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GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00878 1863
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T. B. HAYS.
F. O. GLEASON.
HAYS GLEASON, GENERAL COMMISSION, STORAGE, AND PRODUCE MERCHANTS, DEALERS IN
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, GREEN AND DRIED FRUITS,
381 BROADWAY,
Consignments Solicited. Orders
promptly attended to.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.
DEALER IN
Gents 9 Clothing,
AND FURNISHING GOODS,
414 Broadway, Council Bluffs, lowa.
J. J. CROCKER & Co., 335 BROADWAY,
HATS AND CAPS,
Ladies' and Gents' Fine Furs,
Straw Goods, Gents' Furnishing Goods, Umbrellas, Canes, - ETC .. ETC.,
Always at the Lowest Prices, and no charge made for showing Goods. Please give us a call and see yourselves.
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THE BEST HOUSE IN THE CITY !
Commercial Hotel
524 & 526 BROADWAY.
GENEALOGY COLLECTION
J. P. BUSHNELL & CO., Proprietors.
REFITTED
AND
REFURNISHED THROUGHOUT.
J. P. BUSHNELL,
GENERAL ADVERTISING AGENT,
Directory, Gazetteer, and Trade Circular Compiler,
OFFICE WITH DAILY NONPAREIL, RESIDENCE COMMERCIAL HOT "L,
POST.OFFICE BOX 140.
COUNCIL BLUFFS,
IOWA.
BUSHNELL'S
BUSINESS AND RESIDENT
DIRECTORY
-- OF-
COUNCIL BLUFFS.
CONTAINING
An Epitome of the Early History of the State, County, and City; a List of County and City Officers; a Street and Business and Resident Directory; a Brief Des- cription of the Counties and Towns ad- joining, with Lists of the Leading Firms of the Principal Places;
A MAP OF THE CITY AND RAILROADS,
AND A
Postoffice Directory of the State.
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977.702 C 83 b MAY 15TH, 1869. 1869
JOS. P. BUSHNELL, COMPILER AND PUBLISHER.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA; Printed at the Daily Nonpareil Book and Job Office, Nos. 427 AND 429 LOWER BROADWAY.
10.00 17 × 3- 48 00 15.00 63 82 C
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year A. D. 1869, BY JOSEPH P. BUSHNELL, In the Clerk's Office of the United States District Court for the District of Iowa.
PREFACE.
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In presenting this volume to its patrons and the public, it is the hope of the compiler that it will prove the valuable book of reference which it is intended to be. It has been with pleasure that we have labored to compile and publish a work representing a city that is the terminus of eight lines of railroad-the Great Rail- road Center of the Northwest-destined to be one of the greatest cities on the line of railroads communicating between San Fran- cisco and New York.
The work contains a business and resident directory, business cards, local and statistical matter, an item of each railroad in the city, a history of the city and surrounding country, a short history of all the adjoining counties and the principal towns, with a classi- fied business directory of each.
The Directory has an extensive circulation in every adjoining county, as well as in the city, and on all the lines of railroad lead- ing out of the city.
Thanks to all who have, in any way, encouraged the work which we now present, especially to the City Council, for their en- couragement to the enterprise.
Pains and expense have not been spared to make it creditable alike to patrons, place, and compiler. Hoping that Council Bluffs may speed its way forward as rapidly in the future as it has in the past, until it becomes what it is destined to be, the greatest and most interesting city in the Northwest, we bid all a kind farewell until next year. J. P. BUSHNELL, Compiler.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, May, 1869.
SAMUEL M. HENCH, Attorney & Counselor-at-Law FORT WAYNE, INDIANA
INDEX OF CONTENTS.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Abbreviations
51
Montgomery Co., History, Busi- ness &c. 169
Area,
14
Board of Supervisors,
27
Natural Advantages, 22
Board of Trustees, Kane Tp.,
27
Newspapers, 26
Business Directory of Council Bluffs, 131
Orders, Societies &c., 35, 36, 37, 38 Preface, 3
Cass County, 147
Prospects, 15
Churches,
31
Poor House Directors, 27
City Council,
27
Population, 14
City Fire Department,
29
Post Office Directory, 199
Corrections and Additions,
43
Pottawattamie County,
17
Council Bluffs (History),
10
Public Schools,
19
County Court House.
