The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-05-10
THE OTTUMWA COURIER.
Loca1apd Miscellaneous
st. Louis G Cedar Rapids Railway
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particularly directed to the advertisement
in another column of the st. Louis & Ce-
| dar Rapids Railroad Company, inviting
| proposals for grading, bridging and tieing
and the masonry of 6I miles of that road
from the State line to Sigourney in Kco-
/ kuk county, by way OF Ottumwa, the bids
to he opened on the Goth day Of June, 1856,
AT the Office Of the company IN this city
| This road will bo an extension osthe North
Missouri Railroad into Iowa. and will
commence q that point on the line divi-
ding AIisaoSii and Talya a fa,Y I4ailos ea-t
OF the south west corEar IF Davis county,
to which the n. ". RR. is located,
and run thence on the most direct and prac
ticabIe route to Ot'umwa, where it will
cross the Das AIoinc8 River and proceed
nearly due north to Sigourney, the county
Seat Of Keokuk county, and ultimately to
Cedar Rapids, Linn county. whore it will
connect with roads leading to Chicago. Du-
buqe and St. Paul. The 81 miles of the
road, now proposed 10 be put under con
tract, passes through region thickIy set
tied and ab2uuiing IL all the material re-
quired in the construction or railroads,
timber, stone g..
We can assure railroad men, ifthere any
who don't nj ready know it, that the st, L..
& c. ER. Company is one Of the most en-
crcetic and efficient organizations in the
country and that the project, unlike many
others, which are based mainly on wind,
paper and bunIlnIn. is reality, based up
on bona .fdescash local subscription for
the 81 miles now to be let Of over s., 900
to the mile, ana pledges from reliable cap
italists abroad, intereStciin the road, for
whatever additional sum nlnv be necessa-
ry put ii in complete running order at a
very early day The road is one depend
ent upon.no other project whatever save the
n. NJ, with which it vii! connect, and
which is now under contract to the State
line and is certain 30 be built as soon as
men and money can do it, -..t ..
Itis further and by..no means an um-
portant consideration, that this road will
certainly paw, largely, and its stock rank
among the best in the country. For the
consideration ofsuch rs may not have
made themselves familiar with the rem
SONS for this assumption, We will refer 10
few plain facts. The road will unques-
tiouabIy be the great Central route con-
Meeting the North and South Son the West
side Of the Mississippi River. Its di
rectaesS and numerous and important con
uections, must make it so. But it is not a
road. to be built long distance. through
eparseiy settled and unproductivc regions,
t'r.ft,rs. tt WITH FURNISH, rever1,e TO IT'S ovr-
ers, or confer a benefit upon the CONNER
cial interests ofthe country. Tor instance
the section of the read between the State
Line and Ottumwa, 50 miles. which, with
q Bridge at Ottunwa will first be built.
will a once open a southern market to
half Of Iowa, and will open 10 the region
south of Ottuuwa, routes 10 the East, to
the State Capital, and to the vast and cx-
hausti1ss empire west toward the Missou-
ri. This will he apparent when the fact is
taken into consideration that at Ottunlwa
II connection will be lad with the Des
Monies Valley Road leading to Keokuk,
and by the Great Western to Toledo and
the Eastern cities. and by the Burlington
& Missouri River RR to Burlington, and
by the Chicago Burlington & Quincy Road
To Chicago and the East. and by TIE D. NJ
Y. BE, to Des Moines, and the Il. & NJ. r.
:. west through the second tier of counties
IN the Missouri River, and on to the Pacif-
ic. II il thus quite apparent that this sec
ton Of the road, in consequence Of these
connections, must at once command a
| large and protita hle business, and form a
valuable basis for future operations of the
company. The either section from Ottum-
wa TO Sgournev, which ii is also the de-
sign O.. the company to push rapidly to
completion, will command the trade OF one
oi the richest sections OF Iowa, now without
any railroad facilities, and hence certain
to furnish to this all its business.
1t strikes US therefore. that this road
ought 70 commend itself strongly 10 ener-
getic, capable and reliable Contractors,
and that the facts becoming generally
known, olnpetition for the work at rea :
sonGbe rates ought to be spirited. Such
we doubt not will he the fact The road
must be built. and that too without deiav.
When the Iron Horse reaches Iowa, it
must not 1e delayed II single moment at
the State Line, bat come right on to the
Des Moines Valley. ........
n. NJ. UNDER CoNThAcT To THE STATE
LISE.-A dispatch was received thlsmorn-
ing at the st. l.. & C. FIR. OGlco from Mr..
Flagg, Director Of the North Missouri
Railroad Company, stating that thar road
was let yesterday to the State Line and
that work will be commenced upon it at
once and pushed forward 10 completion
with the utmost dispatch. 1t also stated
that Mr.. Sturgeon, President of the COM
pany had returned from the East, where
he has been spending some tIme, negotia-
ting the bonds of tine company.
tn ST.. l. e @. RI. This company are
surveying MP the Blake creek, near the
eastern limits Of the city, and are conf
dent OF finding very easy grade to the
prairie, that way. The officers Of the com
pany have been lookin ing ont for Depot
grounds this week. We hope they will
| find grounds to suit them, and so situated
that we can have a great Union Depot,
| like Indianapolis and Chicago, as Ottumwa
| is to bethe switching oTpoint for all points
! OF the compass, there ought to be close
connections of all the roads in one Depot
and twenty trains day viii require some
| room.
The report ofthe Reconstruction Com
mittee has not yet been been adopted, but
the report that IL. Washhurn has got the
| kind of stoves the public want, is being
generally adopted by the public Those
| Stewart large oven, air tight summer and
winter Cooking stoves, and nodge's Open
| Fire Places are having great run. Read
! Wasburn's advertisements carefully and