The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1868-05-14

I eOW0o1ltei SIGA N. DIiuA, M0Ssilou
. tow y9hn Pearson Cover town.
Accommodations will be pseviea fQr
AL psssoas whorreport themseE yea p u p
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Our railroad interests are again beiqs
i agitated, with rome hopes of success
/ fui tefni}riation.s" AT recent interview
at De Witt, between Mr.. Kibtf 4
/ man who has great intiuenca NTH
capitalists, and 8. G, Stein, President,
and w. H. Alden, Secretary Of the
IL, r. & A. r. r. Co., some State
ments were made which should be gem
orally known. Mr.. Kirby will agree
| to furnish the Iron and rolling stock for
our rvad, from Muscatine to they. y
N. W., provided he can lease and sue
cessfuuy develop The coal fields near
Muscatine.' He has already leased
large tract Or land, but he desires more,
and also guaranty from the company
that he shall have the security il, case,
he should desire to put down the iron:
He will also agree, in case coal is found
ia paying quantities, to furnish the iron
aud rolling 8 stock for the road as far
north IS the people along the line will
| grade and tie it. The same is to be
operated independents of all other
A re{u1jtHas seen sent to the Presi-
dent Of tlie NJ, T. & A. r. II. Co., to
! cali q meeting of the Board of Direc-
tors for the purpose Of considering this
subject, and we have no doubt but THAT
that course will be pursued which vii
secure the completion, Of our roads at
the earliest possible moment. Our peo-
pie will have to complete the grading
!! and furnish the ties, and Mr.. Kirby
will do the balance of the work. Let
| our citizens take no steps backwards,
but theoretically push forward this great
enterprise. s-~nr.,
AN Anamosa correspondent Of the
Dubuque Times, under date Of the I'd
inst, writes as follows
~ hardly need call attention to the
efforts that have been made within the
last few years to obtain means for open
ing the projected railroad between this
place and Muscatine via Upton. It
seems that the track Is already located
and the grading nearly completed from
Muscatine to the Northwestern Rail
road in Cedar county, so that if the nee
essary iron and rolling stock tcou}d be
obtained the road would soon be Ia OPP
Grafton that distance. From tha line
of the Northwestern Railroad to this
place, there has as vet been nothing
done except the making of the Necessary
efforts to waken the people up and get
ready to take hold of the matter in good
earnest this coming season.. During
the last winter and spring several. rail-
road meetings were held at this place
from which grew the idea of township
taxation and assistance to the road
Accordingly we appesle d to the Legis-
lature to pass the. required law. That
body however, passed a general law on
the subject, permitting any township,
or organized town or city TO vote a tax
upon themselves, not exceeding five
per centum, in aid Of railroads. There
seems but little, if any. doubt in the
minds of those who have canvased the
matter, that the townships in this coun-
ty through which the proposed railroad
will pass, as we'll as the town Of Ana
mosa, will promptly vote the required
tax this season, and thus place US in a
fair way of bringing the projection to a
certainty. ,. 5,s~.
I'm the meantime the old fever ex-
element in the Wapsie Valley returned
and the people north of US are string
themselves in behalf of the extension of
this road to Quasqueton, Independence,
and Indefinitely upward. Several meet
ings have been held at Indepe ndence
and this place which res ulted in the or
ganization Of the "Anamosa and North
western Railroad Company" with
Judge J. S. Stacy Of Anamosa, President
We hear that the citizens along the
proposed rout are taking stock freely,
aud it is expected that in less han a
month the surveying party will be on
the route locating the track .t,. -,
Last evening another meeting was
held at this place, in the interestt,of the
Muscatine, Upton & Anamosa Railroad
at which Mr.. Stein, the President of the
Co mpany, explained how matters stood
the prospects there, are Of getting the
road in operation soon. From his
statements there scenes but little If any
doubt that very soon the necessary assist
ance in ironing and stocking the road
will be obtained and he himself is also
strongly OF this opinion.
"Ana rosa has been considered to a
great exsens by herself, and to a. greater
extent by others as an out-of-the-way
village on branch road. At present
we are disposed to make an EFFORT to get
into direct communication with some