The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-05-28

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without crowding. in the American or the
Western sense. The most of this area until
/ the last half dozen wears has been consider
! ed ana has been in fact virtually ulbroken
wilderness. Some remarkable achievements
IA ratifoad eEtcrprise--notabiy the building
/ oi The iscousin Central, north and south
trunk line 800 miles long aud operating now
/ over 5U0 miles OF road all within the limits
/ OF tins one State-have begun to make It's
1 resources known. The colonies and families
! that nave come there are all tourislIing
J lhey nave shelter and immedi iate occupation
1 IN feaplng the treasures of pine that grow
there Along with this crop there is
thrifty growth of hard woods, showing
fertile sol, including elm, maple, Eastwood,
oak, butternut and red and yellow birch,
which furnish material for many kinds of
manufactur ng. Wisconsin is not the far
West. 1t is accessible 1t is the geograph-
/ zeal Keystone OF the Union. 1t has an avail
able coast line about equal to that of all
New England. Its northern boundary is
nearly three hundred miles south OF the
region to which immigration has been re-
Gently inordlnately diverted Wisconsin ia
the direction for the perishiBg iamiIies in
your teGemcnts to take. for the starving
surplus OF your trades, for the eVicted cui
! tlvators OF your uptown rocks, as well as
/ for the shploads of immigrants, some of
/ whom, | see 10y the exposures in the Herald
are hustled of by iIl-in,ormed and irrespons-
! lbie railroad ticket agents to over crowded
manufacturing points in Pennsylvania. Wis
/ cunsin wants them. Wisconsin is ready to
! take any number Of them, and to yield
them, Oh the simple terms of economy and
honest work, homes where they will never
Dc eaten up by the grass hoppcrs nor sub
ject to the fuel iamines, nor shriveled By
the 'b,lzzarGs' tnat visit The treeless plains
Of the remUter West.
| MATERIAL DEVELOPMENT IN TIE WEST
| While your Eastern projectors and men
Of organizing genius are with due amount
OF iiourlsI pushing thcir enterprises into the
hitherto neglected and still crude field oi
the Southwest, the Nor;hH est III more
! quiet way is also up and doing in the mat
ter of railroad building. At no time since
the period eliminating in 1873 has there
| been anything ike the present rate Cf rail
road building throughout TINT section. The
! best OF 1t all is, that many Of the present
! enterprises consist IN the completioa, nxten-
! sion and utilization of the partly projected
/ projec which the panic OF 1873 prostratcd.
/ Milwaukee IS now the center OF radiating
! point OF nine independent railway lines
Several new line are under way on scale
] that viii make the renotest portions of the
Northwest Immediately tributary TO that
point. As all The Northn cstern wheat
! ii Ids and distributing points are
! practically commercial way stations TO and
1 from New York, it Is plain that this city
ought to be ut least as much Interested III
! The Development OF that section as in any
bArge system for the development OF tae
/ Mississippi As a matter of fact, Easr-
':rn capital is actively concerned Just now in
The development OF isConsn. Connecting
/ links. extensions and new lines are complct-
ed, under way or about beginning, which
! Will give that State five through east and
vest railroad lines, where unit lately il BAD
/ bat one. The Chicago and Northwestern rn Is
building from Madison 70 Milwaukee II seq
ton that wjii connect its .lraJ system with
/ like navigation at that po!nt. Tie Milvau.
kce and st. Paul is bia,diig its Monroe cx-
tension, connecting its mann eutrcrvt aud
gain elevator with Genital Iowa. The.
s.rnc coupaEy has incorporated iGto its
! system tie Wisconsin VALLEY read OF Il, nety
M ), ,tt prospect of itS extension from
It's hOrth. III terminus OH the Wisconsin
ksyci the town now called Merrill, where
.
! offers o this company ARE now constructing
large lunIbt ring toomj with the Northern
! fsciic at superior. Las; year the " .consin
Central built tue Wlscol sin and Minnesota
link from Abbottsford, on that companv's
main ine, to Chippewa Falls, giving the
State another through line to St Paul.
Since | reached this city have learned of
the reorganization Of the Green Bay and
Minnesota road n strong Eastern hands with
d view 10 the connection of St. Paul W ith a
new line of steamers across Northern Lake
Michigan in the interest of the western de-
yeoplncnt OF the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western system. Not the least inter
esting Of all these enterprises to the State
ef Wisconsin, to tie business interests Of
New York and to the thousands Of emigr-
ants who al seeking new and permanent
field for their activities, is the proposed
east and west railroad through the gIeat
timber region of that State. This enterprise
has just been Incorporated under the gen
eral law and under the name of the Great
Northern Timber Belt Railroad 1t is to
run St. Croix Falls Ia natural water power
not inferior to that of St .-nthonv's Falls
at Ninneapoll-) eastward crossing the Red
Cedar River in Barron County, the Chip
pewa River at Flambeau, the Wisconsin
Central Railroad at Medford, the Wisconsin
River at Wausau and the Wolf River at
Shawano, reaching Green Bay at either of
the great numbering points of Oconto or
Peshtigo and Milwaukee by either the Wis
consin Central the Chicago & Northwestern
or the Milwaukee, lake Shore IL Western
Railroads. The line will drain the three
great independent water sheds or pinerv
systems whose faalike tributaries cover the
entire northern portion of Wisconsin and
include hreequarters of the IL, ,009 ,00O, 900
of uncut Pine with which the new census
credits that State. 1t will differ from all
other railroads in the circumstances that it
viii the most directly connect the finest
timber producing region with the richest
grain producing region of the world"