New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-02-03
NOTES on WISCONSIN.
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five years nee the Wisconsin River. except for fe"
,riles above il mouth. was supposed to marx tae
Northern limit Of her hsbitable territory snd already
there are said to be 30 900 people living IN Wisconsin
north NJ SAID river and this number is likely 10 be
sueued n eco 90 within ten sesrs Al furthest. The
sorb ess,rn quarter of the state already ab0u.
half s.Ied an II cut up into small blocks BY the rad
rosds hitherto projected and partially wholly cos
s,ruct4d by private enterprise; but the magnificent
Gran, Of lands By Congress bsuies the speedy c0nsruc
ron Of line the La Crosse from the sO1h line Of the
STATE wsrdly across the Vic main to the
Nssissjpui: another from Milwaukee by Fond du-Lac
70 The Copper region Of Lake Superior; while third
raverses TIE north western portion Of the st ste from
tire Msssipp or it TO the south west corner OF
,ad Lake Whoever eIances at the map Of this State
will perceive that these roads traverse regions which,
roth Of the Wisconsin River would have settled very
slowly without them. Assuming that the locations are
wisely made and that the conditions Of the land grans
will be faithfully fsfl ed By the Companies that have
obtained them believe the policy Of su h grants VIII
be fully just6s b, the event With such Tariff IS
the country absolutely needs this State will pay more
additional revenue into the Federal Treasury within
twenty years in consequence Of these grants than all
the lands rsed could ever have been sold for. And
with tboe Roads com eed within the next five years,
there vii be hardy and industrious population of
Two Millions within the present limits Of WEcoa'in
in 1870 and Of Three Millions in 1880.
at present, Wisconsin has Railroad from Mil.su-
kee south along the Lake Shore connecting, through
Racine, Ktnosha and Wsukegan, with Chicago; one
from Milwaukee TO this city 200 niles TO be extenied
westward 10 the Mississippi at Prare-du- Chen during
the current year. the La Crosse s completed from Nd
wsukee nearly TO the Wisconsin at Portage City;
while the Northern Road that is ultimately TO reach
the Copper Region of Lake Superior is 10 operation to
Fond-du-Lsc Il not TO Oshkosh and will soon touch
the head Of Green Bay. Racine has road running
thirty or forty miles back .ntO the country which is
ultimately 10 connect her with BelOt at the least;
while Sanesville has for years been connected by
branch with the Madison and Milwaukee Road. Ke-
nosha ia threatening another Road inland; and every
village that is or expects to be meditates running
to the Lake TO Of the great routes as
she can find Eastern capitalists green enough TO supply
the needful. i apprehend, however, that this will be
some time after 1857. But the Land grant roads will
be built pretty rapidly, end il seems to be generally
agreed that they Will prove good investmens-the La
Crosse especially as that counts making i'self the
great through route at least for Winter travel to Mn
nesota snd the western border Of Lake Superior. If
these embryo roads are in the hands of experienced
upright, careful, capable men, ] presume they will
pay, while they are sure in any case to prove great
public blessings. They will afford capacious market
for Labor Food Timber, and almost everything else,
while being constructed; and when completed they
VIII draw in immigration and carry of produce from
fertile regions which, but for them, must have been
left to wild beasts and their hunters for at least gen
GRAFTON. Standing in this beautiful metropolis of
State which was al unbroken wilderness hardly twenty
years ago, and has population of at least Seven
Hundred and Fifty Thousand, and seeing what pros
pect the extension of her Railroad system opens before
her. give way to the spirit which infects all around
me and cry Success TO Western Railroads
Wisconsin is to-day inviting field for the immi-
grant. Good men assure me that any one who can do
mans work can find employment here at fair wages
even in mid-wnter- good cbepper can make so
per month while the immigrant who knows very little
tuat will avail him here, but is willing to work and to
esrn, can obtain at least $40 (beside boardl, with
prospect of doubling il next summer. Girls who can
do homework and fom - to $40 per month, and
are much wanted. Those who come here and depot
themselves credtably marry and leave their for
mer situations for others. am led TO believe that fifty
thousand German lii,h lsborers and nearly 50 many
women would readily find employment in this State
which would afford the men average of SlJO, and
the women Of 500 for their first years work. After
that presume most OF them would marry, buy loca-
tons and work for themselves. That Il would be ad
vsabe for at least half the born workers on the
seabOard for laborers wages to migrate as soon pos
sibe to tls come other new State cannot doubt.
How can man who IS Il man hang about New York
soliciting employment as a favor when he can find
place within three days journey where hundred en-
ployers viii eagerly compete for his services, and
where he may, by industry and frugaiity, become
owner Of decent farm within very few years Men
who viii hang about New-Yoyk, pretending that they
are not rugged enough to do farm labor, too generally
deserve their ll-forune. Not rugged enough! How
can you expect to be stout and hardy you lnger
around bar.rcom fires 81 winter, watng for work to
come 70 you on the city pavements II you really
want work why not GO where is and work Tor what
ever you can until you gradually harden and school
yourself to do part in any field OF muscular ex-
eIiion have always preached Go West to those
VITO solicit employment in New-York: shall hence
forth preach Il more zeaOus.y than ever. an tamiL
lar with all the for hanging back, and know
them to be futile Are you out OF money as well as
verk Then start Westward al once. inquirng for
work and accept the first offer of anything over your
board: when YOU shall have earned five dollars, live
on il while you get further West, until you md some
one who VIII give You ten dollars for months work;
earn this and with the proceeds 20 West. until you
shall find some one who VIII give YOU 500 oveT for
wears faithful labor Ofthst 500 you should have
a. clear at the years end, and with So5 OF this in
warm, substantial clething and the balance in your
pocket: you can speedily plant yourself my part Of
the Mississippi Valley you may select FOX your failure
home. II, aiteT this, YOU ever want work or money
il mus, be because YOU were BON TO decorate poor
house