The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-04-07
TO THE CITIZENS AND VOTERS
OF THE COUNTY OF MANI
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The time for action has come. We
have been waiting for fifteen years for
the building of railroad which should
put us In connection and communication
with the balance Of our State, and in fact
with every State in the Union, through
that greet network Of Railroads which
covers the whole face of our country !;
and we have been waiting in vain
| The repeated efforts and promises of
those who have had control. of our rail
road interest have failed utterly, and have
resulted in nothing. Things have now
changed, our railroad interest have pass
ed into other hands, and notwithstanding
the bitter and persistent opposition which
we have encountered from other sections
Of the State, we are to-day in position
where hearty and united cooperation
OF our part will ensure us the speedy con-
struf ion not only Of one, but of two lines
of railroad trayersing the entire length of
our county from North to South, and Its
entire breadth from East to West. The
Milwaukee, Manitowoc g. Green Bay
Railroad Company have entered into con
tract with responsible and reliable CAPT
talists and contractors from the city of
New FORK for the construction Of a rail
| road from the city Of Milwaukee through
| Manitowoc and Depere to Green Bay,
said road to be completed within three
years from date of contract
| The Appleton & New London Railroad
COMPANY have also contracted with the
same parties for the construction of a
railroad from the city of Manitowoc to
the city of Appleton, said road to be
completed within one year from date of
contract. Both of these contracts are
binding and in force only on condition
that the several counties through which
the said railroads are located shall sub
scribe to the capital stock of said com
panies the amounts which has been prom.
ised aud agreed upon, failing in this, said
contracts to be null and void. The amount
of subscription assigned to the county of
| ManitoWoc is two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars $3.50, O0O). We are as
sured by the counties of Ozaukee, She
boygan, Brown and Outagamie that they
will vote the amount of their assessment
without fail This being the case the re-
sponsibilIty rests entirely upon Manila-
woo county, and you gentleman, voters
| of Manltowoc county, are to decide at the
polls whether those contracts shall be
made good and the said railroads built, or
whether said contracts shall be void and
no railroads shall be built in our county
during the next twenty years. In view
of these facts and of this situation it is
| incumbent upon US as men Of sense and
judgment to consider we'll
/ First What are the benefits to be de-
rived by the county at large and to our
| selves as individuals, by the construction
Of these roads;
| Second What will be the costs per an.
| mum of this subscription of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars to the capital
stock of said railroads to the county at
| large and to the several towns in the
county2
| Third, Will our subscription to said
railroads be made on such conditions and
under such safeguards that we shall not
| part with our securities or contribute to-
wards construction until said railroads
have been built?
Fourth VIII the benefits accruing to
| the county from the construction of these
roads be fair equivalent for the required
expenditure, or In other words, will they
be worth to us what they will cost us?
As to the FIST proposition, the Mantle
Voc & Green Bay Railroad puts US in
immediate connection on the south with
Milwaukee, Chicago, the East, the South
and the South west Also on the North
by way Of Green Bay and the Lake SUI
perlor extension Of the Northwestern
Railroad (which will be completed from
Green Bay to Lake Superior the coming