The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1883-10-09
The People Of Warsaw Not
Sleeping but Awake to
Their Interests,
And They Confidently Expect
to Get the st. Lou 8, EN-
poria g. Western Road.
Minor Notes of Interest Picked
Up by the Bazoo's Special
Correspondent
Special Correspondence Of the Bazoo.

WARSAW, Oct. 4, 1855.
For the past few days the railroad pros
pect has been quietly sleeping IN this i'm
mediate locality-at least, It would so ap-
pear, as the Warsaw papers have dropped
the matter altogether. Your correspondent
would say, however, that the people are not
asleep to their interests, but are earnest in
their expectation Of getting the road.
As tine many readers Of the
BAzoo are certainly aware. the railroad
project referred to here, is the St. Louis,
Emporia Il Western, line from Emporia,
Kansas, almost directly east to s.. Louis,
which, it is claimed, will greatly shorten
the distance. Now, viewing the map,
one will readily perceive that Warsaw is
on direc, line between these points, but it
is mete here to state that being surrounded
by imposing hills and deep ravines, many
are in doubt as to Warsaw's chances for
getting the road.
But then, to reason on the matter, these
objections to Warsaw as point on the road
dwindle into insignificence, when it is
remembered that practical route cannot be
located north of this place without striking
the prairie country near Cole Camp, which
would throw The road too near the Pacific
to be paying enterprise. Furthermore,
the survey has been already made to the
mouth of Grand river, a small stream that
flows into the Usage about two and one
half miles above this place, and following
the river bank down the Usage to Warsaw,
will furnish the cheapest grading that can
possibly be obtained Connect this fact
with the immense mineral resources OF these
vine clad hills, and We can readily see that
the route here referred to is certainly more
inviting than any other that may be agi-
tated. Railroads, as other enterprises, are
for the purpose OF money M liking,
and viewing the matter from that stand
point your correspondent again reitera,es
that Warsaw's chances for the road are ex-
tremeiy favorable. As TO the mineral here
abonts there can be no doubt. The BAzOo
scribe was shown, day or to ago by one
of the most enterprising citizens OF this
city, Major r. HI. Milton, specimens of
rough lead that would assay IS per cent.
Iron, also, is to be found in profpsion, and
some even hint thant silver abounds. though
as to what extent YOUR reporter is not pre-
pared to say. Ii is also reported that coal
can be found in paying quantities in this
immediate locality, all of which resources
only need development to flood our county
with capital and inure to the benefit of ali.
II is useless to say that this development can
only come through the construction of rail-
road that would afford facilities for shipping
out this ore, after, by the hand of the
skilled work imam, il is put in the proper
shape. Furthermore timber abounds along
the Usage river that cannot be found on
the so-called prairie route, and this, alone,
is sufficient te bring tine road here.
But many saw that the road will not be
built that other railroad corporations,
seeing the advantages of such line.
through the immense wealth they control
will pluck the enterprise in its incipiencv
and the people will be left to mourn the
absence of departed hope. But this is the
argument af men who are either biased or
give the matter insufficient thought to form
a reasonable conception Of what is liable
to be, or not to be done. Now your cores
pondent has this much to say: This road.
which is trunk road, is being built west
from st. Louis, east from Rich Hill, and in
ninety days the grading will be done from
Mound City, Kansas. to the main line of
the Gulf road. The road ,will be built, it
will be one of the best paying roads in the
west, and will shorten the distance from the
Pacific to st. Louis and the Atlantic one
hundred miles. It's also confidently ex-
pected that the road will be com pleted from
Rich Hill to Appleton City by the first of
January and the cars running over the line.
Now, more than ever, is the time for
Warsaw to keep her eyes open. BY properly
on the other hand. IL she should accident
ally be missed it will prove her inevitable
ruin, and she can only lay the fault at her
L. L. L. Al
would accrue to Warsaw from this source,
should she get this road it would force the
narrow gauge, or more properly speaking,
the Sedalia, Warsaw & Southern to adopt
the standard gauge, and put the road
through to some point south, which would
place this town at one of the most impor-
tant railroad crossings In the state. This,
in connection with the fact that we here
have every natural facility for manufactur
ing enterprises, only shows that if the prop
er attention is given the matter by the peo-
pie here, and the road touches this point,
at no distant day Warsaw may assume
metropolitan airs, or at least
become one of the leading towns
of Central Missouri. Let the enterprising
people of this section not sleep, but keep
ever awake to this, to them, most import
ant OF AL enterprises
NOTES.
There is talk of a new Methodist
church here.
The river at this point has taken an
upward move, owing to the recent rains.
Circuit court convenes here Monday.
There is not very much business to come
up at this term.
The court house question so recently
stirred up BY the Missouri Enterprise has
dropped back into the same old groove.
The probabilities are that the Christian