The amount of travel between Marquette and Gogebic ranges has been very large since the latter district was first opened some three years ago and the ciccuitous route between the neighboring districts has proved a great inconvience, as well as a source of considerable cost to the people making the trip. Durning the summer months much of the travel between the ranges has been by water, from Houghton to Ashlund, but in the winter the shortest way of making the trip has been via Oconto. The Iron River extension of the C&NW has opened for business Tuesday and will shorten the distance by over 100 miles, and the completion of the DSS&A next winter will further reduce the distance by half.
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