Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-05-30
The Future of Wisconsin.

w ltulu JuG DAclHOIy VI tuo llNluS,
Wisconsin was an extreme border
State. All beyond was unexplored
Wilderness. The first hardy pioneers
were mingling with the savsges. and
undergoing the privations of earliest
settlers. No roads were made. The
steam whistle was, as yet, hardly
heard on the Atlantic coast. Now,
Wisconsin is scarcely half way to the
border. Railways stretch across the
State in various directions, and pen
citrate vast regions beyond. One
great national steam highway ex-
tends TO the Pacific Ocean. Another
is advancing rapidly to tho same
destination. The western border Of
the State hardly reaches the central
line of the continent. Along the
Mississippi, animated all the sum-
mer with floating palaces, new cities
are springing into rapid life. Towns
everywhere arc as full Of comforts
and Injuries as any in the land
Lake Michigan, on the east, is white
with the "wings Of commerce" Mil
waukee is already q lager city than
Boston was hals q century ago. Lake
Superior on the moth, will soon
eclipse the Gulf Of Mexico in COM
metcial Importance. That island sea
will soon invite the trade of the "far.
| thorest East" in connection with the
great Northern Pacific road. We
hold the central position between
the Atlantic and Pacific. Important
navigabe waters are on three sides
Of us. On the other side we are con-
nected with the greatest railway
system in the United States. Our
industries are already becoming di-
versifed. We are no longer simply
grain producing State. The stock
growers OF Wisconsin have an envia-
bic reputation. The products of our
rapidly increasing diaries compete in
the market with the best. We have
a mixed population of native Ameri-
cans, Germans and Scandinavians.
Our people are hardy, intelligent and
industrious. No State has a better
common school system. The debt
of the Commonwealth is small. Its
population is increasing with steady
and healthy growth. The people
are noted for love Of order, prudence
and economy. Our citizens repre-
sent us worthily in commerce and
in the councils Of tho great nation.
No State in the Union is better
situated for manufacturing than
| Wisconsin, Vast industries of this
kind are already springing into life.
The raw material Of manufacture is
produced in abundance or is near al
hand. Wool is grown within our
borders and all around. Cotton il
nearer 70 us than to Massachusetts
Our forests are seemingly exhaust
less. Excellent iron ore is not want
ing. We have no coal for use il
manufacturing, and we do not neeC
it. We have the best water power
on the continent. The Fox river
between Lake Winnebago and Greer
Bay affords power to turn NOR,
mills than now exist between the tive
oceans. In two score miles there il
steady fall of one hundred anC
seventy feet. The water can be useC
over and over. A lake thirty mile
: long and ten miles wide affords
natural reservoir that hundreds o
millions could not build. 1t collect
the copious streams from the cente
of the State and sends them dow
the long slope below, without tn
, possibility of a flood or drought
The Fox river from Neeuah to Gree
/ Bay is worth a hundred Merimacs
{ There arc those now living who wi
, see the whole distance of forty mile
almost continuous manuiacturln
city. We viii not undertake to sa
how many millions OF feet of lumbe
are cut every year in Wisconsin
This State is destined to take th
lead in manufacturing househol
furniture. 1t will soon compel
with Ohio in agricultural implement
| The cloths Of the different woole
mills are already esteemed in th
market. Ladies regard the shaw
of Racine and Waukesha as equal
those Of the Bay State. The iro
works Of Milwaukee are among tn
most important in the Northwes
Just as good locomotives are mad
III here as at Paterson, New jersey
y, The future of Wisconsin is clearl
70 that or manufacture, and her pos
n ton will be one of proud pre-em
nence.-Milcdukee Sentinel