The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1869-11-04
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temuel Goodell was chosen chairman and
+. Skidmore :ecretsry.
After some stirring speeches the follow
pg resolutions were passed:
Rcsolred, That a committee of three he
ppointed to correspond with the Miiwau-
ZEE chamber of commerce and Reader
mith of fAppleton. and invite said com
hittee to visit Stockbridge when they are
kamining the country with view to 10
hte railroad from Milwaukee to Apple
N.
George VI. Sickle, Edwin Enos and
iector Mclean were appointed as such
bmmittee.
(eeSolred, That the secretary be request
TO transmit a copy of the proceedings to
hch OF the county papers for publication
djourned.
The above which we clip from the Mil
aukee Ne,cs of the 29th ult., shows that
he citizens of Stock bridge are alive to the
ubject Of obtaining additional market facil
les for the products of their labor through
be construction of a new line of railroad
rom Appleton to Milwaukee.
We like to see this kind Of spirit of en-
erprise manifested on the part Of the citi-
ems of Calumet and Outagamie counties,
ut we do not ike to see it misdirected, as
evidently the case here, unless these
eople have abandoned the idea of any
DAD being built from Manitowoc west, and
10 upon the principle that any road is bet
er than noLe.
The city of Appleton and the other
= manufacturing and populous towns on the
bwer Fox river at the outlet of Lake Win>
ebago have three railroad connections
nth Milwaukee and Chicago, which will
eep those markets always open to them,
nd what they need now more than any
. hing else is a direct line of railroad east 10
AXE Michigan where they can most readi-
y and cheaply ship their grain aud other
products east, and receive in return iheir
upples of merchandise and this they can
Dtain by the building of only forty miles OF
abroad to Manitowoc, which possesses the
nos, capacous and secure harbor on Lake
Michigan, and will, when this road Is CONS
bleted, be suEplcd win all the needed
ABILITIES fol the speedy and cheap move
nent Of freights.
1t is 200 miles from Appleton to Chicago;
90 miles to Milwaukee, and two days sail
rom Chicago and one from Ml"auhee'
Fown the lake towards an Eastern 'narAet,
the MahitoWoc haFooi "heie cai soes u
cheat OF nour Tor 'h'p'nen'' eaS'' "ou'u oe
Eorth more ahd "ou'o DlI"s liooao'S a.
(ligh pt'ce aS IN either u '''e n''' ''"'ii'u
Fntics' ana 70 "iacn fo.h' ! "ou'a "o' 'oS'
1ai slle il'ce u iie!s '"se' '''i eo''' '''i''
Dne nan, OF Que 'iil'u VI '''e '''"e ioi 'i"''o
fplss!on as TO the oiher TWO more uls'ah'
points.
~ this ROAD IRON hah'tc"2c' vert 20 Tue
Fox and y oil Kiyers' the towns III the
valleys OF Lake " ina, DISo ana OF 'he io"cF
Fox and the upper and lower "oI Wouid
obtain short competing hne OF road, one
which would transport the products OF
their soil and industry to the best lake ports
for one halt, at least, OF the present caarg
es on the Chicago aud Northwestern to
Chicago, or the Milwaukee and st Paul to
Milwaukee, and the effort now being made
in those communities to obtain another
line Of road one hundred miles south east
TO Lake Michigan, with the view of cheap
ening the prices Of freights to and from an
eastern market would result as would the
fort to turn the current OF the waters o.
the lower Fox aud Lake Wnnebago, NJ
stream, and turn their flow through the
Wisconsin into the Mississippi, in tota
failure, unless the east and west roads were
6irst built.
One word here with the people of Stock
bridge, and Of every other portion of Calu.
Inet County. The interests Of our two
Counties are by nature mutua', and
should be kent 50 in all future time by ou,
;oint co operative action. We would frs,
ask YOU to consult with our peope here
and along the line of the Manitowoc and
Menasha road urqn the subject of the