The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-03-14

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f-elght locomotives a full supply Of fat
and box cars on band now and in use for
construction purposes. Everything is in
readiness for an early and vigorous prose-
cution of the work along the entire line,
and before the year 1873 the road will be
completed
FROM MILWAUKEE TO GREEN BAY.
The question has been in the minds of
many. @sill this line Of railroad pay, run
ning.in such close proximity to the Mil
waukce and Nortl ern road The answer
Is emphatically, yes! l. will not only pay
! but ii is bound to be one OF the most
profitable roads to the stakeholder that
now ccnters at Milwaukee. A visit to the
thriving and
BUSY TOWNS AND CITIES
along the line, and an examination the
statistics, showing the experts and I'M
ports at the different points, for the last
few years viii convince the most doubt
ing mind.
points in It's favor. Among them are the
cost of construction, which is less than
almost any other in the State; the grade
is nowhere over fifty feet to the mile a
solid road bed is made in the clay soil
it passes through large section Of the
| heaviest hard wood timber in the State
| ,bou 4h lOu e hn-
obtained on the line of the road at from
Sl.50 10 So. so per cord, and higher
price will not lie paid for some time to
come. 1t is strictly west shore enter
prise, and one that has the hearts of the
people enlisted in its favor, and will re-
eeive their patronage to man, which is
a sufficient guarantee as to its financial
success. To
JOSEPH Villas,
the president Of the company, is due the
| largest share OF the honor, for his untir-
ing energy and perseverance at time
when the prospects looked dark and
gloomy, and many of its warme5t friends
and supporters. seemed willing to give
up in despair.
The word fail is unknown to Joseph
| Villas. Being disappointed in his ex-
| peciations AT milwaukee, he turned his
ace eastward 4 brief negotiation So
cured the necessary funds to build and
| equip the road from Milwaukee to Green
Bay, also the Nlanitowoc, Appleton and
| New London Railroad, which is owned
by the same ompany and is, in fact, the
same road and twenty five miles Of
which is now completed and in operation
| fr0m ManitCwoc westward Joseph
Villas stands as the head, shoulders and
| front Of t}tis one of the most important
railroad enterprises that has been in
augurated in the State for many years.
The distance
FROM MILWAUKEE, TO GREEN BAY
over this line will be 1l3 miles. From
Sheboygan north it has no competing
line. From Sheboygan south it runs par
allel with the Milwaukee and Northern,
and about three miles distant at the
nearest point, in the town Of Milwaukee,
Milwaukee ,ounty, where they expect to
diverse eastward and strike the city
limits some where near the head of Pros
| pect street, then get down behind the
bluff follow the lake shore around and
get into
THE THIRD WARD,
where the probability is, they viii estab
liSh the machine shops. round lou e,
freieht depot, etc. Another application
will be made by the company to Milwau-
kee for certain favors and privileges,
which they will need in getting into the
city, and it is left to be seen whether Il e
same cold shoulder will be turned to
them Us has been heretofore.
In coDversing with many OF the leading
merchants and business men Cd the lake
shore towns, l fud they have natural
pride in the
GROWTH AND PROSPERITY OF MILWAU-
KEE,
as the commercial metropolis Of the State
and would like to give her their trade in
stead of going further and in many in
stances fariug worse. But while the peo-
pie oe Milwaukee subscribe SO freely to
other enterprises, and ignore every re-
of such vital Importance to them, and
none the less so to Milwaukee, they are
disposed to sever their comm arcial rela-
tons.
Every other railroad project in the
State has received a due degree of atten-
ton at the hands of the Milwaukee press,
and even at the hands of the Governor Of
the State in his first annual message, who
spoke of the different railroads in process
of construction. as well as the number of
miles built and by that company. At the
same time this company had twenty-five
miles of their road in operation west from
! Manitowoc and had fourteen miles of
track laid south from Sheboygan yet
Governor Washburn failed to mention
the fact.
The ramon comes through the Chicago
and Milwaukee papers to-day that the
! Chicago and Northwestern Company
have bought this road. But [ am auth
! orized to say that such is not the fact.
/ | would Ike TO mention some of the
! manufactur ing enterprises lately in this
city and tbs many evidences of prosperi-
. ty now existing. that did not before the
/ railroad was projected, but must defer
it until another time. K. W.