THE REPUBLICAN

May 2, 1884

 

BUSINESS

 

The Central to build tracks to our

Milling industries

 

The Central Company have at last commenced to realize that Waupaca has some rights worthy of respect, and more than that, they are going to do something for Waupaca, but it is perhaps, because Waupaca proposes to do something for itself.  The ball was opened last summer by Jeffers & Penney building their excellent refrigerator warehouse and egg-conservatory, and the Central Company immediately gave them a spur track down by it, so as to facilitate the handling of their eggs and potatoes.  Messrs Hambleton & Shearer also rented some ground near by for piling lumber, thus by that spur an additional amount of business has been “spurred” up. Now it is not going to stop here.  On Saturday last A. A. Allen, Assistant Gen. Sup’t of the Central and W. T. Fratt, civil engineer of the road, were in the city and surveyed the line for a spur track to Roberts & Oborn’s mill site, also we learn they ran a line to Baldwin & Bailey’s mill.  The fact that the Waupaca mills are to have a large capacity for business and on the most improved and modern plans is a stimulus for the Central to give our millers every advantage possible in competition with mills in other places and the rail facilities will place the matter in just the light desired by our enterprising millers.  The building of these spur tracks to our mills is the inhalatory step for other enterprises to follow in rapid succession.  The hand-writing is on the wall for a substantial and steady growth for this beautiful burg.  We won’t ask for a “boom”.