Source: The Daily Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
October 18, 1888 Thursday

The Proposed Road

The Northern Michigan railroad which has just been incorpor-
ated, as was noticed in the Mining Journal, is intended to run
from Houghton to Watersmeet, a distance of 70 miles. The sur-
vey is in progress. People have wondered what significance
could be assigned to the new project. A Milwaukee paper
throws a little light on the situation as follows: "If the
road is built, it would increase competition for the copper
country trade. The only two lines of railroad by which the
copper country can be reached from Milwaukee and Chicago and
points further west, are the M&N and the C&NW, both of which
connect with the South Shore system. The Northern Michigan,
providing it is constructed, will afford an inlet to the cop-
per country for the Menominee River branch of the C&NW, which
at present has no connections by which it can reach the cop-
per country. The building of the proposed road between Hough-
ton and Watersmeet would benefit the Lake Shore railway a
great deal more than the C&NW,'"