Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1866-04-14
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SATURDAY, APRIL IA. 1865
THE PROPOSED CHANGE OF THE
LINE OF THE DUBUQUE AND
SIOUX CITY II. Il. NOT LlK DLY
TO DE CONSUMATED.

DIVA O'IH II. II. NOT LIABL LII
TO DE CONsUMATED.
IL this road Is endowed with less enter
prise and less soul than almost any other
corporation, !. certainly is not destitute
Of impotence. Hardly was the act con-
suma.ed, which ceeded to this Company
the munifcent grant Of lands With which
tho State was endowed by the General
Government for the purpose Of securing
the construction Of a Railroad from Du-
ouque TO Sioux City-when parties acting
as agents Of the road scattered them
selves all along its proposed lins-sveu
o. fat Is the Missouri, River-for tho
purpose Of selecting tho most cho ice
iands Atths first session Of The legisla-
ture, after the grant was executed to tho
road, q demand was made for an exton.
sion Of the time In which TO build it,
Every subsequent legislature has had
like application N ade 10 il. AIT this time
comparatively nothing being done in the
advancement Of the road wes,ward.-
Finally, this corporation having-as it
supposed secured every thing it had asked
for aud could obtain from the State --as
Growing act Of mpudence-asks Of
Congress that it shall be permitted to
change its line from the one originally
surveyed, to one through any trac. of
country, or in any direction that it might
soc ft to ruu-and at the same time be
allowed to retain the lands on the line,
and IN tho district Of country originally
selected
ANY man of reasonable capacity would
have supposed that such q proposition
would have been Immediately rejected
with tie measure Of dsrision that it so
justly merited. Not so, however; even
the Dubuque & Sioux City Railroad Com.
pany had money, and also very correct
idea of how to use it-as least for the
purpose Of securing favorable legislation,
If not for building the road hence The
desired permission vas obtainsd-nemine
desse"tte"sc, not even the representative
Of those Who were to Be most injured BY
the concession.
AT The late session Of our legi.latur.
this company vas on haad as usual pre-.
fering the old reques. for an extension Of
time but We are happy to say that in this
instance the request was refused, though
the representative Of this dis.rict-dis-
playing degree Of sagaci,y aud integrity
OF which our representative il Congress
seems to be entirely destitute-expressed
TO tho Company . willingness to accsed
to their request, provided the road should
not cross the Little Sioux River at poin,
south Of Correctionville, in this county.
The road refused to accept tho permits.
sion coupled with an obligation to build
the road where it would really be Of mate.
rial advantage to the county. No further
time was granted, aud this sum ner is the
period fixed for the termination Of the
time in which the road was to be CON
p!sted. The failure to perform the IN
der:akins within tie ten years, works a
forfeiture of the grant; then the lands
revert to tho Safe, and can be disposed
Of in the manner designed by the terms of
tue original grant from the General Gov
ernment. At all events the Dubuque l.
Sioux City Railroad Company will have
lost oil interest in them, aud dome other
company no doubt can be readily found
to accept the lands and build the road on
the line originally marked out.