The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-11-25
The Uritultf.
WITH SUPPLEMENT.
LAKE SHORE RAIL ROAD.

speak IatHeT ulScOuraglngly ABOUT our
prospects for an early connection of our
Village with any place by railroad, ard
feel therefore the more encouraged by a
communication from one of the leading
business men and one of the best citizens
of Milwaukee, who says on this subject ::
"Our people, always DESTROYS to have
Northern railroad, are now newly walked
up about it, and there is Subj Committee
of the Chamber of Commerce at work to
devise some practicable scheme of build
ing such road. Nothing is decided as
to the route of such road, only it is to
be between Lake Michigan and Lake
Winnebago. Our favorite idea is to fol-
low the Lake as far as Manitowoc and
then go off to Green Bay or some other
point on Fox river. Another is, to go by
Cedarburg, Chiffon. Stockbridge to Ap-
pleton or some other point on the Fox
Still another is to follow middle course
between those two, connecting with the
Sheboygan and Fond du Lac and the
Manitowec and Menasha road somewhere
about midway. Our Committee are of
the best men utM no personal schemes to
attach and sincerely DESTROYS to reach the
best results for the best interest. They
will be. governed by view first of the
comparative feasibility of the several
roads, ease of grade ETC., ID, Of the
cheapness of construction etc. Sd. of the
amount of material aid that can be OBJ
tanned on the lines respectively, and 4th,
Of the promise, that the several line
seem to hold out for business to sustain a
road after it is built. The merits of a
route direct to Appleton have recently
been brought to our attention by gen.
tleman residing there. but you may rest
assured. that we shall not decide, with
out first looking 81 all sides.
We, with you and everybody in this
country between the lakes, must unite in
asking the most liberal legislation for
such a road, then we shall want to survey
the different routs proposed and at the
same time learn what material aid can be
obtained on the respective lines. All this
we intend to accomplish by the early
spring, SC as to push on the work as ear
ly as may be. [ have long thought Man
itowoca very important point, and am
glad you are alive to aid in the matter.
How is your Menasha road, &c?"
We-se from this that our prospects
are quite encouraging; that the promi-
nent idea is to build Lake Shore Road
to our Village ana then to extend it to
Green Bay or Appleton; that the enter
prise . ~ the hands of honest, able and
dtsmterested men, and that with proper
assistance from our Village and interme-
date points, we may look for the earliest
possible commencement and speedy ac-
eomplishment of the enterprise.
We hope therefore that our Committee
appointed at the last Railroad meeting
will continue their activity SO as to be en-
abled to report as early as practicable to
another meeting Of our citizeus and that
every one of the latter will feel the ne
eessity of the best possible support of
this undertaking.
We have labored for the last fifteen
years to obtain road to Menasha, we
have voted money and burdened ourselves
with debt, still unpaid and to no avail.
We are asked and may vote to pay
$1,000, or more for objects, whose neces-
slty is not very clear to US, and still we
shall have no road nor even probability
for its accomplishment.
We may as we'll now as ever acknowl-
odge our belief. that our Western road
under the present administration will
never be built, that our business men have
lost all confidence in the manner of its
management and will not consent to sup
port it any further, and that the sooner
we look for some better way of accom-
plishing that object, the sooner we shall
meet satisfaction and success
The best opportunity to do so, is offered
TO us NOW. if We do our utmost to get the
Northern Lake Shore road here; that road
viii be extented west almost as soon as
1t reaches Manitowoc; there can not be
the east doubt of it; Appleton or Me
nasha must have an outlet by water aside
from Green Bay, and Green Bay itself
will come to US On the Iron road as soon
as it las connected itself with Lake Pepin
if notsmuch sooner.
Our advise then is, that we vote nc
more money (for the present at least) to
be expended uselessly on the Mena.ha
koad. but that we all unite our efforts
and our best support in obtaining Lake
Shore Road which. when done, will not on.
ly connect us with the commercial empo-
rum of Wisconsin and of the West but
will speedily be extended to the North
and West of us, so as to connect us final
ly with Lake Superior and the great
Northern Railroad to the Pacific Ocean.
So mote it be,
HERE has been considerable excitement