Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-01-21
SOMETHING THIS CITY NEEDS.

Inc people OF THIS city need 10 DeStlr tnem-
selves to secure better communications with
the surrounding country. We must either
have railroads, plankroads, or some other i'm
pIovements to facilitate tIavel, and render
our market more convenient of access from
the country. To sit still and talk of our nat
ural advantages; of our eligible position on
the lake shore will not build bridges, fill up
sloughs, and render the roads leading to
this city passable. To wait for roads to be
improved by the people of the. country, is
too slow aprogress to be compatible with our
present interests. The people of the coun-
try are interested in having good roads to
this city; but their interest in the matter is
less than that of the city, for if the city does
not exert itself to secare the trade of the
country, by improving the means for convey
ing products to this market, other towns
on the lake shore will make these improve
ments and secure the trade. The lake shore
towns, as we'll as all the prominent towns
in the valley of Rock River. are exerting
themselves to their utmost in endeavors, to
secure the channels of trade. All the i'm
portant agricultural districts will soon have
facilities afforded them for carrying their sur
plus products to market; and if we as city
remain inactive, the country will nevertheless
be provided for and We loose the business
which is our chief dependence. 1t is there
fore falIaeious hope that the country will
be at any great expense to build roads to us
when other commercial towns will build roads
to them, provided we do not.
As to a railroad from this place to Belolt,
or some other point on Rock River, some
persons regard the project as premature; while
others regard it as an enterprise which ought
at once to receive the favorable consideration
Of the people of this city, and that some pre-
Iiminary action should be taken by makinga
survey, and enlisting the attention Of CAPT
talists. Whatever opinions may be enter
tanned as to the stock value of such a road,
one thing is certain,-if railroads running
west into the interior, from other towns on
the western shore of Lake Michigan can be
made profitable investments, then there is
good reason to believe that a railroad running
west from this place may be. The country
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settled and improved, produces as much
for expectation to Eastern markets, as any
other country of equal area, lying west of
any town on the lake shore, between Chi
cago and Green Bay.
The products of the country between Lake
Michigan and Rock River are agricultural,
and these products must find their way to
the lake shore, to whatever point may be the
nearest, and furnishes the most convenient
means of CONVEYANCE. The Milwaukee rail
road, since its completion to the Rock Riv-
er valley, pays well. If the contemplated
road running West from Racine, and the road
west of Sheboygan will pay, then why will
not a road running west from this place pay
These contemplated roads are all sufficiently
far enough apart, for the wants of the agri-
cultural districts through which they are in
tended to pass.
But aside from a rail road, there is an ur-
gent necessity for good road from this city
to Richmond, and also to Burlington. 70
the latter place, the road is now scarcely pass
able, except during the most favorable season
of the year; hence it is not at all surprising
that this city derives but little benefit of trade
from that quarter. In the direction of Rich
mond by way of Wilmot, this city secures a
large proportion of its business; yet the road
in that direction is difficult to be travelled
during portion of the year. These last
two mentioned roads need to be improved in
some manner without delay. AS to the best
method to be adopted to render them what
thcv should be, and what the city and coun-
try have the ability to make them, We leave
for others tie suggest who are more compe-
tent than ourselves. The citizens of Burling-
ton. we are assured, are willing to cooperate
with the people Of this city i'll any rcasona-
Die endeaNor to improve the communication
between that flourishing town and this place
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.
The convention of editors and printers
which assembled at Madison last week, adop-
ted a memorial to the Legislature, asking the
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