Council Bluffs bugle. [volume] (Council Bluffs, Iowa) 1860-1868, 1866-06-21

LIST, 1857, 10000
Essiaatsd to be delivered under
verbal esatraet, $1,000
Estimated TO be delivered from
contractors lands, &c three
differeas points, DC, 900
-A~A---4-~
CSC, 800
Bsing SUFFICIENT iiss for shs construction
Of oveg $50 miles OF road.
The Company i still pat 10 ssgiosa tn
ooavenienee for want OF iaiiwa W eon-
neetioas to and FROM the East. | am
pleased e be able 10 repors that shess
difi. ullias viii certainly be 81 vlatsd
ntxI year. Most Of the railroads through
tuwa, pointing to connections with the
Uuiun Pacific are making more or lees
progress, ghilas s0fne are pushing ahead
aish ensamendabls yigor. The BedaE
Rapids aud Allssouri River Railroad Co,
under the aofiFe management eEEJahn
/. Blair, Esq, Of New Jersey hare pat
their eaiirs' work, from Boonsboro' It's
present teFmiEusl to tia Missouri river,
uudvF contract. 4 force Of fally 500
men, With sufficient teams, 10 now en-
ploysd npon lhe work. All Of the grad
ing on Sho frat forty miles west vi BOons-
burv' sill be completed by the 18th Of
July. tits embraces sJme of the heas-
lest work on The lire.
The bridge over the Des Aaines river
$40 feet, ani Including ils approaches
lOO0 feet in length, l. completed, and
the track is laid Ere and ahaif milss west
of Bool,ahoro 250, 900 ties eostraotsd
for, and beins delivered, and 3 $40 toas
of iron, sufficient for 20 miles Of road
and bridges, un band nj The Des il JineS
river aud in transit.
For this intelligence | am under obi
gatiobs 70 w. w. Walker, E,q., chief
Engineer. | confidently believe That this
work, with its energetic management and
It's abundance of means, can reach the
Initial point Of the Uaion Pacific siihln
the next twelve mouths.
The Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
IL about passing into new hands, who
haya the sbilisy, and whose interest will
manifestly be 10 reach the Missouri Eig-
err At the earliest day possible.
The Barlingtoa aud Missouri River
Railroad Company, am informed, have
a large force at work, constructing sest-
ward. ara also infLFmed that the Des
Moines Valley Rrilr0ad Is making rspid
progress, and confidently expect 70 reach
the city Of Des Moines within few
months. The American Central Railway
organised, or rather reorgan-
iEed, Is, an informed, under eonstrue-
from Fort Wayne, lndiana, to thu Mis-
souri, river, to be completed to New Bos-
ton, on the Mississippi River, in tbres
years from the ist Of January, 1866 !;
and from thence to the Missouri River IN
two years thereafter.
am informed by Willis Phelps, EGG,
who with his associates are constructing
the Couneil Biufs and ST, Joseph Rail-
road, that they expect to be able 70
their road within this year, If
some Of the legal difficulties on The Ais-
souri, portion Of the line can be overcome
within a short time. The ties for the
entire road are provided, and one nth Of
the iron is in transit.
could not learn Of much progress be-
ing made westward on the Dubuque and
Sioux City Railroad. hsrewith append
3 small map showing the probable con-
asctiohs, at an early day, OF the several
lines, through the State Of Iowa with
the Union Pacific Railroad. These lines
wilI be feeders as sell as receives of a
trade and business of no ordinary mag
situdr.
| think the question Of tho future
business of tie read merits our earnest
con sideration, The entire nation has a
interest and investment ia 1t;
every section completed opens up new
ields for improvement, and from whence
new sources OF revenue may be derived.
Il has been assumed that the tonnage
eastward will be largely in excess Of the
.Jnnage eastward.
This theory, am convinced, will not
BE practically sustained after the great
.hrough line is fairly opened for busi-
hess aud 10 successful operation. The
cheap iron ores Of Lake Superior, costing
II the mines SAY three dollars aud hfGy
tents Per gross ten, are transported BY
.ail 10 the Lake thence By Mater saY
100 miles, and by rail say 200 miles, lin
Ill about 500 miles) costing, on "a av-
rage, ten dollars per tor, including eve
-ythiDg at points extracting and working
be same, feeding great number OF
,Iass furnaces, yielding &C 2 ; per cent.
If pare pig iron, worth at this time, SAY
'orty-two dollars per ton, supplying
more than one half Of the metal con-
Iumed By all the rolling mills of north
EASTERN Ohio and western Pennsylvania,
lrd ell Of tits trade has been created
iinee 1858 or 1882
| an informed that The copper mines
# New Mexico are now being successful
Y worked. The ores are smalted, the
cost of mining and smelling being about.
ive eents per pound. The copper taken
% Gaaymas, Sonora, distance Of about
100 miles Of land carriage, ut c0st of
Ieyen cents per pound. Thence TO our
EASTERN sea board or Europe alta coat OF
me cent per pound, thus making the ac
ual cost Of the refined copper, at the
points, about Is cents per
POUND, when the net cost Of the Lake
Supt rior refined copper, delivered al
or New York, will now aver
lge from twenty-five to twenty'four cents
,er pound. !
am also Informed that silver ore is
,eing transported By wagons from Ne.
Tada to San Francisco, distance of
sboat tao hundred and ffsy miles, and
hcnos is shipped to England for snelt-
ng.
Il 10 therefore DO great stretch OF The
imagination 10 believe that The tonnage
II this great national highway viii, Of
10 distant day, consist largely OF the
jreeious ores Including "copper" from
be mintral d,etriets of oar western
states and Territories TO she eastern
s,aies, whars cheap fasl, cheap labor and
improved machinery viii be used foE
melting and Eeaning.
The completion OF this gigantic in
er oceanic enterprise wiihin ths time
issignstsd by The ass Of Incorporation,
,egins to sssuns . decided probability.
Ii Is worthy The efforts Of che Bation. |