The emigrant's hand book, and guide to Wisconsin

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ure conducive to the public welfare, but also as a means of permanent, safe and lucrative investment. By its terms the charter is perpetual; and the dividends are unrestricted in amount by any law, other than the laws of trade and the discretion of the Company. The Com¬ pany is expressly authorized ^* to regulate tolls, to make such covenants, contracts and agreements, with any per¬ son, corporation, or body politic, whatsoever, as the ex¬ ecution and management of the works, and the conveni-* ence and interests of the Company may require."
It therefore cannot be doubted that the productiveness of the road, when completed, will be such a-5 will satisfy all parties, when it is considered that the country trav¬ ersed by the line of this road is both populous, fertile and productive.
The length of the road will be about two hundred miles; connecting the trade of the interior of Wisconsin and the commerce of the Mississippi River, embracing the business of a large part of Iowa and Minnesota, will the great chain of Northern Lakes, and the Eastern sea* board.
The present plan of the Board of Directors, for tho execution of this great work, is to divide it into four principal divisions, in the hope of being able to complete one of those divisions in each year, and thus complett the whole in four years*
The extent and position of these several divisions wil be seen by reference to the maps of the State of Wis¬ consin.    Their several termini are as follows:
The first division extends from Milwaukee, on the west ern shore of Lake Michigan, to Whitewater, a village o some -note in the valley of Rock river, and on a branch o that stream, the distance being about fifty miles, or i; quarter of the length of the road.    The  second divisior