The Cook County herald., 1898-09-10
THE NEW RAILROA OAD ].

THE NEW RAILRO ID
Much Talk About the North.
Shore Line and its Con
necti0nS.
Duluth Herald:
p. b. Lewis, president Of the Grand
Marais s. North Shore Railroad company,
will leave for the East tomorrow, and
will return in about a week. He will
then conclude all arrangements for be-
ginning work on the grade Of tho road,
the survey OF which is now nearly COM
pleted. 4.s. 5ss5s.
The report has been circulated that
Vandegrift & Jacobs, who built the
greater portion Of the. Stewart river
branch of the Duluth & Iron Range road,
were to have the contract for the con-
struction Of the Grand Marals 6 North
Shore road. Mr.. Lewis was asked If
there was any foundation for this story
and he replied that it had probably
grown out of the fact that he had been
negotiating with the firm. No contract
has yet been let to them, and none will
be at present. It is the intention Of the
company to begin the work of construc-
ton without letting any contracts unless
it be for small pieces of road. Work, he:
said, would be begun at Grand Marais
about Sept. 15, and as soon after that
as possible another crew will begin
operations at Two Harbors and work
eastward. $.> ,stss ,ttsss s5ss s5s 4ssz
Connection between Two Harbors and
Grand Marais will be made as soon as
possible, and then the extension to Gum
Hint lake, the western terminus Of the
Fort Arthur, Dul luth & Western. Mr..
Lewis said he hoped arrangements could
be made for continuing the shore line,
direct to Port Arthur from Grand Mara1s.
but this had not yet been decided upon,
MT. Lewis says that the company has
received the most cordial support and
encouragement from the owners Of pro
perty on the line of the proposed road
and that the financial arrangements> for
carrying out the, enterprise have pro-
gressed sufficiently to warrant the i'm
mediate commencement Of work: on the
grade. +.
Ely Miner:
One crew of engineers is at work on
the proposed Grand Marais & North
Shore railway, which has a comnre.
henslve scheme for the development of
the north shore of Lake Superior.
Another crew will be located along the
coast from the present eastern railway
point on the. lake, Two Harbors. TO
Grand Marais, 100 miles northeast. The
plans OF the projectors include road
from Grand Masais to Fort William.
where the Canadian Pacific reaches Lake
Superior. The projectors claim their
financial arrangements are practically.
completed and they expect to. secure
bonds to- the amount of nearly s per cent
OF the valuation from the two counties
OF Lake and Cook, which will be opened
to development by the road. Cook
county has no railroad and daLake Las
but short portion of the Duluth & Iron
Range line. There are vast amounts of
timber in both these counties that are of
no value so long as no road penetrates
them, for the streams cannot be- made
drivable. and the timber alone lis prrsob.a,:- az
bly sufficient to pay for the , cons ii truction
OF the road. There are also deposits
OF iron ore in both counties. east of the
developed portions of the Vermilion and
Mesaba ranges, that are supposed to be
OF great extent and value. The
extent of these various ore deposits.
to judge from the outcrops and
from the trihing explorations that
have been made is absolutely beyond all
calculation. There is one magnetic out.
crop of more than twelve miles in length.
and very considerable width. Aside
from iron and timber, the copper-bearinp
rock Of the south shore OF Lake Superior
extends to this section, and there are
reports that copper has been found in
seeming abundance, both in conglom-
crate amygdaloid. Up to date, however.
no successful explorations for either con-
per or iron haye been made in that Sec
tlon. The projectors of that road claim
to be figuring on considerable business
by reason of their expected connection
with the Canadian Pacific road, both in
freight and passengers, and they talk as
though they were backed by the Oliver
Iron Mining company in their proposed
line to Ely and possibly this is true.
This is by no means the first line pro-
lected to reach The timber and mineral Of
Cook county. u = s
A dispatch from Toronto announces
that the Toronto General Trust com
pany has negotiated the sale of the Port
Arthur, Duluth l. Western railroad to
Mackenzie, Mann & Co., the CON
sideration being $250O00. The buyers
will take n0aSaonion$ of fbo "a