19
Railroads, 21
County Officers,
27
Resident Directory,
51
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
30
School Board, 27
34
Early Settlers,
11
Shelby Co, History Business, &c., 189
Tabor, Fremont County,
193
Street Directory,
41
Harrison County,
177
Street Supervisors, 27
Index,
5
Table of Distances, 210
Lands Adjoining,
27
Trade Index 6
Mills Co., History, Business, &c., 159
U. P. R. R. Bridge,
25
Early History of Iowa,
9
Schools,
TRADE INDEX.
PAGE.
Agents, Claim,
131
Fancy Goods and Toys,
PAGE. 137
Agents Insurance,
131
Fire Companies,
137
Agents, Real Estate,
131
Flour Mill,
137
Agents, Sewing Machine,
132
Flour and Feed stores,
13"
Agents, Steamboat,
132
Foundries and Machine Shops,
138
Agricultural Implements,
132
Furniture Dealers,
138
Architects,
132
Grain and Produce,
138
Attorneys-at-Law,
132
Groceries,
138
Auction and Commission,
132
Gunsmiths,
138
Bakers and Confectioners,
132
Hack Line,
138
Banks and Bankers,
132
Hair Jewelry,
139
Barbers,
133
Halls and Public Buildings, Hardware,
139
Blacksmiths,
133
Harness Makers,
139
Boarding Houses,
133
Hats, Caps, and Furs,
139
Bookbinders, &c.,
133
Hides, Furs, and Wool,
139
Books and Stationery,
133
House Furnishing Goods,
139
Boots and Shoes,
133
Hotels,
139
Bowling Saloon
133
Ice Dealers,
140
Bricklayers and Contractors,
133
Intelligence Office,
140 140
Brokers,
134
Justices of the Peace,
140
Breweries,
134
Ladies' Bazaar,
140
Bands,
134
Laundry,
140
Builders,
134
Leather and Shoe Findings,
140
Business College,
134
Library,
140
Cabinet Makers,
134
Free Reading Room,
140
Candy Factories,
134
Lumber,
140
Carpenters and Builders,
134
Marble Works,
140
Carriage and Wagon Manuf's
134
Meat Markets,
140
China, Glass, and Queensware
134
Merchant Tailors,
140
Cigar Manufacturers,
134
Miliinery and Dressmaking,
140
Cigars and Tobacco,
135
Music Teachers,
141
Clothiers,
135
Music Stores,
141
Coal, 135
Newspapers,
141
Nursery,
141
Confectionery, Ice Cream, and Fruit,
135
Coopers,
135
Coroner, 135
Dairy and Milk Business, 135
Dentists, 137
Planing and Turning, 142
Dining Halls and Restaurants, 137
Post office, 142
Druggists, 137
Printing Offices, 142
Dry Goods, 137
Pumps and Lightning Rods, 142
Express Companies,
137
Saloons, 142
139
Billiard Halls,
133
Brick Yards,
134
Jewelers and Watch Makers,
Commission and Produce Mer- · chants, 135
Painters, Glaziers, and Paper
Hangers. 141
Patent Right Office, 141
Physicians and Surgeons, 141
Pianafortes and Musical inetru- ments, 142
TRADE INDEX.
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PAGE.
PAGE.
Savings Banks, 143
United States Land Office,
144
Soaps, Perfumeries, Blueings, &c., 143
Upholsterers, 144
Soda and Mineral Water, 143
Varieties, Notions, and Fancy Goods, 144
Stables-Livery, Sale and Feed. 143 Stencil Cutting and Die Sinking, 143
Velocipede Rink,
144
Veterinary Surgeons, 144
Storage, Forwarding, and Com- mission 143
Vinegar Works,
144
Stoves and Tinware 143
Wagons,
144
Wall Paper,
144
Telegraph Offices,
143
Wines and Liquors,
144
Ten Pin Alley,
143
Wood Carving, 144
Transfer office, 143
Wood Yard,
144
Undertakers,
143
Surveyors and Civil Engineers, 143
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS.
