The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1870-03-31

Manitowoc to Appleton, and to complete
the same within one year, provided the
aid required from the several localities on
the said road is granted according to
agreement.
Thus it will be seen that we shall have
one railroad to Appleton within one year,
one road to Milwaukee and one to Green
Bay within three years, and all these al
most unparalleled advantages by our yotc
ing to Subscribe for the stocks of these
companies to the sum Of $250,000.
This looks like big sum for one coun'
ty, but It does in no way compare with
the immense difference these roads. when
completed, and even while building, will
produce in the value of real estate, in
the advantages Of cheaper and ever-ready
transportation, in the rapid increase OF
population and the advance in the prices
of every kind of produce and manufac-
lures of our county.
Messrs, Easton & Co., the contractors
for all the three roads, propose to have
their headquarters here at Manitowoc, to
land their iron, locomotives, cars, &c, in
our harbor, and to construct their car
shops and all the other buildings ncces-
sary for the railroads in the most sub
stantial manner, right in our midst. =
There will be plenty Of work and good
wages for all who may apply. The hun
dreds of laborers and employees will in
crease the demand for provisions, every
farmer will feel with pleasure that there
lis nothing that he can raise that he can
not sell at better prices than heretofore.
The thousands Of cords of wood that have
had to be burned heretofore in logheaps,
will bring to the landowner a remunera-
ting reward for his labor Other kinds
OF wood will bring high prices if con-
vertcd into ties, square timber, telegraph
poles, posts or material for the wagon and
chairmaker, the pail factory and the
thousand different branches of convert
ing the raw material Of our abundant re-
sources into useful manufactures. The
fishermen of our county will no longer
be obliged to haul their fresh fish to
Green Bay in the winter, to be sent to
Chicago, but can take them out Of their
boats onto the cars and have them.con-
verted into money in less than two days
by sales in Chicago. Our pail and chair
factories will not have to build ware
houses, covering almost acres of land
for the purpose Of slowing away their
manufactures from the close of naviga-
ton until its opening; they will not be
deprived longer of the use Of the i'm
mense capital thus invested, lying dead
and consuming interest for months. In
the same way will our tanneries and 9TH
err manufacturing establishments be ben
Gifted. All Of them will be enabled to
turn their capital invested almost as of
ten again as they now can. And this is
not ALL! Our county will not only have
increased facilities for the sale Of its COM
modities to the south, but our Western
Road will open to us advantages whose
immensely is incalulabe: our road is not
to stop at Appleton nor al New London,
opening one of the largest numbering dis
tricts in the West, those on the Wolf and
Wisconsin rivers and other accessible riv-
ers; but s7e are to be connected in di-
rect line with Duluth, On Lake Superior,
and thence with the great NORTHERN
PACIFIC RAILROAD, whose construction
is already under rapid progress. Who
can calculate the facilities Of these con.
nections, these advantages of trade and
comAerce!
And with all these considerations can
we hesitate a moment to do our share in
obtaining these incalcu!able advantages
We trust not, and therefore call upon
every voter In our county to do all in his
power to obtain these railroads as early
as possible.
In voting fer the railroad proposition
we can run no risk, for the roads will be
fully completed and the rolling stock al
provided before the contractor can OF
aciU ask for one dollar of our bonds
They are ready and willing to pay all TIL
/ expenses until the roads are completed
tand these expenses must amount tc
mlllions.) but when they have done al
they agreed to do, then they want the aic
promised by the several localities bene.
fitted by said roads, without fail.
'Manitowoc county expects every one
gifts citizens to do his whole duty to-
wards himself. his family and his home. >
| Our PROSPECTS. Never b. fore have
the prospects for our young city been 81
satisfactory as at present And why