Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-25
MILWUKEE & BELOIT.

MILWUKEE & BELOIT.
Revival of an Old Railway Project at Mil.
waukee--A Bonanza for Some Enternr,s.
ing Company.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.1
MILWAUKEE, Dec. A.-There is q pros
pect that Milwaukee is to have still anothe,
line connecting with the west and also
with Chicago. Early in the SOS, among
the earliest railroad projects was the Mil
vaukee d Beloit railroad, in which many
prominent men in Milwaukee were inter.
esteda The road ran out on Mineral street
and through Greenfield, Franklin, Mus.
kego. Big Bend, Nsukwonago, East Troy
and 80 on to Elkhorn, through which
towns it was graded and bridged.
Ihe ties were on the ground ready
tor the iron at cost of over
100000. The iron was bought and part
OF 1t was at the wharf. Arrangements
had been made to procure the money to
pay for the iron and equipment from the
Farmers Loan and Trust company, but
the crash OF 1857 crushed out the whole
enterprise. The iron was never delivered,
and the bridges and ties rotted on the
ground. No effort was made to iron and
equip the road bed until 1875, when a COM
Pany was formed in this city with view
OF using the grade as far as Troy and
then going directly to Janesville,. and
then make a local road that would run
through the very garden of Wisconsin.
Arrangements were made to purchase the
franchises of the owners. and most of the
towns had agreed to assist with funds. No
Milwaukee man could be induced to invest
In this enterprise, and some non residents
were admitted into the company, and the
purchase of the property from the old
owners was completed, but since that time
the new owners of the property haye re-
malned "as dogs in the manger." AS
feeder to their road company was formed
and line partially graded from point on
the road in Franklin down Fox
river to the Illinois state line.
More than 100000 was spent in
this tenterprise. From the point where
the road goes into Illinois is triangle.
with one corner in Chicago in which there
are no railroads, and the towns along the
reate are anxious for line. It is under
stood that negotiations are pending with
the Rock Island and the Chicago, Burling-
ton " Quincy, with view of,havinR one of
them take hold of this road, and thus
switch around into Milwaukee with line
which would be only twelve miles longer
than the present roads. Whichever of
these two roads has the genius to take hold
OF this work will have an opportunity
to make reprisals for the loss of business
which have been captured by the North
western and the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul companies. It is one of the most as
tonlshlng things in the whole history of
Milwaukee that this magnificent property
has been allowed to remain unimproyed
rnd unproductive for so many years. Some
OF the Wholesale men, particularly the gro
GERS, realize the value of the Northwest
ern's outtststo this rity. 1T is not
merely that there is new line to Madi-
son, but the whole western territory perme-
ated by the Northwestern system finds a
short cut to the lake through Milwaukee.
Trade delights in short cuts, and Milwau-
kee is reaping the benefits of it. A matter
OF fact goods from the sea
board coming here are delivered even by
rail at the same rates as Chicago. The
value OF this outlet is not in the compe-
tltlon, but in the new regions that have
beed opened up to trade.
Mr.. Field, of the general solicitors Of
fice of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
company, has just returned from Boscobel
where he has been looking up a case of
robbery. On the 10Th lof June last the
depot at that place was robbed of $4,000,
belonging to the United States Express
company. The case was worked up by the
special agent Of the railroad company and
Joseph Jenkins has just been arrested and
bound over for trial.