Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
February 19, 1887

A Transcontinental Line

New York dispatches state that R. J. Hervey, the principal
member of the syndicate which is building the DSS&A states
that the bridge across the Sault Ste. Marie will be "open to
all the railroads touching that point, and that the Brockville,
Westport & Sault Ste. Marie company, which has been recently
chartered, will be an extension of the former road to the St.
Lawrence. Near Brockville a line will be built across the St.
Lawrence, where the river is only 4,400 feet wide and connec-
tions will be built to roads now running to New York and Bos-
ton." This will give the NP a direct line to the Atlantic
coast, making it a trunk line from ocean to ocean, and much
shorter than any of its competitors.