The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1868-10-02

ed meeting, which was held at the Court
House on Saturday evening last, to receive
and consider the report of the committee of
ten appointed at the previous meeting, was
| largely attended and its action harmonious
| The report Of the committee, after being
read, and translated and forcibly advocated
in the German language by Capt. ADoLPH
WHITMAN, was unanimously adopted by
the meeting and accepted by Judge REED,
President of the Railroad Company.
The only changes recommended by the
committee to be made in the proposition
heretofore submitted by the Railroad Com
pany to the village, are, that on the accept
ance of the proposition the proper officers
of the village shall enter into bond of one
the delivery Of orders on the Treasurer for
ten thousand dollars, payable annually with
interest after the construction of the first
division of road, instead of depositing the
| orders in bank, to be delivered on compile
ton of said portion of road !; and that the
said division Of road shall be completed
within three years from the date of the ac>
ecptance Of said proposition.
1t will be seen by reference to the new
notice Of the Village Clerk, that the Rails
road Company has submitted .he altered
propositions which will be voted upon on
the 22d instead of the 10th instant.
The committee to which was referred the
subject of this Railroad proposition was
composed of some of our most intelligent
business men and large property holders,
who feel o lively interest in everything that
tends to promote the best interests and ad
vance the prosperity of Manitowoc and
surrounding country, and we have no doubt
that their recommendations will be sane
toned by our citizens, and that the Rail
road proposition will be unanimously en-
dorsed at the ballot box on the 22d inst.
Manitowoc now has, or within the com
ing year will have, the most commodious
and safe harbors on the whole chain of
lakes, from Chicago to Buffalo, and We
have a country west Of us of very large
extent, equal if not superior in natural
wealth to any other equal extent Of terri
tary to this place, and only requires the
railroad to develop its natural resources
and make available its agricultural and
manufacturing wealth, by securing to it the
shortest, cheapest and safest line of com
municaton with the Eastern mars of COM
merce, through the harbor which presents
the most eligible point of transhipment for
the interior OF our state, to be found on the
Western coast of Lake Michigan
The first division of r9ad from the Mani
towoc harbor to Fox River at the outlet of
Lake Winnebago, would make more impor-
tant and valuable connections, would con-
tribute greater advantages and develop
more wealth and do more business in a
given number of years than any other road
of one hundred miles in length that has
heretofore been, or which may hereafter
| be, built from any other place on Lake
| Michigan into the interior of our state.
| The first seasons operations of this first
division of road connecting the business of
the Fox, Wisconsin and Wolf rivers and OF
Lake Winnebago with the commerce OF
| Lake Michigan, will demonstrate the fact
| that Nanitowoc is at no distant day to be-
| come one of the best grain markets in the
West.
Every farmer manufacturer merchant,
mechanic, business man, property holder
and laborer should come up at once and
manifest the interest he has at stake in the
successful prosecution Of this enterprise, by
contributing the aid of his voice, his vote,
and his money in that behalf; and though
it will take many dollars, every one who
contributes one dollar to this object, is sure
of making safe investment and obtaining
more than three dollars in return.
You have the views of the President of
the Company as presented to the people in
his speech at the Court House on the sub
ject of the manner in which this road is to
be prosecuted, aud how the aid voted and
money contributed in subscriptions will be
applied under his management Else
where we give his views on past railroad
management in the state and the effects of
such management and the advantages of
railroads to the country as presented in a
report made by him in the Senate last win
! ter, as chairman of the select Committee
on State Aid to Railroads, which may be
well to consider in connection with our
railroad project.
THAT FLAG THE Tribune is suffering
! terribly over n fac which the peskv coDper.