Omaha daily bee., 1883-02-14
The BRIDGE OF SIZE.
A View Of the Future
a Lecture for Fo lee.

formed TO bdiId that biijg', hut il
should be u railroad aud wngon bridge
| combined. The bill as framed is no
bar to this object, but The BEE lie
sorry to note that there is an cpposi
ton TO the railroad part q the prcp).
sition. Why pho1ld this bf7 We
have in vain read end listened for
some argument against 1t thst was
worthy of q reply, but none has been
advanced and none can be. The points
in Its fivor are too numerous to detail,
bat a few of them thai are patent to
every nj We will note.
In the first place, there Is q magr il.
dcent level tract situated between The
two cities that is now excellent farm
ing land, but which will then be worth
many dollars to the front foot, and
this increase In value will be ell q
gain for our citizons. Take tho Coun.
Gil Biotfs water works for Tho center,
and you have on the south aud within.
q few thousand feet the terminal
station Of the. Union Pacific;
and not only that, but the western
terminus as we'll Of the Rock leland,
the Northwestern, the Burlington,
the Chicago & Milwaukee, the Kan.
sas City, the Sioux City and the Wa
bash.
The Missouri Pacific ar the Re-
publican Valley roads really terminate
at the came point.
The largest elevator In the west Is
located there, the great stock yards of
the upper Missouri valley are also
there, and the freight and passenger
business OF two cities gravitated to
that spot. Now what will bring ell
the other roads clustering to the same
c%eatre7 Why, a bridge that is open
to all. The U. p. bridge, as is we'll
known, serves az a toll gate by which
tho commerce is taxed at the sweet
will Of the little ring within a ring,
that Ia f~attening upon tho needs OF
the country and barring all freedom
OF intercourse and reasonable tolls.
The want o bridge that all roads can
uSo. That 10 what Council Bluffs
needs, and let il he bailt from the
foot If Fsrnam street, which will
strike Omaha's centre to tho Council
Bluffs water works. the approaches
ehnuld end as indicated, If wa are to
have the greatent benefit from
this enterprise. The reason for thil
il evident from the fact that the near.
eat path between two points is o direct
line. Then within a mile of tho heart
of Omaha and situated on Council
Bluff soil, there will bs the transfer
grounds of the future, because there
Ia room for them and nowhere else
can that vacant spaos DO found with.
out leveling hills or buying costly
property. Tnere will be the ireigh,
houses, machine shops, round house,
gas works, lumber yards, stock yards,
elevators, rolling mills, foundr!es,
smelling works, lead works, linseec
oil works and the Wholesale ware.
houses of two cities
Many of these things we will get
with only the wagon bridge, Blu. why
not have them ali by giving the great.
est avenue Ct modern business, the
q .lway, full right With no reserve In
favor Of apy road but open to all for
reasonable tolls. Lot as have a rail.
road bridge. Sush an one will pay it.
builders.
Yesterday we had a sonvcraation
with
PRESIDENT HOPKINS
Of the water works. His company
owns about three hundred lots where
the bridge will have it's Iowa com
mencemont and he Is strongly in favor
of a combined wagon and railroad
bridge.
There are mon In this city who have
Opposed every move that meant pro-
gress.
There arc men who imagine, anG
perhaps rightly, that they can DO bic
fish In q small puddle, buS they dom
want to live In An ocean or they nigh
be gobbled up.
The BEE will take Ito chances ant
submit to the law of the survival o
the fittest. We will work to max,
Council Bluffs q city second to non,
in the great Missouri Valley. Brir.
on your pavements. Let the water
works have ample encouragement
Build your giant agricultural an,
other warehouses;. We welcome tn,
stock yards, the elevators, the i'm
proved millo. Every shingl
placed in position, every loo
Of dirt that is move,
Is an item In our IN ward march, an,
none but old. fogies aud fossils viii
wish for the return of the tine whei
Council Bluffs did nothing but fac
fault with her neighbors for tho enter
, priseu they insucuratod,
ii New blood we have, and the new
blood we prize. II will do grea
things for US. 1t means wealth auC
position among the cities of the grea
west. Build the bridge, and build |
we'll. Let 1t be no Cheap Johl
affair. Design 1t for the future a
: we'll as for the present. Let 1t b,
0 built as our water works are building
not only for tho present, but for tn
i future wants of our city, as our mill
y are, and as we hope our pavement
will be. Let u w%orsilgmen hav
employment, and let our capits
be earning something. Ia short, lie
us bsne6t ourselves and move fol
i ward, with the grand march of west
g ern progress.