Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
December 11, 1886

For the Montreal River

N. F. Comstock, J. J. Reynolds and J. W. James, engineers in the
employ of the DSS&A, started from this city Monday for Ashland, where
they will obtain axemen and packers and begin work on the line of the
projected road near the Montreal river. When their party is organiz-
ed it will be the sixth on the road between the MHkO and Duluth.