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South: Shore: Notes’ :
_ A representative of the “Mryixa Jocr-
wat called at the office of Brown, Howard
& Co. ae week, and fn an‘interview with
Me,JA,—Latohq.-thechlet-dagineer—of,
the Duluth,’-South’ Shore .& > Atlantio,
gleaned, through ‘his’ courtesy; many facta
‘of general interest. ‘The first was ‘in re-
gard to the ore docks’ in this clty, The
|work.of driyifig the piles for the 800-foot |
‘extension of No. aris being pushed as|
‘fast as possible fo order to get the pile
driver over to No. 1 plet, as the company
has decided to add 298 feet to that struc.
ture.* This will'give additional ore capac-
ity hero-of 15,000 tons, ‘and greatly facill-
tate the operations of the company during
tho shipping. season. y¥t 1s confidently
jexpected now thattho pile driving on No,
\3\will be completed | before the end of
| March and the driver ‘at. ‘once shifted to
oT. ‘a.

Tho Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic has
purchased superb « + torihinal facilittes in
Wost Suportor. Just atross from Duluth,
and {8 now surveying ep Indopendent Ino
to that point, The South Shore's junction
with the Northern +e ss at. pane
back of and west of jand an ua
tallos from West Superior. “Ita tavorablo
trafic arrangement can be made with the
. P, it ts not probabl¢ that tho road will

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push its-owm-track “into Supertor~ thts
‘summer, but jf nqt the road -will- enter on
its own rails, .Two sufvey Ing parties are |
now In the fleld between tho junction and
Wost Superior and by ohe of the curlosl-
tlea of railroad engtneering a more favor.
able roule has been fouiiid {hati the N. P.,
which had tho first‘choteo'and made sev.
eral survoys, secured;: {t 1s a line that can
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17, 1888

less expense, Tha burvey 16 a very ciuse

“preliminary” and if the company declilea
to build It will have plenty of time todoso
during the summer.*"Avstrip of land 360
feet wide and 6,000 feet long, leading to'a
valuable wator front,-bag been-secured by
the South Shore for terminals and lies
between, the N. P, and M., St. P. & 0
roads. Besides this the-D,, 8.8. A.]
has acquired a fourth’ Interest In the
West Superior Ternitnal Co,, which ‘con-
trols large and yaluablo tracts of land
there sultable for ¢erminals.

The steel] hag been ptiréhased for the
complotion of the South Shoro line be-
tween Dogwood and the N. P. junction at
Trom’River, whiten tealready graded; ana
It wlll be on the ground toward the end of
April. Track-laying will be reeumed the
moment the snow goes off sulllolently to
Pett tt

A surveying party te also in the fleld
selecting a route between L’
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land. This will bo eee, -elght
miles in length. The party started In at
Silver Mountain, noar whore the line aur-
voyed from L'Anse Inst fall finds a cross-
ing on the Sturgeonzriver. This branch,
when bullt, will open up a good deal of
land, strike the Ontoriagon copper range,
and control: the traMo of that part of the
peninsula. It would probably operat-
ed in confoction with tho Mil 00
Northern, in which caso that road would |
never be extend to Ontonagon.

The South Shore engineors. have com-
pleted a very caroful survoy of the Goge-
ble country, and now that the notes are
all in the work of mapping outthe D., 8.
B. & A.lines'tothe tdéwns and mines on
that range will be. commencdd at once in
tho chief engineer's offices in this city.