The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-30
NORTHERN EXTENSION.
What is Sedalia Going to do
About it.
A Few Plain Words About a Plain
Proposition.

Although SedaIia seems to have COM
pie ely died within hersyli so far as busi-
ress, pluck and progress are concerned,
and TO have decided TO fall into the rut,
which has been the ruin of thousands of
cities by refusing TO encourage or even al
low any intrusion of outside capital, her
past reputation for a very differen: ard
much wiser course seems to have rendered
IL hard for outsiders to resliZe that Sc
las plucky people could have so won
derfully AID radcsllv changed 10 q st,te
If statuesque foss'lization in so short
ime as six mon hs, and Notwithstanding
he very cold shoulder has b. en- given the
men of brains and capital who have come
to Sedalia lately with liberal offers to add
their we1ltn and influence toward building
up the city and its cessary convenience
N the shape of wa er works, railroads
and manufact ,riss, offers still continue to
flow in but it is not at all probable they
vii long continus to do so unless tie citi-
zens of Seial show.
LITTLE MORE ENTERPRISE
and desire to do something thenselve, and
permit others TO do SO. 1t is rather un-
pleasant to be forced 10 speak SO har. h!y OF
people the truth than to wait
until they hear it abroad, and therefore the
BAZOo discharges the humilialing duty.
Within the p 81 six months Sedslia has
had half dozen excellent offers, which il
they had been IN t in the cordial, business
like aid friendly spirit in which they were
t-nder,d, would have added millions to
her wealth and IN pOriance, aad wCu d to-
day be Turn shing employment to at least
500 men. Bat because OF the growl of
few chronic, sOIe-headed cranks, who
would rather see humanity starye than to
know any ole was making a dollar b. sides
themselves, every overture has been re-
jected outright, or crea'ed such
a wrangle AID delay that
tn Sc making the offers have withdrawn
them in disgust at such display of imbe-
cility ard lack of enterprise.
DAILY THE PEOPLE,
as a mass, are asking for a ncrtne IN exien
sion. More than 8 dozen Of the most sub
sta tial men of Sedalis have already
offered to give ten PR cent of their entire
property as gift TO secure it, but those to
whom they look to pace the matter In
shape sit quietly by and, without any
fort, inform those from abroad who, see
ing the immense value OF such enterprise,
offer to sid In Its prosecution, "Ihat il is
impossible to do aDyth n.y." OF suchswork
the BAZoo is at least tired out, and it now
proposes to make public the last offer that
has been made the city toward building a
northern extension.
Tn offer comes through City Engineer
Coppedg, and is from a large and
thoroughly responsible corporation, end
is as follows: III Sedalia will Use one
third OF the amount to complete and equip
The road, this company VIII
PROCEED TO CONSTRUCT
it at once, advancing the other tTo-thirds
them selves, and when The road is completed
they will turn II over with the entire stick
to any corporate company Sedalia may Or
sanize, to receive il and accept first mort.
gsge bonds on the road, to be paid out of the
future earnings of the road. Mr.. Coppedge
says the entire expense of the road viii be
about $500, 900. Hence it will be necessary
for the Sedalis corporation TO. rai>e 10
PeIIis county 100000 to effect the build
ing of the road.
This is The whole thing in a nutshell
and i simply rests for Sedalians To say
whether or not they are prepared to lDves
that amount TO secure to themselves, and
have under their own absolute control a
road which
By THEIR OWN FIGURING
they have publicly decl 'rsd would b:
worth 5000, 900 per annun to Sedalia alone
IL this pr blem is to- a5struse for tn
board OF trade and Sedslia's leading mag
mates, certainly there ought to be left few
prac i,al, common sense business men in Sc
dala, W, can take held of and mat ipula',
1t to their own advantage and the pu' Ii
welfare. Ii MT then it is time for Sed All;
to throw up the sponge, quietly retire int
obscurity and bid her ent-rprisirg neigh
bors all around her to go ahead and tax
the lea with the flag o, progress she ha
so long and succcs fully waved in the past
while she lies down in the ditch and d e
Let the people of Sedalia speak snd say a
once which course they will pursue.