Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
April 9, 1887 Saturday

On the Soo Branch

Fully 600 men are now making the dirt fly on the Sault
branch of the DSS&A, over 100 Italians having been received
from Buffalo this week, while the contractors are picking up
all the men near there that they can get. No trouble is being
experienced from water, as some had feared, as the snow has
been disappearing so gradually as not to cause any thing of a
flood in the lowlands. There all the work now is on construc-
tion all along the division, ‘The right of way, having been cut
out from the junction to the Sault, and such good progress is
being made that W. L. Webb, the engineer of the divicion says
he would not be surprised if there were 25 miles ready for
the iron by May le