The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-28
THE ST. CROLY AND LAKE SUPERB
OR RAILROAD TO BE BUILT.
THE NORTH WISCONSIN WILL ACCEPT THE GRANT
AND BUILD FORTY MILES THIS YEAR.

AND BUILD FORTY MILES THIS YEAR.
In relation to this all important
project, the St. Paul Press of the
22nd gives the following good news:
The Press, not long since, although appre-
hensve that the enterprise might fail, con-
graduated the people of Northern Wisconsin
and Minnesota on the passage by the Wis
consin Legislature, of the bill placing the st
Croix land grant IN the hands Of the North
Wisconsin Railway. The Press to-day CON
graduates the same people on the almost alb
solute certainty that the road from Hudson
TO Bayfield, will be speedily built. Jacob
Humbird, Esq, the building contractor of
the West Wisconsin Railway, and leading
stockholder in the North Wisconsin road,
met in this city yesterday a number of other
capitalists and railroad men, and the result
of the consultation was a determination to
accept the protfered grant from the State,
and to build the road Only a few prelimi
naries between the stockholders and parties
interested remain to be settled, when the Sc
curity contemplated by the Legislature will
be deposited, and the work commenced.
With this commencement the long delayed
development of northern Wisconsin will be-
gin and the Jealous labors and patient hope
fulness, through long and weary years of dis
couragement, of the friends of the road will
be in a measure rewarded We are assured
that the North Wisconsin company, headed
by Mr.. Humbird, himself large capitalist
has experienced no difficulty whatever in
raising the means for completing the road
Nor are the future operations of the company
made contingent upon a formal renewal Of
the grant by Congress; which renewal, it is
imagined, cannot be had. Acting on the ad-
vice Of able COUNSEL, the company is satisfied
with the title 10 the lands conveyed by the
Wisconsin Legislature
And from another article in the
Press of 27th we extract the follow
ing
Later advices showing that the first an
nouncement was correct, and that operations
will be commenced as soon as the early sum
mer will admit.
When the North Wisconsin Railway IS
completed from Hudson, Wis, to Bayfield,
and Superior, it will not only greatly assist
in the development of the northwest, but it
will be ore Of the feeders" OF ST. Paul
In this connection it may be proper
TO indicate follows, in few words, the
general character and quality of the grant
through which the road runs For the first
twenty-five miles, after leaving Hudson the
country IS we'll adapted to agricultural pur-
suits, and the road runs through fine prair-
lie region. After leaving the prairie country
the road strikes the hard tmbered lands
which strongly suggest certain parts of New
England or the Middle States-we wooded
good soi-fne water-and all things con-
sdcred an excellent farming country. After
getting some thirty-fye or forty miles out
from Hudson, the proposed line of road en-
ters the pine regions, ana of these it is I'M
necessary to speak, for all are acquainted
with the pineries of Minnesota and its sister
State, Wisconsin
In accordance with the terms Of the grant
as ar. anged by the Wisconsin Legislature
during the current winter, the branch line
from the junction to Superior will be built
by the Pacific Air Line Company, while the
Bay field branch will be constructed by the
North Wisconsin Railway Company, and be
part thereof.
1t is now definitely understood that the
North Wisconsin Railway Company accepts
the grant acceding to the terms Of the act !;
among the provisions of which is one stipu
latng that the first forty miles of road from
Hudson shall be completed during the pres
ent year. OF this forty miles some eighteen
are already built, and there is every reason
to believe that the remaining twenty-five
miles VII be completed before the year rolls
by. The company is allowed until the 9Th
OF MAY TO fle securities which have been
fixed At the rate of $4,000 per mile.
The above extracts from the St.
Paul Press, relate mainly to the-line
from Hudson to Bayfield,, and the
Madison papers give about the same
information as to the North Wis
consin r. X. Company-all Of which
however, is cheering news to Supe-
rior, for it the Chicago & Northern
Pacific Air Line Railway Company
fail TO comply with the terms made
with the State of Wisconsin, then
the North Wisconsin will no doubt
build the line to this place, as the
lands on the Superior line are doubt
less the most valuable, affording a
very great inducement to any com
pany.
But we have good grounds for be
lieving that the Chicago & North
ern Pacific Air Line Railway Co.
will accept its share of the grant;
and we should not be surprised to
see work begun by them, at Supe-
rior, the ensuing summer.