The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-07-28
BY Railroad to the Sea Board Via
Manit0WOc.
The Cheapest and most direct.route for
Northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.
From the winnebage Press, July 2sd.

From the winnebage Press, July 2sd
A PLAIN PRoPosTIoN. From q St.
+ Paul paper we cut the following piail
and truthful proposition, the substance O
which we have also seen in many ins tan
ces elsewhere
''It is asserted that Duluth. the EN-
bryo metropolis of the West, is as nca
the Atlantic seaboard as Chicago Wheat
and -four can be transported as cheaply
from Duluth to Buffalo or Olgcnsburs
as from the southern end of Lake Mich
igan, while the distance from St, Pau
to Lake Superior is only l40 mile:
against 4SO to Chicago. We may con
clude that the wheat of Minnesota car
be carried fifteen to twenty cents bush.
el cheaper by Duluth than by Lake
Michigan, saving to the Eastern con
sinner of almost a dollar on each barre
of -four. Twenty cents on Il bushel
saved will add at least $4 to the yearly
product of an acre Of land -
| The above being true-and its truth is
Gcmonstrable to any one who viii study
these facts moment by the light of
map-it proves more by considerable
than is contained in that simple para
graph. The man who penned it was too
near-sighted to see more than hoif way,
looking little further he would have
observed that Green Bay is 25O miles
nearer to ST. Paul than Chicago or but
little further than to Duluth: that ar
irving here with grain it would ba only
200 miles nearer market thaa at Chica 20
but 800 hundred miles nearer than at
Duluth, and through a better harbor
than Chicago for upper Minnesota, in
point Of distance, but in better and
safer navigation, and in a longer period
Of navigation, opening earlier and closing
later each year.
The paragraph which We quote above
is in error in saying that the saving of Is
or 20 cents a bushel by carving the
wheat OF Minnesota by the shortest route
a0iU go to the consumer. The farmers of
Minnesota compete in the Eastern mar
kets with the farmers of New York and
other States nearer market-and just as
much additional as the freight costs
them, just so much less will they get for
their wheat. Take off part Of the cost
Of carrying and it is inevitable put into
the pockets Of the producers. Or in
other words, the shorter and cheaper we
can make the road from the western
grain fields to the eastern markets, the
nearer we bring our farmers to the East.
We urge, therefore. on our Minnesota
neighbors, that they help Us hurry up
our Green Bay and Lake Pepin Railway,
which will open to them the shortest,
straightest and cheapest avenue to this,
their best harbor on the Lakes.
We find the above in the Green Bay
AdUocate. The remarks, SO far as appli-
cable to Green Bay, apply with more
force to Manitowoc.
It can be said Of the latter, indeed and
in truth that it is on the line of the
shortest, straightest and cheapest aven~
ue' to the Atlantic seaboard.
Green Bay city may be the site of the
best harbor on the bay Of the same name !;
and while it would afford a fair outlet
from the west by railroad and lake in the
summer during the winter period, it
would be ice bound, leaving the railroad
of little or no account. Having short
er season, this sa ne trouble of course ap-
plies with greater force to Duluth.
| Through the persistent assertions OF GER
tain papers some Of our friends in the
Western part of the State have seeming
! ly come to look upon Green Bay as their
future eastern r. r. outlet. Indeed.
judging from the tone Of some Of their
papers, one would suppose il was the
only port on or near Lake Michigan
North of Milwaukee, Our purpose at
this time is specially to call the attention
of the people of Northwestern Wisconsin
to the fact, that if they have any help
to bestow in the construction of rail
road to Lake Michigan, and we conclude
they have, in common with people herea-
way, that there is better and more
practical route, where they can spend
their money to a better purpose: than in
building road having Green Bay tor
it's Eastern terminus.
Take the map, if you please. and find
Manitowoc; said by Z. 5. Engineers to
be the best port on Lake Michigan. Com
pare its position with Green Bay at the
head of the Bay. Manitowoc is port
directly on the lake shore; on the direct
route from Chicago and Milwaukee to
Detroit, Clevland, Buffalo and the ST..
Lawrence, already has daily communica-
ton by sailcraft and steamboats, with all
the points named, while Green Bay sup
ports only semi weakly communication
with Buffalo Thus, it is manifest, that
Manitowoc as lake port, always can al
ford better means for seaboard COM
munication. La addition to this, let us
call attention to the fact that from Mani
towoc to Pere Marquette. Immediately
opposite on Lake Michigan, 1t is only 63
miles, while from Milwaukee to Grand
Haven it is S5 miles, and that while the
latter is deemed practical as a lake ferry
in winter for railway freight, and travel,
the former route would be equally practi
cal with % miles less lake travel At
ATanitowoc the lake was not frozen over
last winter The Land Grant railway
across Michigan, Uia Flint tG Pere Mar
quUtte, is already completed to within 50
miles of the latter place, and by the terms
of the grant must be completed within
the year.
This is the route to which we desire to
|, call the attention OF our friends IN the
Northwest.
The route that will give to them the
best return on an investment.-A charter
has already been granted for building a
road from Manitowoc to the Mississippi
and about 80 miles of the road is already
graded. The Portage, Winnebago &
Superior 4. r. (the Land Grant road
has Doty Island for an initial point and
runs from thence, by the terms of the
charter, to Stevens Point and twenty
miles west, when it turns and runs north
connecting with the Northern Pacific
, Railway. Between Doty Island and
Stevens Point, nearly $500, 900, in aid
has just been voted By local authorities.
Thus so miles of tie p. W. q ). X; IL.
is on the same route to the railroad char
tered from Manitowoc to the Mississippi
for the building of which contracts are
held with Eastern capitalists, to be com
pleted within limit Of two years. SINH
lar contracts are also held for building
the road from Doty Island to Manitowocc
and to Lake Superior. The building OF
60 much Of the rnflte Is thus already pro