The Lincoln County herald., 1871-07-13

to ,h,ov dirt. Whore the sonpaps sro
at ,oork Ia this county the road has oees
located, ard shils this il going on surveys
are being made 10 an4 the most practi'
cable ionte 10 eoaascs the present. located
pos.ios wi.h chs North Missouri souts
.ss with Pike oessss sorth. Some si.
|us seven surveys, perhaps more, have
bess made, and it may be fully ahss masS
may yea b made, before the oomp.sJ 70
se.is6ed vhich 10 the cheapest and best
line upos which ~ ,oca.s. IL Is the sar'
! oS ~sdos, aot 10 play .. blind ~sss
| buff IN Ihis matter az loosting. |
Il 10 tsue 10 said che WORT Of s0s.
structiou had beet commeaced oeswees
tkis plaae and Big creek, end that the
road bed would bs finished IN sbous
siuety days, fos so sas hiss the route been
located but We did not say, nor did We
intend 70 convey the idea, that the gsad'
ing would be finished to the North Mis-
souri road 10 that ties, % biz letter %.
sumes.
Mr.. Crums slsO considers the 6nsncis'
resources of the company, and re-asserts
Zedds assertion, that the $500, 600 sub
scrlption of this county is the only avail
7 able means Of the company, and says
. that nearly all the Rails county subscr'p'
: ton has been expened in that county.
Only sos, 100 of il has been expended,
! leaving s97. 900 still in the hands OF the
company (tbe appropriation being only
$500 900, and not s276, 900, the S7b, 600
!, belonging to branch company. The
D distance between the North Missouri and
the work in Rails is about IS miles BY
. way Of Bowling Green and 75 miles BY
way of Louisians. Making an average
y of the cost of grading in this county
d where the work was about as heavy as
,, will be encountered anywhere along the
/" !, line, it will cost to grade the road, $780,
). 900 by Louisiana, and $4,000 by Bow
10 ling Green. The work near Troy. mos'
d of which was very heavy class Of grad
a ing and cutting. cost only $4,000 mile
y y Say, then, that 100000 Of the Rails
a subscription has been expended, there is
q. with Pike county's 100000, the sum o
,s s597 900 left with which to grade th'
70 road. Besides this, st. Charles has sub
"a scribed $50, 900, and promises to make
Sc $3.50, 900.
n. Now respecting that Pike county sub
a. q. scription. Mr.. Crume says It is "miser
a. a. able rretence set up only for effect h
ls merely asserts this, and produces n
d, argument or evidence whatever to sub
~ stautiate it. Now he knows, or shoul
40 40 know, that the Pike County Court has n
w tv more power to resciud q written contrat
D. entered into between it and another part
y, than one individual has to violate cor
ny tract made with another. The court mad
60 81. the order appropriating 100000, Judg
ad 8. F. Murray, county agent at the tim
of subscribed tho amount, and the compan
ls- legally accepted it. Unless the law und'
90 90 which the order was made is invalid, Il
10 subscription holds good; if the law
for invalid, then also is the Lincoln and Ral
to subscriptions of no binding force.
OF But the company do not propose
':e build to Louisiana Immediately; it vi
Ill, consolidate with tthe Pike County Sho
he Line, to which company $4,000 b
'ig:: already been voted by the townships alo'
OF its route, with . Aattering prospect
.hs , half as much more. Then when q
,y. Pike county appropriation of s2O0,0'
by is made available, the main line Of the
lies Louis and Keokuk road will be built
~ =" Louisiana. These are the facts, as
vet bave learned them, and we have rsas
led, to believe that the st. Louis and Keok,
railroad is not "myth."
,.rS Persons indebted to me are respe