Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1857-07-29
EASTMANVILLE, MICHIGAN:
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1857.
Grand Haven and Milwaukee Steamers.

Inc noble ana prosperous states Oh michigan
and Wisconsin at its completion, will feel
the vigorous impulse of the life-tide Of bust
ness, trade and emigration flowing through
new channel-the principal yein-uniting in
one pulse-beat their separate and yet united
interests. The final completion of the De-
troit and Milwaukee railroad to Grand Haven,
will give to the entire Grand river valley, u
new activity of life, opening the portals of
commerce and wealth, and developing to a
perfect fulness, the yet slumbering resources
of this entire region. And our sister state,
Wisconsin, will rejoice in our prosperity, and
welcome the union of the two states in this
great enterprise. With at least two daily
trains from Detroit, and steamers connecting
with Milwaukee, Chicago and Sheboygan,
and with propellers to keep up their depart
ment of trade, freighted with the business
and travel which must naturally flow through
this new channel, the activities of awakened
commercial and farming interests, will exceed
even the present hopes of the people. Who
ever will take the trouble to look at map of
our relative position with other places, will
become convinced that this is an enterprise
of the first Importance to the whole Grand
river country.
The business men of Chicago have always
thought lightly and spoken sneeringly Of this
enterprise. The newspapers of that city have,
with very few exceptions regarded it as i'm
practicable if not wholly impossible. And,
it may with truth be said that whenever any
work of public improvement and interest has
been agitated, that same city has been first
and foremost in opposing and ridiculing it,
unless the benefits which it would confer,
would aid in extending and strengthening
the monopolizng spirit of their grasping am
bition. Too much selfshness is operating to
blast the otherwise fair prospects of this
pleasant city of the plain. An avaricious
spirit, which seeks the advancement and up
building of its own interests, even at the ex-
pense of other places, will, at any time and
in any place, ruin and destroy the advanta-
ges which might otherwise be possessed,
The Chicago Tribune has been active in
the circulation of articles speaking lightly of
this enterprise. The editors of that sheet
have taxed their inventive powers to the ut
most in the production of sncers about the
uselessness and impossibility of establishing
this line of steamers. The Chicago Ledger,
of which we have before spoken as one of
the most independent and candid journals in
the union, speaks of this matter in different
light. In their last issue we find he-follow-
ing
Grand Haven and Milacaukee.-When
we visited Milwaukee last week we found the
enterprsing people of our hard working sister
city, engaged in making arrangements for
that eferry'' across lake Michigan. The
Detroit and Milwaukee railroad will soon be
finished to Grand Haven, opposite Milwaukee,
and then they wish to be ready with their
/" ferry" to make the chain complete. This
will be great movement for Milwaukee
the greatest which has ever happened. Eight
months in the year the lake will be no bar
rier, but how will the winter affect them |?
Many seem to think that boats may be built
so as to run all winter, others say it is impos-
sible ; but the magnitude of its benefits war
rant the trial, and we admire the energy of
those who intend to put it through.
If they can run boats all winter--and we
believe they can't will be new day for
Milwaukee and Grand Haven.
The Grand Rapids Eagle, speaking of the
same undertaking, and the action which the
liberal and public spirited citizens of Milwau.
kee have taken for its successful accomplish
ment, says'
The Ferry Seqmers.-A committee
consisting of Hon. E. H. Thompson, one
of the directors of the Port Huron rail
road, R. Higham, ESQ.,, superintendent of the
Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, Col. O. B.
Dibble, Capt. Willoughly and Capt. Howard,
U. S. N, recently visited Milwaukee for the
purpose of arranging preliminaries for the
" ferry line" between Grand Haven and that
city. The Detroit advertiser reports that
these gentlemen found the citizens of Mil
waukee, not only ready to render the rites of
hospitality, but also to come forward and do
what became them. i'm the way of aidino the