Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-06-01
JOSHUA TRACY, Chairman
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CONVENTION.
Visit OF Iowa Central Railroad Men 70
st, Louis.

last week We gave notice that dele
CATION of Iowa gentlemen, representing
the Iowa Central Railroad, had gone to
st. Louis. The business which called
the gentlemen to that city, is set forth
in the following item from the st. Lou.
Is Dispatch, of the 25th ult.:
"DELEGATIoN FROM Iowa CENTRAL RAIL.
RoAD..Hon. VIM. I. Smith, President, Peter
MN,e sb nay R Esq., viGe1presdent and Messrs
are here on a business trip. This road is ~
form q connection with the North Missouri
raiiroad AZ the Iowa state line, and runs thence
and connecting at the Minnesota line with
railroads to st. Paul and other points, This
aid Of their road, as they are determined to
complete it and offer it to st. Louis as one OF
the greatest business tributaries to our city
now contemplated: 1t Is their intention to
show our merchants and business men the To-
cation OF their road, and point out the immense
aavantages 1t possesses over all lines to the
BY reference to map 1t will be seen that the
Iowa Central North Missouri, Iron Mountain
Extension, and the Mobile and Ohio roads. will
form almost an airline from st. Paul to Mo-
bile, Alabama.
The railroad men and capitalists of
st. Louis met the delegation from the
Iowa Central with great cordiality, and
Interests of that city were with the
Iowa Central, and did not hesitate to
pledge assistance to secure its early
completion. A proposition to furnish
iron and take the bonds of the Compa-
ny was received from wealthy men of
st. Louis, whose names would be ample
guarantee Of their ability to perform
their p:trt in contract of this kind. An
application was also made for the sleep
ing cars on the road, by gentleman
owning the sleeping cars on number
of railroads, including the North Mis-
souri,, centering in st. Louis. The
North Missouri Company have con-
tracted for the extension of their road
to the Iowa line, and expect to have it
completed in about year from this
time. BY the same time the Iowa Cen
trail Company expect to have their road
completed as far north as Abba, Mon
roe county. The former Company are
anxious to run their trains through to
the latter place from the very opening of
their extension. Some arrangement will
probably be made between the two
Companies to this end. The North
Missouri Company have ordered ten
rev locomotives, and are adding largely
to their rolling stock. There is now
the utmost harmony existing between
the representatives of these roads, and
the interests of the Companies are con-
sidered mutual, and there IS encourage
ing signs, on every hand, of the speedy
completion of great line of railway
from st. Louis to st. Paul. The old
proverb of The Gods help those who
help themselves" was never more true
ly verified than in the enterprise of
building the Iowa Central Railroad
The people of Minnesota are no less
anxious than the people of Iowa and
Missouri for the early completion of the
Iowa Central. The following letter
from the Governor of Minnesota to our
townsman, Peter Melendy, which we
are kindly permitted to publish, will
be read with interest:
STATE OF MINI, EXECUTIVE DEp'Tl
SAINT PAUL, May 10, 1865. (
Hon. PETER MELENpY, Vice President Io,Ua
Central Railroad Company, Cedar FAILS, Iospa:
DEAR SIR Your favor of April Goth was re-
ceived here during my absence from the Capt.
tol or it would have received attention sooner.
am obliged to you for the gratifying intelli- |
gence of your movements to extend the rail- !
road from Cedar Falls to the Minnesota line. |
1t is an important enterprise not only to North
ern Iowa but to this State giving us as it will |
the most direct railroad route to st. Louis and |
thus access to the great southern markets, and |
to the world, indeed, by the Lower Mississippi
and the Gulf,-but what is also very important,
n great competing line to Chicago and the east |
Be assured We shall meet you and exchange
at the Interstate boundary.
Very truly your obt Serv't.
VIM. K. MARSHALL,
Cor. Of Minnesota.