Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-12

organizers. The road was to run
from below jamestown to Prairie du
Chen.
In 1859 a company chartered the
privilege of building a railroad from
Lacrosse to Muscoda.
The Platteyille and Calamine X. X.
Co. was begotten in 1861. The road
was built. Owing to the strong faith,
ingenuity, and good works of Han
mer Robbins it is good road yet,
but if its engine ever whistles in Lam
caster it will be after he has smoked
out the Galena narrow gauge men.
In 1863 the Monroe and Riverside
r. r. Co. proposed to construct a
railroad from Monroe to the Mlssiss-
ippi at any point in Grant County.
Changed to Monroe and Dubuque in
1864.
In 1864 a chartered company pro-
posed to construct road from Mine
raj Point to Lacrosse, and from a
point on that road to point on the
Mississippi in Grant county.
The same year the Mil. d P. du G.
Co. was authorized either to lease or
build railroad from Mon.oe through
Grant county to the Mississippi
and to lease or build a bridge
across the Mississippi river. The
Platteville and Calamine was al
so privileged to extend its road to the
Mississippi near Dubuque. Hammer
Robbins asked for a charter to bridge
the river at that point. The Chicago
& Northwestern, jealous of such a
privilege, also asked for a bridge
charter. They did not want it so
much as they wanted to keep other
companies from gettingit. Moses NJ.
Strong also applied for charter for
road across Grant county, and a
bridge. The four-handed fight for
the bridge resulted in defeating it.
In 1865 Jefferson Crawford, S. r.
Lewis, G. l.. LaGrave, M X. Young
and N. w. Kendall, with others, Sc
cured charter to construct the Dun
leith & St. Croix river shore railroad
1t would have passed through James
town, Paris, Potosi, Waterloo, Cass-
vile, Glen Haven, Bloomington and
Wyalusing. One or two members, it
is said, rode into the Legislature upon
this road, but no other person ever
had ride upon it.
In 1866 the Oshkosh and Mississ
ippi railroad company received a
charter to build a road from Oshkosh
to any point on the Mississippi, or on
the state line between Wisconsin and
Illinois in Grant county. Among
the charter members were Hammer
Robbins, w. w. Field and Addison
Burr. The road was to be extended
from Oshkosh up into the Wisconsin
and Michigan lumber region, which,
connected with southern and western
roads and the river at Dunleith, would
have made it valuable road.
The Blue River Valley r. Co. pro-
posed in 1868 to build a road from
some point in Grant county on the
NJ. & p. du G. road to Wingville. w.
O. Thomas and others were corpora
tors.
The Southwestern Wis. r. R. Co.
was incorporated in 1868 to construct
road through Shullsburg to the
Mississippi in Grant county. It's cor
porators, except JEFF. Crawford, were
in Lafayette county.
Nelson Dewey, VIM. Humphrey,
II. A. w. McNair, w. p. Dewey, J.
G. Holloway, d. T. Parker, B. M.
Coates, w. w. Field and W. O.
Thomas constituted the Military
Ridge and Grant county railroad
company in 1869 The road was to
come in at the northeast side of the
county, pass through Fennimore, Lam
caster and Cassville, and terminate at
McGregor. No editors ever received
passes over it.
The Wisconsin and Dubuque rail
road company organized in Lafayette
in 1869 to build a railroad through
Shullsburg and through Grant county
to point on the Mississippi. That
point on the Mississippi has drowned
a great many railroads
In 1870 the Dubuque, PIatteville and
Milwaukee company was authorized
to extend its road to the mouth Of
Platte and thence up the Mississippi
to Cassvile and to connect with the
Military ridge road. Grant county
would have had a spiral network of
railroads that year if the zeal OF poll
ticians could have been moulded into
railroad iron.
In 1871 a new charter was given to
company to build railroad from
Dunleith along theriver shore through
Potosi, Cassville, Glen Haven and
Wyalusing to St. Croix.
The same year another Lafayette
company, called the Eastern and
Mississippi, organized to construct a
railway from Shullsburg to that fatal
point on the Mississippi.
This brings the record of defunct
Grant county railroads down to a
time in easy memory. Out of all the
projects the county has only the
stub end of Mr.. Robbins road, a
scratch of the NJ. 81 st. p, and the
wriggle tail Of the marrow Gauge"
EDw'D Pollock.
Tonoortar AuO 10 1879