Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-06-05
COURIER CORRESPONDENTS.
4 Delightful Rtde-Railroad. Enter
prisc-Groicth Of Westera Toms.
CRETE, NEp., MAY q. 1873.

ShETE, NEB., May ~, 1915.
DEAR COURIER
The Romans used TO boast Of their
magnificent public highways but no
Roman ever dreamed Of such a. high
way as the c., B. &. @. Five hundred
miles of continuous road over which
the Pacific Express bears you at a
rapid speed, gives you z good bed in
which to sleep, sumptuous repast,
all without leaving the train or being
delayed OH your route. Long live the
c., d. u @. 2' is
A ride over the prairies of Iowa and
Nebraska by way Of the c., d. & @.
and B. 4 M. one Of those beautiful
May days, is rare treat. There is not
the oppressive heat of SUMMER to
dull the senses tho ffesh,green Of fields
and woods charms the eye; the air
comes in at the window laden with
the fragrance Of flowers, and. every
sense keeps happy time with the swift
moving train.
The tide of emigration by rail and
by way of the familiar sa.prairie schoon-
cr," continues to poor into Nebraska.
The b. & M. in Nebraska, which has
opened new empire, is now Icaping
something of its reward In the thou.
sands of acres Of lands, which it is
selling. Commissioner TIafris is con-
stantly adding new inducements for
the buyers Of these cheap lands. One
OF these for 1873 is, bringing the fami-
lies and goods of buyers from their
former homes at about one half rates
another, is the reduction Of twenty
per cent. from list prices OF land, if at
the end of the second year the settler
shall have onc-half of his land In cul-
tivation. & sM -
The d. \ Dr., with it's usual .sasacity
and liberality, means to forestall a
railroad wear along its line by Offering
TO its land buyers, freights for their
produce at the very lowest rates. 70
On my way over, ! met, at Platts-
mouth, one of Ottumwa's former rail.
road men.J.O. Phillippi, ESQ; who
IS administering the affairs of the c.,
u. A. g. at this end of Tho route WIN
his usual urbanity, fidelity and thor
oughness. At this point whence |
write, is destined to be one of the best
towns in the interior of Nebraska.
The B. & M. crosses the Big Blue here,
and the scenery in the vicinity is de.
lightfui, as the book of views publish.
cd by the Company shows, There is
branch road running down from
here to Beatrice, to be built this sea-
son ESQ report says), from Mahattan,
Kansas, to Columbus, on the U. p.
r. r. The county seat OF Saline
county and the workshops of the
Burlington y Missouri River: will
doubtless soon be located here. The
Congrcgrationalists have located their
State College here, and have already a
good beginning for the enterprise in a
frame building costing $1,000 or $4,000
in which the preparatory department
is now in session under the charge of
a thorough teacher, Rev. ID. r. Perry,
late of Yale College. Crete is the
center of trade for a 'wide region. "A
business man of Council Bluffs told
me that he had two ncphews in trade
here who commenced two years ago
with a capital of $4,000, and last year
sold $4,000 worth of goods. ss7
Another live town, sixty miles west
of here is Harvard, soon to become
the county scat of Clay County. The
cars have been running to it only IA
months, and these months indicate its
age. There are ten stores of one kind
and another, two carpenter shops, two
blacksmith shops, a 5000 school house
completed, one church to be built this
summer, q wide awake newspaper, &c.
The b. & NJ. land agent at that point
has sold 5000 acres this spring. ~
Cincinnati will build a 100000 OBJ
servatory as soon as she can observe
the money.
The New York World has come to
the conclusion that no man likes to be
/ hanUn1