Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
September 3, 1887 Saturday

Ishpeming - The amount of travel between the Marquette and
Gogebic ranges has bean very large since the latter district
was first opened some three years ago and the circuitous route
between the neighboring districts has proved a great invon-
venience, as well as a source of considerable cost to the
people making the trip. During the summer months much of
the travel between the ranges has been by water, from Hough-
ton to Ashland, but in the winter the shortest way of making
the trip has been via Oconto. The Iron River extension of
the C&NW was 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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