, 1873-04-07
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway.
The History Of a Great Cor
poratfon.
Its Growth and Present Cob.
dition.


email beginning. 1ta origin wAa ID tho plodding
days When Henry Dodge was Torritorinl Gov
ernor Of Wisconsin. Quo Of his last official acts
was to approve tho clartor Of tho Lake
Michigan & mississippi Railroad Company.
It's incorporators could not docido upon
it's Western terminus until tho year fol-
lowing, when thoy concluded TINT
Cassyillo, on the mississippi, would DO good
p1nco to put In tho bumpnrs Thoir enterprise
started rival, which frat proposed to run from
h1ilwaukoo to prnircyillo, in Waukosha County,
thon longthoncd out to Madison, and, in 1860,
stretched, in calculation, to tho Msaissippt, and
WAS ntioualy styled tho milwaukee, & Mia-
ssBippi Railroad Company. Those wera
wIsooSs1N's PIONEER ATrEsrTB
and woro nothing moro. Still they wore tho
modest beginning Of tho now {ar-oxtending
Milwaukee i st. Paul Railway. But with tho
prosont grand roault tho projectors Of tho litt1o
Stub limo to Wau1teshn nre not to bo credited.
Their most enlarged idea did not tako in St.
Paul. Tho mississippi bounded their an
bttion. How to got to il was poser.
And how they eventually did, tho victims
tzod farmers along tho routo have particular In
forest in telling.
A. hard knot Of politicians controlled tho State
whom William A. Daretow goyornod it, from 1851
to 1864. They wcre doubly corrupt. It Was
their wont to soil out nt moderate prlce to tho
first bidder, thon nurroudor 70 q second pnrty at
considerable advance. They Affiliated wlth tho
original rni11oad clique. Among thom woro
Byron Knbollrno. Moscs knooland, Edwin II.
Goodrich and others, who to tho dofudcd farm
era of Southern Wisconsin became 'tto memory
den" by tho significant uppo1ation of
DAusrow AND TIE ronTY THIEVES"
an Influential few helongoa to tho "rraying
band j" and affecting storios a1o yet ro1ntel how
Deacon Deacon Glinton M On % assombled the i: g. sontlding
houses" took fervont part In tho exorciaes, and.
undor tho aubtiuing influence OF kindred doyo-
ton, secured mort tgagos Of tho best farms in OK
change for stock Of tho projected railroads to
Laoroaao aud prairio an ohicn.. Whether tho
result il q rninous fact. Farmers who woroproH-
poring slowly, but surely, caught Tho mauic for
railroads. Tho running Of line through
esn,'s Or adjacent to tholr far1ns they in'io-
] 'sIoft cut" to abundant s1 wealth. D'D' Tho
proceeding, moreover, had tho sanction Of law.
20 tlcy tvltstfully 1nortgaged their farms to
build tho roads. Never wero fond expectations
oning shilly-ahailying policy, the farmers woro
given the roads IN exchange for their firms.
For tho Inv had boon rolont1ossly executed and
es, esoros OF toiling mon, who, coming to
WI wisconsin ,shen it ,t9as j. Wilderness,
l.. -NH-N tsNiA
homestoads md reduced to beggary. They had
Glson lilst mortgages III exchange for stock Of
Tug Milwanloe + Laorosac and tho milwaukee,
Prairlo du Ohlea Railroads; and as the :: forty
experts mado no honest effort to build the
roads, but coolly diRposod Of tho mortgages in
New York, tho victlmizcd farmers, ro-
eeelvlng co no return M thorefor, wore sold out
,,roaonss or nouso 30 nna hono Wlsconsiis history
Upon the perpetrators Of tho ahamelcss fraud
purses loud and bitter, for nsany years, wore
heapoa md, amid il-supprossca dosostatiou,
she roedh struggled into psecarioan existence.
o. hleant'no, little stub lines Ind boou r.,nuing-
hto n e. debt. Upon QUO Of then-.fresn milwaukee,
70 Observation-Disclosures $. 8. Morrill, collected
tickess go satisfactorily M that, aftor doing like
eeryaco on tho Watortown road. he was promoted
70 n tho M management Of tho combined roads tint,
TOT sna to last haf dozen years. he has 80 sby
.,. ,osI IN THE DARKEST rEn1oD-
si,s spout 1aoo-Aloxanler Mitchell first camo in
teigns tg ,I;s as railroad headlight n conjuno-
saa, ION WIN Aans orocker md Byron Nlbourn, ho
s9Gurod sq3ll. charter to construct road from
anwankeo aN through Portage City to
1a51