The weekly north Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1857-1867, 1866-12-26

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Letter from Chicago.
Chicago-The Great Vest -Railrays-7 The
Mines Of Colorado-7He North Star
Gold and Silrer Mining Company-C Chi
cayo on Skates-The Lake Tunnel.
CHICAGO, Dec. Is, 1866.
EDS. NORTH Iowa TINES.
GENTLEMEN After drifting here and
there over the world, now in the sunlight
and now in the shadows of Time, find
myself at this wonder Of the northwest,
CHICAGO, the proud creation of American
energy and cnterprisc-thc work and pro-
duction of the best mind and muscle Of our
wonderful civilization. Once more seated
in this commercial metropolis of scarcely
thirty years, with its progressive and rap
idly augmenting population, now exceed
ing 100000 souls, is it strange that l
should, in remembrance of days '1ang
syne," send you, my old friends of other
years, a little waif, a jotting by the way !;
and through your columns, talk to the
Family CIRCLE" broad and still broadly
extending-the subscribers and readers of
the TINES.
AS to the future Of Chicago, its "man:-
fest destiny" if may use the hackneyed
term, no man can doubt that it is destined
to become the commercial heart of the
great northwest, from whose pulsations
the life-tide of trade and thrift will be in
jected into the intelligent and Industrious
population Of Iowa; Minnesota, Wisconsin
and the vast and almost boundlcss regions
beyond the Great River, known to-day as
the Far West.
The iron bands of railroad enterprise,
row pushing along the natural lines of
trade to the shores of Lake Superior; now
reaching out after the untold resources of
your noble state and its northern sister,
Minnesota, and now sweeping westward
toward the Pacific coast, down the fertile
valley Of the Platte, to open and secure the
vast treasures left by the Almighty hand,
in the broad gold fields and mountains of
Colorado and the adjacent mining regions
but partially developed, as yet, and then
to reach at last, the western confines of
this oeean-bound Republic-this great
railroad interest directed and controlled by
a few master minds like our own OGDEN
and DUNLAP and other railway magnates
rising up to take the places of these great
pioneers, has contributed more to secure
the great results l have shadowed and al
so to establish oneness or unity Of feel
ing between hearts and communities, but
yesterday, as it were, thousand miles
apart-to-day but twenty-four hours dis
severed-than any other one enterprise or
interest in the land.
Speaking of the treasures of the mines
of Colorado and tho territories beyond,
now securely locked in the rocky heart of
the vast mountainous region of the west,
l desire to call your attention to an organ
ization recently perfected at this place,
known as the ''Nor,h Star Gold and Sill
yer Mining Company" in which find
LEONARD G. CALKINs, formerly President
Of New York Central College, recently a
resident and citizen of Iowa, occupying the
deserved position of President of the COM
pany referred to. JosEPHrs s. HOWELL is
also here. a DrectorSof the same company,
but very recently citizen of your state,
of fwhose energy and integrity of purpose,
it is needless to speak to the people of To-
wa or his friends anywhere; who has delv-
ed for years into the rock-bound gold and
silver deposits of Colorado, with his faith
and confidence in them unabated. I find
also as Secretary and Treasurer in the
same company, II. c. BALLARD, formerly a
correspondent of yours, whose rcn, in
years past, furnished the readers of the
TINES, some choice and worthy poems, and
who may again, at some future day, send
out to your family of readers, an OCCASION
al rhyme, or song to cheer their hearts in
an hour of gloom. Now, with the harness
on, heworks with will and energy which
knows no such word as fail, to make the
North Star G. & S. NJ. Co., second to none
in Colorado or elsewhere.
And here allow me say that any one
will he fortunate who secures an amour
of the stock of this company, now selling
rapidly, for the reason that the company
has secured splendid property at Cen
tral City, only forty miles from Denver,
the capital of Colorado-with mill COX
80 feet upon the mine, with IL stamps and
an Is horsepower engine, and now rum
ming on the famous Illinois Lode, second
to none in the mountains. also learn
from the gentlemen above named, that
they purpose, at mo- distant day, to estab-
lish Mining Bureau, and organize a
Mining and Prospecting Company, to 60
to the mountains in the coming spring, to
locate and secure good and valuable claims
for the company and they also contem-
plate the establishment at no very distant
day, Mining Stock Board in this city,
equal to any in New York or elsewhere /;
aud these gentlemen inform me that they
will nere', under any circumstances, deal
or operate in any mining property other
than .tirst-closs and recommend none
which will not bear the test Of the most
rigid investigation.
! bespeak for them upon such basis of
action, the confidence of all, and that sue
cess which belongs to honest men, and
straightforward business operations.