HISTORY OF GREEN COUNTY. 
 
to give any great company land. to build a road 
to the Pacific. Let him give the land to settlers 
and we will insure the building of the railway 
to meet the waves of the western ocean in less 
than ten years. The people will do this, only 
give them the land, and let the land jobbers and 
robbers go the devil or to Washington-there 
ain't much to choose. 
Now Messrs. Lafayette county, Grant county 
and Dubuque folks, don't let the agent, Mr. Clin- 
ton, return until he gets the railroad matter fin- 
ished up, as far as you are concerned. Let us 
know on what basis we stand with you. If you 
want anything to-do with our road, please do it 
soon, or let us know it at your earliest conven- 
ience; and the people in Green county will 
take good care that the work goes on anyhow. 
To those who feel an interest in knowing 
what the people of Green county think of Mr. 
Clinton, we all had abundant opportunity to see 
him and learn his character as a railroad man, the 
whole soule'd men of Green are 4is endorsers, 
to-day. The people of Green desire that his 
reception shall be of such a nature in the west, 
that upon his return they will know the basis 
on which the work is to be commeniced in the 
spring. They desire'to be satisfied with it at 
that time. 
VI.-A Card from E. D. Clinton. 
[Nov. 29, 1854.] 
Editors Sentinel :-Business connected with 
the line of another road in which I am inter- 
ested, calls me away from the line of the M. & 
M. R. R. for the present, and I wish to say 
through your paper to those who have spoken for 
an opportunity of taking stock, and upon whom 
I have in some instances promise I to call, that 
Dr. Peck, who has been with me through the 
whole work, will be in Monroe, from and after 
the 6th of December next, and if any per- 
sons wishing to subscribe will leave their names 
with H. B. Poyer or B. Dun widdie, he will call 
on them  at their residences. We have met 
with the most complete success west of here to 
the MisSissippi river, and now only lack $30,- 
 
000 of the sum at which the board of directors 
have limited us in the way of stock subscrip- 
tion.                       E. D. CLINTON. 
VII H.-Important to Stock Sulbscribers. 
[Dec. 13, 1854.] 
The subscribers to the stock of the Milwaukee 
&  Mississippi Railroad  Company in Green 
county are respectfully notified that they ought 
to procure the recording of patents and certifi- 
cates at the earliest day possible, as a matter of 
convenience to themselves individually and the 
company. 
Dr. Lewis E. Peck is now in Monroe, and de- 
sires to get through with the recording at the 
earliest day. 
This notice applies equally to those in other 
counties along the line of this road. 
We had intended to have published the very 
satisfactory report of Mr. Clinton to the M. & M. 
board of directors, but the message takes all the 
room we have to spare for this week. Next 
week we will give the report and some other 
'ailroad matters. We have had a lengthy arti- 
Cie on hand for several weeks, from  the Mil- 
waukee Sentinel, and are only waiting room. 
I..-E. D. Clintom's Report. 
[From Milwaukee Sentinel-Copied by Monroe Sentinel, Dec. 
20, 1854.] 
We take pleasure in publishing the annexed 
report of E. D. Clinton, embodying the result 
of his canvassing tour through the sbuthern 
counties for subscriptions to the stock of the 
Southern Wisconsin Railroad. It will be seen 
that the most gratifying success attended Mr. 
Clinton's labors, and that the farmers, miners 
and property owners all along the line of this 
road stand ready to help forward the enterprise, 
not only with their good will, but with substan- 
tial aid and comfort. It is confidently believed 
that a subscription of $2,000,000 will ensure the 
building of the road, 'tnd that work can be com- 
menced and steadily prosecuted as soon as the 
money market recovers from its stringency. 
The indications now are that the ensuing year 
will be a favorable one for railroad projects 
 
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