The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-12-30
Railroad Meeting at Green Bay.

Railroad Meeting at Green Bay.
We see from the 1Adoocate that he PEG
pie of the .Ancient Borough" have walked
up to the Importance of a Railroad con-
uection with the south, which can be Sc
cured bv the construction of a road to Me-
nasha. We transfer to our columns the
very sensible remarks of the Adpoeate up
on the subject, as being very appropriate
to this locality. We wish our people could
for time throw aside their feelings of en-
w, jealousy and suspicion, which have
had such full play thus far, and prevented
the building OF our Road to Menasha, and
come together like sensible, decent men,
and work harmoniously for the accom-
plishment of this important object. But
we have hoped for and made it our aim to
bring about this state of things so long,
without any apparent success, that we have
come to think that we might with equal
profit, talk to our people about making
new world Of men, all of the right sort,
ready TO de- as the zf8'5aeate ADVISES its
people to do. When we can see one
old devil cast out from among us, we have
also seen dozen young devils take his
place, and doing more mischief than he
ever dreamed of. If they have carried off
our Road, there is no use oftalking-they
will have our people too. The Advccate
says:
Mr.. HOWE, who made the principal
speech of the evening, was Of the opini on
that the road could be graded for $1,000
or 500 mile, and made ready for the
rails; that this amount could be raised by
voluntary subscriptions in cash, material
and labor, and by direct taxation upon the
property benefited; and that, with a track
so prepared, the iron aud rolling stock
would come Of itself from some company
already in operation. He advised work
and not talk, and urged that the people
of Howard and vicinity had it in their pow
er to accomplish it if the first step be ia
ken at once.
Tie meeting was entirely harmonious
except as to minor question of the fea-
sibiIity Of annexing adjacent territory to
the Borough, in order to bring larger
area under taxation. That is matter,
however, that can be adjusted satistacto-
rily to all around, and need not be magni-
fed into an obstacle in any way of the en-
terprise.
Without stopping TO debate the ques-
ton of locality, we believe it to be to the
interest Of the people of the entire county.
to come forward to the support of any
pref ec: which seems to promise the get
ting of a railroad into the vicinity, wheth-
er on one side or the other. The en-
hancement OF value which a railroad brings
to property just around its terminus and
depot, is mere drop in the bucket be
side the thousands upon thousands of dol
lars of increased value which it brings tc
the acres for many miles in every direc
ton. whose products are at once furnished
with cash market and generous one by
that road
The completion of the Chicago road in
to Oshkosh perhaps brought ten Thousand
o'ibl'i''h'i tolitsio NaiiS 10 INC real eSlal
owned around its terminus. That is E
large estimate. But it has given new ant
fresh life to the country for fifty mile.
around. The Wolf River pineries are
bounding with its pulsations. The gloon
which so long has hung over the mills
and over the lumbermen, is lifted off, and
there was never more activity in the lum
9 Der regions there than now. Every day
from three to six trains 90 southwark la
den with lumber. And, to-day, instead
of feeble and despairing efforts among the
lumbermen, as in the past two years, The
woods are alive with preparation, the mill,
are all running, and the country is flooded
with the money which all this trade brings
How is it with Green Bay? The same
field is open to us; the same harvest i.
ready for the sickle. Let us 90 forth anc
reap it.
Let there be no east side or west side
no county and NJ city Let US have one
: unanimous donation party-one tremen
dous railroad bee, to which all are invited
and to which all will come.