Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1886-01-02

llulIy pldiuit piCSOutou, ohu WhlSi
Poor Richards maxim; God helps
them that help themselves directly
applies. st. Joseph has grown out O
the old rut and is helping herself.
don't think she will be blind to hel
own interests in this matter"
Mr.. Russell, of the visiting commit.
tee, assured the meeting that Licking
ton was anxious for the connection
and he believed that it was to the inter
est of St. Joseph to seek the trade Of
large new territory that would be trib
utary to this city. He said that he wa
pleased to meet the people OF St
Joseph and to thank them for theil
generous attendance and manifest i'll
terest; also for the warm welcome ex
tended to the committee. He though
that the project was common and mu
lual to both cities and if we put oul
shoulders to the wheel we can accom-
plish the result desired.
Mr.. Silver also spoke Oh the advan
tage of the line. ,
The speakers were all roundly ap
plauded.
Capt. Posegate was called upon for
speech and he said that nothing woult
please him better than to address thu
meeting, but he was physically unable
to speak. "However," said he, can!
project having in view the best inter
ests of the city has my most heart!
approval"
Col. A. N. Schuster next addressed
the meeting. He said that while St
Joseph might have been called a SLOW
town, he never, during his residence
of twenty years in the city, had seen al
attempt made by her people to .fenc'
anybody out. He thought st. JOSEPH
would do her reasonable part. Sh'
has always done so in the past and il
this instance she will do that which il
right. He heartily approved thu
project and desired to see a committet
appointed to go down aud assist thu
Lexington citizens in the en-.
terprise, at the meeting next month
He paid a tribute to the COMMITTEES
for their interest in their town which j!
! of so much mutual interest to both thai
place and this.
James McCord: "All they ask is Sc
reasonable that l think it ought to b.
done. There is no use for further talk
The committee a be appointed anc
the work can progress in that way"
d. NJ. Steele: 1.-The business thaI
brought the committee here is o lauda-
BILE one and should be approved by
every citizen of st. Joseph and doubt
less will be. They are reasonable in
their demands aud ask nothing we can
not assist them in. l, perhaps, have
| done more business over this line than
over any other road in the last ter
years, in connection with the Wabash
but it strikes me the road should be a
through line. The gentlemen of the
committee have suggested wisely,
They have something st Joseph needs,
and that is cheap fuel, and this is some,
thing that we demand. We dom't
pledge you further than we can give
you, ami certainly it will be as much,as
we have done in the past, if the same
facilities are offered"
Col. john D%oniphan: 81 am very
much gratified to be present and to
hear the proposition SO clearly made
by Capt. Lesueur. 1t demonstrates
beyond a doubt that the building OF
the bridge will give us valuable rail-
road connections to the southwest,
southeast and east. 1t will, to my
mind, give us certain connection with
the Chicago & Alton, one of the
| wealthiest and ablest roads in the west,
a road whose stock is quoted the high
est in the New York market. 1t is q
road we should very much desire to
see coming to St. Joseph. But aside
from the advantages of railroad con-
nections the building of the bridge
will be of great advantage, for it will
give us cheap coal. The future of St.
Joseph is largely dependent upon man
utactures, and to secure them we must
have cheap coal. With that we can
compete with any city in the west,
The Lexington coal mines are the best
in the state, easily mined and cheap to
market. Put us within seventy miles
of them and st. Joseph will enter on
a new era of prosperity. Stock in the
bridge ought to be a wise investment,
and more, it ought to be a specula-
ton"
Mayor Hartwig said that the propo-
sition was the most tangible n ever
offered, and upon a motion appointed
the following committee on resolu-
tons: A. N. Schuster, D. Nj. Steele,
James McCord, F. NJ. Posegate, John
NJ. Frazer, Samuel l. Smith and John
L.. Motter.
The committee withdrew and pre-
pared the following:
Whereas, A delegation of gentlemen
from the city of Lexington, Mo-, have
presented to the Board OF Trade and
citizens generally of St. Joseph, Mo-,
the feasibility of the construction of a
railroad bridge over the Missouri river
at Lexington. thereby connecting our
St. Joseph & st Louis railway with
the coal fields of Lexington, and estab-
fishing a shorter and more direct line
of railway communication with Jeffer-
SON City and st. Louis by means of
a connection with the Missouri Pacific
at Lexington, and giving the city of
st. Joseph a valuable outlet to the
southwest, and also the reasonable
probability that in such event the said
st. Joseph s. st. Louis road would
build from Lexington to a connection
with the G. & A. railroad, thus giving
that important road ingress to St.
Joseph. Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, By the assembled board of
trade and general business men of St.
Joseph, that we are impressed with the
Importance and deslrability of this pro-
ject, to the end that we will exert our
business influence to the encouragement
OF the owners of the St. Joseph & St.
Louis in investing their capital therein,
and will pledge our united efforts in
supporting and patronizing the bust.
ness of the road.
Resolved, That we are fully co%nvinc-
ed that the business of the road and
the business of St. Joseph would be i'm
mensely enhanced by these connections
and extensions proposed to be estab-
lished, and that the investors would
speedily be remunel ated by the success
of the enterprise; and we therefore re-
s%pectfully unite with the citizens of
Lexington, Mo-, in bringing the official
attention OF the St. Joseph & St. Louis
railroad to the serious consideration of
the subject, and further promise that
we will send a delegation of our board
of trade to Lexington in the coming
month of January to meet with a like
committee of Lexington gentlemen in
advocating the merits of this project, at