Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1852-05-27

The Rock River Valley road, connect
ing Fond du Lac with GAINESVILLE, and to
be ultimately extended to Chicago. has
been commenced simultaneously at Fond
du lac and Janesyille Several miles
have been graded, and are nearly ready
Tor the rail
A road has been chartered, to run from
Port Winnehago, through Madison and
GAINESVILLE, to Beloit there to connect
with branch from the Chicago and Gal
ena road thus furnishing continuous
route from the valley Of the Fox and Wis
consin, through the Capital of the State.
10 Chicago This route is attracting the
attention of capitalists; and the business
Of the country demands and will effect the
early construction of the road, by means
Of which continuous line of rail road
travel to the Atlantic, will be secured to
central Wisconsin.
The Lake shore road from Milwaukee
through Racine and Kenosha. to Chicago.
is an enterprise of general interest, and
the construction Of it cannot be long de-
ferred
Other rail roads to interscct the State
in various directions either new routes or
extensions of old ones, are projected
Some Of these doubtless will be carried
through, though the period of their com
pletion is more distant than that of those
above named
The State is now in the administration
Of large trust fund, derived from the
sales Of lands, granted By Congress, for
the construction Of a Steamboat commu-
cation from Green Bay to the Mississippi,
along the bed of the Fox and Wisconsin
rivers. This great work when completed
Is destined to form an important and val
liable water communication between the
basin Of the St. Lawrence and the great
valley of the Mississippi Once compile
ted heavy freight between St Louis and
New York will inevitably seek this chan
mel. in preference to that by the Illinois
and Michigan canal, as now it seeks the
latter in preference to the eastern routes
This great work furnishing a capacious
outlet from our MEDITERRANEAN RIVER,
into our inland seas, and thence, through
the enlarged Erie canal. the Hudson. into
the Atlantic, will be completed at no very
distant day
The improvement of the harbors on lake
Michigan is imperiously demanded at the
hands Of the General Government and in
the existing condition of the Treasury
cannot be longer delayed And manifest
" no object ofexpeuditure could be more
eninentiy national than the Improvement
of the outlet Of Lake Superior, afording
TO the ordinary lake navigation free access
70 the copper region Of northern Michigan
and Wisconsin.
In connexion with the subject of works
Of general utility It remains only to say,
that the tclegraphic wires made early en-
try into Wisconsin. The line from Chi
cago to Milwaukee, and thence to Madi-
son aud Galena, has been for some wears
III operation. 4 net work of wires now
overspreads the State. and all the larger
towns are brought into the circuit Of in
stantaneOus communication, and into en-
joyment of the advantages of this com
merce Of thought and feeling
It need hardly be said in conclusion
that these evidences of social advance
meRt which meet the immigrant on his
arrival in Wisconsin, and rapidly gather
around the settler in his new home con
frast cheerfully and hopefully with the
priyation, the hardship the toll and the
danger which fifty years ago environed the
pioneer in the forests Of Ohio Indeed,
looking ut the fact that nature has prcpar-
cd the soil Of Wisconsin for the pillow, and
its heritage for the immediate sustcnation
Of domestic animals, contemplating the
appliances Of civilization, which art brings
- the very doors of his cabin he will not
doubt-as in truth he need not-that
twenty years will do for Wisconsin. what
fifty years has barely suficed to do for
Ohio that in all that goes to constitute
a healthy and refined civilization Wiscon
sin is destined to more rapid develop
ment and an earlier maturity, than has
heretofore marked tie history Of the
States, under the most favorable coudi
lions
These views are not extrayagaut They
are conclusions fully warranted by the
premises The predictions of today viii
he sober history in 1872
L. s. LAND DISTRICTS.
The following classification of Counties
shows in what places the Government
Land Offices are located, ct what places
lands can be purchased or pre-emptions
made on the terms prescribed by Con
Eross
MILWAUKEE, DISTRICT.
OFFICE AT MILWAUKEE
Counties of kenosha, Racine. Wal
worth, Rock, Milwaukee, Hast Range of
Green, all East Of Range s Of Dane Town
9 Of Ranges 8, 10, / and , of Columbia
and the two South tiers Of Towns III Dodge
County.
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