Buchanan County bulletin and guardian. (Independence, Iowa) 1866-1869, 1868-10-23
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DEAR SiR: With your permission, ad>
dress Won concerning the location OF the
Sioux Ciiy Branch OF the Pacific Road
III; has been properly located IL the pres
en-. line Is on the most dircc, and practicable
route, The people who must Use il for travel
ard transportation should know il Fit has
not been SO located, it is still Of greater i'm
portance 10 the people to know il, that they
may provide FOR the construction OF a better
road.
The legislation that concerns the Pacific
Road and its branches is mostly comprised
in two acts Of Congress, passed 10 the years
co and ct.
TIE provisions Of The ACT OF go we're not
suffcien, to secure The immediate corsfruc-
ton Of the road aud its branches, and the
LEGISLATION or '6f was intended 10 supply
this defect, aud, by giving this subsidy on
more liberal terms. to render certain an
early completion ofile entire enterprise.
The legislation of Ca was not then objee.
tionab!e: There was no opposition 10 1t in
Congress, and the people approved Of il.
The act Of Congress Of 80 gave to the Sioux
City Branch Of the Prei6c Road no subsidy, no
p -isilege, that wH not also given to the other
branches and to the main lire.
By the act Of ~ the branches were required
to join the main line not west Of the iaeth me-
ridian. By an act Vt 80 the branches we're a.
lowed 70 fx the junction to suit themselves.
but they cannot draw subsidy or Land Tor any
-aad west Of the Tooth meridian.
The Questions Of Mr.. washburne, Of Wiz
cousin, and Mr.. Washburne Of Illinois, apply,
with al their force, If they have any, to the
whole Pacific Road and they have no especial
application 10 the Sioux City Branch.
Mr.. z. G. Washburne complains OF the loca-
ton Of the Sioux City Road. but this will re-
ceive ne attention.
The complaint Of the subsidy TO the Sioux
City Branch is an assault upon the policy Of
! the appropriations that have secured the con
I struction of the Pacific Road and its branches
| do not propcse TO defend the policy till find
= man wiling to give up the Pacific Railroad Il
! get back the subsidy.
The act Of ga permitted no diversion that
4 was denied by the act Of 81, and neither aci
contemplated the Niobnsra route; for june
! ton Of the Niobrara route with the main iins
cannot be made east Of the Tooth meridian
By the Niobrara route, which runs from I0t
10 80 miles sorth Of the main line Of the Pscif,
/ Road, no junction can be made with less thar
| four hundred fnIlss-and probab y not less than
six hundred, and the emily certainty is, from pub
| lished information, that 1t would require thou
sand miles, and then the Inc would be isseriel
to the Sioux City branch and the main line, a,
protested and built.
One little fact IL evidence ofthis: The traye
\ among the Platte has always followed the "
| ~ Of Tie river. In theiE expeditions up tn,
! Niobraea neither Col. Thomas nor Col Saw
YER followed the valley Of the stream, bat wer,
compelled to take to the ridges.
There is o just complaint against the act 81
1 "a that II did not grant = subsidy Tor y00a
| miles Of road, mors Or less, through IN spssr
vsysd region, in which there is not . mill, |
fsrm, or even = foot path.
The country along the line Of the Eiobxas,
may abound in gold, timber and c,ai but u
Ispx as nobody wants to occupy il, il Il bette