Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
November 27, 1886

The Sault Branch

Brown, Howard & Co., the contractors of the DSS&A, have sub-let
the contract for clearing, grading and bridging the Sault branch,
from Sage on the DM&M to the Sault, to Rexford Bros. & Hodge of New
York. The sub-contractors will also furnish the ties. The firm
will establish their headquarters at Newberry on or about December
lst, and Col. Rexford will probably be there in person to look afte
the interests of his firm. Chief Engineer Latcha says that the sub
contracts on the western division will not be let for two or three
months yet as the locating survey will not be finished before that
time. Five parties are now out on the line, and two others will
probably be sent out in a week or so. The party of capitalists in-
terested in the road, and which is working toward Marquette, will
probably arrive on Wednesday.

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