The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-04-29
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New Orleans ssais.l st. louis, All item Of
| vast consequence to Iowa and Wiscon-
sin as il saves large expense oil
traushipping TO smaller boats aud from
them to railroads icr distribution. AT
50, another read tproposedj from Iowa
City, southwest 10 connect with the
North Missouri r. II. to st. Louis. .
Should the Nv. y. n. r. Co., deem 1t
unwise to allow the transit of trains
over its road from Savanna to Elkhorn,
or to make another arrangement, rs,
Joint ownership, then, milwaukee, hay
ing road to Monroe, could by building
and continuing in a southwc>ter!y di-
rcction, perhaps TO Bellvue, thence
crossing the Mississippi TO Maqaeketa
and Cedar Bluffs, to Iowa city, little
more distance to build, but it would be
! through portion of Green, La Eayette,
Stephenson ard 10 Davis counties, east
, Of the river, aud through Jackson, Cedar
| and johnson counties in Iowa. an az
ricultural region Of unsurpassed tertlii-
ty, well settled and without immediate
railroad facilities. Moreover, TINS line
would include 4 the manufacturing
points of Whitewater, Janesville, and
with it, two wooden mills, three -four
the. nearest railroad station - Cedar
Bluffs on the Cedar river with power to
drive 10 run Qf French Burr mill stones
or their eslHiyalefit in other machinery,
md mills alsO - the Iowa river at Iowa
~ deeply lutoseoted are the people, Of
Hin depeely popui&IS 6 and carly set tod
i6ouftrlvg or I006, fSasf 4Sscd BY the slg-
Sosted extenti0n ffom Monroe, or from
= - Connecfed SsJ9h Milwaukee as well /
SS O1ljcaSe0 tiIat Nj iIout doubt on that
PARTON betweeR the Mississippi and .
IQpn City. subscription along the line .
could be obtained 70 pay for tn. right
81 way aud grading the road sr-
But 10 our mind, the great desidera-
(umis the securing to Milwaukee its .
fair share Of tire Pacific trade which is y
soon 10 flow from Asia, Japan and the !
East Indias across our Continent, over
the Union Pacific Railroad, to be COM /
pleted in July next. "A neighboring !
city is moving in this matter. The fact ,
that passengers can now go from Chica- :
go to San Francisco in ten days, is sig
The fact, also, that after the
of the Union Pacific Rail
road, person can leave London or
Liverpool, proceed to Chicago via New
York, then by the Union Pacific Rail
road and n line of Pacific steamers reach
the japanese and Chinese ports in fiji
teen days less time than from these
cities by the old European routes, is
still more significant; and more full Of
commercial Importance even, than all
Else is, perhaps, the fact that sixty days
nay be saved by this route in receiving
'ilks, teas aud other light and eXpen-
,ive goods from those countries, to say
nothing of exporters and importers
per centages, when shipped by way of
New York.
Bat the subject grows on our hands, /
and we must only add, that merchants
IF other cities are taking the iuitiatnry
steps to establish agencies in China, /
Japan, &c, to be in readiness to avail
themselves of the opening Of this new
route to the commerce of the world. !
With great timidity, lest we should |
seem to be too forward. we ask the ques-
ton, can Milwaukee afford to fcrego hor
share Of these commercial advantages, |
when apparently they are so easily, or
even with much effort, it may be, they
can be secured"'
= The map referred to rs published in the
paper, ui course. could not h" re-
produced; hut the points can hC easily found
and the bearings understood bv reference to
any map Of the territory over Wlich u'N 'D'''~
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