, 1872-12-14
DUBUQUE.
The Railroad Enterprises Of
Northern Iowa.
How Dubuque Capital and Enterprise
Have Reconstructed the Rail.
way Hap.
The Situation and Progress of
Lines Leading West and
North.


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TIE DUBUQUE SIOUX CITY RAILROAD.
This road, III the main, being the product Of
the energies Of Dubuque capitalists, its ner-
chants fondly hoped that il would enable than
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TO re1aln 'helr Trade II the counties contiguous
10 II. IN th1s tney were disappointed. Ihe
reasons for this Will soon appear.
Another railroad project. called the E1dora
nro;ect and IN xrb;c,, nnhnona ca1,;ta1 7.-ro1-,
aD1 - "n.'u Dooueue eapital hisely
contributed, "as what Is now known as the
CENTRAL RAILROAD oF IOWA
This road it WAS thought, would also inure to
the benefit Of Dubuoue merchants bnt trans
..s:... .o o- s,,, 1-oo eu' " - AIN ~,
tne Noftn"estern Road, entlre1y diverted the
trade OF number of counties west from Du-
buaue. at the Ackley crossing. few years
f.fer +Ia nrhu,,,. T. s;onr 60 1sssas
ta1er tne uuouqoe q sioux clty TOAD vas Leased
III PefPe1ulty 70 Inc iinnols central Company,
and from that time to the present have the ner-
chants Of Dubuque had "a hard road to
frave1n
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Aniouen ~ lneee seaie @ne pto!ecs o1 d fl7er
Line of railways. extending INTO Minnesota, was
fostered, and ever and anon it's immediate open
ing received hearty advocacy. It's necessitv md
its nractical,ility Eera discnssed in nrirate ~
Ties. in puhlic assemblies and fhronph fhe nress
and finally took definite form by fhe ineorno. .
ration Of the
Tbs Gogasn9 Nss ne -
It's Board Of Directors were Hon. Z. Il. viii.
jams. of (,1ermont Amoa Pearsn1 and T p
Merrill of NIcGrernr. r r Mason of Gh;caao.
and J. Z. Graves. Fl. 1. Stout. and Platt Smith
of Dnbuoue.
IInder direction or fbia co7nnanv r r. A;,a.
worth its chief enoineer mada q acknowledgements
OF the route propoSed. and rgnorted his ohserra-
tions These fnllv esfah1;shes the feasib;1;tv of
not remoya mnnnraina hid MI than fnilv NJ
fnred on The boftom-1ands Of Dubnnua. a1d so
the enterprise there rested.
Meanwhile the merchants and tha press of Du-
iocai discFiminations in railroad tariff practised
by the Illinoig Central Company. bnt thu Central
Kent rieht on about its business, modifyinc itg
rates Of tariff only as it's own interests dictated.
But The merchants aud the press Of Dnbnona
did more than protest; they carried the war onto
the floor Of the House in the winter of '69, and
won victory in eecurine the passage OF an act
prohibtine discrimination. but this bet child vas
The press Of Dubuoue. have said Was active
In th;s long fight acainst RAILROAD monono1y. The
Herald was narticn]ar1V rirorous and Instant in
it's advocacy Of the people's interests. 4 81
abonev IKE od-t;ma editnr Of fbe e1 Hern1d " n uas
published in its columns. and subsequently re-
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Tba Taar nf 800 1e7o ono,ea hona5n11r for
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NEW BonY OF MEN 70 THE FRONT.
A dozen Or more of mr. ~ marchants aided hv
nrofassiona1 ani othar bns;nasa 1oaI; ha5 M,
fnre3 sn1an far hniidinc, fha rver rnad rhev 1a;d
down efock enbscr;nt;on has;e Tbe nral;m}nsrv rv
ada 4n cn1 and to
take hold With ma xvonId in rariaxai far evH
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