Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-03-11

que railroad to the Dubuque Potosi
& Lancaster railroad. This Is the
result of Grant county modesty.
The delegates disperse. Ten days
later Mr.. Lapgw orthy, of Dubuque,
addresses an open letter to Judge
Mills, of Lancaster, complaining that
$50 many OF our people (Dubnqaers),
whose contributions of this character
have been invariably swallowed and
gobbled up by railroad stock jobbers,
insist hat il vii be necessary to pro-
vide in our articles of incorporation
guarantees for the faithful application
of every dollar contributed for the
construction of this road" This is
Dubuque modestyl Dubuque respond
ed to Grant county modesty, and
put the horse before the cart. Then
Dubuque says, "Gentlemen, our own
men have heretofore swallowed and
gobbled us. You must give US q
guaranty that you will not help them
| to swallow and gobble u.s." 1t was
Mr.. Langworthy who, at the
DUBUQUE railroad meeting, proposed
among Others, the names of Graves
and Rhombe g as directors for this
road. Who was it that heretofore
swallowed and sObbled the Du-
buyers?
/ do not think Judge Mills and Mr..
Jones should have been SO modest.
They should have said, "Gentlemen,
we are about to build railroad
through Lancaster to the rest of the
world. just now we want south~
ern or eastern outlet. When we
have that we will 60 on north. We
will intersect the sMilwaukee and
Prairie du CHEN Railroad at a feast,
BILE point. That will give you Du~
buquers lake and eastern commu-
cation, which you have not now
The ., oplo of our rich capital, Madi-
son, and other thriving towns, vii
thenccforward come to you for such
traffic as you Offer cheaper than Mil
waukee or Chicago. Oshkosh and
Green Bay are as near to Dubuque az
to Chicago. 1t will give you trans
portation for your eastern freights
both coming and going, that vii
make you partially rival of Chicago
But we will not stop yet. Our roaC
must go north to Lake Superior
The mouth of the Montreal river i:
due north of Dubuque, and is, on
on straight line hundred miles
nearer Dubuque than to Chicago. A
road connecting these points woul(
J cut Wisconsin nearly in halves
Even l.. Anse, CHAR across
upper Michigan, between thu
copper and iron regions, is as near t.
Dubuque as Chicago. Our road viii
90 through the greatest lumber dis
trict of America. Over 900, 600, 0O'
feet Of sa,oed lumber now annually g
out of Wisconsin, and twice as mucl
out of Michigan to consumers, bal
, of whom would be more cheaply
E reached by this road than by tn
means of transportation they nov
have. Our road would bring all thi
through Dubuque, and with sucI
facility for market the quantit.
would soon be doubled. Tho hund
reds of thousands of people pursuing
their industries in northern Wisconsin
and Michigan will get their supple
from the most cccessable and bes
market. That would be Dubuqae
Dubuquers so willed If Dubuqu
does not gather into her lap tn
wealth Of our north, she is blind
The road will be worth more to Du
buque than to all the villages along
its route put together. 1t will no
help Lancaster and Potosi very much
If this road was built many Of GU
people would go TO Dubuque on tn
morning train, spend there So, or SIC
and rolurn home in the evening
Our farmers and citizens would b.
individually benefited, while our vii
layers would be losers. The tim
has come when we must have tn
road. 1t will take profits out of tn
pockets of our traders, but the peopl
demand it, and the road aCit be built
Now, gentlemen of Dubuque, sine
YOU are to be benefited so much, will
you give US aid?
Isn't this the proper way to lool
at this subject? There is no objection
to having directors in the company
from Dubuque, but if Dubuque contri
buttons to railroad projects have here
tofore been "swalIowed and gobbled
by Dubuque sharks, wouldn't there
be somo guarantee OF faithful appli
cation of funds" if said sharks would
keep their fingers out of the pie? II
is not material to Lancaster whether
the road connect at Dubuque. If the
road here contemplated should ter.
inmate at Galena, Lancaster would
be just as we'll provided for, and in 6
short time GaIena would as far
surpass Dubuque as Dubuque now
does Galena. The wonder to me il
that the Illinois Central does not al
once take hold and build this back.
bone road from Galena and thus Sc.
cure an exhaustless feeder for both
it's southern and western arms.
d. U. SWALLOW.
LANCASTER, March 5.