Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-07-23
CHANGES At CASSVILLE
CREATED BY RAILROAD
River Front Altered to Permit of
Double Tracking
Other News of the County Furnished by
Special Correspondents of
This Paper

The editor of The Herald and
wife were in Cassville a day last
week where the time was pleasantly
spent The double tracking Of the
Burlington railway, preparations for
which are in progress all the way
across the river side of this county, is
going to make q great change in the
appearance of Cassville's river front.
The tracks now run down the center
of the village street. but the company
has purchased much of the land be-
tween the street and the river and
negotiations are in progress to pur
chase the rest of it and move the tracks
nearer the river, so as to vacate the
street. In doing this it has been
necessary to have a number of build
ings torn down or removed. The
electric light building, which is of
brick, is one of these, and the COM
pany has built an entirely new plant
in another location, which it gives
to the village in exchange for the old
one. DR.. Hartford has house on
this strip, which has been bought by
Walter KIeinpell, who will have it
moved to lots on the west side of
Dewey street. Lawrence Grimm has
purchased the buildings on the Baum
gartner lot, and Mrs. Rhoda Ishmael
has accepted the price recently fixed
by the appraisal commission for the
property. Some of the others are yet
undecided The great warehouse
buildings, built before the railroad
came, and In those days loaded full
of wheat and other products of this
region for transportation by river
steamers, stand upon the condemned
ground. One or two of these are now
temporarily occupied as boarding
houses by some of the foreigners en-
pIoJai by the railroad company in
their road building.
A Cassville citizen who has been
a resident of the county from boy
hood, in speaking of these warehouses
to the Herald editor, stated that in
the early days he had hauled many
loads of grain there for sale and ship
ment, and as there was no elevating
machinery then in use, every man
who brought grain there had to
carry it upon his shoulder up three
flights Of stairway to the fourth story,
where it was dumped into the bins to
await shipment.
Later on, one of the towns further
up the river built a warehouse so
located that the farmers could drive
along the bluff to a point opposite the
ware house and dump his grain into
a push car, which stood upon a
track on a platform built from the
roadway to the upper floor of the
warehouse. When the car was loaded
they pushed it over this elevated
platform and dumped the contents into
the bins This was a great improve
ment over carrying it up several
flights of stairs and in consequence
people preferred to haul to that sta
tion.
In those days there was only one.
railroad in Grant county and that
was the Milwaukee line in the north
ern extremity of the county. with
Boscobel as the shipping point. The
nearest railroad point on the south
was Galena, and freight which aid
not come by the river boats, was
largely brought from these two points
between which and the towns of
Grant county there were regular stage
lines and freighting teams.