The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1872-05-24
Railroad NIeCtfDg.

CO anu NlCillty met Ut Inc COufL HOUSE
pursuant to call and organized by the
appointment of DIR. j. j. Clcmmer a.
Chairman. Col. Smcdley opened tn.
meeting by stateing the amount thus
far subscribed, and that the people very
generally were coming W to its aid te
fully meet the anticipations of the com.
mitttee. That the committee had met
and looked the ground over carefully
and had fixed the sum which they
thought each individual should sub
scribe and that the subscription had as
often exceeded, as fallen short of the
amount assigned to each; that when the
work was completed justice to those
who had SO generously met the require
ments and nee essities of the case, demand
ed that their names should be published
that the public might all know who their
friends were, not for the purpose Of
prescribing any but that justice might
be done the deserving.
Augustus Beadle next addressed the
meeting stating the probable amount of
aid that each line could and would fur
nish, and assuring the meeting that
though the people might not be able to
raise the full sum the road asks Of them,
yet he believed we could raise enough
to secure the road, that if we raised
the money, and the Davenport and St.
Paul road did not give it to us we
would try and make railroad conncc-
ton that would give US equally as good
connections.
Judge Upton urged the farmers to
come forward now with the aid which
they could well afford to to give, and
announced his willingness to aid by
giving literally.
Almon Rice, of Button Winnesheik
county, spoke Of the tax in Orleans
township in that county and of the
duty of the people there to vote it; said
that although the most of his property
was in that township and would be tax
ed yet he believed the benefits would
amply compensate him, and if it
did him he though it must
others who would be nearer to Cresco.
He said he believed the tax would car
ry and yet in addition to his tax he
would give 500 which he then did.
DR.. Clemmer said his taxes in aid of
the road and his subscription will
amount to $4,000, and yet he would
rather double his subscription than lose
the road.
Mr. Barnes the Vice President of
the road was called upon and stated the
rates of their road and the reduction in
the frcights it has caused wherever it
comes in contact with other roads. To
a question asked by Mr.. Alonzo Bowers
as to what the freight on a bushel of
wheat would be to Davenport, MIR:
Barnes said it would not be over eight
cents bushel, under rather than over
that sum.
Mr.. Bowers said if this statement
was true and he had no reason todoubt
it, he thought it might be best for Or
leans to vote the tax.
W. Il. Mead said the difference in
freight would more than compensate
any farmer accessible to Cresco for all
thy tax they would even be called upon
to pay under five per cent assessment
in their first crop, that they would save
their entire tax in the first crop, and
the tax being payable in two install
ments instead Of being to any expense
would really have the use of money for
one full year saved from the advance in
prices Of their products that the cost
of freight to St. Louis would not be
more than to Chicago by present roads
while the market was some 40 cents
better, that the connections of the d.
Il St. Paul would place us in direct
communication with St. Louis, Phila-
delphia, New York, Baltimore and
Boston, that the quality of the wheat
grown in this latitude is much better
than further south, that this railroad
connection would enable us to send the
wheat shipped in bulk through to the
place of destination without reducing
the grade by mixing with poorer grades
in passing through the elevators on
other lines, that this would secure to
the producer of northern Iowa the
price his commodity would bring upon
its own merits, and that because of
these benefits everyone should unite
and heartily cooperate to secure the
benefits to accrue from the completion
Of this great enterprise to our midst.