The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-09-27
Stocks.
Ar, Robinson and the RaIiro ads
The following letter speaks for itsslf.

To the EditOr-I note your article
ID, 5. .. X A Railroad, the Long Hoped
oc TO Come at Last to Calumet" in
~ sue OF 22d met. Surely your people are
20 he congratulated on the advantage
~ having Il e broad guage extended TO
your city, but was somewhat amused
nc the position taken in the article re-
ssrred TO, which position seems TO be.
no that the wide gu4ge il extended TO
calumet there IL no further necessity for
the reduction oil passenger rates on the
roads al the Upper Peninsula and that
The people should Join hands with them
bGry the Ratchet or in other words bridge
over the bloody chasm and agree TO sup
DGTt the new company" etc. Now in
taesr elat on over the happy event your
people may for the time being feel that il
~ q special privilege 70 pay four cents Der
Mlset GO ride oyer Wideguage to Hancock.
~saereas they may have heretofore
stought it burden TO pay the same rate
iSv riding over u narrow guage.
lou surely cannot think the whole peo-
T pie Of the Upper Peninsula are so elated
over the widening OF the South Shore
road from Hancock TO Calumet that they
will Join hands with the railroad com
UdHys tn continue in force a law that
dIscriminates in favor Of such roads "a
the Chicago and Northwestern and Can.
Adtan Pacific. II the bill for the reduc-
Goo OF rates in the Upper Peninsula to
Che level OF those in the Lower Peninsula
was ever right, its status is not changed
w widening the guage on the South
Store line between Hancock and Calumet
the bill was not OF a local nature nor
Intended Tor any particular road or avs
ten, whether broad or narrow guape
hut was broad enough in it's scope TO
cover the whole Upper Peninsula and to
reach all the oplediscrimnated y against
whether living at Calumet or elsewhere.
ia advocating the measure | did not
attack the railroad companys, but the
laW which grants special privileges to
the roads in the Upper Peninsula, II
aug "bloody chasm" exists between the
peopie and the railroad compapvs II will
ne substantially "bridged over" when
che railroad law OF the State ia an
amended az to give the people of the
Upper Peninsula the same rights and
0T1vileges that are granted the people of
the Lower Peninsula. O. w. ROBINSON.
Ia the article referred to the NEWS did
not presume 10 speak for the whole OF the
upper Peninsula. but did try to express
what IL believes 60 be the feeling of MANY
OF the residents OF this neighborbood for
unless wide guage had reached tbese
parts, it il more than probable that the
u M. d st. p. even il 1t had entered the
copper country would have made it's
terminus at Houghton as is understood
90 have been talked OF between Messrs
sheldon, the engineer, and Messrs. r. NJ
Hoar and c. A. Wright when this place
Eould still have been left at the mercy Of
the narrow gauge, but now that the
d., 8. s. & A. has made this place its
terminus it is most certain that II ever
one OF the other broad guage lines do
come 60 the copper country Calumet will
ne made it's terminus also-and this may
happen sooner than many people expect.
The people here, even il the d., S.S.&Al
is here. are not likely to feel it "a special
to pay four cents per mile to
nte over wide guage to Hancock
~aereas they may have heretofore !