The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1872-06-20
OUR RAILROAD INTERESTS.

time a consolidation of these various
Railways was affected under the name of
the Flint and Pere Marqutte Railway.
The old officers of the +. & P. NJ. r. W.
were elected officers of the consolidated
company. The company is now pre-
pared to complete the letting of con-
tracts for grading and clearing the re-
mainder of the road bed from Reed City
to this point, which will be ready for the
iron early next spring. The advantages
to our town which will be secured by this
road are of no small Importance. and its
completion will be hailed with joy by our
citizens, who have been looking with de
ferred hope for this event.
But this is not the only railroad pro-
ject in which our village is OF should be
directly interested. A glance at a late
map of the State will show four other
roads projected in this direction, partial
ly completed, and whose terminus upon
Lake Michigan is yet undetermined.
TIE Chicago and Michigan Lake Shore
road. now terminating at Pentwater, will
soon be extended northward, and will
thus afford short and direct road to
Chicago and the southwest
The Grand Rapids. Newaygo and Lake
Michigan Railroad, now nearly mpleted
to Newaygo, and which will be continued
70 ctr; 10 tIo shove Oh tb,, ,,l.oa nv Soma
point farther to the north. and its terlni-
nation here can be secured by proper eff
fort, will also afford another outlet and
also open up section Of country, much
of which is heavily timGered with pine,
and which will thus be made easily &C
cessible. aud can readily be brought to our
mills.
OF the Detroit, Lansing and Lake
Michigan, now completed to Howard
City, beyond which it will not be extend
ed the present season, but which will, at
no very distant day be completed to some
point upon the shore, which point will
be determined by the greater advantages
afforded both in the way of local business
and important western connections. Lud
ington will stand fair chance of becom
ing the terminus. This road will furnish
direct route rough the central por-
ton of the State, making connections
with several important roads.
Still another road, which has hardly
yet been considered by our citizens, is
now being constructed from Owosso,
northwesterly, through the intervening
points to Big Rapids, and if extended to
this point will form almost an air line TO
Detroit.
Thus it is not improbable that Luding-
ton, with the advantages offered by its
valuable harbor. as well as its extensive
manufacturing interests, may, at no dis
tant, day become an important railroad
point.
In regard to transit lines and western
connections two very important ones are
already suggested. and the roads are now
in progress of construction,
One across the lake to Maaitowoc, this
being the very shortest transit line across
Lake Michigan, and at that point con.
Meeting with the roadpow being built to
New London, thence to Stevens Point
and there connecting with the road di
rect to the head of Lake Superior. the
eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific,
thus forming shorter and more direct
through route, in connection with the
Northern Pacific. than be found by strik
ing the lake at any point farther south.
In regard to another western connec
ton which would be of the greatest ad
vantage to our town, in view of the con-
templated location of Iron works at this
point. is suggested in the following cor
respondence to the Detroit Post, from
the Northern Peninsula. 1t says:
1.-THE great want Of the Upper PENN
sula is the construction of road from
Lake MichiQammi to the shore of Green
Bay, at Deer Creek, and from there a
connection by Steamboat with the Pere
Marquette Road. which would give a
through route from all of the Lake Su-
perior towns, except Ontonagon. Me-
nomonee and EScanaba included, to De-
troit in about 40 hours, and when the
Marquette and Ontonagon Road shall be
finished and extended to Superior City.
furnish the shortest and most direct con-
nection from the terminus of the North.
ern Pacific Railroad to the Atlantic.
This route :, not only feasible, but, when
constructed. the road would be the best
paying one in the United States. From
Lake Michigammi to Deer Creek the
road would pass through all of the Ne
nominee iron ranges, which would fur
nish freight for it from upward of 20
mines now known. and judging from the
extent of the mining district, from 20
more when the country comes to be
worked and the drift which now hides
them shall be penetrated Deer Creek
lies directly across Green Bay from Door
or main ship channel. into Green Bay.
A glance at the map of Michigan will
show anyone that this route would be al
most an air line f. ON Detroit to the
mining districts Of Lake Superior. The
Lower Peninsula has a very large inter-
est In the construction Of tbs road much
larger than would at 6rsht sight appear
to the casual observer The route would
open direct trade with Detroit. It
would enable the shipment to be made
cheaply of ore to all parts of the Lower
Peninsula, and the forests of the north.
ern part and the coal fields of tha sonth