Source: The Mining Journal, Marquette, MI
Friday, February, 15, 1889

At The Shops

The visitor to the South Shore machine ships finds a
different state of things now from that existing two
months ago. Then there were hardly enough men at work
to guard the machinery, and the big shops looked deserted.
Now there is a rush of work and in the blacksmith shop
alone as many are employed as were on duty in the machine
shops all told two months ago. All the engines are being
overhauled and placed in readiness for the ope, of the
ore season, and as soon as other work can be gotten out
of the way the car ships will begin work on the ore
equipment so that on or as soon as possible ore cars shall
all be ready for service.

Thirty-six or thirty-seven engines are now in use on the
road, double the number in use at this season last year.

Mr. Connolly has determined upon a change in the
numbering of the locomotives and they will hereafter be
“nuuwoered by classes. Some have all ready been chanced.
The six driver 12 x 4's will be numbered 200 upwards end
the six driver Boooks' 18 x 2k'e@ from 300 up, ete.

The Cleveland Iron Co.'s locomotive "Cleveland" is in
the shops undergoing thorough repairs.

CI Co.

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