The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-02-11
Expects to Have q Railroad Line
Along the South Range Com
pleted by Next Fall.
SEVERAL BIG STAMP MILLS
May be Located In This Vicinity,
as the Advantages Afforded
Are the Very Best.

For number of weeks past sur
veyors have been at work in the
vicinity of Newtonville, and all
kinds OF rumOrs have been in cir
culation, not only regarding the
new railroad branch, but also the
probable location of several stamp
mills at the head OF Keweenaw bay.
The following, from the pen OF G. II.
Kelsey, the able copper country
representative of the Mining
Journal, appeared. in that paper
Monday:
General Manager w. f. Fitch,
OF the Duluth, South Shore Il At
lantic railway, returned to Mar
quette Saturday, his car being az
tached to the 3;15 train. Before
leaving Mr.. Fitch announced that
the South Shore road will build q
line along the new copper range
next summer, leaving the Houghton
division at point near Newton
vile and following the valley of the
Sturgeon river foothills of the
range until little past the Winona,
when the line will swing up onto
the range and continue along it, the
country the other side OF the
Winona being much better adapted
to railroad building than that be-
tween Houghton and the Winona.
The line will pass about two miles
southeast Of the Winona and spur
will be put into that mine. The
Adventure, Mass and Michigan
properties will be traversed and
there the road will stop for the
present, the line being thirty miles
long. Eventually the South Range
branch will be extended to Lake
Gogebic, twenty 0miles southwest
from the Michigan, where a junction
will be made with the main line OF
the d., s. S. & A. to Duluth, giving
a new route between Houghton and
the cities at the head Of the lake
thirty-five miles shorter than the
present roundabout one.
The preliminary and locating sur
vcys for the new branch are already
well along, the work having been in
progress for the past two months.
A large party of engineers is in the
field under the charge OF Frank
Brotherton and it was while at
tempting to reach this party to Sc
cure field notes to "work up" in the
Office at Marquette that Chief En-
gineer Payne was so badly frozen
last week. He was taken down to
Marquette Wednesday. The line
located by the engineers possesses
remarkably easy gradients, the
maximum being one per cent, and
only one grade OF that description
being against the traffic. This may
yet be eliminated by more careful
surveying of the approach to the
Houghton division near Newton
vile.
'The new line will undoubtedly re-
suit in the utilization by some of the
new mines OF the magnificent stamp
mill sites on keweenaw bay, and the
citizens Of L'Anse and Baraga are
fully alive to the situation. 8. L..
Smith and the Nester estate have
offered free site for the first mill
built, and William Coach also has
options secured for the purpose of
Offering sites at . merely nominal
figure. General Manager Fitch is
of the opinion that the new Ontona-
gon properties will find it much
more advantageous to locate on Ke-
weenaw bay than on Lake Superior
west Of Ontonagon, where harbor
facilities are entirely lacking, the
South Shore being able to haul to
Keweenaw bay stamp mills as
cheaply as the rock could be sent
the other way, while the Keweenaw
bay site offers the additional ad-
vantage OF being nearer the Portage
Lake smelters. From the other To-
cation the mineral would have to