Daily Davenport Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1864-1874, 1868-10-16
FlFTY-TW0 NILES ToWaao SUNSET
The New Link Of the 6. r. I 4
p. Railroad.
TOWNS OF MAGIC AND LAND
OF WEALTH.


present terminus Of the u. X. !. Z p. r. H.
II Vas our fsst trip. and % We, Of course.
journeysd on with our eyes vide open to
SEQ what WAS to be seen. Gathering OF
through the suburbs and dashinc 10 the
valley Of the classic 'Ceon, We found the
train banging along through . very fine
patch Of timber which had no q s,sses on
the gsosraphy Of our mind hitherto
Through this We reach . 6ns farming re-
gioo, we'll farmed. In . basin Of the Coon,
70 dod the magnigcsnt farm Of our old
friend Nosdyks. and - ~ look upon its
broad acres yellow with corn, and see hew
rich 10 ito elsbs, " do not wonder that be
10 % proud Of his DOMAIN. Here to-. ~
fnd
KonDYK1 STATION,
which is the tirst stepping place vest Of the
city, and which has yet no house in Il. bu.
will speedily have town eei's own. Four
nilss further on 10
BOONE STATION,
also new town without any houses. but
whore good ware house 10 being built.
This station, - veil % Nordyke, while not
esplring . metropolitan hoDovs, will yet
develop into lively shipping pointa-as The
country about them 10 rich and we'll set
lied.
Nineteen miles from home We reach
town ws have never heard much about.
but which has been baxxing away without
parade or noise, quietly attending to build
isg itself up. Il 10 . village Of some City
houses. With three hundred live. stirring in.
habitants, has . 6ns steam saw mill. and
the finest water grist mill in the Stats.-
With the people il has, and the land about
Il, and the life infused By the rail-
road. this little neiehbor Of ours. can.
not help but grow into . prosA little
place.
Three miles further on 10 the tswn 10
have heard Of sad read about,
ps sofo.
eood name By The way but how u cot
it Ne esanst tell. Probably the old boy
who 6rst we're the ssas, and whom, W are
told. hunted oil ever creation for . fountain
which would make him boy again, made
this one Of bic eaupisg places. II hs didn's
it didn't cost him any thing.
We were surprised TO zee such busting
good sized little town. We sheuld say L
uo0 w uV0OOD WIN NV buooOlt10IO. S0m0
Of the buildings are good end substantial.
One brick block ornamsots the brow OF the
hill, aud the Durham Heuse 10 very good
building, and one Of the best places to got
q dinner We ever stopped at. Although the
town 10 not . yesrling. il hes trade and
| business that may towns nov In their teens
might envy. II has several large stores Of
oil kinds. and ito lumber trade 10 immense.
You can jot Il down - . town whore any
man can d. well by locating.
Tho depot At this poiat 10 large and
roomy-much better than the one the road
has in this town. The agent in charge
Smart, in name. VIC believe, surely 80 in 40.
tion and BUSINESSES we'll qualified for hia
post. Here, also. is the telegraph and ex
press Office. Near the depot 10 large water
tank, which has the curious feature of bsina
self>supplisd,- that is, by . never-failinl
spring.
DeSo.o Is the debarking point for Win
terset and Adel, which points are reached
by daily stages.
Fourteen miles further on, thirty six from
Dcs Mcines. 10 the proud little town, viii
the very capital name Of
psxIRa.
It's . ncw:town-very new, scarcely q
infant yet but after oil We see clump o
shining new houses, many Of them vsrJ
creditable in appearance, which contain 25l
good people who have located there 70 max,
a city-and they will do II. No Llacc svei
had better land shout. Its Geld Of trade
will be rich and vide; and that il has fu
ture Of great worth and many people, ne
one who can see mile ahead can doubt.
A depot building 10 going up here the
Same sizs ~ that at De Soto. Ii will also
have . telegraph and express Office. Hsra
all travellers and goods fer Redfe!d, Guth-
RE Centre and Panora are "dissmbogus''
and oil these places have daily stage con.
nections. Not stopping At the town, w
know nothing more about it,
Two miles luther west is
0UrnAiE,
which 10. % yet . city without house or il
habitant; but those two slight objection
to . town will b speedily obviated. Nsa,
it, 10
which 10 more fortunate a. it has one
heuse-all ito own. We understand that
the name Of the place will shortly b
changed 70 Penn--and . sensible change will
il be.
Soon We reached tho breaks Of Middle
river. aud approach the Bride, msgnif.
cent structure, Howe Truss, ono thou
sand feet long, and high enough to bs dig
~. No coach had yet crossed Il, but
Superintendent Royce now gave the order
''forward" % our good Charley Smith
had the honor Of first crossing Middle
River. a. be also had Of crossing the Dee
Moines
A few hundred feet beyond the Bridge,
and We were ct the end Of the rail-b2
miles from homo, and hungry. Here the
party WAS unloadsd for . scout, and Col.
Hooker led of, Whore, We don't know.
Four Of FIVE miles beyond thst point 10
the town Of
and il 10 thought the track will 30 laid 70
that point to-day, and . station and tsls.
gaph edics Immediately established. Four
miles hey end this 10
where - much work has to b done. The
approach Of the road to this place will b
slow, because the work 10 great. Il will,
however. be reached in about three weeks,
Beyond the summis twenty miles are d :.
ready graded, and when the peak ID
reached, The track will b laid Ct ths rate
Of ose nile day,-and whom the twentieth
mile 10 reached. Council Bluffs, the Qussn
Of the Sisps. will be only sixty miles away
-snd that gap will be speedily shat.
Hail the day!
30 mach for the route and progress Of
the Road, now few word, for tue Road
itself. which 10 without doubt the
Bssr BUILT noAD IN rms NoRrnwRsr.
Il has been cons,sucted With the creates,
care aud completeness. The Ioad.bed 10 q
proud monument to the Master Of Con
structisn. Mr.. W. H. Csrsen,-a man Of
great experience. indemitable energy, and
uniting industry. The cars passed oves
the new read With less jar and elattsr than
they make on three fourths Of the old roads,
and il 10 the enthusiastic tsstineny Of oil
passing over it, that il 10 the best new road
they ever travelled over. And il should b
for il 10 to be the great right arm Of the
Union Pacific.
There are dozen other persons and fea.
lures We should ike to mention. II il
enough to say that no resd ever had more
successful construction, nor opened into
husioe0s snopn HsAts~;cw1, 0.eae;o2>~I>.x