, 1873-11-07
Railway.Progress'' '-Tlo Dakota Sonthern''.
Largo Wheat.Shipments- -'Ghicaso
Enterprise.
yankton...Sp|endid vlew'--The MoCook
Murder..-Thc Indians.
Mennonites -.- Railways Westward VS.
Sioux City to St. Paul.
Special Correspondence Qf The Chicago Tribune.

If ono would keep up hlR KuoWleueo OF tho
development Of tho country wost or Chicago,'
Ind Of tho progress Of otr railways through 1t,
Two or tlreo trips evory ycar can aono afford tho
.eauisito information. But threo ycnrs ago,
Daltota could only 10 reached by tedious stage
lido, or by m ,1ninviting trip by stcnmcr
ap tho Missouri; now-thenlts to Chioayo
sntorpfisc-tho tourist from this city
san reach Yanktou, lta capital tho Soc
bud day, by rail, md hayo good nights tost
tt Sioux City by tho way. as fow Of tho rendors
II TnE TRIBUNE havo boen over this route, somo
uotos Of my trip nay intcrost them.
Starting from, Chicago by tho evening train
Il tho Northwestern, or Of the burlington and
illinois Central the watora of tho mississippi
,bovo Galeua will greet ono BY morning, and.
:rossing tho splendid iron bridge, tho traveller
inds himself in tho wide-awako Ittlo city Of
DUBUQUE.
It is beautifully situated on n broad plntoau,
surrounded by bluifs gomo $50 foot high, Mar
rlctto md Joliet wore the first whito mon who
ieitod It in thoir tour down the Wisconsin and
ho Mississippi, in 1878, just 200 years ngo. In
ho fall Of that year, they returned up the Illi-
,ois and down tho rngiug Chicago River to Lake
Michigan, and thence onward to Montroal. Ju-
inn Dubuque, French trader, wus ATTRACT
M to tito place in 1888 by tho lead
ninos, aud lies buried on one of tic
,igh bluffs, miles south Of tho city.
Ihough many hard stories aro told about him,
10 hab given his nan,e to ono Of tho most thriy~
ng and populous cities OF Iowa. Tt WIS iucor-
,oratcd as city in 1871, only four years aftor
chicago. In 1850, when first saw it, it had
1000 inhabitants, and now claims $4,000. Tho
rade Of d large and very productive section of
Sr 4rtt, 4e al
ifact,lripE interests arc constantly increas~
ng, aud give tho city mitch Of it's ,n,-
,ortanco aud, prosperity. Tor thrco-quartors of
# lead, ,'nt.d mincrs aro just about as lkely "to
trfko 1t fich" now ms thoy wero fifty years
go.
TIE wATER-wonKs
VI Dubuque nre curiosity There ID no streanl
N sufficient Hizo and purity near the city to sll,l-
D'y it, and to establish pumping works to raise
IL from tho Missssippl would be very expensive.
The happy thought was carried ont to drive n
tunnel for about three-fonrths Of milo into the
horizontal limestone strata, about 100 feet above
:he city Into this tile water percolatos in drops
tud thread-like streams, till, ut tho mouth Of
The t1inuel, it becomes q lnrgo brook Of excellent
water, affordiug IN .abundnnt supply for the
sntire wants Of tho city. Possibly the lnow1-
my be valuable to other places similarly situ-
tied,
nEatIStscExoE.
