Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-09-03

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the road could be- mortgaged for the
iron and rolling stock. His plan would
be to cross the summit at Dodgeville
by heavy grades, and, as the machine
shops, round house &C., would be loca-
ted here, there would never be any diff
fculty about sufficient number of ex-
ira engines to assist the trains over the
summit. Dir. Strong grew quite elo-
quent over the Expectations" of this
road. It would be the great wheat
road of the country. An average of
about so car loads of wheat would pass
over its line every day. to be converted
into flour by the mills on the Fox riv-
er, thereby increasing the value of
every bushel of wheat in this section
atleast ten cents by reason Of its being
made into -four nearer home than at
present. For the return cargo,it would
have the vast amount of pine lumber
used in the southern part of this State
and the great State of Illinois, for
which this road would furnish the
cheapest and most direct route. He
did not doubt that this road when COM
pleted, would pay its stockholders an
nual cash dividends of at least ten
per cent. on cost of $40, 900 per mile.
Farmers with surplus. money to invest
could find no safer or more profitable
place to put it than in the stock of this
company. And then the conyeniences
which it would furnish for travell At
Arena it would connect with the great
Milwaukee & St. Paul, giving us di-
rect line from the far east to the far
west; little further on we have the
great Chicago & Northwestern, giving
us direct line to St. Paul, and from
St. Paul we can go to Superior' s'and
from Superior you can go-you can
go-just where you pleaseF'
We regret our inability to report
Mr.. 'Strong's speech "uerbatins 1t lether-
athina,'' but the above contains most
of his points, and will be sufficient to
give the reader an idea of the SUBJ
stantial, Cuisines" portion of it.
Judge Cothren was the next speak
err. He said that he had noticed the
people of Dodgeville were thinking of
building a railroad ,and he had come out
to helpthem. He had been trying to
get ra.lroad SO Dodgeville and through
the county for the past twenty-five years,
and while he had not succeeded, he
felt that he had done as much as any
one else towards it, and he believed he
was still ready to do as much as any
one else. He then spoke Of the adyan-
tages which would result to Dodgeville
from an extension Of the NJ. Pt. r.. r.,
but thought it would be impossi bic
to get any aid for the project outside
Of this town. While he believed that
even Mineral Point would be ben
Gifted by this extension, the people
there could not now be brought to view
it in that light, aud he and Mr.. Cobb
superintendent Of the NJ. P. road
had incurred the disfavor of number
Of the citizens of that place by even
proposing to extend the road to Dodge
vile. lie then renewed his PROPOSE
ton published in these columns last
March and referredto above by Judge
Strong, and added that if the people
doubted that it was made in good
faith, he would make new propo-
sition-that he and Mr.. Cobb would
join any number Of Our substantial citi-
zens in q construction company to
build the road, our citizens to grade
and tie the road and secure the right
of way, he and N. Cobb to furnish
and lay the iron, and each party to
hold stock according to the amount of
capital put in; and he and Mr. Cobb
would guarantee that the M. T. r. r.
Co. should run at least one train day
over the road when completed, in
of which it should receive
the gross earnings. The estimated
cost of grading and tieing the road
from Mineral Point to Dodgeville, and
buying the right of way, is $4,000.
This may be correct, or it may not.
1t may cost more. But, at any rate.
the proposition is for Dodgeville to do
the work, whatever the cost, and we'll
fulfill our part of the contract. This
was the best proposition he could
make: if our people could not accept 1t.
he hoped they would not find fault
with him or his associates. The east
ern capitalists who own and control the
M. PIT. r. r. are scared by the Potter
Law, and are not disposed to invest a
cent in Wisconsin railroads, except
what may be necessary to save or en-
nance the value of what they have al
ready invested. 1t would not be to
the advantage of the M. P. R. r. Co.
to extend its line to Dodgeville if it was
to stop here, but the hope Of Messrs.
Cobb and Cothren was, that if they
could once get the line to Dodgeville,
they might then be able to get sufi-
cient aid from some source to extend it
at least to the Wisconsin river, and
thereby get their money back. He
said that he wanted to see Dodgeville
have railroad, and that he had no
hostility to any other project that we
might have under consideration If
We should decide on building some
other road, he would show his good
will toward US by coming out and TAX
ing off his coat and giving us two or
three good days work. But he hon
estly believed that our best interests
and the best interests of the county
could only be subserYed by the extern
sion of the NJ. PIT. road