The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1873-06-12

From the Sturgeon Bay Advocate, june 5th.
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From the Sturgeon Bay Advocate, juno 5th.
Mr.. J. d. Markham, of ManitowOc,
was in town this week, who being one of
the Directors of the Lake Shore Rail
road from Two Rivers to Milwaukee, we
interviewed him on the railroad ques-
ton, and found him fully alive and bri1n-
full of the importance of the extension of
the Lake Shore Railroad to the Ship
Canal and Sturgeon Bay. From Mr..
Markham we learn that the line from
Two Rivers to Milwaukee viii shortly be
completed, there remaining but few
small gaps each side of Manitowoc to
finish UP. The road from Manitowoc to
Appleton built year ago is now COM
pleted to Menasha, where it connects
with the Wisconsin Central Railroad aud
was built from. Manitowoc to Appleton,
a distance of forty miles under circum-
, stances worthy of note, and exhibiting
rare energy and pluck in the business
men of Manitowoc who built it, there
being no settlements along the entire
forty miles, but traversing a dense tim
bereG coontry, gave no promise OF way
freight or traffic to make business for the
road, and yet within year of its being
built they are doing an immense business
along the line in carrying timber to the
manufactures of Appleton and Menasha,
and ship timber and stave timber to
Manitowoc.
| AS an example of what railroad does
| to open up and develope the country it
passes through, it is only necessary to
say that the year before the line from
! Manitowoc to Appleton was built, the
| ship building of Manitowoc amounted
| to $500, 900 for the year, while since the
railroad has been built, the increased IA
| cilities it affords for getting the rich
stores of oak and other timber has swell
ed this business in the present year to
| 5000, 0O0) three million dollars.
| The large amount of business done on
| the railroads leading out of Manitowoc,
although but year III operation, aston
ishes the projectors ond builders, and the
fact just mentioned, of building a rail-
road forty miles through the wilderness,
/ demonstrates that a railroad from Two
| Rivers to Sturgeon Bay and the Ship
| Canal. passing as it will, through the
populous towns of Kewaunee and Anne
pee, and the now growing settlements of
! Foscoro and in the town of Clay Banks
to Sturgeon Bay and the Ship..Canal, will
at once furnish the company with pay
| ing business.
! Mr.. Markham, as Director, and speak
ing for the company, gives the people of
| Door and kewaunee counties every en-
| enlargement that this line of road will
be built at an early day, if the coun-
ties and farmers and business men along
the line will do their part. Our counties
are filing up rapidly, the Lake shore
| from the Ship Canal to Manitowoc will
soon TEEN with busy population, all
our merchants, mill owners and business
men transact the bulk of their trade with
Milwaukee and Chicago, and know the
value of direct connection with those
places. *
The Lake Shore line of railroad COM
mends itself to the people of Door and
Kewaunee counties,-it is emphatically
Wisconsin institution, projected and
carried on by the energetic business men
of Manitowoc and the cities and towns
and counties through which it runs, they
| have met and overcome all sorts of diff
cIllties that stood in their way, and to-
| day their railroad stands completed line
of eighty-three miles Oh the Lake shore
to Milwaukee, and fifty miles to Apple
! tor and Menasha, connecting with all
parts OF the continent.
| Men of Door and Kewaunee counties,
| don't let us throw away this golden OPP
portunity, but invite these railroad men
to come among us with proposals of what
they want the counties to do, and let US
be up and doing.