The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-11-02

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pany, lying in Baraga county, said
grant to be for period of twenty (20)
years.
2. The question of submitting to the
qualified electors of the said village of
L'Anse and to the women Taxpayers
of the said village having qualifications
of male electors, the entering upon a
contract With the Marshall Buffers
Lumber company, corporation or
ganized under and by virtue of the laws
of the state of Michigan, whereby the
said village, which is now the owner of
an electric lighting and water plant,
shall agree to furnish said Marshall
Buffers Lumber Company so much wa
ter and electric current as said Marsh
all Buffers Lumber Company shall rea-
sonably need for use in its lumber man.
ufacturing plantabout to be construct
ed and later operated in the said village
OF L'Anse. for and during the period of
the ten years next ensuing; and upon
the further consideration that for the
period covered by this agreement. the
said village of L'Anse shall have the
privilege of using all pipe line in con-
nection which shall be laid by the said
Marshall Buffers Lumber Company
from the water plant of said village to
the mill plant of the said Marshall But
ters Lumber Company.
3. The question of submitting to the
qualified voters of the village of L'Anse
whether or not the village shall make
sale of that part of the north half of
the southwest quarter IN. ! of the S.
w. ID and the south half of the north
west quarter Is. ! of n. w. y of Sec
tion ten Q0), Township fifty (5O
North, of Range thirty-three (33) West,
as is not necessary for water purposes.
ROGER C. WILLIAMS,
President.
Attest:
PETER SANDS, Clerk.
The meeting was organized with Mr..
Williams in the chair.
Thereupon the matters named in the
call for such special meeting were TAX
en- up separately and after discussion
and full consideration and deliheration
the following resolutions were ap-
proved and severally carried and passed
by the yea-and-nay vote following each
of said resolutions.
Whereas, The Mars hall Buffers Lum-
ber Company, Michigan corporation,
is about to erect within the corporate
limits of the village of L'Anse, lum-
ber manufacturing plant, and as part
of its plan of operations it purposes
and expects to construct a steam rail-
'road to transport its forest products
from the land lying without the corpor-
ate limits of the village of L,Anse to
its said lumber manufacturing plant;
and
Whereas. On account of the contour
of the lying about said village of
L'Anse, it desires from an engine eiing
view point in constructing the line of
said railroad, to use portion of Fourth
street in said village of L'Anse. Said
street being so designated in the plat
o. said village of L'Anse, of record in
the of the Register of Deeds for the
County of Baraga; and
Whereas, 1t is deemed, by the mem
bers OF this council, for the best inter-
est of the citizens and taxpayers of the
village of l'Anse, that it is a matter
of pablo utility to encourage the con-
strlction and operation of the railroad
now in contemplation: and
Whereas, 1t is deemed expedient to
grant franchise for said railroad over
an along Fourth Street, commencing
at the northeasterly end of Fourth
Street and continuing over and along
said street to the Duluth, South Shore
& Atlantic Railway company's track.
which is at the southwesterly end of
said street, crossing River, Broad and
Railroad streets while running across
i'd Fourth street, being distance of
to-wt: Eight hundred eighty-five (SS5)
feet for the purpose of laying on the
center of said street a single track
railroad. with the necessary ties and T
rails, not exceeding the standard gauge
railroad width. Said rails to be laid
flush, or nearly so, with the surface Of
said street and of thereafter operating
steam engines, cars and other railroad
equipment thereon and thereover;
Therefore it is hereby resolved, By
the common council of the village of
L'Anse, Michigan, that special cleo
ton be called and held in and for the
village of L'Anse, on 11th day of Mo-
.nber A. d. 1912, for the purpose of
submitting to the voters legally quail
fed to vote thereon under the constitu-
ton and laws of the state of Michigan,
the question of whether or not there