Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-15
The Embryo East Shore Railroad.

Oii thS NOitH, alohS tHO Sooe oiuo Va euc
Mississippi River, the whole country
has been on the qat CSre to find out the
name of the great corporation, which
is manipulating SO clandestinely and so
suddenly this great undertaking. The
guessing now going on is marvellous,
producing regular ebulition in the
Yankee way ofsolying mysterious ques-
tions and jumping at conclusions. Not
disclaiming the possession of small
portion of that inmate love of notoriety
which possesses all men in greater or
less degree, in assuming to know more
than their neighbors about this and that
great project which they knew all about
long ago. and proceed like the preacher
to give you the conclusion of the whole
matter; on this mooted subject make no
pretensions whatever to any greater
acumen or preconceived information
than others who have tried their hand
at guessing as 20 who and what consti-
tutes the Winona, Alma 81 Northern
Railroad company. But we do know
it has live man a. the head of it who
has position, influence and long expert
ence in railroad movements, that he is
endorsed by such men as Gov. Sherman
of Iowa, Judge Couch and other equal
ly eminent persons, and that he has
come across the Mississippi for the ex-
press purpose not of booming but of
building this common sense, level-head-
ed east side river railroad, which our
corps of efficient surveyors are now
carefully and accurately aligning.
These surveys followed as they are by
the securement of all the important
points along the line of the road, mean
nothing short of business and that
means the Inauguration of actual con-
struction along the whole line of the
road as soon as Spring opens, or about
the time the Shiny reptiles begin to warm
themselves on the face of the bluffs
along which it runs. This route has
long been regarded as feasible and the
prophesy frequently made that some
day this ground so essential to the great
and growing trade and travel to and
from the Northwest, would become the
site of an important thoroughfare. The
Northern Pacific is now completed to
Puget's Sound the Manitoba road to the
Selkirk Settlement on the Red River of
the North--these roads traverse some
of the finest timbered and agricultural
country that the sun ever shone upon,
and as neither of these roads have any
connections south and having already
reached their utmost limits north and
west, it is but reasonable to suppose as
they increase in business and import
ance, that one or both of them should
unite in an effort to hold their own bust
ness and have natural desire to es-
cape from the clutches of such comor-
ants as the Milwaukee and St Paul and
the Wisconsin Central, which are en-
trenched at Minneapolis and St. Paul
and dictate tariff rates to all freights
seeking an eastern or southern market.
Possibly they may have finger in the
new w. A q N. Road, but we don't be-
lieve it. The Michigan Central is an
old, plethora English institution effected
with the govt and the load of its money
bags, and. being also restricted by its
charter isunable to move from lis present
tracks, consequently we don't believe
it is dabbling in this mysterious project,
though the young bulls would have no
hesitancy in clandestinely assisting
project which would let them into the
green pastures of the Northwest, and
and give them a chance at the Mime
apolis pooling yards. Next in import
ance ranks the Northwestern, regular
Yankee institution, full of push and en-
terprise, which goes into places where it
is not invited, and whose git-up and
shrewdness has made it power in the
West, ramifying as it does through all
the rich valleys and INTO all the import
ant hamlets, towns and cities in the old
Northwest; yet in all its gettings has so
far failed to get into st. Paul and re-
fresh itself at this new fountain of busi-
ness. Perhaps this is the power behind
the throne which is creating all this stir
and talk along the big river. So be it,
We don't care q continental which of
them is the guilty party, so they come
down with the money bags and put the
railroad through in the shortest given
time from Dunleith to ST. Paul. Ii will
give Potosi, Cassville, Glen Haven.
Prairie du Chen and all the little dwarf
towns along the east bank of the river that
have been shriveling and dying for want
of sustenancc these many wears, n
chance to live and wax fat once more,
and perhaps enjoy the glorious privilege
of chatting their inland neighbors for
want of snap. A chap at my shoulder
thinks the great innovators who are
waking up the natives of the bluffs and
sloughs is no less power than the Chi
cago, Burlington Il Quincy, as that cor
poration has already honored a draft
for the right of way across Smeads bot
tom. If SO, let them procedure IN re.
They are just as welcome to the lob as
any of their purse-proud confreres, and
they can have my patronage Just as soon
rs the ticket office opens at Potosi.
How Pig Made n President.
About this time in knots about the
sunny corners and around depots and
hotels, when political stories are in
| order. you will occasionally hear some
old stager remark that IA pig once
made Andrew Jackson president" 1t
was never my fortune to meet one wh
could remember how it cane about, but
in a copy of the American Traveller for
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