Year: 1863

WHOLE NO. 358.
! From the La Crosse Democrat.


A ride through several business streets
and out among the handsome residences O.


Milwaukee the otker day revealed one con


tinued picture Of success, enterprise, wealth
liberality and improvement. We do no,
believe there is city in all the west. many
though there be, which is making such
rapid and substantial steps towards future
greatness, as Milwaukee, the emporium ol
| wisconsin and of the Northwest. Streets
being graded and paved with the finest OF
pavements--blocks being elevated to grade
old blocks Of wood being pulled down to
make room for handsome stone or brick
ediifices with marblesor iron fronts-new
firms branching out in thousand different
kinds OF business-wholesale and retail
stores crowded with goods and customers
from early till late-merchants and bust.
ness men on the run, with hardly time to
pass the time Of day-banks full of money
railroad cars loaded to groaning with the
golden grain of the young and giant North
west-white-winged transports ladened till
the green water Of the lake kisses the edge
of the boat-mills running by day and by
night with the never ceasing hum and wi.irr
-foundries and factories busy as steam
and muscle guided by brains and en,rgv
can make them, and good credit on every
hand, bear convincing proof that Milwau.
kec is indeed Queen worthy all tongue
and pen can say in her praise.


We have for years watched the growth
of the Cream City of the Lakes, as we
heard General Thomas Francis Mearher
chr'sten Milwaukee. We remember when
she had no Newhall House, no horse rail
roads, no first class Wholesale houses. no
marble or iron fronts, no we'll filled store
houses holding more grain than those Of
any city OF the West, no such whole .soued,
liberal business men as now. And it is but
few years back. How rapid the step
how sure the prophecy of the lamented Ju-
neau, who told that, in time, Milwaukee
would be the greatest primary gram depot
the world the leading city of the West
Prophetic man. Would to God YOU could
have lived to see in reality as in faith, the
fulfillment Of your certain vision,


But the goal Of ambition is not reached,
Milwaukee, can, if her leading men so will
It. see her business double in two years.
There will in that time be twice the amount
OF grain raised in the north west as now
There will be three times the merchandise
wanted by US "chaps in the wilderness" as
this year. There will be three times the
amount of money in our pockets two years
from now that there is to day. And this
surplus Of grain must be sod-the surplu,
Of wants must be - led the increase of
wealth must be spent somewhere. All this
trade by right belongs to Milwaukee. Let
her so plan railroads rs to gather in the
harvest sure to ripen for some one. Let
her build Union Depots and Union Ware
houses, and let her business men extend
the light Of their faces more in this section.


Milwaukee has now formidable rival in
Chicago. Soon as this war is over St. Louis
and La Crosse will claim a large share Of
Northwestern trade. We have in this citv
as sound and clear headed young business
men as there are anywhere-we have an
embryo city fast ripening into great import.
anes, aud self preservation will prompt
many scheme which will stop gram aud
trade at this point.


Ere another year rolls over us we shall
nave a railroad in operation from II Crosse
into the interior Of the Wheat garden Of
Minnesota and 10 va, ard we shall have a
new route open to Chicago, thus making
La Crosse great competing point for trade
and travel. Meanwhile Milwaukee is our
market, and the cheapest source of supplies,
and we trust for her benefit as well as the
good OF the State that she will 60 on keep
Ing step to the tune Of progress and ambi.
t'ous enterprise, till her warehouses shall
be as noted in future history as were those
OF Egypt in the past, and till her population
and business, be doubled, treblcd and Quad
rup'ed again and again. OF all northern
gems so thickly set between the Atlantic
and the Mississippi. there is none more
bright or lovely-richcr or more full of glo-
rious promise than Milwaukec--the CREAM
CRY OF THE LAKES.


Wives by Wholesale.