Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-04-03

Ell a few miles northeast OF the towr
in the spring. n8st
/ The Cedar Falls @ AzETTE, publish
ed here, Is q Republican paper, which
looks sharply after theintercstso OF tn,
\ place. R2Fl
One hundred farms will be opened
this spring within fifteen miles o
town, and 1t IL expected that Cedar
Falls Township Will be wholly I'm.
proved during 1888. ~ t
Near this town aud Waterloo. Inn.
proved lands are worth from $40 tc
SIS, but beyond I've miles, the price
| is s. to ss. tfs n
The Orphans Home. situated al
Cedar Falls, is one OF the branches oil
the State Institution by that name
] the principal branch heing located al
| Davenport. The Cedar Falls branch
has about 800 inmates, who arc well
cared for, and apparently as content.
| cd as ordinary boarding-school: chll.
dren. But d suitable building IL
much needed here, the one at present
loccnpied not being Mt allsuited tOtbe
wants OF the institution, though, ,con-
4 lsidering its forbidding appearance, II
has been transformed to answer q
purpose Which nosones would have
considered very feasible beforehand.
| The State should see TO IL that a
| building Is provided. which, in point
of Arrangement md location, shall
meet the wantsof these orphans.
Cedar Falls owns 20 acres of land
Just outside OF town, and on one oi
the best sites To be found, which will
be civen TO the State whenever II
shall be decided to erect n building
here. Furthermore, the city agrees
to purchase 20 adjoining acres, and
make the State present ofthe whole
40 for small farm for the orphans.
This Ii what they need. The loca-
tion could not be bettercd, the land
lying ON one of the gentle swelis, SCI
common and beautiful throughout
this region, and near enough town
for convenience, while not too near
to be questionable. Lii the Legisla-
ture is wise 1t VIII accept the proffer-
ed gift, erect the building, and
promptly raise the allowance per
head to u living price, so as to pre-
clude the necessity ofprlvate contrib
gtions. All this we trust II viii do
promptly. The State Is out of debt,
and while Ii Ia not, for that reason,
advisable to be az all lavish on un-
necessary enterprises, or on such as
are not Immediately required, let the
expenditures for this noble work be-
dealt out not stintedly, but with a
noble.hearted generosity, character
istic of the uawkeyo people. And
what is done should be done now, for
soon twill be unnecessary to act In
the niatter.i
As the Orphans Home will be talk.
en- up i'm future number, we leave
the subject here.
| The railroad shipments for 1885,
were, -four, %, 200 barrels; wheat, Vs.
$50 bushels; hogs and, cattle, 70 car.
| loads.
In this connection we must moi
omit the special pet of this town,
THE IOWA CENTRAL RAILRoAD.
Indeed II Ii not surprising that the
citizens take a deep interest In thi.
enterprise. Without IL, 1t would bs
possible for conflicting interests Il
1 leave them OH one side In some o
their railroad arrangements. Will
IL, they are made doubly sure of cue
cess, Hence their anxiety. Wher
built, the road VIII be. one OF ts,,
most important thofoughfares In th,
State. The road from here 10 th,
Minnesota Central viii soon be built
and the Iowa Central, stretching from
here southwark through Toledo
| Tnina City, OskaIeosa, EddyviIle ane
Abba to the Missouri State line
where it connects with the North
Missouri Raiifoad, will be n great
through route; and the beauty oft is
Vi will be operated from here 20 st
Louis, I'm one interest--that OF the
Pennsylvania Central. F
The old company has formed q con.
tract with chanplin, Balch & Co,
contractors on the North Missouri
road, heavy capitalists who are back.
ed by the Pennsylvania Central com.
pany, by which these parties agree
| TO iron and stock the road witlllnl
| reasonable time nfter any twenty
miles nc either end of the road arc
graded and bridged. As fast as the
road Is stocked, first mortgage bonds
not exceeding $3.50 per mile, are K
be issued TO the contractors. These
parties have perfected an arrange
ment by which, with these bondsane
the money received on the. Nortf
Missouri road, they can procure tlis
iron for the latter, and one hundred
miles of this road. pl
The grading south Of Oskaloosa Il
mostly done, and that between her.
Iaud Tana City N pretty well along
so that either. or both, can be read,
for ties and iron the latter partof tbi
year and 1t is expected that the car
Will be run, over a portion OF the routi
before 1859. The people here ar,
anxious 10 have part of the mex
crop go 10 Chicago by way OF Pami
City. j. ,4e y. 4.sss &
| This enterprise owes much oft
| life and visor and popularity to Hon
Peter Melendy who has advocated ]
"in season and out 0f season.
some may think-and whose tim
has been freely given to working q
the project, and enlisting the actlv
co-operation ofthe citizens along th
line, and capitalists abroad. In oil
this he has been nobly seconded b.
tho business men of Cedar Falls, who
seeing the necessity OF tho work, con
tributed largely Of that very essen
tial article in all such enterprises
meney. From present appearance