Railroad

Railroad

Railroad men are wise and with that foresight which they are noted, they have begun the development of this city as a railroad center and are laying the stepping stones to her future greatness. The city now has the following roads, the Wisconsin Central, which is now building, so we will for present purposes claim it and the Northweter. 3 prospective lines are now in view, 2 from the Northwest and on from the North. In dealing with the railroad enterprises we must speak of the Manitowoc Terminal Co. There is not much more that can be said about this than we cover in our general article. It is one of those organizations which is controlled by stockholders, it is presumed, largely of the Wisconsin Central but any road which may wish to enter here. A line of road from her to Neenah is now being graded and will be finished some time during the spring. It is expected the road will be completed some time in July. This connects with the Wisconsin Central, which runs to St. Paul, MN, Duluth and Chicago. The Terminal company are now building a large slip for the use of its car ferries. These will run to Ludington where connections are made with 3 lines of road branching to the northeast, east, and southeast. Across the lake transportation shortens the distance for the points west and northwest of here to eastern destinations, thus diverting traffic from Chicago to this point largely. We have before spoken of the effect of this so need not dwell upon the subject. Through its influence our harbor will be improved and other improvements of a general nature will follow. It will serve to attract manufacturers and its kindred organizations, the Manitowoc Land Company which it controlled by the same syndicate, is supposed to attend to this part of the business. It has bought some 400 acres of land along the river towards the Rapids which is to be offered for manufacturing sites.

Manitowoc Pilot 24 Apr 1868 carded 12/22/76
10 Oct 1872 carded 12/23/76
2 & 9 May 1878 carded 12/23/76
13 Jun 1878 carded 12/23/76
20 Jun 1878 carded 12/23/76

Partial indexing only. Some of this appears in WR 929.1 C. Some issues only indexed on these cards.

Newspaper is on microfilm stored on the main floor near the microfilm readers.

1896-01-01

Railroad

1896-01-01

Railroad men are wise and with that foresight which they are noted, they have begun the development of this city as a railroad center and are laying the stepping stones to her future greatness. The city now has the following roads, the Wisconsin Central, which is now building, so we will for present purposes claim it and the Northweter. 3 prospective lines are now in view, 2 from the Northwest and on from the North. In dealing with the railroad enterprises we must speak of the Manitowoc Terminal Co. There is not much more that can be said about this than we cover in our general article. It is one of those organizations which is controlled by stockholders, it is presumed, largely of the Wisconsin Central but any road which may wish to enter here. A line of road from her to Neenah is now being graded and will be finished some time during the spring. It is expected the road will be completed some time in July. This connects with the Wisconsin Central, which runs to St. Paul, MN, Duluth and Chicago. The Terminal company are now building a large slip for the use of its car ferries. These will run to Ludington where connections are made with 3 lines of road branching to the northeast, east, and southeast. Across the lake transportation shortens the distance for the points west and northwest of here to eastern destinations, thus diverting traffic from Chicago to this point largely. We have before spoken of the effect of this so need not dwell upon the subject. Through its influence our harbor will be improved and other improvements of a general nature will follow. It will serve to attract manufacturers and its kindred organizations, the Manitowoc Land Company which it controlled by the same syndicate, is supposed to attend to this part of the business. It has bought some 400 acres of land along the river towards the Rapids which is to be offered for manufacturing sites.

Manitowoc Pilot

24 Apr 1868 carded 12/22/76
10 Oct 1872 carded 12/23/76
2 & 9 May 1878 carded 12/23/76
13 Jun 1878 carded 12/23/76
20 Jun 1878 carded 12/23/76

Partial indexing only. Some of this appears in WR 929.1 C. Some issues only indexed on these cards.

Newspaper is on microfilm stored on the main floor near the microfilm readers.