The Lincoln County herald., 1871-06-29
Our Railroad Matters.
.r HI JUNE II. 1871.


tax payer Of Lincoln county. necessarily
have watched with some degree Of inter
est the railroad movements in this county.
II 10 true that, being . farmer, my time
aud attention has been, and Of right
should be, occupied with the many duties
it involves therefore I may not be %
we'll posted ss'to railroad matters ss l
should be, the entire railroads interests
Of the county being entrusted to . few
gentlemen at Troy, who deem Il emf
nently expedient and necessary to the
interests Of the good people Of Lincoln
county that they should be extremely
reticent on all matters pertaining to rail.
roads in the county. I heard q short
time ago that even yourself had been
told by one Of these gentlemen, in speak.
ing Of an editorial in your paper, that
you told too much, although it was true.
Consequently oil the knov,odao ~
people Of the county obtain (outside Of
the initiated) is derived from the maneu'
vering and works Of those gentlemen.
Judging then from observation it docs
not appear to me that the railroad pros
poets can bovery flattering even to those
gentlemen, much less to the good people
Of Lincoln county, when they see and
know that on the 6rst of September next
Q tax Of one per cent. will be collected
from them to pay for the maneuvering
and work Of these gentlemen.
Now, what has been accomplished 2
What is likely to be accomplished? We
have had the railroad surveyed and loca-
ted from every point on the North Mis-.
souri, railroad from St. Charles to War.
reuton, running BY j. M. Heady's to
Troy ; running by the bridge on Big
Creek to Troy definitely and permanently
located by the Chain.of Rocks, crossing
Cuivre twice by way Of Moscow to Troy
and lastly, unmistakably and irrevocably
located through Dog Prairie, by the mouth
Of Big creek and Moscow to Troy,
Located from Troy by way of Old Alex
andria, Auburn, A. X. Wilson's s. R
Moxley's, Prairieville and Bowling Green
osteusively to Louisiana from Troy
crossing West Cuivro up North Cuivre
crossing same at Wommack's ford, vi
Foot branch, up west prong of same, b.
A. X. Wilson's, 8. R. Monkeys. Prairie
Vile and Bowling Green, osteusibly to
Louisiana; from Troy, crossing Yves
Cuivre, by Millwood, crossing Nortl
Cuivre at Stones mill (maybe some Othe
place) up Sulphur creek (may be SOM
other course) to Bowling Green, osteu
sively to Louisiana. Certainly on Shor
Line railroad to Rails county. Lastly
swing back at Troy, abandon part Q
work done, crossing Cuivre at mouth o
Sugar creek, up creek into Hurrican
township, and accommodate those fellow
: on the west side of the township; (warI
feeling for those people at present j o
by Prairiville (may be, don't know oster
sively somewhere.
Now all of this has been accomplished
for which the round sum Of sixty thou
sand dollars has to be paid by the ia
payers Of Lincoln county. What
likely to be acoomplishedP There al
at least seventy Eve miles Of railroad
be built so % to connect the work in Raj
county with the North Missouri railroa
at some point between Wentzville 40
Dardenne and every one knows that
more difficult aud expensive line can nj
be found in the State than that by Fraul
fort, Bowling Green, Auburn, ths Forl
Of Cuivre, Troy, and mouth Of Big creel
or any Of tho above indicated lines.
The general railroad law of the State
. Missouri provides that the capital stoe
), of any railroad company shall not be le
It than ten thousand dollars per mile, ~
Z taking that as tho minimum (this ros
. will certainly cost double) We have sovs
hundred and fifty thousand dollars. No
= what are the means in the hands Of Il
company for building this road 2
answer, our county appropriation Of thr'
hundred thousand dollars. 1t is trl
these gentlemen tell us that the townshi
In Pike county are going to vote su
= seription on . Short Line road; Cuiv
township twenty-five thousand dollar
Peno township forty thousand, priva
subscription fifteen thousand dollars, al
the City thousand dollars heretofo
voted by Cuivre township, oil may
used on this line Of road, ostsssively