The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-06-12
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Ne0OtuSsOuD WetO pO10cu ptUvIOIu8
payment for stock books and Other
printing and approving the action Of
Chief Engineer Estes.
A Committee on Probable Business
and Resolutions, appointed At . meet
ing ~ Cedar Bluff May goth, 1873. re-
ported through Robert Cover, Esq.
This report gave the assessors figures
for crops harvested 10 Cass township
Is 1872, and proceeded to say:
Cover and Linn townships are esti.
mated squal to Cass 10 pro juc.iOn, aud
Cedar Bluffs - named - . shipping
point, and would receive 10 connection
with other surrounding territory, after
dsducting one one fourth for home
consumption. m aggregate amount Of
"a, 482 bushels Of wheat, $40, 30 bush
els OF c,rn. IL, 8l6 bushels Ut oats, or
total of 5oS. 6lS bushels; besides TO-
GEO hogs, cattle, horses, rye, barley,
potatoes, wool, fax, butter, cheese,
eggs. poultry, &c. The aggregate
amount Of products for shipment, nat
ursiiy seeking this point, is estimated
1t y .642 tons. (requiriDg 3. S07 carr on
N. u. Railf0ad.) which now are haul.
ed by farmers NJ . great expense for
distances 70 other surrounding rail
road stations.
Il Is also alluded in This report to
the exhaust les qHasries of best Quaii-
~ 1t this place, which will not ouiy
give this road large freighting busi-
ness, but give the people along the
N n . M nj tAs
needed material; setting forth that,
while Cedar Rapids receives monthly
over 200 car loads Of stone from Ana
mosa during > large portion Of the
year, the demand for this article along
the line will be 1t least equal; further,
70 the excellent water power 1t Cedar
Blufis, which, now under contract for
improvements, will add largely to the
business Of the Peoples Narrow Gauge
railroad.
Aud IL ID further referred herei q
with satisfaction TO the excellent state
OF feeling existing and increasing
along most portions Of the line from
Davenport and Iowa Falls; IN the
cheering fact that now Upton gra.ps
warmly the hands extended, and pro-
poses 10 bring TO the work . gYsring
nearly completed from Wilton 10 I 70
ton, which will greatly facilitate IIs
work Of construction. The under
signed. Robert Cover, W. w. eter-
ling, ]. N. Long. J. n. Nay, also
pledge their hearty co-operstion with
Upton and the rest Of the COUNTRY 10
pushing forward the work 70 III early
completion, believing thsi the Mar
row Gauge Railroad. system will do
its full share in solving the problem oi
cheap trsnsportAtlou, 10 iDoisrenss-
bic 10 the country: also, tisst the
prospects, Ct narrow gauge railroad
connection with Chicago by the Chic
ago, Midland and Western Rsiisosd
10 , source Of mutual e60gfatulslioo.
/ According TO the resolutions annex
ed TO this report, Messrs. Robt. Cow.
e.. J. NJ. Long, j. r. BistieY, S
Brown, ). M. May. e. II. stanwood
+ II. Wsiiick were chosen delegates
to represent the interests OF Cedar .
the regular meeting Of the p. y. g. r
r. Go. Ia June ana the wishes ex
pressed that the present Director,
NJ. May, having discharged his dutie
To entire satisfaction. be re elected
and also that Cedar county be repre'
ented IN the future by two directors.
Chief Engineer Estes, in regard
progress of the survey and route. :,
ported very favorAbiy. Prom Daveu
port to Blue Grass he found one lin
with grade OF 50 feet, and anothe
still better and cheaper-from Blu
Grass TO Wilton, exceedingly cheal
The old grade from Wilton to Tiptor
10 good condition from Upton to c.
dar Biuffs, approaching Cedar river,
good fine, with grade not exceeding .
feet. and remarkably good crossin,
. on . natural embankment, for brid,
ing; got out west from Cedar to Solo
on good route from there north WEI
to the grade Of the Iowa North Ger
, trail, which 10 not quite on the rout,
but may be Of use, Fit can be Obtain
ed /; grade TO Western, about IS feet
; good and easy line to Fairfax and MOI
way, ~ far A. ne had come II thI
time, and expecting 10 get through i
, about seventeen days.
The Directors then adjournei, an
the
sTocKHoLDER's MEETING
was called to order, w. b. King pre-
siding. X. Reichman Secretary.
Election Of Directors was, on mo
ton, proceeded with by ballot, 1t be
ing first resolved that two vacancie,
be left to be filled by the Board at th,
next meeting.
The result 81 the election OF direc
tors was "a follows: Geo. s, Shaw
II. II. Anderson, J. B. Dougherty. L
II. Washburn, F. Bacon, J. N. Ma,
Robert Cover. Samuel Dice, G. c.. La
Rue, VIM. h. King, K. Reich mann
Z. r Clsrkson, J. l.. Estes.
On motisn the meeting Of the stock