Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-04-28
have the choice of Milwaukee. St.

lington, Cedar Rapids & Minnesot
Ry. to Cedar Falls, but few month
since, there has been o saving /
shipments Of teheat alone from thi
place of $1,000, and this has gone {
the farmer. 1t has enabled our graf
buyers to pay that much more fo
wheat to replenish the pockets of tn
farmers instead of the Golfers of tn
Railroad Companies. Those who Sc
this acknowledge that the Burline
ton road has been of incalculabl
benefit to the people of Cedar Fall
and this vicinity, and yet, we fin,
some refusing to aid new projects be
cause railroad companies are rich.-
The man who sees only that side Q
the question would cut off his nos
to spoil his face. There Is but on
way to regulate tariffs, and that is b.
competition. Railroads are the grea
pioneers in this western country, bu
instead of their controlling the pro
Queer, wewant to see them CONTROLLED
by the producer. The people alon,
this line have an advantage presente,
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 ait
this enterprise. Every farmer shoult
view IL In the light of his own inter
est, aud from business standpoint
AS an example of what competition
with the Milwaukee market will do
the Webster City Frccraan says:
Since the completion of the Cen,
trail II. II. of Iowa to Mason City
thereby securing direct communica
tons with Milwaukee, the citizens
of Eidora, Marshalltown and Other
points on the Central OF Iowa." get
lumber at from SIS to $l5 per thous
and less than they can over the east
and west roads, and farmers get from
5 to 10 cents bushel more for their
wheat than they did before. This ID
but one legitimate results of q com.
peting line of Railroad running
north and south,
Referring to the coal interests, q
citizen of Tama county, figures up
the advantages that the road would
be on this one article alone, and
what is true of Tama, is true of Black
Hawk county. He says:
The best coal in the State lies In
southern fields, without any direct
facilities for transportation, is a fact
known to all. When we examine
the vast quantities of fuel necessary
to supply the wants of county con-
tanning over three thousand families,
with the addition of school houses,
blacksmith shops, mills,
&c, amounting in the aggregate, to
four thousand fires, whose annual
allowance could not be reasonably
less than six tons per fire of Boone
coal, costing 1925 per ton, while
southern coal could be laid at conve.
nient distances along the line at a
cost of $3.50 per ton, and as two tons
of southern coal are equal In quality
to three tons of Boone coal, the adj
in favor of the road, would
give us saving of $25. i'm round
to each fire In the county,
which multiplied by four thousand,
makes the snug little sum of 800, 900
per annum. an amount equal to all
the railroad requires of us. Another
item of Importance, particularly to
the agriculturist, is the raising and
feeding of hogs in the approved
of stcaming the food. I'm
der the present scarcity of fuel, we
have reluctantly abandoned the idea,
but give us good coal, at stated PR
ceS, wherein we can take advantage
of the approved system of feeding
and hog establishments would spring
up as If 10y magic, aud a credit OF
one third more pork would be given
tn the county, than Is now under
the present systems:
A Poor farmer up North" In the
Toledo Republican, the same paper
from which we clip the above, speaks
Of his county:
4 north and south railroad run
ming through the center OF the coun-
ty, is offered US for about 500, 900, to
be raised by tax on the township
through which il passes. Let US
the investment; it Is said
the north and south road, running
through the tier of counties west of
us, has reduced freights from twelve
to sixteen cents per bushel. We of
Northern Tama, knoW the Burling.
ton, Cedar Rapids and Minnesota
Railway, has reduced freights about
twenty five per cent. Tama county
sells one million bushels of wheat
paying over $500 600 for
freight TO Chicago, twenty-five per
cent. Of this would save us $4,000
each year, but by comparing the
raised by the average per
acre, you see We have not more than
half of our wheat growing acres un-
Ter cultivation, when Tama county
Is fully settled up, we would each
year save 100000, if this proposed
road reduces freight twenty-five per
cent, or about five cents per bushel.
they will do thfs or not 10 no
question, the North western, and Du-
buque & Sioux City, with whom we
have been heretofore dealing, are not
subject to Legislative enactment, un-
less the State naturally or inherent
ly has the right to control them,
which they will doubtless contest in
the courts for generation; but the
same law that permits the township
to aid this proposed road, provides
for their obedience to the Laws OF
Iowa to be enacted; this of itself is
worth all the tax, did we derive no
other benefit; it is as rich al inheri-
lance for our caildren as money
placed In Carvings bank.
The earnings of the farmer are
nearly all consumed in the support
of his family. the government oil
State, County and Town
ship; he can save at best but little
each year, but when tax like that
now imposed on the transit Of his
staple products from tho farm to the
Is exacted the profits OF
his business Is gone, many luxuries
are impossible, and sometimes the
and real necessities of life
ni 70 NV w bC ootatbCd We hdSC tiCu
soil, good climate and the best OF
Governments; invention has put in
our hand. machines adapted to every
of industry on the farm
as rule we are frugal not only in.
but shortening our days by
hard work, and what Is the result
one third Of all we raise goes to the
After every other demand
Is satisfied. what is left To US? ii
this road will but reduce freights five
cents per bushel, even that will soon
make US wealthy.
OF the benefits this road will be .o
Cedar Falls, we need say but little
We believe our people appreciate its
Importance and are willing to dc
their part. There are always those
i'm town who depend upon Others