Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1867-09-13
IOWA CENTRAL RAILROAD!
Good News for Cedar
Falls!
Contract let for the Completion and
Equipment or the Road from
the Connection or the North
Missouri Railroad to
Cedar Falls.
Ties to be Got Out This
Winter.
Track to be Laid I'm the
Spring!
Cars Will be Running by the
First Of September ] 068.
Cedar Fails for the Present to be
the Terminus.


Cedar Falls for the Present to be
the Terminus.
A meeting of tho Board of Directors
of the Iowa Central Railroad was held
at Oskaloosa, on the 5th of this month, |
at which time an agreement was made
and contract entered into between tho
Iowa Central Railroad Co. and Cham
plin, Balch & Co., contractors i'm Saint
Louis, for the speedy completion and
equipment of this road to this place.
Mr.. Melendy, vice-President Of the
road, has just returned from Oskaloosa
bringing the most cheering intelligence
of the prospects of the company. We
have also been allowed the pcrusal of
the agreement entered into, and we are
prepared to vouch for all we may say |
regarding the prospects of this road.
Since the enterprise OF building the
Iowa Central Railroad was first inau-
gnrated, there has never been doubt
in the minds of those most interested
of the certainty of its completion. The
important aud only considerations were
time, money and q due amount of
financiering. These important consid-
erations have all been overcome and
the good work IL going bravely on
ward. Ties sufficient to build the road
will be got out the coming winter, the
track will be laid next spring and sum-
mer, and the road will be completed
and cars running from st. Louis as far
north as Cedar Falls the first of Sept.
1868. 1855. i
The full length of the road from St.
Louis to Minneapolis when completed,
will be 577 miles, a. follows: From
st. Louisto Macon City, Crossing of the
Hannibal & st. 10 Railroad l86 miles !;
thence to the State Line 6S miles from
State Line to Abba, Monroe county,
Crossing of the Burlington & Missouri
Railroad.) IS miles; from Abba to Oska-
loosa, Crossing of Des Moines Valley
Railroad Is miles; from OskaIoosa to
the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad, 80 miles thence to Toledo.or
the Northwestern Railroad, % miles;
from Toledo to Cedar Falls, dressing
of the ID. & s. G. Railroad, 40 miles
from Cedar Falls to Minnesota State
Line. IS miles; from State Line to
Austin, nearly 10 miles; and from
Austin to Minneapolis, 100 miles. or
this line Of road there is already finish.
ed and in running order 1871 miles In
Missouri. and 100 miles In Minnesota,
and there is 100 miles nearly graded and
ready for the IRON In Iowa, making
2sl miles already completed, and 1881
miles that can be put I'm running con-
dition I'm short space of time.
The present location Of the road, de-
pot grounds &c. Ii not to be removed or
changed; the contractors having the
right to locate the road where 1t Is not
now located. Special provision is made
In the contract that the depot grounds
and road bed shall not be changed from
where they are now located i'm the town
Of Cedar Falls, in Black Hawk county,
without the permission of two-thirds of
the Stockholders of the town. Similar
arrangements have also been made for
other towns in the State where the road
has been located. These provisions are
important M they insure the building
of the road where 1t Is now located.
| As soon rs twenty miles Of continu-
GUS road IL completed, the contractors
are to Immediately commence putting
down the track.
The North Missouri Railroad Co. are
pushing work rapidly, there being now
$500 men employed on that division OF
the line. They are laying track ut the
rate of mile day, and the guaye il
bcing changed to conform to that on
the Iowa roads. There never was q
company where work has progressed
more rapidly and where the speedy
completion of the road looked more
promising than does the Iowa Central
ts-day. The contractors, Messrr.
Champlin, Balch 4 Co., are men of the
most reliable character, and aside from
the support Of prominent capitalists Of
st. Louis, 1t fs understood they are to
receive assistance from tho Pennsyiva.
MIA Central, tho Cincinnati and Indi-
annapolis and the North Missouri Rail-
road Companies.
The contract is. let, tile rolling stock
Is provided for, and negotiations are
4 px,xv hoiu~ oe,tovx.Ne Int, 10. xf,n f-c,,
but we must not forget that there il
work yet for our people TO do. The
sooner the subscriptions are paid and
road made ready for the iron the sooner
will we see the Iowa Central completed
TO Cedar Falls. With this cheering
intelligence, our people should 60 to
work with more earnestness than ever,
and do all in their power TO- aid the
speedy completion of the road. A
meeting OF the stockholders of the
company in Black Hawk county has
already been called that they may
know moro specifically the terms Of tile
contract, and prepare themselves for
work. The contractors, we understand,
will soon visit this division OF the
road.
s4N 8s ----~--eD
WHAT is IT? Two sons of Erin
were passing by tho Episcopal church
in this city one day this. week when
one remarked to the other, 81 say Pat,
what is 1t they are putting up here ?p
Faith" says the other, "'Tis very
fine barn sure ~ "And what is that on
the corner?" pointing to the frame
work Of the :vestibule. "Och aud