Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-08-15
Observation-Disclosures.
RAILROAD ELECTION
Town Of Lancaster
STATE OF WISCONSIN, !
GRANT COUNTY, :
Town of Lancaster


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. PROPOSE
ton of which the following is copy, viz:
PROPOSITION:
The Chicago and Tomah Railroad Company a 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 and
style aforesaid from Chicago, in Illinois to Tomah in
Wisconsin, the construction of which railroad has
been begun at Wauzeka, and at Bloomngdale. and at
points and sections intermediate in the State Wis
consin propose to build and operate its road
gauge, to.wit., of the gauge three feet and
WHEREAS, The several municipal corporadeps OF
the State of Wisconsin authorized by law 20 aid
the construction of railroads, and especially
gauge railroads; now therefore, in order to secure
aid in and for the construction of Its railroad in
cordance with the laws of the State Of Wisconsin, the
Chicago & Tomah Railroad Company proposes to the
town of Lancaster Grant County, Wisconsin, to SUBJ
scribe for Forty Two Thousand Dollars of the first
mortgage bonds of said railroad said railroad
bonds be secured by trust deed gage of that
portion of its proposed line from Wauzeka ward
and that said railroad bonds shall bear eight per cent
interest per annum, the interest to be paid semi
nua ly, 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 nstallm ents
in money-as follows, wit:
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company proposes
that the town Lancaster shall pay to the Chicago
Tomah Railroad Company two thousand dollars
upon the delivery of each fifty tons of steel iron
rails suitable for road of three feet gauge npon the
cars of the Milwaukee Il st. Paul Railway, ut Wood
man or WauZeka, until eight hundred tons are de-
ljvered 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. Ry land
for the purpose of ironing the portion Of the Chica
and Tomah RAILROAD between point on the Chicago
Milwaukee Il St. Panl railway near the mouth
Green river and the city Of Lancaster. and it shall
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Chicago Il Tomah Railroad Company, the same
may be required by said company to lay the track be-
tween the maia line of the Chicago Tomah railroad
in the town of Fennimore and the city of Lancaster
and for no other purpose till said railroad is com
pleted to the city of Lancaster, herein proposed
two thousand dollars as each one quarter of the
grading is completed between the city of Lancaster
and the junction with the main line of the Chicago &
Tomah Railroad Company-and that all payments
unpaid by said town shall be paid when said Railroad
Company has completed s road ready for the
of cars with locomotive and cars running thereon
from the above mentioned point the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railroad near the mouth of Green
river to the city of Lancaster. stsHs*% fe
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company PROPOSES
to said town of Lancaster that the said railroad Com
pany shall deliver to said town the first bon
said Railroad Company of the class herein described
at the par value ofthe amount and at the same
time that the made by said town to SAID
Railroad Company in accordance with the terms OF
this proposition. The certif of the engineer "a
cre of the work iedin the office of the town Gle ri
of said town shall be evidence OF the fu fliment 81
this contract as aforesaid by the Railroad COMPANY
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company proposes Ia
establish depot at such point as the citizens NAV
designate within the corporate limits OF 81 id CITY
provided depot grounds furnished tree of cost IA
the company and the right of way to the same within
the city. And said Chicago Tomah Railroad Com
pany agree and bind said company run at least
train OF to and from the Chicago. iMilwauk 90
st. Paul X. r. and the city of Lancaster, each day
Sundays excepted, from and after the completion 81
said road to said city, and that in the portion
said road running southerly from Fennmore shall be
extended so that any portion Of its track shall run
further south than said city 1T shall be SO extended
from the depot grounds in said city, aud shall pass
within onehalf mile of the court house, in said cty
and said company further agree that other d.po,
or station shall be established said road within
eight miles Of said city of Lancaster. j. = /
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company PROPOSES
to complete said railroad ready for the passage Of
cars from connection with the Milwankae- 3 81
or before the LIST day of November, A. d. 1878. with
locomotive and cars running thereon. A.aI
The Chicago Tomah Railroad Company pro posas
to and establish, for the period of ten wears fror
the acceptance OF this proposition and .ts fnltll
tn part of the towa OF Lancaster, the said com
pany's rate OF transportation of passengers an,
freight n accordance with chapter 27 of the Cane "a
Laws Of the State oil Wisconsin, Of the session az ~
legislature, A.. d., 1874, commonly known as th
amendments to said chapter, which said rates nav,
been established as maximum rates by n resor IL,
OF the board of directors of the Chfcsgo 4 Tomai
Railroad Co., adopted at meeting of said board o
directors, at Wauseks, on the 2sth Of July. A. b
1875. lt88 W f3ff kgfW 1877
dated this 50 day of May A. D., 1873.
L. NJ. CULVER, sec'y. q. I. Il. R. Co.
n. w. WILLIAMS,
President Chicago Tomah r r. @
AND WHEREAS. A petition of more thar
twelve resident free holders and legal voter
of said town, to the town clerk and Board o
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 filed in the Office of said clerk arit
the Supervisors of said town, deeming the
same proper, have ordered that the towr
clerk of said town Immediately publish /.
notice OF such an election, in manner aris
form as the law provides,
1 Now, THEREFoRE, An election will be HEX
BY the legal voters Of said town at the Cour
House, the same being the usual place D
holding elections in SAID town, on Tuesday
the 10th day Of August, 1878, TO be held and
conducted in the same manner as ARE genera
elections, for the purpose Of deciding whethel
said town will accept or reject said PROPOSE
ton, and the legal Voters Of said town at,
hereby notified that at such election, those /,
favor of accepting said proposition win de
post ballot upon which shall be written D
printed the words, " For the railroad PROPOSE
tion,n and those favor of its rejection vii
| deposit ballot on which shall be written O.
printed the words, Against the RAILROAD
proposition" eNEGk afsn a
Dated July goth, A. D., 1873.
AUG. MICHAELIS,
Town Clerk of the town Of Laucaste,