Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
~ December 24, 1881 Saturday

Editorial

It is stated authoritatively that the survey of the country

| along the north shore of Lake Superior has satisfied the en-
gineers in charge of the work that to build a railway through
there is impractical. The ground is broken, rocky and presents
difficulties practically insurmountable. Consequently that
route for the St. Lawrence branch of the CPR will be abandoned,
and it is now contemplated to find an outlet through this pen-
insula and across the Sault Ste. Marie. Within 150 miles of
which latter part the Dominion roads are now extended. The
proposed line would sweep around through northern Wisconsin and
northern Minnesota to a point of junction with the Candaian
railway system, of which it is be a factor, somewhere near Win-
nipeg. A glance on the map will show the reader that Marquette
is straight in line of such a road - after perceiving which it
should not require a vivid imagination to inspire him with bright
dreams of a wonderful future for our city.

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