The diamond drill., 1921-03-05

built. parallel 10 the already existing
excellent highway, along the north
side OF the ID $ a. A railroad. not
more than mile and in some places
not over a quarter Of q mile away.
That Is a rough, rocky and very diff
cult country TO build a road through.
Several bridges are required and one
big rock cut is necessitated, the cost
OF which alone would do lot OF
grading on the ordinary road bed.
There is absolutely no probability OF
this section OF the county ever devel-
oping into anything but fodder for
rock crushers Mr.. Newett tells OF it's
Opening up acres OF real fertile
thing but hell-and Sawyer has rails
ed plenty OF that-on the entire ter
ritory tributary 10 the road. III the
road is talked about I'm the years TO
come II will be remarks on the
foolishness OF the balance OF the PEN
insula to allow such thing to be
pulled OFF.
To take the curse of and pull the
wool over the eyes of the rest OF
the state survey was branched of
this road about four miles east OF
Negaunee and run north to within
few rods OF the Huron Mountain
, Club. an aristocratic organization
containing a lot OF Chicago and other
Imillionaires, and then projected on
through Skanee to Baraga. The sect
ion OF country between the Huron
mountains and the private road is a.
bout as rough. inaccessible and in-
dustrially uniyiting a section as can
be found anywhere in the. upper pen
insula.. There isn't settler along
the entire way from Marquette 10 the
Skanee settlement and there isn't any
probability that there ever will be any
settlers there
However, II wasn't the Skanee road
that powers in Marquette county
wanted II was the road between Neg |
aunee and Marquette, serving the |
the Cleveland cliffs water power
plant, that was sought A Grading |
contracts amounting to hundreds Of
thousands OF dollars have been let in
addition TO seven or eight bridge con-
tracts.
The Editor OF the Iron Ore attempts
to Justify this grab in the following.
And here's a point the Drill edit
or must not overlook When il be-
came apparent that the state high
wa bonds were not wanted: that
they were not being sold 10 provide
money for the trunk line work in
which the state shared i'm the cost OF.
countys road commission,
a body OF influencial men. and con-
nected with banks I'm this county. Sc
cured aid from several local banking
which took about 100000
worth Of these state highway bonds
when other banks in other counties
would not touch them, wanting sec
lrities that paid a higher rate OF i'm
crest and which were abundant dur
ng the past year"
O. no. We havn't overlooked that
point. We're well informed on IL.
LAST summer we had occasion TO stop
It Marquette county road camp and
n conversation with the engineer In
charge, the latter bewailed the fact
hat the very necessary surfacing
work near Carlsend could not be done.
Ne asked him the reason why the ,
work couldn't be done and he replied /,
hat bonds couldn't be sold so the
ounty couldn't go ahead with II.
hen inquired OF him why II was that ,
'onds on the new road between Mar
Iuette and Negaunee could be sold
'ut none 10 connect Marquette county !
With the outer world
The man loked up at ns quisically.
ilted his head trifle and replied,
| guess YOU know without my telling
ou" And. so does anyone who has
.iven the matter moments thought
now for II the ownership OF the lands !
nd water power were looked mp and !
ompared with the ownership and 4
Management OF the banks that took the i
onds, one might guess very closely r
he reason. High interest rates are n
ot always represented by the face ID
4 the paper discounted "a
But. Il Mr.. Newett's theory as eX In
ounded above Is wrong his philoso !
hy as expounded IN the following
taken from his article Is
lretched
You zee. Mr. Conlin, we reached out
nd helped ourselves. and the Lord,
il his great wisdom, helped as, ap
the sacrifices we made In
he interest OF giving to the public v
hese line thoroughfares. 1
Mr. Newett would twist that lesson i
I the Great Master wherein he seeks
o promote thrift to cover all kinds
{ acquisition OF power, property or
riyilege from robbing a hen roost to
lisappropriating public moneys.
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