The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1866-05-10
Railroad Matters.

! RAILRoAD.-The st. Louis Democrat, of
May Sd says: 1.-The North Missouri RR.
| Company yesterday entered into n con-
tract for the construction of over one hun
| dred miles of additional road, being that
portion of its main line north of Macon
| City, and so much of its West Branch as is
east of Brunswick. The contractors are
Champlain, Smith e Co., Il firm composed
of some of the best known railroad build
ers in the country. BY the terms of the
contract the road is TO be completed to
Brunswick by the first of December, and
the Iowa extension is to be built without
delay, This intelligence will be highly
gratifying TO our people, This will also
be gratifying intelligence to the citizens of
Central Iowa, who are looking forward
with much, interest to the completion of
the North Missouri road to our Southern
State line. 1t will have the effect to give
renewed activity aud energy to the several
projected North and South lines of railway
through this State. a Southern connection
by the North Missouri road, would he of
immense advantage TO St. Louis, and give
a great impetus to the development OF the
resources of the interior of Iowa.
RAIL ROAD MATTERS.-From Mir. j.
III. Sanders, general agent OF the St. Louis
and Cedar Rapids Railway Company, we
learn the following items respecting the
progress of the road:
Another corps of engineers is now being
organized, the object being Ia com plele the
SURVEYS at the earliest. pos~iblallate. One
corps OF engineers will probably commence
work in this county during the present
week, and it is the expectation to have the
survey completed ready for the letting of
the contracts by the 18th OF June. Anoth-
er fact which reflects great credit not only
upon those who have had the management
Of the affairs Of the company, but unon
the citizens along the line of ihe road, is
that the local subscription, from Sigournev
to the State line amounts 10 five thousand
dollars mile. This is probably the larg-
est local subscription ever raised in the
State of Iowa for the binding of y like
number of miles of railroad. This great
enterprise is being pushed forward with
much energy, but the people, who seem
somewhat disposed to become impatient.
must remember that "Rome was not built
in one day." All enterprises of this char
acter require time and patience for their
completion. There are probably more
preliminary arrangements required to be
made before commencing operations with
shovel and pick than most people imagine,
but we can assure them that 40 time is
being wasted.
1t is now only about eight months since
this matter was first talked OF, and vet in
this short time the stock has all been rails
ed, the SURVEYS nearly completed. and the
road will be under contract before the first
of July. Talk about no work being done
will you? The like never occurred before
in Iowa. Therefore friends be patient, and
don't conclude because the officers Of the
company are not continually making a
"big blow" that no work is being done,
and that the road is not going TO be built |
BE careful, too, that when the time comes
for paying subscriptions some of you don't |
accuse the company OF going too fast, in |
stead of too slow.
The fact is that Sigourney has lain out in !
the cold, "forty miles from nowhere" for !
SO long a time that it is exceedingly hard !
for some people TO believe that ANYTHING |
but like fate awaits us in the future
The good time coming has been long on !
the way, but il is almost mere, and If the (
people pay up their subscriptions prnmp-
ly, as we believe they will, we can assure
them that we are talking neither OF !mpns-
nor Representatives, when we say 4
that inside of the next Two wears the rum
bling Of railway ears will wake the echoes
Of what some have been pleased to call The
''everlasting big hills OF keokuk County. /,
Meas.