The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-06-21


BY 4 NEW COMPANY ORGANIZED AT
NLLTHA LIEE
A dispatch in the st. Paul Press dated
Milwaukee June IS, says that number of
the most prominent men of the city and
state, had meeting in Milwaukee the lat
ticabilty Of forming a railway company
which would accept the St. Croix land
grant, and fulfil the requirements imposed
by the legislature at its last session. The
meeting discussed the subject at considera-
bic length, and in all its bearings, and final
ly, having arrived at a complete under
standing, proceeded to organize under the
general law, and elect officers and board
of directors.
1t was then voted that the Company ac-
cept the grant as per national and state
legislation. Messrs. J. W. Cary, J. H.
Knapp, and J. @. Thorp were appointed a
committee TO notify the Governor of the
Company's acceptance of the grant, and to
give necessary security. This committee
pei IOl lhtd lllcli tpJl OI uSoidl ldol1 L 1 III
inst.
Wabashaw, Mimi, seems to be the start
ing point of the road, as the dispatch says
the directors will soon meet to provide for
the immediate commencing Of the road, and
the work of grading 20 miles beyond Wa
bashaw will begin at once. Besides build
ing from Hudson to Lake Superior, and
from Monroe TO ShuIsburg, it is given out
that the company will build from Waba-
shaw to Menomonee and from Wabashaw
to Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls.
1t may interest some Of our readers to fix
in mind the exact situation of this point in
reference to other more familiar localities
Wabasha is on the Minnesota side Of the
Mississippi river 45 miles Gn an airline
the mouth of the St. Croix river. 1t is "a
miles southeast by south from Hudson; 100
miles nearly due south from Superior; 206
from Green Bay; 2l8 from Sheboygan; 225
from Milwaukee; 20 from Chicago.
Ii is 35 miles south Of Menominee, and
10 and 81 miles respectively in south
westerly direction, from Eau Claire and
Chippewa Falls, being situated nearly op-
posite the mouth of the Chippewa river,
and about 0 miles south Of the latitude of
Stevens Point, and Green Bay. Of course
the roads to be built, viii vary considera-
blv from the air line owing to following the
valleys Of rivers, or taking in the various
towns within few miles of their general
route.
The officers and directors of the new
road, are said to represent a wealth OF TWEEN
ty millions. They are reported to have ad-
vanced a large sum to begin the work I'M
dertaken, and this is considered proof Of
their resolve to complete it. The Eau
Claire Free Press says the Company is as
sisted also by several outside parties, who
advance in cash from ten TO twenty thou
sand dollars, Alex. Mitchell himself being
credited with having furnished the latter
amount.
The Free Press further says it is under
stood that the Wisconsin managers of the
Milwaukee 81 St. Paul Company are anx.
ious to repair the damages that the foreign
stockholders of that road have done, in
preventing their acceptance of the grant
and that they will render the new Company
such financial aid and encouragement, as
will place the Wisconsin Railway in such a
position that it can proceed at once with
the work
In the words of the same paper we say
all honor to the perseverance and energy
OF the new company who have so bravely
undertaken a work which is to deveIope
this Northwest, and besides, add millions
to the wealth Of the State"
The st. Paul Press makes no special
comments on this new and promising en-
terprise, but we find in the Pioneer Of the
l8th the following resume of the situation
which we give entire. This gives the name
of the new corporation as the Wisconsin
Railway Company, a noble and heretofore
most suitable: as the new road, more than
any other at present, will tend to the full
development of a long neglected half of the
state. The Pioneer says:
Most of our readers will recolect the long
and bitter contest which took place in the
Wisconsin Legislature at its last session,
over the disposal of the so-calied ST. Croix
Land Grant, the particulars of which we
need not recapitulate. Suffice it to say that
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