Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1870-12-27
FROM THE LAKE SHORE.
Milwaukee in 1888 and IS7O-Her Rapid
Growth-Commerciai importance
Resources Population.

Resources Population.
EDITOR HERALD A few months
ago | clipped the following extract
from a Wisconsin paper. purporting
to have been published in q Green
Bay journal, in the year A. d., 1885
"THE MELwAUKY.--A correspondence al
the mouth of the Melwauky speaks Of their
having a town already laid ou,, of selling
quarter acre lots for five hundred dollars, and
that some fifty people are living there. A
clergyman is about taking up his abode among
them. There IS no chance, however, of the
place ever coming 10 anything at all, or get
ting any further than il has got"
Ia spite of this prediction cit has
got" u great deal further. Ithas got
the rolling mills, where the capital is
counted by millions, and workmen
are counted by the hundreds instead
Of by scores. 1t has got hundred
run ofstone on street nearly mile
long, occupied exclusively by grist
mills and factories. One religious
and educational edifice covers whole
city block. 1t has the largest public
library and the most beautiful court
house In the northwest. 1t has a
direct and special steamboat and rail
road line to the East, by which New
York is reached from this point as
rapidly as from Chicago.
The upper portions of Lake Michi-
gan in spite Of the high latitude, offers
great many inducements to settle
ment. The lake you arc aware, is
the only ore exclusively under the
American flag. All the rest in the
great chain of those sadness seas,
own on one shore the dominion of
England. Hence Lake Michigan,
although washing the shores Of sew
eral States, unites them in common
interest Of navigation, fisheries, man
utactorles, timber, products and
money transactions. This city de-
rives large portion Of her most
lucrative trade from the Eastern
Michigan shore. Excellent lines of
steamboats, ply from this point
throughout the whole expanse of the
lake and it may be fairly conceded
that the traffic of two hundred thous-
and business men not, resident of
the State, is participated in by this
commercial centre.
Her greatest resources are found
in the grain trade, Of which the
profits are largely absorbed by the
banks. No similar establishments
are anywhere more Individually SOL
vent, and it may we'll be said that
none are more rigorous in the fnan-
cial routine. Whether their extreme
care is 10 all cases promotiYe of en-
terprse and general success may be
SapyWhAt 5tqabtA6dslgf vatl uAH9nd4
taking care Of themselves and their
stockholders.
As to its Typographical formation,
the hand Of nature has lavishly con-
tributed to form the cite OF a great
city at this point. The bay is deep,
the shores elevated, the confluence Of
two rivers forms a spacious interior
harbOr, and the soil far away into
the interior is fertile and broken in
to beautiful scenery. Industry has
done much to build up and decorate
the town but probably a diversity
of feeling and business interests has
retarded its progress.
The population is not Homogeneous.
Three distinct natiOnalities are
strongly represented. The Germans
amount to more than one-third of
the entire inhabitants. They have
a separate language, separate liter
ature, separate characters places of
amusement, and social proclivities
With ID IN, for these and other reas-
ons, the process of unity and ANAL
gamation is slow. In order to learn
the German language, to study their
habits and opinions, and even to be-
come imbued with the genius Of the
TeutOnic race, one would find as
thorough a school here as in Ham
burg or Frankfort. The masses are
not rich, and those who are so are
provorbially disinclined to risk what
they have absolutely acquired in any
speculative enterprise. With the
Irish the matter is somewhat rever-
sed. Few Of them have any sur
plus, and with infinite spirit and lib
crafty TO back their good will, but
little comparatively can be accom-
plished without capital. The Amer
leans are somewhat in the position
Of both the other races. Those who
have money are deeply impressed
with the efforts it cost them to Sc
cure it, and those who have none
fight the world a sore battle, year
after year, with precarious success.
The day Of rapid monoy-making is
just now overcast, and the road to
fortune is frightfully up hill. But
with the start of a splendidly built
city, population of about 100000
within its limits, and the number of
inhabitants much greater, the local
increase is a mere question of time
and migration. In every sense of
the word, this is rich city. The
capital is home capital. Those who
WELD it are western men almost,
and in many cases actually born on
the spot and depend upon it, if any
financial crisis should overtake our
western towns and communities,
Milwaukee would survive the storm
without a discouraged heart, or Grip
pied wings.
Milwaukee Wis, Doc. 1870. A.JP
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