PAGE.
PAGE.
Bernard & Eiseman, inside front cover.
Bloomer & Edmundson,
104, 120
Bond N J,
112
Bryant & Clark
12
Burdick & Tostevin
114
Burns W H,
114
Bushnell J P, front fly leaf.
Cacy A B, outside back cover.
Cady S J,
90
Council Bluffs Academy of Mu-
sic
104
Clark T J, inside front cover.
Commercial Hotel, front fly leaf. Council Bluffs Daily and Weekly Bugle, 28
Council Bluffs Weekly Post, 20
Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
road,
106
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, back fly leaf.
Dodge Nathan P, 114
Dohany John,
66
Fairlie & Monell,
104
Farley J C,
90
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Hammer John,
74
Hays & Gleason, front fly leaf.
Henry .J J & Co,
90
Kirkpatrick R R, inside front cover.
Kiter W F & Co., outside front cover.
Lafferty & Henn,
128
Langdon & Bro,
66
Lockwood & Buckman
98
Lucas A K & Co., opp.
9
Lyman, Hanna & Cory,
82
Merriam & Bro,
52
Mulholland & Thatcher
52
Nonpareil, Daily and Weekly, back fly leaf.
Northwestern Life Insurance Co., 36 O'Neill D J, inside of front cover. Pacific House, 98
Percival Robert,
66
Phillips J M & Co,
74
Rosan Brothers, outside of front
cover.
St Joseph & Council Bluffs Rail-
road,
136
Safley J W,
52
Shugart & Lininger, outside back cover.
R P Snow, inside back cover.
Union Pacific Railroad,
122
Vaughan & Jackson, outside back cover.
Wheeler & Marks,
120
Wicks M,
90
Williams & Monroe,
112
A. K. LUCAS & CO.,
Photographers,
And Dealers in
PHOTOGRAPHIC GOODS,
ALBUMS, CHROMOS, FRAMES, ETC., 337 BROADWAY.
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COUNCIL BLUFFS,
BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF COUNCIL BLUFFS
PHOTOGRAPHED BY
A. K. LUCAS & Co.,
337 Broadway.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.
Settlement of the State-Early History of Council Bluffs-The Great Railroad Center of the Northwest-Its Past Growth, Present Prosperity, and Future Prospects.
Much of the earlier history of Iowa is involved in tradition- ary recollections, and not until it was almost too late has any ef- fort been made to rescue the earlier incidents from oblivion. The services rendered by the State Historical Society in the matter are not to be lightly regarded by those who take an interest in con- trasting her beginning and her attainments of wealth, growth, and prosperity.
Bancroft, who has carefully preserved, with historical fidelity, the facts relating to the tribes and original discoverers of the great Northwest, gives only a few chapters on Iowa, or the territory now called Iowa, but which, at the date covered by his last volume, was more distant from the Atlantic States than China and Japan is from us now.
Father Marquette, through missionary zeal, crossed the Mis- sissippi, and was the first white man known to have set his foot upon the prairies of Iowa.
September 22d, 1788, Julien Dubuque, a Frenchman, arrived at the place now taking his name, and purchased from the Fox Indians the lands now included within the boundaries of the city. Dubuque was we believe, the first regularly organized town in the State.
Robert Lucas was the first territorial Governor, and was ap- pointed in 1838. The first Legislative Assembly was held at Bur-
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lington, November 12th, 1838. In 1841 the territorial capital was removed to Iowa City, where it remained until the admission of the State, in 1846, and was the State capital until 1858, when, on the 11th of January of that year, the Seventh General Assembly began its session at Des Moines.
Notwithstanding the removal of the capital from Iowa City, it has continued to flourish, having now a population of about 10,000 inhabitants. It is the permanent seat of the chief educa- tional institution in the State-the Iowa State University-endowed and fostered by the commonwealth. Its public schools rank high, and the Law School, forming a part of the University, turns out as good lawyers, and as many of them, as any other institution of the kind in the country. It has the capacity to furnish all the law- yers needed in the State for many years to come.
