The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-05-19
The Wisconsin Central.
Correspondence of the Oshkosh Northwestern
The Wisconsin Central has future

lC"rrespoudeH Hce of the Oshkosh Northwestern
| The Wisconsin Central has future of
GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES
Tor the development of region almost ex-
eiuslVels its own. Beyond the Wisconsin
| river II passes through a re giOn which, with
out railroad, would not have been reached
| TOR many years. The densest forest lies on
both sides OF the road, for scores of miles in
"idlh, and throughout the entire length of
/ the route. Now the traveller looks upon
| OoundIesS swampS OF tamarack or cedar.
presently he exchanges these for hemlock and
oITcA, w'tn towering pines which look down
upon The the rest like giants among bows
tnen he comes 10 the balsdms as sYmmetrtcau
! IN their appearance as the spires OF citv
No artificial work could add TO the beauty of
these evergreen forests No nursery OF a
lew acres could eclipse them Go where $
few acres are thichly set with egergreens and
! you have, on small scale, a model of these
forests OF Central Wisconsin Imagine then
a nursery hundred miles square set with
evergreens IS feet high But the evergreen
trees are not the only attraction. Ridges and
belts OF hard wood are iaterperssd and
entcrprlsing men alto making their home
there. At NO IL one OF these settlers
comes on board and sells you cakes of maple
sugar, assuring you that you are eating the
products OF his homestead, only few II. les
away. And what DO YOU mean by ''No. II -
dId YOU aay ?. Every science must make its
own lexicon, and this account would tail if it
dId not
THE STOPPING PLACES
made on the ROAD, III the solitude of the for
est were named for their distance from Ste
yens Point, NO. IL" being eleven miles
away, and 50 on. Mills and hotels, school
houses AID other equipments of the villages
OF al Older growth have demande for these
locations more dIgmhed names but the 10
drivers IN sgurred boots, au- coats and pan.
falcons made of red blankets, still adhere
70 the original nomenclature from Wisconsin
Valley Junction l''No. I'D to Worchester
Nlol'). Stevens Point is in fact the oegin-
ming OF the resources and tae initial point
OF
The EXCLUSIVE TERRITORY
OF this road. From there TO Milwaukee its
trains nose along al the mercenary gait OF
other railroads Eashionably dressed people
crowd lts coaches and enjoy Its advantages
jUss as J1ey 10 those Of other railroads bur
northwest tTpiG here the scene is changed.
lId tie isconsIn Central begins a career
not mike thar Of foreign missionary. Il
j the 9uly link b-eweea those frontier villa
ges and the o-Uside world It's trains are
waited for and watched out Of sight as the
nyiapl Calypso watched the raft OF
Ulysses
Waving haEdkerchiefs from tn r5ziest lit
tie i0s houses in the world make al on board
welcome TO the country The tram moves on
With Is living and iuanimate treight.-There
are seekers for homes and travellers for pleas
ure there are men going TO the woods to
/ drive logs and men on tue way to visit their
/ possessions, Which report says have been
/ piunlered Of their valuable pine The freight
cars are taking up supplies Of all sorts, even
| TO the hay for cattle and horses and returning
with lumber ana logs The country has
HARDLY ANOTHER EXAMPLE
( OF so vast region depending upoa one cor
/ poratOu
/ Settlers upon homesteads and railroad
I lands have already penetrated some distance
into the interior. They find better lands
t-ere for the railroad runs through the low
/ grounds tor considerable part Of its course
/ They mad u great variety OF lands, all heayi-
! Ly tnoered, but of all grades, from the pine
and lemlock lands to the hardwood ridges
through all possible proportions of hard
. wOOl and pine and hemIock Some tracss
"Il' have just about pine enough for the
I Dulitlngs necessary tor d good farm others
are almost exclusively oak, maple, ash elm
ami )asswOOd Other vast regions are erH
and aass-Tood. Other vast regions are nearly
worthless for farming purposes but valuable
tor tae pine upon them.