The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-07-08
tracts Of coal lands-4 900 acres in Green
county. 5000 in scott county, 5000 in

TRACTS OF coal IauuS-4,VUU acres III OTeeii
, county, 5000 in Scott county, 5000 in
Henry county and 5000 in Schuyler
county, III. These are being developed,
and will be an immense revenue to the
company. Pledges have already been
gwen to grade and tie the road by local
suhscI ptiOns the whole. distance except
fifty miles this side of st. Louis, which
that city is expected to provide for
| The entire line is to he completed in
eighteen months from the present time.
He was now prepared to offer to Mus
catine the main line, although it would
add some 30 miles to the length of the
road, O,iE condition that Mu-catine aud
the region OF country in Illinois this
side of Camden will take Sl75, 900 stock
in the road. Andalusia has already
taken $4,000. Muscatine Is asked to
take $4,000 also. The remaining So
600, it is thought, can he readily ,raieed
in the townships intervening: The
terms of payment of subscription by
Muscatine to be as follows: 4Op per cent.
when the road is graded to point OPP
posite the city, 40 per cent. when the
cars are running to the bank of the
river opposite the city, aud the remain
ing 20 per cent. when the grading IS
completed to the American Central
. road near New Boston.
He then referred to some of the ad-
valItages to Muscatine. 1t will open
competing route to Chicago 80 to 81
miles shorter than the present route
1t will also open a direct route to st.
Louis, only 225 miles in length, thus AZ
fordi,,g competition Ia transportation to
two of the best markets in the West. 1t
will be almost certain to result in the
building of the MuscatiDe, Upton and
Anamosa, and Muscatine, OSkalnOsa
and Council Bluffs road. 1t will be to
the interest Of the owners of the r., II.
|. l. st. l.. road to build these roads
through Iowa. They will be important
feeders Muscatine will thus be ut the
converging point of the two great angles
Of the r., II. l. 4 st. l.. road, and will
have two other important lines running
out from it through Iowa-one directly
north and the other west. Its situation
on the river, bending far out into the
center of Iowa, gives it great natural
advantages 1t will he the nearest
point for large part of the State TO
reach theriver and to go by rail either
to Chicago or st. Louis. Muscatinc is
more intimately connected with the
rich Cedar Valley than either Daven-
port or Burlington.
In reply to4ucstions from sundry gem
tlemen, Judge Green stated that his
road had ali arrangement with the
Northwestern Company by which
through trains are run over their track
from Sterling to Chicago. The North
western company furnish proportion
of ears and carry freigh:s at 80 much
per ton per mile. The Toledo, Peoria
and Western. will, i'm connection with
tie Pennsylvania Central, also send
through cars to any point on this line;
on this condition Edgar Thompson and
l.. i. Frost had agreed to become trus-
tees.
The meeting unanimously adopted
resolution accepting the proposition of
Judge Green, and providing for COM
mittee to attend to raising the required
subscription. This committee afterward
agreed upon a form of subscription by
which subscribers agree to pay pro rutn,
ace riding to their county assessment,
such sums as shall be necessary to raise
the required 100000, provided the
amount assessed on such subscription
shall not exceed the rate of three per
cent. on the county valuation of real
and personal property for the year 1869.
The Jou,na says in conclusions:
1t is thought that this plan can be
made successful, and that in Il few days
lhe whole amount can be made up. No
more equitable plan could be adopted
tlan the li,reeaper cent. assessment. 1t
is within the reach of every property
holder. In an assessment OF nearly
three millions there ought to be no
trouble in securing $50, 900 on this basis.
That the money will be raised and that
we will have a competing line Of railroad
to Chicago before the close of navigation
this year, there seems no reason to
doubt. The railroad company now have
the iron to lay the track and the grad
ing is already nearly completed to Rock
Island. The route from there to this
city is of easy grade and can be pat
through speedily. So look out for the
cars
/ We, in Upton and vicinity, are natu-
rally much interested in the extension
of Muscatine's railroad advantages, both
because that city is naturally by far our
nearest and most eligible point on the
river, and because we have SO long
looked for railroad connection there
with. And although we have ever
looked in vain, and notwithstanding
/ tuc ~" cbp vi luillodN anu
activity here-the natural result Of re-
peated failure-we shall still watch with
interest the development of this new
and apparently most feasible project, in
the hope that its success may be of prac-
teal importance to our future.
I THE REAPER QUEsTIoN.-The time
is fast approaching when the grain har-
vest for 1869 must be secured. The anx-
ious enquiry of the Farmers is how to
save the grain which is already so large
as to be lodging and tangIing down bad
~. Most of the Reapers in use at pres
ent are SO heavy that if the ground is at
all Wet or hiIly they are next to useless
/ besides, if the grain is down, they leave
enough OH fifty acres to pay for ma
chine. Our farmers who are not pre-
I pared to cut their grain quickly, even
though it is badly lodged will be great
losers this year. Wemust have reapers
that cut ride, r,tn tight, pick uo lodyed
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