The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1869-10-28

! pany to complete its entire line of road
from Portage to Superior City. within
the next five yeais.
1T is not doubted that the Northern
Pacific Railroad company, whose surveys
of it's line of road have been completed
from the Montreal river west uad the head
of the Bay of Bayfield, nearly to the Miss
issippi river, will commence the construc-
ton of its road from Bayfield, south west
next season, and have 1t completed to
ST. Croix Falls within the next three
years, as it is understood to be under con
tract to be built by Boston capitalists.
though this may be contingent upon the
renewal by Congress of the grant of lands
heretofore made to aid in its construction
1t is expected that as soon as work shall.
be commenced on he road of the Portage
Winnebago and Superior Company, at
Portage City, a movement will be mad
towards the completion of the work al
ready commenced on the road from Por-
toSC Sily cOutA Cttt hGl1SOu W 4ICCpOlC,
ILL.,, to connect with the Illinois Central
at that point; and, also, that the work on
the Wisconsin Northern and Illinois
Northern, connecting with each other
at Geneva, and with the Pennsylvania
Central at Chicago, will be pushed for
ward to an early completion to Columbus
and to connection with the Land Grant
Road at Ripon, or other point on the
line between Portage and Ripon.
sit is also believed that the Sheboy
gan and Fond du Lac Company will push
its road from Fond du Lac to Ripon to
quick connection with the Northern and
Southern roads from that point, and that
Manitowoc will not delay in the donstruc-
ton Of its road to Menasha.
The building of this land grant road
will also wake up the people on the line
of the proposed road from Stevens Point
down the valley Of the Wisconsin cha
Grand Rapids. south rio Mineral Point
to Dubuque, and cause them tocontribute
sufficient aid to secure its early construc
ton.
1--WE regard the construction Of all
these roads as certain to follow upon the
completion of the road from Portage City
to Lake Superior, and Mr.. Reed assures
us that it will be completed within few
years. The completion of this road will
no dobt do more by its rapid development
of the vast agricultural, mineral and
manufacturing resources of the North
ern portions of our State. and will add
more to its population and wealth, than
has the construction of the present rail-
roads in our State.
More than two hundred miles of this
road, one hundred and twenty miles Of
the St. Croix and bayfield, Road, and
one hundred miles Of the Northern Pa
cifc Poad will run through the now will
derncss portions OF our State, and turn
the tide of emigration now flowing oyer
our present roads west of our borders in
to these new regions, to unlock their now
hidden mines and distribute their vast
wealth.
"The sooner this road and the extend
ed and connecting lines of road we have
mentioned are built, the better for all our
people, and especially for those who live
or the lines of our present roads, as they
will furnish competing roads, which IN
the nature of things cannot be gobbled
up by the Chicago and Northwestern or
Milwaukee and St. Paul Raj road II. onop-
olies, and as snch viii relieve the people
of the burdens imposed upon them by
these now oyershadowing monopolles.