The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-12-16

,lan Inc clty llse.i. anterior aOO coietnN
porary With all this lie the greater errors
committed by Milwaukee, Of which the
people of the State have to complain, and
| the effects Of which her own citizens now
deplore. 1st. In not properly maturing
in the outset of her career, and steadily
prosecuting a system of Railroads worthy
Of her geographical position and we'll
grounded professions to becomingth he lead
ing city of the Lakes. Cd. In employing
her energies and expanding her means to
exhaustion within so limited space, upon
rival or conflicting Railroads, projected by
mere spectators, whose visions and hopes
did not extend beyond the depth and width
of their own pockets. Milwaukee, in or
der to make it what it might, and should
have been-the greatest as well as the most
beautiful city Of the Lakes-required four
Railroads, built in the order here named ::
LIST. The Milwaukee, Galena and Du-
buque, south west.
%. The Milwaukee and Mississippi, dt-
rect ,cest.'
81. The Milwaukee, Chicago, and Green
Bay, or Lake Shore.
4th. The Milwaukee and Minnesota,
north west, ria ,Step, ms Point TO st. Paul.
The first named Road would have been
built, had Milwaukee taken sufficient in
terest in the project to obtain even the ne
cessary legislation, which was urgently
sought by citizens of Galena and Dubuque,
at time when Illinois was overwhelmed
with debt, and Chicago had no Railroads,
and there was no other transit to market
for the products of the Lead mines Of II
linois, Iowa, and Wisconsin, than by water
yia New Orleans, and when that whole
lead mine interest offered to, and would
have combined to secure the necessary
amount of capital for the construction Of
this Road. Had Milwaukee done this, she
would have broken the power Of Chicago
as her rival for supremacy. But Milwau
kee allowed her energies to lie dormant
until Chicago had, by the construction Of
Roads, secured and monopolised the lead
trade of these regions, and had made bold
push to cut off from Milwaukee and Sc
cure to herself the whole trade of the in
terror and western portion of Wisconsin,
when she walked up to realizing sense of
what she had lost by her apathy, and out
of spite built a Road to Beloit, to compete
with Chicago and Racine for a very insig-
nifcant, and what might properly be called
"pea nut" trade, compared with that
she had forever lost. Had Milwaukee Sc
cured this Road to Galena and Dubuque,
Chicago would now have been contending
with her for the trade of that region OF
country, and not dreamed of pushing her
Roads into the interior Of Wisconsin any
more than Milwaukee now does of building
Road to the Illinois river, midway be-
tween Lake Michigan and the Mississippi
That the second named Road could have
been built on direct wester line, era
Madison to Prairie du Chien, On the Mis-.
sis.ippi river, cannot be doubted by any
one who knows the fact that Road has
already been constructed connecting these
two extreme points, and on circumbend
ibus line, running through all tho villages
then in existence between Lake Michigan
and the Mississippi; and that the import
ant truth has been thereby fully demon
strated that Railroads can be run on curu
ed lines as cheaplv and as gracefully ovel
the level prairies and through the beautiful
openings of Wisconsin, without breaking
the graceful undulations Of the one, or de-
stroying the grateful shades of the other
as along the vallies that divide the hills
and mountains of Vermont. Nor will il
be doubted by any one who knows anC
comprehends the every day common sense
fact that the distance between Milwaukee.
and Madison being diminished twenty
miles, the shorter distance could be rur
more quickly and cheapIy than the longer
and as soon as the citizens Of milwaukee,
ascertained this fact from scientific ant
competent engineers, they projected anc
built The more direct Road pia Waterfowl
to Madison-thus securing to that city ONT
hundred and eighty miles of Railroad, t.
ouercome the distance of eighty miles, a
a cost of not less probably than So 100000
A FLAT CoSTRADICTIoN.-I editor o
the Manitowoc Herald will perceive tn
following Favorable allusion" to his "fals
reports" concerning the editor of the Pilot
by reading the Milwaukee Ne'cs Of the III
inst. We hope it will have a beneficial
influence upon friend FITCH, and that here