The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-07-29
RAILROAD ADvANrAGEs.-Thc follow

HALFWAY ADVANTAGES - uc lOiiOf-
ing from the Milwaukee Ne,os we trans
fer to our columns as of peculiar interest
to our citizens, showing what has been
and is being done on the line of road east
of US, and a portion of the great through
route across the states of Michigan and
Wisconsin, uia Manisowoc and Lake Su
perior and projected by one of our. own
citizens nearly 20 years age, and who spent
much time and money in encountering
the opposition of the politicians and rail
road men of Milwaukee to the securin g
OF any grants of land for the Flint &
Pere- Marquette and the Fond du Lac
| and Ontonagon and the Escanaba and
| Marquette railroads.
1t was proposed to give to Detroit the
shortest connections with Lake Superior,
and this was by the road to Ludington,
and by the road from this place rtia Green
Bay to Marquette, and ria Menasha to
Ontonago n, and grants of land were pro.
cured as tar as could be done to secure
these ends.
The programme has been somewhat
chaged since the grant of lands for the
road to Ontonagon has been diverted to
| the road from Fond du Lac ci;a Menasha,
| and Green Bay to Escanaba and Marquet e
but another grant has since been made
of far greater importance to us for the
road uaa Stony Point to Bayfield, and
Superior city, and by pushing our road
to Menasha we can secure these impor-
tant connections west and northwest, as
roads will be built from Menasha to Stony
Point and Lake Superior and St. Paul
| We ought not to permit anything ~
divert our attention to any other project
until we have secured the road to Me
nasha when this has been done we may
with propriety talk about the lake Shore
road, and not until then:
"Mr. James Ludington, of this city,
has disposed of part of his interest in the
numbering business at Ludington, on the
eastern shore, to d. S. Filler and others
Of Manistee, for the sum of $500. 600.
Mr.. Ludlngton retains one-quarter inter
est in the new concern-as we understand
We also learn that 2. NJ Donaher, Esq.
and David A. Melendy Esq, have pur
chased mill site Of the new company
and will Immediately proceed to erect q
new mill. The property consists Of al
the Ludington numbering interest the
town of Ludiugton, timber lands, mills,
ETC., and the tract is twenty-five thou
sand acres in extent, embracing some Of
the best timber lands in the country
The purchasers are men of means anG
great business capacity, and intend push
ing forward the improvements com
menced in the hounshlng village Of Lud
ington with energy and dispatch. Th'
place has grown up under the immediat,
supervision of Mr. Ludington latter whom
it was first named; j to point Of vas
business interests.
The general government has taken the
harbor Improvements of the place in hanC
and piers and harbors are rapidly push
ing forward toward completion
Railroads are also being constructed
and the town is the terminus of the Film,
and i'ere Marquette road, which it is the
intention to extend eastward early in the
spring of 1870.
The purchase of the interests in the
mbcring and milling affairs Of the place
represents the transfer Of vast business
which, when fully developed. will
enrich the purchaser, and attract large
addition TO the present population.