Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-06-08
Buckingham and the Iowa Central Rail.

Buckingham and the Iowa Central Rail
! road.
: The last issue Of the Tama Count,
Union, published at Iuka, contains tn
following:
"This sprightly and enterprising vii
!: lage Is situated about twenty miles dis
tant and North of this place, and OF
+ Wolf Creek "a stream of no inconsider
, able importance, which traverses near
ly the entire length Of Tama County
the surrounding country being wei
timbered and watered, and unsurpassed
in fertility of soil. Buckingham, lik,
Toledo, has long felt the want Of Rail
road facilities, being situated abou
midway between two roads running
West from Chicago, and distant from
each of them some over twenty miles.
"Since the agitation of the question O.
building the Iowa Central Railroad
tho citizens of Buckingham have ex.
erted every effort in their power to rs.
sist in pushing forward this great enter
prise, and according to their means
have done equally as much as Toledo
or any other point on the proposed
route, but we regret to learn from late
published proceedings of the road that
the Company has decided to give Buck
ingham the go-by, having located the
line some miles west of that place, thus
cutting 1t off, completely. We are not
advised of the precise circumstances
which brought about this result, but we
consider the policy bad one, let them
be what they may for it does not ap-
pear to US that the managers are con-
suiting their own best interests when
they pass place of such Importance,
and slight SO large number of the cit
liens OF Tama County, upon whom
support and patronage when the line
shall have been completed. We hope
to learn that the Company has recon-
sidered the matter and changed their
route to properly accommodate the citi-
zens Of Buckingham; but in the event
Of their not doing SO, those who may be
figuring on the fallacious principle that
the farmers of that vicinity will bring
their produce to market 6et,0een that
point and Iukd, where they would re-
ceive from five to ten per cent. less than
what they could obtain here, will find
themselves woefully mistaken, and
further, that her merchants and milIers
can at all times find inducements Of
fered them in Iuka to do their entire |
shipping to and from Chicago, at this
station.
ave desire to see the early completion
of the Iowa Central Railroad, and we
hope too, that the managers of the en-
terprise will seek to treat every section
of the county through which they may
Is finished, they have an intelligent
and liberal class of people to depend up
on for support, and their road cannot
fail of being one of the most popular
and lucrative of any in the country"
While we regret that Buckingham
could not be point on the line of the I
Iowa Central, still we think that any ,
impartial person, acquainted with tho ,
acts in the case, will readily concede I
hat in giving that place the "go-by,"
70 the Union expresses it, the MANAGE
nent of the road has done nothing that ,
he best interest Of the whole road does
lot demand. Tho line between Cedar
Falls and Toledo by way of Bucking-
lam would be two and a-half miles :
urther than by the established route, {
md in the building of railroad this is 6
n item of no small Importance. The
mount of stock taken by the citizens :
4 buckingham is but about $4,000,
which would be but small portion of
he expense Of the detour from the di- .
ect line. 1t is the intention of the ,
company to establish depot on Wolf
;reek, two and a-half miles from Buck
ngham, where there will be an oppor-
unity to build up town possessing as
God natural advantages as Bucking-
lam, and thus the interests of that Sec
ion Of Tama will be as fully provided
or as though the road ran to the latter ,
lace; while at the same time several
thousand dollars will be saved to the
people of the county. Our neighbor of
he Union can probably appreciate the
orce Of our remarks, for tho fourishing
own of Iuka was called into existence
II an exactly parallel case. The c. r.
Z NJ; r. Railroad, instead of making
Toledo point, ran two miles south of
hat town, where depot was estab-
ished and town has sprung up to the
letriment of Toledo. Yet we do not
believe that the Union would contend |
hat the railroad interests Of the county
ire impaired thereby. Buckingham is
imply unfortunately located, and the
private welfare of the citizens of a small
own must give way to the best inter-
,sts of a great enterprise, and the good
If the people of the county at large.
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