Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-03
RIVER FALLS r. r.
pnoB4n111rr OF IT'S BEING B.11T.
Conference last evening at Merchants
Hotel-Prel minary Organization for
Building aRailway from Hudson to River
Falls.

An important business meeting held at
the Merchants Hotel last evening. Messrs. A.
II. Wilder, A. B. Stickney, r. F. Hersey. Horace
Thompson E. F. Drakey, VIM. Crooks, and J.
u. Merrianm of the directory of st. Paul, Still
water, and Taylor's Falls Railroad Company,
with Mr.. c. Gotzian, of st. Paul and Hon. D.
NJ. Sabin of Saltwater, for consultation and
agreement regarding the proposed building of
railway from Hudson on the st. Croix to
River Falls on the Kininikinic in Pierce coun-
ty, Wis.,, met the following named gentlemen
of Hudson and River Falls.
Hudson-Major d. G. Fulton, Hon. John
Comstock, A. W. Hall, C. L. Hall, H. A. Tay-
or, Amos Jefferson, John Glover Frank Hard
ing and J. R. Ismon.
River Falls-Dr. A. d. Andrews, A. Earth
man, j. B. Thayer, E. Burnett, Geo. Fortune,
r. r. Stephens and G. B. MERCK.
The meeting was organized with the Hon. d.
Z. Fulton as chairman, but the proceedings
were entirely informal though business-like in
its progress aud results. Out of several group
consultations were evolved the following prop
ositions: The right of way for the proposed
railroad will be secured and paid for by Hud-
son and River Falls, each place taking it's half
by Hudson and River Falls, enough to give
these localities an influential voice in the man
agement of the proposed railway and enough
to give the company building and owning the
road an assurance of local interest and support
Citizens of Saltwater will subscribe to the
stock in five proportions to the interest in and
prospective gain of their city from the proposed
road. These propositions, were of course, to
the gentlemen of st. Paul above named Fur
Their group consultations, with informal propc-
sitions and general discussions of ideas advanced
as to the various details of the project. the
money question naturally being most ear nestly
if not most prominently considered, resulted
in formal pledge of stock subscriptions from
the gentlemen present, not sufficiently to pro
vide fully for the building of the road, as con-
templated, without mourning onerous debts,
but enough to encourage the hope that a COM
pany will be organized strong enough to build,
equip, and operate the road without running
serious risk of the stock being lost in payment
of debts incurred in construction An adj
journed meeting to receive further stock sub
scriptions and to organize the company, under
the laws of Wisconsin, is to be held Wednesday
next at o'clock.
The projected road will have its line through
about twelve and half miles of rich farming
fields. Its western terminus, Hudson, is we'll
known to our readers the political and COM
mercial capital of the wealthiest among the
northwestern counties Of Wisconsin. It's east
ern terminus, River Falls, is the most thriving
village of Pierce County, the natural center Of
the extraordinarily rich region watered by the
Kinnikinnic and its tributaries, having cheap
water-power sufficient for extensive manufac-
turing, and already a manufacturing point of
considerable Importance but limited by the
lack of transportation facilities. The build
ing OF a railway connection for River Falls will
inevitably bring to it very large trade, stead
lily increasing from the country south
and east of it. While this trade, as it increases,
will build up River Falls and help Hudson and
Saltwater, if stimulated by connection with
the Wisconsin and Minnesota system of rail
ways, it will also add to the commercial bust
ness of st. Paul, while Strengthening it's rail
way interests in Northwest Wisconsin. We are,
therefore, glad to chronicle as a fact, what was
clearly apparent in this meeting that the bust
ness men and capitalists of the cities and
villages named, are tremendously united upon
this project, and agreed in the belief that they
will be able to make it fact accomplished be-
fore another winter sets in.