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Plalne. Just east of Belle Plaine there is one of the deepest cuts through a large hill of any railroad crossing Iowa. It took about two years to finish this cut and it furnished a ready market for the farmers for mile# around for their grain, hay and feed, and all the produce and provisions the farmers had to sell at good prices.
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