Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1877-04-14
NORTHERN TRIBUNE.
SATURDAY. APRIL IA. 1877.
THF PAST AND FUTURE.


Do any of the readers of the TRIBUNE
stop to think how much real progress
Cheboygan village and county have made
in the past year and half? How many
improvements have been inaugutated,
which will, before many years, make
Cheboygan rank as the most rapidly
growing portion of the great north Of a
great state. Let us see what less than
two years have accomplished for this
place. The harbor has been so much i'm
proved that instead of two regular boats
per week, there Is one nearly every day,
more than any other town in this section
of the state. We have ananother appro-
priation for still further improving the
harbor, and one for range lights, the
work upon which will commence this
season. We have received an appropria-
ton from the state for, and have nearly
completed, Improvements upon our in
land lakes, which will give us direct
communication fifty or more miles in
land, and with thousands of acres of
land. We have have secured the letting
Of contract for the construction of a
state road through the entire county
minor item last week. single town
ship in the south part of the county,
that two years ago had not white voter
residing in it, now has population OF
nearly two hundred. Other parts of the
county have improved considerably, but
perhaps not so. fast as this, still all de-
sirable portions have been settling rap
idly. All this has been accomplished in
the midst of hard times, which have
caused many other places to cease growth
entirely. We venture the assertion that
no town in the state has made such sub
stantial Roadway towards a prosperous
future as has Cheboygan,
Much has been accomplished for this
place through the aid of the general gov
eminent and the state, and towards Sc
curing this aid We are'glad to know that
the TRIBUNE has had much influence.
We have many advantages bestowed by
nature. We have had assistance from
appropriations, but this is not all that is
needed. We want united people, all
working towards one end. and that the
future of the county. We cannot sit idle
and let the state and national govern
ments accomplish all. Such things some
times work against us unless we do our
part. This is the case with the state
road above mentioned across the state
1t will open dp large territory for set
Element and improvement; it will bridge
the principal rivers in the county. Still
if we do not take some measures to in
tersect that road with one from this
place, the trade of all the southern por.
ton Of the county will be taken from US
and to Alpena and Petoskey. The com
pletiOn of the improvements of the navi
CATION of our lake will give them sum
mer outlet, buta road must be constructed
to give them winter accommodations. TIL
residents of that country south of Bur
lake now even have to go to Petoske,
for their mail, because they can get Their
easier than they can here. This shonlt
not be. because it takes all other bushes
there also.
We take pleasure in calling the atten
ton of our readers to the progress Che
boygan has made in the past, but we ais
desire to call their attention to the fac
that the ball must be kept rolling
Nothing must be allowed to drag whicl
will add to the growth of the place.