Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-24
THE RAILWAY.

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is talked about, people who know
nothing at all ABOUT it wink smartly
and say the enterprise amounts to
just nothing. This seems to do them
good, and so effectually disposes of
the subject, in their estimation, that
nothing further can be said upon it.
Incidence or incapacity, or both,
hinder them somewhat in the pur-
suit of truth, and they go on in Sc
rene Inconsistencies of being in all
respects just such creatures as the
more intelligent and fair.minded of
their fellows always think about
more in sorrow than in anger.
Now, the plain truth is, the Platte
vile railroad is good deal of rail-
road after all, representing as it does
a capital stock CT over $500, 900, and
run at an annual expense of from
thirty to fifty thousand dollars. The
light locomotives now used on these
eighteen miles of road will soon be
taken off and larger ones put in their
stead. This to meet the demand of
a constantly increasing freight and
passenger business. Mr.. Hammer
Robbins, without whose influence
and personal exertions the road
| would doubtleis have never been
built, informed a HERALD reporter,
not long ago, that the road is at
presant in a most prosperous condi-
dition and has brighter prospects
than at any time since its projection.
During the summer force of men
have been at work thereon, building
bridges, making fences, and straight
ening curves, so that the track is
now in almost perfect order from
end to end. Immense quantities of
freight leave Plattevile daily. Stock
by the dozen carloads is shipped
thence, the transports of grain and
other products being thereto proper
tionate. Two trains, a freight and a
passenger, arrive and depart daily.
These cars and coaches do not run
for nothing-for the mere fun of the
thing-but are usually as well laden
and filled as are the cars and coaches
on any of the ordinary we'll paying
railway lines in the country. And
when we consider that this road is q
terminal one, only eighteen miles in
length, the facts just mentioned ap-
pear in the true light, and show their
real significance.
Of the many marked benefits
which have resulted to Platteville
since the completion of this road lit
tie or nothing need be said at pres
ent. They are of permanent char
acter, and surely will not evanesce
or fade away even if we do not now
embalm them ia these columns.
Business men and capitalists general
ly of Plattevile know the truth of
these observations as well as shrewd,
wide-awake, intelligent men can
know them. They feel that the
railway will do for them great deal
more in the future than it has done
in the past that their business pros.
perity is thereby enhanced in many
ways; that through its agency and
by it's influence the town will steadi-
ly and normally develop into goodly
proportions and considerable com
mercial Importance, and if it had not
been for the worthy and enterprislng
gentleman whose name has already
been mentioned in this article. the
railway, though it would have been
thought about and talked about,
would most assuredly have never
been built.
A railway that's only half a rail-
way beats no railway all to nothing.
Bat people who build railways must
learn patience. They can't expect
their stock to yield them q thousand
per cent. profit the first year, or
even the first decade. They must
wait. 1t will all come around in
due season. If it don't, they alone
will be to blame. First the blade,
and then the ear, after which a big
granary full of good farm products !;
and then hot cakes, nice dry toast,
and good time generally,