Twenty7tlree years ago last June (l850) when
:lirnbed the bluff. some $50 feet high, n,mcdiato-
' west OF the town ana last Thursday I did
he same. Tho city has apread out greatly, and
aas solid appearance but tho Nississippi
oils by with the same quiet grandeur It did
sonsin hills to the east, thoso Of Iowa to tho
rest, and Of Illinois to the. southeast,
IT'LL charm tho eye aul delight
Tho fancy. On Tint quiet afternoon in 1851, I
,rst fully realized how vast and how wonderful
10 tho northwest, tho Missouri gathers its
,prings from tho submits Of tho Roeky Noun
aims; far nway to the north, nearly 1000
niles, Itnsca first pours out it's wnterh into tho
Mississippi; as fur to tho eastward, tho springs
Il the Ohio sparliIe among tho mountains OF
Firginia and New York !; while to the South,
l.500 miles from this crag on whic. our feet rcst
:he Mihsissippi pourS it's mighty floods, gathorod
70, amid tho rice-tields and ornnge-groyes Of
Louisiana, All this is true now'as it WAS then !;
out how astonishing is the change TINT has come
over tho n1ississppl Valley; then, there was hut
one railway Lending west Of chicago,--t
River. Tho rest Of tie way to Dubuque
Ind to be made in 4 stage.coach. Our purity in
1860 took the stcamer for St. Paul. There was
mol atown above Dubuque half us largo as
Bremen, on the Rock Island Road, except ST.
there being only afery few shMutea thore, we
hook on q hand Of Winnabago Indians, on tllei.
way 10 their reservation on the Grow Wing
River, and brought down on our return ba,,l
aeud Of Luke pepin, No houses thorc; tlit.,
ut Lake City, Winonn. In Crescent, McGregor,
and perhaps scores OF other plnccs. Prairie dll
1!hien--about US old as philadelphia then
almost fail me to tell how maur ruilwaya VIC now
have running westward from Chicago, and how
fnr they ronatrhtc into tho country that IL trib,-
!ary to or city.
From Dubuque westward. I wuH the guest of
{. II. Coulstocl, Esq., tho pay,uastor Of tho
Illinois Central Railway. lIte rilo with lin to
sioux City afforded the writor constant i1,struc-
lion and. in fact. almost any bnsincBs-uu,,
would bo Greaty proi1tod by it. Tho perfect order
ana eystem with which irr. Co1nstocs nlnnagep
eycry part Of his duties arc really curious
and the rapidity with which he pays
or ganG s, Of ler men 8, t,s IL I'M marvellous m ::
~ AZ M x G ho "a 70 T. tue All gs @
as tho gaug comes In. each mans name is called
nud in I'LL instant, Ills money is counted aloud
10 him, and his uae checked oil. This is done
III the presence Of tho Boss md tho Division.
sl6scrll,os ls nanae M wit,lcsH. alr. ConlstocF
gives tho boil-rope jerk, and, before the
lnst man il on the chr, the train L.
III motion. All the train-'nen Aign tho payroll
Ill DT1HeI3Eb u LAe Ht IL lnutlH Ill
American proud Of his country thnt, however
covered witt, coa!-tlr3 md griMo tho train MOI,
were. every man OF tl,on wrate his OWN mama
distinctIy,-some Of thom much better than the
uototl mon of the country. But hero comes
man WHO clnins TINT lio left the en4loy OF tlis
Company five years ngo, having = balance Of
e5.76 duo him. '"Iour iian,e ?-tho kind of wori
sou wero doing ;-wlIp WIS your Dosa .--A1lf
what month lid you ioayo:" said AIR. Com
stock. .rlo answers wcro satih7actorjly given
aud tho man Wa properly 1dentificd., ilr. Com:
stouk turned to his bnol,s, foMnd tho croilt
there, md Immediately minded tho man hi.
money, Thons books Of hack-tlnos nre u curl
osity. Some Of them llnre credits from tho worry
frat year OF tho oSisIoneo or tho road. Dnrin:
tho first year uf tl,o War. many ,neu left tlAt
road before the pay.cAr came round, atlt
have novor yeturIloi for their money
Mr., C0Mstock, ll,w for Ecnrly twcslt.
years Tho paynaAter of the Co,nlnny, i,nh NIL tht
books, With every account property listed, nut
e always ready 70 hand over tho amount wl.e'
tho ow1icr calls for it,
Much might bn written Of the country (nl,t