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stock-holders will come right up to the work 
like men, the road will be opened to Monroe in 
a few weeks. There are but fifteen miles to lay, 
besides side tracks and switches at Juda. We 
are well aware that the times are very hard, but 
it must be borne in mind, that the produce of 
the stock-holders is taken at Milwaukee quota- 
tions, and if every one will take hold with a will, 
we will have the road. "A bird in the hand is 
worth two in the bush;" we can get the road 
this fall by one earnest and concentrated effort. 
Next season the difficulty may be greater. 
H. Thompson is the accredited agent of the 
company, to take and forward produce or sub- 
scriptions, and pay over only so fast as the com- 
pany actually expend on the line. If he calls at 
your house don't send him away empty. 
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD. 
[From the Monroe Sentinel, Nov. 18, 1857.] 
The track-layers to-day, (Wednesday) will 
have the rail laid into Juda, and by Saturday 
night, will probably have finished all side-tracks. 
It is now but eight miles from Juda to Monroe, 
and a little more hard work will bring the cars 
to this point. Let every man who has a cent in 
money or a bushel of wheat, pay the same to B. 
Dunwiddie, director, or Henry Thompson, Esq., 
agent, and those gentlemen will faithfully apply 
the same to the taking of iron out of bond. It 
will not do to let the track-layers cease until the 
last switch in this town is laid. 
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD. 
[From the Monroe Sentinel, Nov. 25, 1857.] 
We are informed by friend Graham, of this 
town, [Monroe] that the track-layers are now 
putting down the switches and side-tracks at 
Juda, and*towards the latter part of this week 
will commence    moving  westward towards 
Monroe. 
One of the Messrs Graham    is personally 
superintending the work and doing all that man 
can do to hasten its progress. 
Stock-holders and citizens along the line of 
this road are very much indebted to the Bank 
of Monroe, for the aid it has rendered and is 
 
now rendering, to secure the completion of our 
road. It has furnished money to carry on the 
work when no other bank in the State would 
loan a penny-a fact that must not be forgotten 
when the cars shall rumble into town. 
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD. 
[From the Monroe Sentinel, Del. 9, 1857.] 
By politeness of friend Graham, we paid an- 
other visit to the railroad, Tuesday. At the 
time we left, 4 o'clock p. m., the rail was laid 
half way across the   trussel-work-which is 
nearly a quarter of a mile in length. To-day 
the train will run over it, and we have engaged 
a passage on the first car. 
The road is open within three and a half miles 
of Monroe, and the work is progressing rapidly. 
SOUTHERN WISCONSIN RAILROAD. 
[From the Monroe Sentinel, Dec. 23, 1857.] 
We are in high feather, we are elated. We 
feel good. Why ? Go with us a few rods to- 
wards the southern portion of the village, and 
we will show you two parallel iron rails lead- 
ing to the east and connecting with all her 
roads, over which the strong engine with its 
ribs and muscles of iron and steel, is hereafter 
to play back and forth like the weaver's shuttle, 
fetching and carrying its load of men and 
merchandise. 
The cars have come to town, and every day 
"Richland timber" echoes the scream of loco- 
motive. The facts that our people have paid 
the M. & M. R. R. Co., thousands of dollars 
within a few weeks, and that the Messrs Gra- 
ham have laid the rail at the rate of about 
half a mile per day throughout the worst month 
of the year, all go to demonstrate one thing, 
namely, that this village is to be a little world 
of bustle and activity, from this time hence- 
forth; and here we make the assertion, which 
we will prove by-and-by, by the figures, that 
Monroe will be the heaviest produce station in 
Wisconsin. It is a strong assertion, we know, 
but not over-grown, when it is considered that 
there will be tributary to this market alone over 
 
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