Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1872-02-01
OUR AGENTS.
The Good Time Coming.

thousand little brooklcts will have
birth among the hills, and thou.
sand moro in letters moaning among
the valleys together with mighty
streams and rivers that are toiling on
and on towards the great ocean in
their chains, shall all have sweet re
lease and all send greeting to the new
crowned Queen. King White" very
soon will abdicatc, and Spring viii
now very soon have begun her reign.
The Crown of Crystal will very soon
have lost its regal splendor and a
crown wreath Of flowers will have
given beauty and dignity TO the En-
press Of the seasons.
This is the poetry Of it--now for
the practical.
Wood County has. been struggling
and hoping in the face Of disappoint,
ments the past year for something
better to come. We believe We can
discern the dawn Of that better era.
The activity Of the winter now near,
ly passed, betokens a prosperity the
coming season, such has not been
visited upon the "pinery". the past
ten years. Money is more plenty,
and rates Of interest easier. The
price of lumber is steadily adyanc-
ing, and the demand for our products
ia beng felt among our lumber manu-.
tacturers. To all these encouraging
features add most glorious winter
for the out door business Of the lum.
her interests, and certainly we have
been most generously dealt with
Everything is just rs the Lumber.
men" would have wished it might
be.
Neither is the outlook uufayorable
for our City and Towns hopes and
interests. The coming Spring will
find us full OF business, with large
influx, being the natural rcsult Of the
construction of two lines of railroad
At least through our County. As &C,
tive operations will undoubtedly soon
have been bccnn, it is natural TO cx.
poet a large influx Of population, tran
silent, and otherwise, and consequent
ly large increase OF business, with
An ,nfiowiug of money such as our la
boring men have never before wit.
messed. The accused order system
must soon give way to a fair and
square cash deal between "capital ,
and "muscle," aud charter" must of
necessity become a dead title, or if
practiced at all, indul ged in as Haa
W'H rather than practiced as u ne.
oe.s'ty, "a now in many instances.
We think we can see the dawn Of
the good time coming in the many
t'atterins prospects spreading out be.
fore lib while our resources shall be
developed and capital shall flow in
upon as to improve the miles Of the
best water,powor in the State, and
which is now remaining unimprovcd
because it has never been touched by
the magic wand of money.
We see too the science of Agrjcul
ture receiving new encouragement
aud lmpetus--and our mighty forest,
"f oak and maple and various hard
woods falling before the stury blow,
OF the yeoman who shall find n new
home within cor precincts. Yes! ~
have waited, but the fruton of on
hopes is at hand, and ere anothe
course OF the seasons we shall b,
stretching out our hands to the PEG
pies, and bidding them welcome to
home among us when the twain shall
become one,~-in city of growing
!mportano c. whose people can boas
Of an energy and excellence, Of
refinement and intelligence which
shall n q us in a few short years I,
stand il the front rank OF the inlanc
cities Of our growing State. We be
lieve we make no idle prophecy w,
believe our predictions will be fulfill
cd, and that too within the coming
decade when on both sides the rive
which now separates us only as ;
marginal line We shall have build
I'd up city Of hcenty thousand
souls, and with country adjacent n
lich and fertile, and as full OF tn
requisites to commercial wealth an,
prosperity as any in the State, o
even in the West
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the Wis. Central Railroad Com
pnuy. have submitted propositions il