The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-04-07

season. With the great lumber region of
ouamlco, Peshtigo, Oconto and Menom-
inee as well as with the vast copper and
| iron mining interest on Lake Superior.
1he Appleton & New London Rail
road which will be at once extended to
New London on the Wolf river 25 miles
west OF Appleton. wilt put US in direct
connection with the great lumber
region OF the Wolf river and its tributa-
res. On the Wolf river and its tributa-
nes two hundred and fifty millions Of
logs are cut annually, and on the Bay
shore and its tributary streams about the
same quantity. These railroads then
will open to the farmers of Manitowoc
county the markets afforded by the lum-
Der camps of the Wolf River and of the
Bay shoreY which com bined cut annsally
five hundred million of logs, as well as
with the markets afforded by the great
mining regions of Lake Superior The
amount of farm products required to sun
ply these lumber regions and the Lake
Superior mining country is immense.
Farm products do and always have com
manded much higher price in those
sections OF county than in any other por-
ton of the State, and in short these rail-
the best market in the United States for
every pound Of pork, beef, butter, -four,
feed, cats, hay andvegetables of aIlkinds
which they have for sale. This view of the
matter however presents but one Of the
many advantages which would insure to
the benefit Of our county from the con-
struction of these roads, and they are so
many and so diversified that7it will be
impossible to enumerate them Ia any one
communication. t4ilii-N5}4 DIS
Next in i'm Importance follows the increase
in valuation of property and the rise in
lands, and as an illustration of what rail-
roads viii do in that direction let US cite
the example of Milwaukee county.
Before the construction of her railroads
the city of Milwaukee vas no larger than
Manltowoc is to-day, and lands in Nil
waukee county were worth on the aver
age about ten dollars per acre, Milwaukee
county, subscribed. for railroads Ljust what
we are asked to do to-day and the result
is the city of Milwaukee now contains
one hundred thousand inhabitants,
and farming lands in Milwaukee county
are now worth from one hundred to three
hundred dollars per acre What has
brought about this marked change in the
count of Milwaukee,? Railroads, and
nothing but railroads. What railroads
have done for Milwaukee county, they
will accomplish for Manitowoc county,
and even more. Our geographical posi-
ton is more commanding, our soil is richer
and more productive, and, we have to-day
larger river and better harbor than has
Milwaukee. ' 3-ll siilt.tl.EJ Lgit- n
.Aszto the second Proposit,on What
will it cost2 If we decide by. our votes to
subscribe the sum Of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars to the capital stock
of said railroads the bonds of the county
will be issued. payable in twenty years
from their date, and bearing interest at
the rate of seven per cent. per annum.
The county then will have to pay the in
terest each year seventeen thousand and
five hundred doilars) ($17, 5eo) no more
and no less.
The total valuation of Manitewoc
county as equalized by the, county board
of 1869, was fourteen hundred thousand
dollars f$l40O. 600. The assessed Yalua-
ton was about FIVE millions. .,5c .fo9frf
The following table will show the equal
lied valuation of each town, the total
number of acres of land in each town
Exclusive of, and after deducting State
lands) the total number of forty acres
tracts of land lexcusive of State lands)
in each town, and the annual tax on each
forty acres, and on each acre Of land, re-
CURED to pay the yearly interest on the
proposed abroad subscription.