Bellevue Horse Ferry

WARREN

Posted By: Anne Hermann (email)
Date: 6/27/2008 at 14:53:57

Jackson Press, Bellevue, Iowa, April 1st., 1852.

Bellevue Ferry Horse-Boat.

This ferry will be kept by careful and experienced boatmen and every pains taken to ensure speedy and safe crossing . The boat is in first rate repair and capable of crossing four teams at a load. Emigrants for California will find it to their advantage to cross the Mississippi River at this point, as one of the proprietors of the Council Bluffs Ferry resides in this county and has taken much pains to establish ferries and erect bridges from this place to Council Bluffs and they will find produce as cheap as on any other route.
To Emigrants to the Northern part of Iowa, Jackson, Jones, Linn, Benton, Fayette and the new purchase, it will afford good roads leading to all those places. To the farmer going to market at Galena, Chicago, Milwaukee or any other point, I say come on and I will cross you as cheap as at any other ferry on the Mississippi. I have been at great expense to establish this ferry and hope to share the patronage of the public. Remember that this ferry is on the Mail Route from Galena to Council Bluffs.

William A. Warren

Bellevue, April 1st., 1852.