Plattc Valley md ALL Bt
TWEEN 1uGn, the widest dreams Of the mau
ayers Of the Northwestern Railway Com
papy must In lew years he more thu
realized.