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further delay. Better that it be put through at the expense 
of Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota alone than be delayed 
another decade. Better that the state and the nation relin¬ 
quish in toto their entire right and title to the vast results of 
the prelirnminary work already done by the Almighty to 
some sufficiently strong corporation, and allow it to make a gi¬ 
gantic monopoly of the corhmerce of this entire belt of great 
states—better almost anything that would insure the work 
than that it should altogether fail. But then it is eminently a 
national work^ and therefore ought to he done hy the nation, 
NEW RAILROADS CENTERING AT GREEN BAY. 
) 
The Green Bay and Mississippi Canal is certain to be a fact in 
the early future, and to exert a marked influence upon the de¬ 
velopment, not only of that wide belt of country through which 
it will pass, and which will be more directly tributary to it, but 
likewise upon the whole state. 
That it will also add to the importance of Green Bay as a 
commercial point—that it will powerfully contribute, in fact, 
to the making of that city what nature seems to have designed 
it should be, namely, an important commercial center, there 
is no room to doubt. 
Appreciating these circumstances, and recognizing the fact 
that Green Bay must not rely solely upon this river improve¬ 
ment and the railroad facilities it already enjoys, a vigorous 
•effort is making to push two new lines across the state from 
that point—one directly westward to Wabashaw, on the Mis- 
<sissippi, and one northwestward into Oconto county, with its 
'flnai terminus on lake Superior. 
tThe first-named road is intended to open central Wisconsin 
■to the rest of the world, and to furnish a more direct line of 
•vtransportation than can otherwise be had for the products of 
(Southern Minnesota ; the second to promote, in like manner, 
-the development of northern and northeastern Wisconsin, and 
‘ to secure to Green Bay the advantages of an entrepot for these 
^sections .of the state. 
