WAUPACA REPUBLICAN

November 6, 1903

 

182 CARS OF POTATOES

One More Than Last Year is the Record for October.

 

            Agent C.O. Crostue says the record of potato shipments over the Wisconsin Central lines from Waupaca makes a total of 182 cars for October. Just one more car than during the same month last year.  Mr. Crostue also says the record for all classes of freight in and out of this station is sixteen more cars for October, 1903, than for October, 1902.

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            In this connection it might be well to remind a number of forecasters for Waupaca business two years and one year ago.  Some predicted that the Chicago and Northwestern railway going to Wild Rose was bound to make this place look like thirty cents as far as business was concerned.  Waupaca certainly holds her own and a little better, as the records show. We also learn that farmers of Springwater, Dayton and many other towns in the direction of Rose find they can make good wages this year in hauling potatoes to Waupaca rather than sell at the prices paid by the buyers in Wild Rose. This state of affairs ought to be an incentive for the C & NW railway to strike Waupaca if they build the Eland branch.