The prestige and influence of the State capital being transferred from Iowa city to Des Moines, the latter has grown up with won- derful rapidity, in the midst of one of the finest agricultural re- gions in the world, It has the advantages of a fine water power, which is rapidly becoming utilized, and the contributions of two important railways-the Des Moines Valley and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, the latter connecting it with Council Bluffs- making it a place of no small importance to those proud of the growth and energy of our young State.
Nearly every city in the State is connected by rail with Coun- cil Bluffs-Burlington, Keokuk, Davenport, Fort Madison, Mar- shalltown, Waterloo, Mount Pleasant, Oskaloosa, Fort Dodge, Cedar Falls, Cedar Rapids, and Sioux City-all growing and pros- perous beyond precedent.
The city attracted most by the capital and enterprise of the east is
COUNCIL BLUFFS,
The great railway center of the new Northwest. Among the first settlers were R. S., and David. H. Harris, the latter being the first white man who settled on the spot occupied by the town. He was sent here by the United States Government, in 1837, as an agent to instruct the Indians in agriculture, etc. This was previ- ously made the home of the Pottawattamies, by removal from Michigan. The Harris family built the first dwelling, on Madison street above the site of the present Methodist Episcopal Church, on Broadway, between the church and the fort which was at the
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head of what is now Broadway. R. S. Harris lives on the Lewis road, ten miles from Council Bluffs, and his brother resides still in the city, which he has seen grow up magically about his father's cabin.
Of the early settlers there still remain: D. C. Bloomer (the present Mayor), Frank Street, L. W. Babbitt, George Doughty, J. P. Cassidy, Cornelius Voorhis, S. M. Smith, John Keller, S. S. Bayliss, J. Bayliss, J. C. Fargo, Captain Bell, Sam Paine, D. W. Price, Dr. Honn, Dr. McMahon, J. D. Honn, S. A. Robinson, W. W. Maynard, J. W. Ross, J. T. Stewart, Sam. Haas, Marshall Turley, Jerry Folsom, Rev. Rice, David Devol, J. B. Lewis, C. Thornton, D. B. Clark, Rev. Winchester, Wm. Mynster, R. D. Amy, Thomas and Ed. Jefferis, Thomas and David Tostevin, Thomas Officer, W. H. M. Pusey, J. Smith Hooton, C. E. Stone, Wm. Powers, Dr. Williams, John Rudd, Samuel Riddle, W. D. Turner, D. W. Car- penter, Frank Guittar, and Henry Delong.
The town, as it grew up around the military and freighting post, took the name of Kanesville, called, we understand, after Elisha Kent Kane, the celebrated and lamented Arctic navigator, and whose brother added additional luster to the name by his meritorious services as a Union soldier in the late war. The discovery of gold in California increased the importance of the place as the point of departure of emigrants to the glittering mines of the new Eldorado.
After the expulsion of the Mormons from Nauvoo, Illinois, they sought refuge at this point, in 1846, on the Eastern bank of the Missouri River. Encroaching emigration, and a consciousness that they had not yet reached the land destined for their permanent habitation, led them across the wilderness into Utah, and they in 1852 abandoned the houses and homes built and prepared here.
Twelve or fifteen years ago the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa- cific Railroad was projected, under the name of the Mississippi and Missouri Railroad Company, and to Hon. Henry Farnam, whose name is still preserved in the nomenclature of our streets, had charge of the bill before the Iowa Legislature. Then any spot ten miles either north or south of this was designated as Council Bluffs, but to make the matter definite in the charter, he procured the point designated as Kanesville for the terminus of the road, and subsequently, to conform to the name selected as the terminus, Council Bluffs, the name " Kanesville" was dropped, and the place
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A. S. BRYANT.
W. B. CLARK.
$50,000 WORTH OF
VALUABLE
REAL ESTATE
FOR SALE!
