Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-01
RAILROAD ELECTION
Town OF Lancaster.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, !
GRANT COUNTY, So.
Town of Lancaster.
Notice is hereby given, that
WHEREAS, The Chicago and Tomah Railroad
Company, on the Sd day of May, 1878, filed in
the Office of the clerk of said Town, a PROPOSE.
ton of which the following is copy, viz
PROPOSITION:
The Chicago and Tomah Railroad Company. n Cor.
poration duly organized under and by virtue of the
laws of the State of Wisconsin, for the purpose Of
building and operating railroad under the name and
style aforesaid from Chicago, in Illinois to Tomah in
Wisconsin, the construction of which railroad has
been begun at Wauzeka, and at Bloomn gdale and al
points and sections intermediate in the State or Wis
consn, propose to build and operate its road narrow
gauge. to-wit., of the gauge three feet ; and
WHEREAS, The several municipal corporations OF
the State of Wisconsin authorized by law 20 Aid
the construction of railroads. and especially narrow
gauge railroads; therefore, in order to secure
aid in and for the construction of its railroad in nc.
cordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin the
Chicago Tomah Railroad Company proposes to the
town of Lancaster, Grant County, Wisconsin to sub
scribe for Forty. Two Thousand Dollars of the first
mortgage bonds of said railroad compan said
bonds to be secured by trust deed of that
portion of its proposed line from Wauzeka southwark
and that said railroad bonds shall bear eight Der
interest per annum the interest to be paid semi .an
nualy, and the whole amount of said railroad bonds
to be issued under said mortgage not to exceed FIVE
thousand dollars per mile, and that the payments by
said town for said bonds shall be in instalm epts M
in money-as follows, to-wt.:
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company proposes
that the town Lancaster shall pay the Chicago
Tomah Railroad Company two thousand dollars
upon the delivery OF each fifty tons of steel or iron
rails suitable for road of three feet gauge npon the
cars of the Milwaukee Il St. Paul Railway, at Wood.
man or Wauzeka, until eight hundred tons are do
livered aforesaid, and upon the payment of said
money by said town of Lancaster, the said railroad
iron shall be delivered in trust to George w. RyIand
for the purpose of ironing the portion Of the Chicago
and Tomah railroad between point ON the Chicago,
Milwaukee st. Paul railway near the mouth of
Green river and the city OF Lancaste and it shall be
the duty OF said trustees to deliver said iron TO the
Chicago Il Tomah Railroad Company, as the same
may be required by said company to lay the track be-
tween the mail line of the Chicago d Tomsh railroad
in the town of Fennimore and the city of Lancastar
and for no other purpose till said railroad is com
pleted to the city of Lancaster, herein
two thousand dollars each one quarter Of the
grading is completed between the city of Lancaster
and the junction with the main line of the CHICAGO i
| Tomah Railroad Company-and that all payments
unpaid by said town shall be paid when said Railroad
Company has completed its road ready for the
of cars with locomotive and cars running thereon
from the above mentioned point on the Chicago Mil,
waukee st. Paul railroad near the mouth of Green
river to the city of Lancaster.
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company nronosa.
to said town Of Lancaster that the said Railroad Com
pany shall deliver to said town the first
ofsad Railroad Compan of the class herein described
at the par value ofthe same amount and at the same
time that the payments are made by said town to sad
Railroad Company in accordance with the terms Of
this proposition. The certificate OF the engineer in
charge OF the work hedin the Office of the clerk
Of said town shall be evidence OF the fuilmant ~
this contract aforesaid by the Railroad Comnanv
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company pronosss e.
establish depot at such point as the citizens NAV
designate within the corporate limits of said citv
provided depot grounds furnished free of ~
tine company and the right of way to the sama
the city. And said Chicago Tomah Railroad Com
pany agree and bind said company to run at lanai
train OF cars to and from the Chicago MilwanLae
st. Paul 4. r. and the city Of Lancaster, each dav
Sundays excepted from and after the completion Of
said road to said city, and that in the porton ~
said road running southerly from Fennimore shall b
extended so that any portion OF its track shall RIM
further south than said city, 1t shall be so extended
from the depot grounds in said city, and shau -
within onehalf mile of the court house in sad ci,v
and said company further agree that no other d.no
or station shall be established said road within
eight miles OF said city OF Lancaster.
The Chicago 4 Tomah Railroad Compapv nro.sa
to complete said railroad ready for the passage Of
cars, from connection with the Milwaukee, + 81
Paul Railroad 70 .ne city OF Lancaster aforesaid ON
or before the LIST day OF November. A. D. ISIS with
locomotive and cars running thereon.
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Companv nrano,a.
to nix and establish Tor the period of years from
the acceptance OF this proposition and its IN art
tn part of the towu OF LancAs ter tho sail co,
psny's rate OF transportation of passengers and
Laws of the State OF Wisconsin, the session Of the
legislature, A. D., 1874, commonly known =. the
Potter Law, and aise in accordance with the
amendments TO SAID chapter, which said rates have
been established as maximum rates by a resolution
OF the board OF directors of the Chicago & Tomah
Railroad Co., adopted at meeting of sail had Of
directors, at Wanzeka, on the 2sth of JnIv A d.
1875. ' " -
Dated this 50 day of May A. D.. 1878
L. H. CULVER, Sec'y. q. b T. Il. r. Co.
d. r. w. WILLIAMS,
President Chicago Tomah Il r.. Co
AND WHEREAS, A petition of more than
twelve resident free holders and legal voters
of said town, to the town clerk and Board OF
Supervisors of said town, that said proposition
be submitted to an election to be held by the
legal voters of said town, as the law provides
has been fled in the Office of said clerk; and
the Supervisors of said town. deeming the
same proper, have ordered that the town
clerk of said town Immediately publish a
notice of such ar election, in manner and
form as the law provides, rra
Now, THEREroRE, An election win be held
by the legal voter. of said town at the Court
House, the same being the usual place O.
holding elections in said town. on Tuesday
the goth day of August, 1873, to be held and
conducted in the same manner as are genera
elections, for the purpose of deciding whether
said town viii accept or reject said PROPOSE
ton, and the legal voters of said town ar,
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