Menominee & St. Paul RR

One to be Built From Menominee to St. Paul, S. M. Stephenson at the Head.

A new railroad company, to be known as the Menominee & St. Paul Railroad company, was organized at Menominee last week. S.M.Stephenson of Menominee, is president; H.W. Ashley, of Toledo, vice-president and general manager; Joseph Fleshiem, Menominee, secretary; N. L. Smith, Toledo, general counsel. The organization was perfected under the laws of Michigan and the articles
of incorporation includes in its board of directors Hon. S. M. Stephenson, Jos. Flesheim, John Henes, C. I. Cook and Wm. Holmes, of Menominee, and Hon. Wellington R. Burt, of Detroit. The capital stock is $11,500,000.

The new road will be built from Menominee to St. Paul, a distance of 300 miles, to form a connection with the Ann Arbor and its car ferry system there. It is the intention to run the boats all winter. The distance in favor of Menominee from St. Paul as compared with Chicago is 117 miles. The building
of the new road is expected to cause the erection of flouring mills, elevators, factories of different
kinds, etc., in Menominee. The preliminary survey of the road will begin at once. It will run in nearly  a westerly direction, and through a section of Wisconsin yet undeveloped and rich in timber and agricultural lands.

The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.)  June 17, 1899,