Council Bluffs Agency Ferry

WHEELING, CLARK

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 5/9/2008 at 14:46:47

Western Democrat, October 1,1850.

The Gold Regions!!
COUNCIL BLUFFS AGENCY FERRY

This ferry has now been in successful operation during the past two years, and given universal satisfaction to the Emigrants and travelling public in general. It is the best crossing on the Missouri River. Proof: Not a dollar's worth of property has been lost at this Ferry, during the last two years heavy emigration. It is the nearest route to California, Oregon and Salt Lake.
Proof: The first overland emigrants that arrived at Sacramento, this season, made the trip in fifty-five days from Council Bluffs. It is the healthiest route. Proof: Not a single case of Cholera has occurred on the North side of the Platt; whilst on the South side, this dreadful disease has spread gloom and desolation beyond the worst newspaper accounts that have been published. Some six hundred according to the best information we can obtain have died on that fatal route. Caused by impurities in the water.
For further particulars as to the route, we refer you to the best and most correct maps, and to a Directory which will be published during the month of January next.

WHEELING, CLARK & Co.
Council Bluffs, Oct. 1, 1850.