Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mie
February 12, 1887

After Gogebic Ore

The L'Anse Sentinel understands from information furnished
it that as soon as the survey of the main line of the DSS&A is
finished a portion of the engineers corps will be detailed to
survey a line from L'Anse in a southerly or southwesterly dir-
ection to tap the main line, evidently with the intention of
shipping Gogebiec ore via L'Anse. It adds:

We learn that the DSS&A, by reason of its easy grades, will
be able to haul ore from the Gogebic range to L'Anse at as low
a rate as the MLS&W can possibly afford to haul it to Ashland.
When it is considered that L'Anse is nearly 200 miles nearer
than Ashland, that a long and dangerous stretch of lake coast
is avoided by shipping from that port, that the shipping sea-
son averages a month longer here, than at Ashland, and that
vessel rates are much lower, the conditions are certainly fav-
orable for the new road to handle a large share of the ore
traffic of the Gogebic range. With the almost certainty of the
opening of the country to the south and west of us through the
avenue of the DSS&A, it would seem that the dawn of a new and
prosperous era for L'Anse cannot much longer be delayed.

DSS&A
MLS&W