Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1903-03-06
1t is Going to Come Our Way.

Charles City Press is not reasoning
we'll. They say that because the Iowa
Falls s. Northern railway would par
allel lines now in this territory is
reason why they should not come here.
That isn't good. Its all the more
reason why Mason City should be an
objective point. The transfer business
is something wonderful, and let the
new road tap the lumber region or the
lake commerce of the northwest and
no other point in the state would give
them better business than right here
in Mason City.
The Times-Herald thinks the Press
doesn't reason we'll in the railroad
situation relating to the DesMoines,
Iowa Falls & Northern, its route and
business prospects, but let us see some
of the facts that present themselves
to candid world. From Iowa Falls
going via the Charles City route to La
Crosse, as an objective point, the new
line would pass through the counties
of Franklin, Butler, Floyd, Chickasaw,
Howard, Winnesheik in Iowa, Fill
more and Houston in Minnesota, occu-
pying territory rich in agricultural
and industrial wealth, without a
single competing N. Z. S. w. line. 1t
would intersect the Iowa Central mid
way between Geneva and Faulkner,
the Northwestern at Dumont, the
Burlington at Greene, the Illinois Gen.
tral and the O., M. & ST. P. at Charles
City, the G. G. W. at Elma, the c., M i.
& st. p. at Cresco and again at Gale
donia and converge with it at La
Crosse, all of which lines are E. and
w. or N. w. S. e. in their routes.
Now it is plain enough that traffic
agreements could be made at all these
intersecting points for transfer busi-
ness good deal better than at Mason
City where several lines converge and
are brought into close and active
competition.
Now on the other theory. From
Iowa Falls going via the Mason City
route, the Iowa Central would be par
alleled from Hampton to Mason City
and from that point n. w. N. or N.
E. the new line would parallel estab-
lished lines for many miles in these
directions and would be compelled,
from start to finish, to compete for
every pound of freight and every pas
senger south. Isn't that plain enough
to your understanding, Bro. Stanbery,
or to that of a man up gum stump?
Isn't it plain enough to any railroad
man to see and understand at a glance
the Improbable competition that
would be met at Mason City, and the
boundless possibilities for business
now awaiting the construction in the
new territory via the Charles City
route?
Again, Charles City and Lacrosse
are manufacturing centers. The out
put Of their mills and factories and
local industries is immense, while the
agricultural resources of the entire
route would at once afford paying
local business. Then to this add the
lumber trade that would come direct
from Wisconsin and Michigan and the
great local market for coal along the
entire line and for Iowa s agricultural
products in the lumber and mining
regions in those states. Why, the
trade of and at Mason City all com
bined, in any given period, that the
new company would get from al
sources, would be but drop in the
bucket, as it were, compared with the
business that would develope in an,
like period at Charles City alone TO
the new line via the Charles City ant
Lacrosse route. The long headet
business men at Lacrosse, Charlie
City, and along the proposed route Sc,
this. The management of the nev
railway sees this: and using sound dis
cretion will give thoughtful consider
alton and logically seek to accomplish
a movement in the interest of thei
lines that would be straight business
,, with bright future for the stock
holders.-Charles City Daily Press.
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