(That has never been Offered Before.)
A. S. BRYANT
Offers a portion of his most valuable lands to those who need homes-who would be wise and buy whilst their purchase money will pay tenfold.
These lands are situated between the rival cities, Omaha and Council Bluffs, and no better opportunity was ever offered to those needing homes, or speculators wanting speedy and lucrative returns than this.
THE HORSE CARS
Will soon pass through this land, which will be the most desirable portion of the city of Council Bluffs.
TERMS
To Suit Hard Times, and those of Small Means, who wish to Build.
IS SHORT, PERFECT AND WARRANTED. Inquire of
BRYANT & CLARK,
P. O. Box 79.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA.
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incorporated, by special act of the Legislature, as the " City of Council Bluffs."
The Mormon claims had been purchased by energetic men, who at once set to work tearing down the habitations of the " saints," and erected good buildings in their stead. From this time forward, the population and trade of the city have steadily and rapidly increased, until Council Bluffs now ranks, in point of business and wealth, as one of the first-class cities of Iowa.
It was prophesied that there must be, somewhere in this lo- cality, another large city, ranking with New York, Chicago, St. Louis, and San Francisco, and that Council Bluffs was to be the place, in view of it being the point where the railroads-North, South, East, and West-were centering. It is no speculative idea to-day, as to the place where will be the great railroad center, for we have already SEVEN RAILROADS converging here, within the corporation, on a section or two of transfer gronnds, in a good part of the city-west of town, south of Broadway-where the Union Depot will be. We need only think of the rapid growth of our city to know that before long it will be the metropolis of the Northwest.
Council Bluffs is well named. It is, as most our of readers are aware, situated at the base of those beautiful bluffs that range along the Missouri River, and which, at this point rise almost per- pendicular about 80 to 100 feet above the the city. The city has commenced to spread out on the bottom lands lying wost and south, and, eventually, all that will divide it from Omaha will be the river.
The main part of the business is at present done near the bluffs, but is rapidly reaching over the beautiful plateau westward, towards the river.
The surrounding country is abundantly supplied with streams of the purest water, upon the banks of which streams are found plenty of different kinds of timber.
The growth of Council Bluffs has been very rapid since the advent and opening of the Northwestern Railway, and from eight to twelve hundred houses have been erected in each of the three years since then. Added to this is the completion of the St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad connecting this point with St. Joseph, Missouri, and giving a double line, one direct to Chi- cago by the way of Quincy, Illinois, and the other to St. Louis by
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the way of the North Missouri Railroad. The Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad, just open and in successful opera- tion, gives another air line to Chicago and the East. This puts us in communication with Des Moines, the Capital of the State, and with Davenport, one of most active and flourishing cities on the Mississippi. The Sioux City & Pacific Railroad gives us an outlet to northwestern Iowa, Dakotah and western Minnesota, and on the completion of the Iowa Falls & Sioux City Railroad this fall, we will have another direct line to Chicago by the way of Dubuque. The Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, now within seventy-five miles of this place, will add a fourth railway to Chicago, and with other lines in contemplation, this will em- phatically increase in importance as the great railway center, which it now is, of the New Northwest. For particulars of the great bridge over the Missouri River, see page -.
THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD.
This great work, whose initial point is Council Bluffs, having been located here by proclamation of Abraham Lincoln, confirmed by the Interior Department, and accepted by the Union Pacific Railroad Board of Directors, will, on the completion of the great bridge across the Missouri, have its transfer grounds, offices, workshops, depots, and all other buildings within the corporate limits of the city.
POPULATION.
The population of Council Bluffs, by the census of 1860, was a little over two thousand, and on April 1st, 1867, was estimated at eight thousand.
A careful survey of the improvements now (1869) warrant us in saying that the population is fully eleven thousand, and in this candor can detect no exaggeration.
AREA.
In area Council Bluff's includes twenty-four square miles, all suitable and laid out for building purposes. The bluffs furnish the choicest building spots, whilst the plateau gives excellent lots for business purposes. The city is spreading out over them with un- precedented rapidity, both in the erection of handsome and com- fortable dwellings, and solid, imposing, and beautiful business blocks.
