North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1868-10-21
McGregor aud sioux City Railway.

McGregor and sioux city Railway.
Our readers may remember that We call
eli their attention last winter to the efforts
of the McGregor and Sioux City Ry.
Co., both in our state Legislature and in
Congress, to secure such aid as would war
rant them in undertaking the construction
Of line Of Railway through the undevel-
eped portion of Northern Iowa, from some
point on the McGresor Western Railway,
running directly West to the Missouri
River. ~ las
Their efforts at that time to secure the
desired point were only partially success
ful, and therefore the company were not
warranted in attempting to costruct the
Road beyond the Cedar River, to which
point, or st. Charles, it was pat under
contract in Sept. last, since which time
force of nearly one thousand men have
been ut work, it being the purpose of the
Company to complete the grade over this
part of the line before winter sets in,
with view of having the cars running to
st. Charles, in time to market the next
years products of the Cedar Valley, in the
city of Milwaukee.
To our mind, this is one Of the most
important Rail Road projects yet attemp-
ted in the North West, and we trust that
the Representatives Of the people, both in
our State Legislature and in Congress,
will do all in their power, consistent with
the public good, to promote the carly OK.
tension of this work, and its completion,
at an early day, its proposed terminus
On the Missouri River.
We understand that it is the purpose OF
the McGrcgor and Sioux City R'y Co.,
which, we may here remark, is substan-
tally the same as the Milwaukee and St.
Paul Ry Co., whose President is ALExAS.
DER MITCHELL, Of Milwaukee, gentleman
known to the entire North West, for his
financial ability and sound business quail
fiications, to make application at an early
day, for such Land Grant as will en-
able them to resume the work beyond the
Cedar as soon as possible, and push it te
Gnal completion.
We are not very much in the habit OF
bestowing unmerited compliments in these
columns, either on individuals Or corpora
tions, but we can not forbear to express
our qualification at the quiet but determ
ined energy with which Mr.. Mitchell has
developed the Railway system of the
Northwest since his acceptance of the
Presidency of the NJ. & St. P. r. R'y Co.;
and, we, here at McGregor, as we'll as the
people throughout all northern Iowa, feel
that to him we are mainly indebted for
the reasonable prospects Of direct commu,
nication with tie Missouri river; and we
trust that in his efforts to prosecute this
work, Mr.. Mitchell will be supported, as
we have no doubt he will be, by the unit
ed influence Of every person, both in Con-
gress and out Of Congress, who takes
pride in the growth ana development Of
this Northwestern Country Of ours.
With this, work completed to the Mis-
aouri River there will be an uabroken line
of noarly 500 miles running west from
Milwaukee, over which the products o.
Wisconsin, Northsrn Iowa, and large
part Of Minnesota, scgether with the'vas1
trade Of the upper Missouri, exteisling tt
the foot Of the Rocky Mountains, vii
pass To- her market, to say nothing of thu
-
East-front the markets Of New York am
Eoston-and the traffic ofthe intermediate
cities that will be forwarded over the same
route. The completion Of this work vii
retain to Milwaukee her ascendancy as th
great grain market Of the West. 1Ienc
we assume that the people Of that cit,
must feel profound interest in the sue
cess Of the enterprise.