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

Reporting for Duty

The division engineers of The DSS&A are arriving in the city
day by day and preparing to begin work under Mr. Latcha's dir-
ections. One party has already been organized and it is now
securing its supplies, etc., preparatory to a start Saturday
or Monday. Packers have been employed and the party will be-
gin work near Three Lakes. A second party will also start in
on the western extension, on which the work is to be crowded as
rapidly as possible.

A number of railway contracitors have put in an appearance in
the city and it is supposed that they are here to figure on sub-
contracts from Brown, Howard & Co. No sub-contracts have as yet
been let and it is not known when they will be. The work of
prime importance now is the speedy location of the locating
party.