Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-05-05

place OF SO,UUU, ana JnlS mas gone u
the farmer. 1t has enabled our grain
buyers TO pay that much more 70
wheat to replenish the pockets of tn,
farmers instead of the Golfers of tn,
Railroad Companies. Those who Sc,
this acknowledge that the Burling
ton road has been of incalculabl,
benefit to the people of Cedar Fall
and this vicinity, and yet, we fine
some refusing to aid Few projects be
cause railroad companies are rich.-
The man who sees only that side o
the question would cut off his nos,
to spoil his face. There Is but on,
way to regulate tariffs, and that is by
Railroads are the grea
pioneers in this western country, bu
instead of their controlling the pro
Queer, we want to see them controlled
by the producer. The people along
this line have an advantage presented
to them which they cannot allow t.
be wrenched from them, and the in
terest of every man is to worl
with every possible facility to aiC
this enterprise. Every farmer shoult
view it in the light of his own inter
est, and from a business standpoint
AS an example of what competition
with the Milwaukee market will do
the Webster City Freeman says:
Since the completion of the Cen
trail r. II. of Iowa to Mason City
thereby securing direct communiCa
tons with Milwaukee, the citizens
of Eldora, Marshalltown and othe
points on the Central of Iowa. ge
lumber at from S. to S15 per thous
and less than they can over the cas-
and west roads, and farmers get from
5 to 10 cents a bushel more for thei
wheat than they did before. This il
but one legitimate results of a com
peting line of Railroad running
north and south.
Referring to the coal interests,
citizen of Tama county, figures al
the advantages that the road woult
be on this one article alone, ant
what is true of Tama, is true of Blacl
Hawk county. He says:
The best coal i'm the State lies il
southern fields, without any direc
facilities for transportation, is fac
known to all. When we examin,
the vast quantities of fuel necessary
to supply the wants of county con
tanning over three thousand families
with the addition of school houses
churches, blacksmith shops, mills
&c, amounting in the aggregate, t.
four thousand fires, whose annua
allowance could not be reasonably
less than six tons per fire of Boon,
coal, costing 1925 per ton, Will,
southern coal could be laid at conve
nient distances along the line at ;
cost of $3.50 per ton, and as two ton
of southern coal are equal in qualit,
to three tons of Boone coal, the al
vantages in favor of the road, woult
give us saving of S25, in rount
numbers, to each fire in the county
which multiplied by four thousand
makes the snug little sum of $4,000
per annum, an amount equal to al
the railroad requires Of us. AnOthe
item of importance, particularly t.
the agriculturist, is the raising am
feeding of hogs in the approved
method of steaming the food. I'm
der the present scarcity of fuel, W.
have reluctantly abandoned the idea
but give us good coal, at stated pri
ceS, wherein we can take advantag
of the approved system of feedin
and hog establishments would sprin
upa if by magic, and a credit Q
one third more pork would be give
to the county, than is now unde
the present system:
A Poor farmer up North" in til
Toledo Republican, the same pape
from which we clip the. above, speak
of his county:
A north and south railroad run
ming through the center of the coun
| ty, is offered us for about 500, 900, {
| be raised by tax on the TOWNSHIP
through which it passes. Let u
consider the investment it is sal
the north and south road, runnin
through the tier of counties west G
us, has reduced freights from twelv
to sixteen cents per bushel. We G
Northern Tama, knOW the Burling
ton, Cedar Rapids and Minnesot
Railway, has reduced freights abou
twenty five per cent. Tama count
sells one million bushels of whea
annually, paying over 5000, coo TO
freight TO Chicago, twenty-five pc
cent. of this would save us $50
each year, but by comparing tn
amount raised by the average pc
acre, you see we have not more tina
half of our wheat growing acres un
der cultivation, VIII en- Tama count
/ is fully settled up, We would eac
year save 100000, if this propose
road reduces freight twenty five pc
cent, or about five cents per bushe
| Whether they will do thfs or not is Il
! question, the Northwestern, andDu
buque & Sioux City, with whom W
have been heretofore dealing, are no
subject to Legislative enactment, un
| less the State naturally or inherent
~ has the right to control them
which they will doubtless contest il
the courts for generation; but til
same law that permits the TOWNSHIP
to aid this proposed road, provide
for their obedience to the Laws O
Iowa to be enacted; this OF itself i
worth all the tax, did we derive n
other benefit; it is as rich an inheri
lance for our children as none.
placed in savings bank.
The earnings of the farmer ar