Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
November 13, 1886 Saturday

Our Prospects

By this time next year Marquette will have direct rail con-
nections with Duluth and the great "new northwest" tributary to
the thriving young metropolis at the head of the lake. Before
that time it will be furnished with direct rail communication
with the Atlantic seaboard. Within a year, therefore, the con-
ditions essential to the development of extensive manufacturing
interests at this point will have been supplied. If the advan-
tages that the city will obtain through the completion of the
DSS&A line shall be properly utilized, Marquette can be made a
town of very commanding industrial and commercial importance in
a very few years. Effort in the right direction, and properly
sustained, is all that is needed to reap the largest benefit
from the construction of this road, the completion of which will
bring to our very doors one of the great through lines which span
the continent. ..« .