Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-01-21
Governors Message.
Continued from last sesk.)
RAILRUADS

now under process of construction
sh all be completed. there will be fe "
communities that have not railroad
facilities al no great distance iron
them.
In the last year. the Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Company has completed
road laid with steel rails,on short
tine from Milwaukee TO Chicago, aRC
IT is understood that the same com
pany will soon extend their roac
west To the Mississippi, thus giving
| additional accommodations TO The
citizens of the counties of Green La
Fayette and Grant.
The Chicago and Northwestern
Railway company is rapidly pushing
forward to the Mississippi river and
connection with its line in Minne'
sofa, and connecting with the West
ern Wisconsin at Eroy, now has O
direct communication via. Madison
Baraboo. Black River Fall, Humblrd
Augusta Eau Claire, NJ nonononie,
and Hudson, with St. Paul, and has
exIendt d its road along the westerly
shore OF Green Bay to EScaDaba thus
forming direct ailway connections
with Marquette IN Lake Superior
This same company will soon open
al sir line road now nearly cOmpiet-
ed between Fond du Lac and Mil
waukee.
The Green Bay and Lake Pepin
Railroad Company has extended It's
road the past season with great en-
ergy from New London on the Wolf
river, to a connection with the West
Wisconsin at Merriilnn, distance Of
over 100 miles, and will probably
rea' b the Mississippi within the
year The Lake Shore road is now
in OPP ration to Sheboygan, and will
soon be To Mauitowoc, where il will
connect with the Manitowoc and
Mississippi Railroad, now completed
To Appleton. The Milwaukee and
Northern Railroad il now completed
TO Menasha. and in few weeks Will
be- open TO Green Bay, from which
point it is proposed To rapidly push
forward to Shawno and Lake SUPERB
or.
The Sheboygan and Fond du Lac
Railroad bias extended its line, the
present season, to Princeton. and but
for Misunderstanding with another
Company, | am assured. would al.
ready be at Portage City from which
point it proposes connection with
N,azrei puiut, thus opening UUV a
very important and already well de-
velnped portion of the State.
A Narrow Gauge Railroad is being
constructed from Galens, Illinois, u
Piattevile and Lancaster in Grant
County and Will be in operation nex'
Summer, and will no doubt be Ci
great benefit to the farmers of that
section Of the State.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad
Company is rapidly compl Ting it.
road through the heart Of the State
to Lake Superior, working from botL
ends Of the line, In the past season
about fifty miles have been completed
northwest of Stevens Point, and sew
eral miles from Ashland on Lake Su
peIior. Another favorable season
will no doubt witness the completion
Of the liz and as | understand thai
the company has lea ed the Mlwau'
kee and Lake Shore Road and the
Manitowoc and Mississippi road, il
will thus have continuous line from
Lake Superior TO Milwaukee, frs,
reaching Lake Michigan at the ex-
ceilenl barber OF Manitowoc, from
which point swift line of steam err
will connect at Pere Marquette, il
Michigan with the Detroit Railroad
thus making a short line to the At
lantic cities y
This a very important railway en-
terprise TO the State, and so far a
constructed, has been in the best anC
most substantial and it's roll
ing stock is all OF the first quality.
1t is land grant railroad, will
The exception of that portion of tn
limo lying between Lake Wlnnebag'
and Stevens Point. This company
having completed twenty miles o
continuous road northw est of Steven
Point, applied tt me in July last Il
examine it and determine if was con
structed in accordance with the nc
OF Congress making the grant. ex
ahmed the road on the "A b day o
July, ADD found twenty miles of th'
road constructed in "a satisfactorl
manner, but on being applied TO Ger
tify tthst fact 10 the Secretary of th
Interior, | declined to do 80 for tn
reasons stated by me- in communica
ton With the Wee President Of tb
road, dated August II 1872, copy
OF which will be laid before you
b fore arriving at the determination
able attorneys for the road wer
heard in suppo' OF the application
and equally able against it. At
Subsequent day, on tue 10Th day o
November, on consultation With th
Attorney General, gave a certif
cate to the Secretary of the Interior
that twenty miles bad been con
structed, and that under a charte
from this state 10 the VIM, bago an
Lake Superior Railroad Company
the Wisconsin Central Company Wa
entitled 10 receive an undivided ore
half of the lands granted along sal
twenty miles So constructed. !
copy Of thaI certificate will be lai
before you.
As lawyers differ so widely in opir
ion as to what the rights of oondict
ing parties under the law, l shs
withhold any further certificate unt
the legislature can instruct me on th
subject, or the Supreme Court sha
give an opinion as to my duty in th
premises.
The West Wisconsin Railroad Con
psny, within The last six days, hs
taken mp q portion OF railway trsc
from Tumah to Warren's Mills, 8 di
lance II about twelve miles, an
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