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Waupaca Republican

December 20, 1907

LAST SPIKE TODAY

Waupaca Green Bay Railroad soon Ready for Business

The last spike to complete the Waupaca Green Bay Railroad will no doubt be driven today as Contractor McGrath is on the grade in the city limits, nearing the yards where the track is already laid. There the final act will be consummated which will give Waupaca another outlet for freight and passenger traffic.

This new line has a direct connection with the Green Bay and Western Road, reaching to the Mississippi River at Winona and LaCrosse making connections with the Chicago and Great Western and the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R.R., on the West and at New London Junction with the Chicago & Northwestern R’y also at Green Bay with the C. & N.W. the C.M. & St. P. to the North and the Keewaunee & Great W. to the lakes. And this line at Waupaca will no doubt be the magnet to draw some one of the lines south of us to this city. And we forgot to mention the Iola & Northern at Scandinavia which may be a part of the feeder northward some day to connect at Wausau with other lines.

So the completion of this line marks a new era and epoch in the history of Waupaca, something hoped for, longed for, and advocated by the REPUBLICAN boom editor nearly twenty-five years ago.

All hail to Waupaca and the enterprising citizens who have worked so energetically the past year to bring this project to completion, in the face of so many unforeseen difficulties.

We understand a rate-sheet has been made and forwarded to the Wis. Rate Commission, with a request that business may be started on the new road some day next week.

This is a grand Christmas and New Year Gift to Waupaca. Let all return thanks and give the new line patronage.

Now when a factory is asked for and when they say, “What’s your R’y facilities?” We can point with pride to the Wisconsin Central and the Waupaca Green Bay Railroads, as great distributors of our taters, dairy products, stock, starch, granite, felt and anything that can be made now and hereafter.

So Come On!

The excursion planned by three hundred Waupaca people has been postponed until may, owing to the fact that the extra passenger coaches on the G.B. & W. line are all in paint shops. Manager Jordan also wrote the officials here that the Green Bay merchants and Mfr’s Association wanted to give our people a welcome worthy of the occasion and the early summer would be more agreeable.

President Nelson has thanked the Waupaca Committee as well as the Green Bay people for their interest shown in the matter.

Another trouble with the Marl sink hole which occurred yesterday, will cause a few day’s delay, but track laying is going forward from here slowly northward to meet the track coming this way.