The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-01-22
WISCONSIN'S LAKE SUPERIOR
BORDER AND THE ST. h,
CROIX GRANT.

Ooruer, is notorious ana QleYraccful
fact. We doubt whether there is another
State in the UnioD, that can sh wv par
allel to the treatm' nt by Wlscsnna OF
this section. Ha / Illinois thus discrim-
mated against Chicago. Ohio against Toll
edo, or New York against Buffale, those
important terminal cities, like Superior
land Bayfield,, would to-day BIO msrs vii
ages. aa1ea
Thst Superior is not thriving city at
the present time, is due solely 10 o lack
IF raS5soag faeilHtes. and the chief hin
dranas in obtaining these, has been the
deliberate neglect Of the State aathori-
ties at the very time when q neighboring
state worked as one man, in and out OF
office, to build up her lake border a the
Expense of Wisconsin. E
! It is because Superior and Bayfield,
nave been ignored by sher own state and
| 'neir own legislature, that they are NOT
| to-day thriving Wisconsin cities The
selfshness and lncapacity displayed st
Madison last winter and before, tell why
MiaresstA port has had the Legislation,
he advertising, the inn.con,ing settlers,
the railway and steamer connections and
timely start, that of righs should nave
built up the cities ,'f Superior and Bay.
field.
Wisconsin's greatest neglect Of he,
Lake Superior border, has been her fail
re to SO dispose of the STINT Croix land
grant as to Develop this section, for which
purpose st aeas appropriated by Congress.
Ws now appeal to our new Governor
and Legislature, to redeem the name oi
Wiscor sin from great disgrace, by show
ing, in the prompt isposltion-this win
ser-of the ST. Crsix land grant, that she
recognizes the rights and property of her
Lake Superior border. Let the State
mene of III, case ran bs reached.
And in this connection, We beg to sub
init portion of All article which appear
oil in the Keno<ha, (Wis.} Telegraph,
written by Dr. HAYS Mckinley. editor OF
that paper, after visit to this section
last summer. Though not pecuniarily
IN crested, DR.. Mckinley seeing The stu
alton, his state pride led him to write the
following plain home talk In regard to
the St. Croix land grant:
| Delays are dangerous. The grant has
| lain too loHg without TIE State construct
ing the roads in accordance with the
grant. It has lain SO long that even if
there is SO danger of it's reVersion there
f. danger of lts being diverted from the
purpose for which it was granted. l.
was granted for the construction Of rail-
road frona or near Prescott on the Nissis-
sippi river 10 Superior and Bayfield,, aco
fer these purposes it should long ago
have been applied. Had it been applied
when it should have been, Superior
would probably now be place Of FIVE OF
ten thousand inhabitants and business in
proportion, and Duluth would have been
place If not more than as many hun,
arsds or perhaps not not have been. And
Bayfield, too might have quadrupled tho
number Of lie inhabtants aud the amount
of its business. But in place Of b'lis 3
railroad has heen constructed in Mime.
sofa from from St. Paul ID Duluth. and
Duluth, without natural advantages any
thing near equal to Superior, has became
the place Of thousands Of inhabitants and
business in proportion. In timc, there
will be city or cities at the hesd Of
Lake Superior Of one hundred th usand
0 inha Ditants- perhaps several hupdred
thouMnd-and the people OF Wi.cous,n
have some interest 10 where that city
shalt he. They certainly should have in.
Iterest enough even q. this late day not TO
r allow it. 10 betaken from Wisconsin aud
Ihu,ls up in Minnesota without an effort
I to retain it where it belongs And the
effort TO retain it. on The parb Of the State
Ewill consistslargely ia the speedy con-
lstruction of the rsllrsaa from 'hs Missls-
|sippi to Superior and Bayfield, in accord
ancs With the Superior and ". Croix
Immigrant Ard ,hdre should be nod
versinn of ,he grant for the construction
o. "ay ether roads till these rsads are
cor ssucted and equipped: ! Then and
, NOT till then if there is anything OF the