Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-03
From the clinton IIeral,I. ~
Letter from Cedar Fails.
CEDAR Falls July s, ,

CEDAR FALLS thiN :, iNtDs
The Improvement which il being
made of the superior water power at
this point would aeem to justify the as
sertion that this power Is equal to any
in the State. Tn addition to the three
large Touring mills, wooden factory,
! foundry, sawmlls, etc, now being driv-
on by this power, n large starch factory
il being built, in which 200 bushels of
corn are to be daily consumed in the
manufacture of starch. Although this
is new enterprise for the West, yet it
would seem that it must be a paying
investment when corn can lie furnished
mt about onefourth its cost in the east.
There is no little rivalry between this
point and Waterloo, which is six miles
down the river Their growth and
chances seem very nearly equal; but
the results are to be very unequal should
they correspond with the opinions of
men from the different towns. A Wa
tcrlooian proposes to entirely swallow
up Cedar Falls, while our more liberal
| friend at the Falls is willing to mark
the spot where Waterloo now stands by
poor house.
There are two railroad enterprises i'm
which these towns arc particularly in
terested. One running from Cedar
Rapids northwest along the Cedar river
to Waterloo, the other commencing at
the Missouri state line, where it will
connect with the North Missouri, will
run north through the counties of APP
panoose, Monroe, Mahaska, Poweshielx,
Tama, and Black Hawk, to Cedar Falls,
which is at present to be the northern
terminus; but it is intended to extend
this road to st. Paul, making a direct
line of communication by railroad from
st. Louis to st. Paul west of the Miss
lssippi river. This road will be called
through this State, the Iowa Central,
and will be to Iowa what the Illinois
Central is to Illinois. OF course it will
be said that this looks very we'll OH pa
per; but the spirit and lcnorgy with
which this great enterprise is being con-
Quoted must convince all that some
body is in earnest. A bill is now before
Congress giving it grant Of land, and
its friends feel confident that it will be-
come law, but whether it does or not,
the company and people are ready to
build the road on their Gown hook -
The fertile country through which this
road passes, the pineries in the north,
the vast coal fields along the route; and
above all, the development which has
been already made of the productive re-
gion through which this roud will pass,
insure for it success.
The farmers all report very favorably
upon their prospects for good crops
Wheat Is good throughout, this portion
of the state, corn backward but coming
on rapidly, other grain very good. The
demand for cattle and hogs is very good
and horses seem to be plenty. d" :.
Lands have not increased in value as
fast rs in 1865, but the constant stream
of emigration which is pouring in is
greatly strengthening the advance of
last year. We are told repeatedly that
three times the amount of breaking has
been done tkis season, that has been
done during the same time in any year
previous. We met quite number of
naen from the east and from Ohio, look
ing up locations, and from two of them
learned that the emigration from por-
tons of Ohio to this State would be
very great during the present year.
They think that manuIjpg Land to get
= crop does not pay, when such lands as
we have in Iowa is lying tout DOORS"
The Dubuque & Sioux City railroad
is now completed to Iowa Falls, and it
is theught that this will be the termin-
us of the road for some time, rs the
company was very greatly embarrassed
by the high water a year since, which
destroyed q number Of their bridges.
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