The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1868-12-24
That Map Business.

Thursday -. December "a, 1868 |
That Hap Business.
We have :he Register Of the 10th
instant before us, which came to |
hand during our absence, which is
our apology tor not noticing it earlier |
in which We find the following arti.
Gle.
AN ERRONEOUS CoNcLUsIoN.-We
find in the Ottumwa Cbx-ier of the
l4th inst, an article from the pen of
the editor.in-chief Of that paper. AZ
ter abiding to the fattering pros
poets Of Des Moines, he says:
Here follows what we had to say
about the map, after which is this
rejoinder.-ED.]
If the editor of the Courier will
cast his "eagle eye" over the little
map he speaks Of he will discover
that it is just what it claims
TO be in its title, "a map
Of the Iowa and Minnesota Rail
way and it's connecting lines" By
reflection he will also arrive at the
conclusion that railway companies
are apt to publish just what they
deem necessary for the purposes they
have in view. The little map was q
hasty pen sketch made nearly q year
ago for the use of the above named
Company who ordered it Autograph
cd for immediate uso. It was . map
in which the Register or Mills & Co.
had no concern whatever, except to
execute the photographic order Of the
Company. So tar from . studied at
tempt upon the part ofany one to
ignore Ottumwa, that city as well as
many others, having no relation to
the !. l. n. r. r. and its connections,
was not shown upon the map. A
reference to the Register files must
disprove any assertion as to the ig-
noring Ottumwa or its railroad pros
poets by this paper. It certainly is
not great while since the writer
saw Ottumwa news vendors selling
copies Of the Register containing "afl
about Ottumwa and Wapello county"
as the dealer truthfdlly expressed it.
Why the Register should studiously
ignore Ottumwa or any other live
Iowa town is not clear to our optics.
Will the Courier enlighten its readers
as to the origin, title, and object Of
the said "map?"
We are not surprised to see the
Register folks rush into print to deny
the responsibility Of IAN affair which
must be regarded as exceedingly
shabby, when we consider the elabor.
ate and extensive efforts made to
shift its odium upon soulless corpo.
ration.
If the "sarkastical" man of the
Register will cast his "eagle eye" owe,
our article again, he will make the
discovery that we have not charged
this little map business to the Regis
ter,which it seems to be in such haste
to deny.
1t is true that we said 1t was ius,
published by Mills L Co., but then
the above article from the Reqiste,
admits that it was 'lithographed' BY
them, and since il is manifest tina,
our intent was to show Uhere it was
issued, more than the actua
mechanics who worked. it off, VIC
think il will puzzle the great public
to make much difference between
the technical phrases ''l,thographing'
and publishing" as employed by us
or even the Register in this connec
ton.
ltis a difference, without q distinc.
tion, that can be discerned by the
naked eye to readers of ordinary in.
telligence.
Supposeit was only Autographed BY
Mills 4 Co., and only drawn by J. B
Bausman, Civil Engineer, and one
Of the editors Of the Register, as the
imprint on the map all shows; still
the disagreeable fact still remains
that somebody is responsible for it,
and that that somebody inevitably
must be the photographers, publishers,
civil engineers, Railroad corporators,
etc., etc., all of Des Moines, and that
they individually or collectively as
they choose to have it, must be sad
aled with very small affair, in thus
utterly ignoring their principal inte-
nor rival, land its Neutrality-suspicious.,
which is the very gravamen Of the
offence we charged.
But the Register says that it was a
hasty pen sketch, drawn over q year
ago, and only intended to show the
railroad connections, present and
prospective, of one of their railroads,
to-wit: the Iowa and Minnesota.
Let us see: we find that it com.
mences at st. Louis for its Southeast
corner, and embraces in it's circuit
Chicago, Milwaukee, La Crosse, St.
Paul, Mankato, Sioux City, Council
Bluffs, st. Joseph, and Kansas City,
and all the Railroads built or propos-
ed within that limit, save and excep-
ting ours, as well as all the Railroad
towns Of any Importance in Iowa,
besides such comparatively unimpor-
tant places as Bonaparte, Leon, De-
catur City, Bedford, Lewis, Spirit
Lake, Esterville, Algona, Mareago,
and many others of no less size, all
Of which are nearly or quite as far
away from Des Moines and as little
tributary to that place, FOR the I. 4
NJ. r. R., ss Ottumwa, Sigourney, or