The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-09-02
RAILROADS SECURE IEvEsTu2ETs.


aompished q permanent change in the con
ations Of commercial prosperity. So vast
j. the advantage conferred by connection
with the modern railway system, that the
poorest site Of trade possessing 1t, can east
Ig distance the finest commercial point that
without such connection, It has been
-aonght even within twenty years, that
towns having few thousand inhabitants,
aa3 -urrounded by good farming coun-
n, we're almost independent Of railroad
lines. But the fatal mistake has been made
plain IN scores ofcases where railways have
pissed thriving villages few miles to the
.ght or left, establishing their own station
Tie ra1lla1I.st alton Invariably drains the
life r. IN neglected, and becomes
i-selfs - of trade. This one fact
speaks zb6der than volumes of reasoning,
but there is yet another fact making itself
apparent throughout the country, which
showssi still stronger light, if possible,
the absolute necessity Of a railroad connec-
ton to any town that aspires to be more in
tie present OF future than country hamlet
Ind that is the growing indisposition of
1aterprising men to invest in any town that
has not railroad, or at least the dead GER
tainty of coming into possession of one
within short time. The old style of in
estnents has departed with the old style
# building towns.
THIS railroad age has led men to dispense
9Th possibilities, and probabilities, and
3a.ld on facts alone. When thousands can
81 made in year by settling in a live rail
r54d town, people with little ready money
ID invest arc not disposed to wait q year or
SO, while town is feeling It's way out of
aa aog Of uncertainty, and coming within
ight Of facts. Cases in point can be found
ut on tie line Of the Northern Pacific rail
road. Fine townsites have been laid out,
having q good soil about them, well water
al and timbered; maps have been made,
and glowing descriptions printed Of the
prospects of the town, but unfortunately
hey could not say positively that the great
railway or any Of is branches, would pass
roreh the town, and men with money to
invest, would risk nothing on such uncer-
tanties, and have turned aside to other
places, having loss advantages IN some res
poets, bat having this lack much more than
compensated by being able to say conf
IDENTIFY that the main line, or some branch
the Northern Pacific, passed directly
Iroogh the town.
The West IS being settled with young
len-mon ii many eases under 3o-an1
.aese men, trained up Under the full inia-
oo oE The railroad err, cannot and viii
not consent to take thcir chances in com
.tuuiGes that have not the great artificial
l.yantage Of q connection with the iron
network Of modern commerce, or that at
least are not able to say from knowledge
of facts, that such an advantage will soon
ac hal
That men, and money are daily turned
way from this place, in consc4u 4uonce Of our
aek orrail~av facilities, IS fact too well
SHOWN to need charging upon. That our
.amense advantages of position and Lar
5orage have induced bot a few far-sishted
men to wait little longer before investing
1t the head Of Lake Superior, IS also troe;
as many Of oar citizens can testify Of their
own knowledge But that we can count
on this state Of things continuing year after
year is preposseroas. The spirit Of the age
i against it The splendid chances for IN
vestment in al parts Of the country will
soon absorb the present plethora Of money
n the country, common observation and
judgment tell us that railroad to this
point may AMI should be built Immediately,