Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
October 30, 1886 S aturday

More About the New Railroad

Concerning the new railroad to be built in the Upper Penin-
sula between Duluth and S. S. Marie. The contract for which
was one of the results of the sale of the M&M RR., in this city
last Wednesday, mention of which was made by the Mining Journal,
a New York dispatch to the Chicago Tribune has this further in-
telligence., A syndicate of which C. R. Cummings, president of
the Union National Bank of Chicago; Calvin S. Brice and F. P.
Olcott, of New York; James Me Millan of Detroit, and Norman Ream
of Chicago, President Samuel F. Thomas of the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia railroad; George I Seney and A. D. -duttiard
are members, has purchased the DSS&A, for the purpose of establish-
ing a line from Duluth via Superior City, Ashland and Marquette
and S. S. Marie. Its length will be 410 miles from Duluth to
S. S. Marie with a branch 50 miles long to Mackinac. Mr. Calvin
S. Brice said today: "This road will be a very important link in
the transportation system of this country. At its western ter-
minus it will connect to the NP, the Manitoba, the St. Paul & Du--
luth, the Omaha, the St. Paul and the WC. At its eastern ter-
minus, it will connect with the MC and the Grand Rapids division
of the Pennsylvania. By the construction of a bridge across the
S. S. Marie river it will connect with the Grand Trunk and with
the CPR. On Wednesday the syndicate bought as a portion of the line,
the M&M RR., 125 miles in length, all completed ana they have
arranged with the NP for the use of its branch from Duluth to Ash-
land, 70 miles long. Brown, Howard & Co., have contracted for
the building of the remainder of this line. They have purchased
the steel and have established their headquarters at Marquette.
The work will be pushed with all possible rapidity.

DS&M
ISS&A
M&M RR.