Year: 1870

The Railroad from Superior to the


stCroix Valley


Before the close ofDecember the action
Of Congress will have restored to the Su-
perior and Hudson r. r Company all the
rights and grants originating under the
acts of 1856 and 1864 which have been
suspended since May 5th 1869. Five years
now remain of the extended time. about
treble the space necessary to make the
road, and we are clear that the Company
will suffer the least possible delay in set
ting about the business in hand. Although
they are required by law, to construct only
abentzthirty nlalas a syear, ,~eaaes-Saea pro-
gress would have been quite rapid in former
times, it is now so far below the present
rate of railway building, as not to be to-
Grated or submitted to. At this day,
all movements in the field whether milit-
ary or industrial, are distinguished by
which, well directed, determine effects the
soonest. This principle in practice may
be now observed in the way Of construct
ing the Northern Pacific, and viii Lot be
lost sightof we feel assured, when the Direc-
tors come to apply it to their feeders and
extensions, (which aleading and important
one is that to the st. Croix Valley. Hence
we may expect to see the route opened and
operated by the fall of 1872 its entire dis
tance of 1876 miles.


Assurances written and verbal are
not wanting, and those full and often
repeated, that the work viii be COM
menced, and thenceforth quickly executed.
To begin with, the Company is required to de
posit $50, 900 in the State Treasury, to be for
feited in case OF failure to comply with the
law, and in like failure the State of Wis
consm may transfer the lands to any other
corporation which will perform the condit-
ions-an exigency provided for by the
Legislature last winter in the incorporation
of a second Company authorized to take
in the event of forfeiture by the first.


As further guaranty it is likely
that the eminent manager through
whom the franchise of the Hudson
road was negotiated into the pres
ent hands took some adequlte per-
s0aa1 pledge as it were, that the incom-
ing parties would in all honesty and faith
carry out the spirit and letter Of the under
taking, else it is scarcely to be presumed
that the transfer would have been made.
Time, no don0t, will confirm this view and
demonstrate the wisdom of the course
pursued by the largest proprietor of this
town, to whom the early realization Of the
enterprise at one time in his control must
have been and doubtless now is. an object
ofthe strongest interest.


The time once extended we apprehend
no sort Of difficulty about the rest. The
road will be built and hearts rejoiced that
more than once have desponded about the
in their day and generation. 1t will be
constructed rapidly on account ofthe easy
engineering, ready transportation of sup
plies and material, and the cheap ana abun-
engaged in it are accustomed to drive such
things through with the energy which
comes from large means and experience.


The people of Superior have some thing
to do on their own part, which we shall
refer to more particularly hereafter, only
saying now that there need be 10 misgv-
ings of fcoml lete and hearty concurrence on
their part in carrying out the obligations
indispensable to be met by them in the
premises.