The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-02-23
Huron Bay Structure Being Dis
mantled by the Detroit
Construction Co.
TIMBER AS GOOD AS NEW
This Removes the Last Vestige of
the l. IL. & III. Ii. Rail-
road Enterprise.

W. T. Fraser and John Campbell,
of Detroit, who are connected with
the Detroit Construction company,
were in the village this week. They
have crew OF men at work tear
ing down the ore dock of the Huron
Bay & Iron Range railroad at Huron
Bay. Mr.. Campbell is superintend-
ing the work. 1t is said that the
pine timber in the structure will
aggregate 1900, 900 feet of select
stuff, and that it will take sixty days
to demolsh it. The timber is as
good as the day it was cut. 1t will
be taken to Detroit. 1t will be re-
membered that the gentlemen above
named, were In L'Anse last summer,
when the rails of the Huron Bay
road were torn up and shipped to
Detroit. Several Of the large iron
schutes or pockets taken from the
dock now being torn down were
brought to L'Anse this week Re
garding the destruction of the rail
road and dock the following, taken
from the Detroit Tribune, will be
interesting:
"This will remove the last vestige
of about the worst wildcat railroad
enterprise in Michigan. Milo Davis,
formerly of Detroit, who is now a
fugitive from justice and supposed
to be in Mexico, worked the scheme,
and the late ]. NJ. Turner, of Lansing,
was one of his victims. Christian
Bull and the Stevens, Alexander
and Henry, of Detroit, were the
heavier losers. The scheme was to
build an iron ore road from Chaun-
pion to Huron Bay, forty-five miles,
Davis made the estimates and the
road was equipped. 1t was finished
in the early ninetics, and even if it
had not struck the panic of '93 it
could not have succeeded. Although
splendidly equipped with 70-pound
steel and the finest rolling stock, it
was impossible for operation on ac-
count of terrific grades. The road
cost many times what Davis esti-
mated. Nearly $1,000, 600 we're sunk
in the forty-6ve miles of track. The
grades were 8 per cent in some
places and would just about have re-
quired locomotive for every car.
Two fine 1l0-ton locomotives never
turned wheel. They were housed
at Huron Bay and an engineer took
as good care Of them from 1893 un-
til last August as though they were
working night and day.
Last August the irrepressible
and energetic John Winter, of De-
troit, president OF the Detroit Con-
struction company, builder and
owner of the Detroit, Lake Orion &
Flint and other lower peninsula
electric lines, bought the entire
railroad and equipment that cost
s3,000,0 900 for $4,000. Not wheel
had ever moved over it; not ton Of
freight; not passenger, and there
were ore docks, 5000 tons of steel
rail, locomotives, blacksmith shop
and machine shop,a first-class inter
locker, twenty fiat cars, hand cars,
larries, tools, and in fact, complete
equipment. So lively did Campbell
pull up the track and remove it that
most of it is being operated now
over Winters roads. The two 10
ton locomotives were sold to F. Fl.
Clergue for $4,000, and they are
now on the Algoma Central, the new
road from the 500 to Hudson Bay.
1t isn't often that an entire railroad
is bought for $4,000. And it isn't
often nowadays that an entire rail-
road, standard guage, 70-pound
rails, 110-ton locomotives, ,ore docks,
machine shops, cars, ETC., is pulled
up and moved away with never q
train over it.
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