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PROSPECTS.
What facilities, it is asked, has Council Bluffs, either natural or acquired, for becoming the commercial center ? We have said that we have citizens who are wide-awake; that we are building extensively and substantially ; but we look beyond and beneath all this. It is necessary to omit all exaggeration-to ignore the great expectations of the citizens, and survey, if possible, the foundation upon which the greatness of our city must rest. Un- like the Iowa cities on the Mississippi, which are numerous, Coun- cil Bluffs and Sioux City are the only rivals on the Missouri, and they are so dissimilarly situated as hardly to be called rivals. This will allow the former to make a far greater growth than it could otherwise hope to attain. It is destined to be the best rail- road center west of Chicago. Please take a glance at the map, and think of the prospective roads whose termini will be Council Bluffs, and remember that this is, and must always be, the initial point of the Union Pacific Railroad, and that the roads east, west, north and south, are extending their arms for their share of the overland freight which must come to the extensive transfer grounds here, where the Union Pacific Company have bought 1,080 acres of land. Don't say that company don't know what they are doing. Are not all the roads looking to a connection with the great conti- nental thoroughfare? What does this indicate ? Do you say the Pacific railway commences over the river ? Certainly it does, to- day; but do you suppose the company will always ferry their cars over the river ? Or do you anticipate that, when the bridge is completed, these seven railroads will use it, instead of one ? Or do you suppose the company will give up the lands purchased ex- pressly, and as expressly designed by nature, for a transfer depot, and go out of their way, at great inconvenience, and with no hope of finding so good a place within reasonable distance of where it should be; and all because some dissatisfied party thinks it should ? No ; the managers care little for Council Bluffs, or any other town; but they are supposed to have practical common sense, and to act from an enlightened self-interest.
When there is a beautiful plain, as there is here, where the transfer grounds are located, is it to be supposed that any com- pany will leave such advantages, and expend millions of dollars to make suitable grounds, as they would have where they are now lo- cated. Omaha has no place for transfer grounds such as would be
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necessary for the convenience of as many roads as are centering in this city.
We do not boast at all, but, as we have canvassed the place, we can speak from facts. If a year ago the business of the place was estimated at $5,000,000, what has it been the last year but al- most twice that ? With our great tide of emigration this year, it must be greater than ever before, by far, as houses are being rap- idly built.
One of the great advantages which Council Bluffs claims over all rivals, is, that it is backed by a farming country which can scarcely be excelled. It is a well-known fact that Omaha, and many of the large western cities, as well as the mining districts, are fed by the farmers of Western Iowa, and that a large share of this produce is bought in Council Bluffs. It is plain to be seen what will be the final result. The farmers in Western Iowa will rapidly become wealthy, having one of the best markets in the country, and easily accessible. The merchants of Council Bluffs will have the first and largest profits after the produce leaves the producer's hands. It is safe to say that the lion's share of the profits of the immense productions of Western Iowa will remain east of the Missouri River. Now that the Union Pacific Railroad is finished, the towns on the west bank of the river, which have heretofore been supported by the western trade, will find other cities springing up, which will give equal advantages, but the advantages of Council Bluffs can never be transferred to any other point. The Missouri River and the initial point of the Union Pacific Railroad fixes this point as THE railroad center. Our rich farming land, which is the foundation of wealth, can never be moved. Our advantages are, therefore, permanent, and not acci- dental, or subject to other laws than the laws of nature. Some speak of Omaha that she is a place of importance, but the natural advantages Council Bluffs has over Omaha are plainly seen to-day.
It will be well for capitalists, and particularly for men with moderate means, desiring to acquire rapidly, to give their closest attention to the attractions which Council Bluffs now offers to them over any city in the West. The peculiar railroad advantages of Council Bluffs must be at once apparent to the most casual ob- server. With seven lines of railway, north, east, south and west, and the longest single lines in the world; a Pacific Railway bridge, with its tremendous transfer business, railroad workshops and
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