PRR & Ann Arbor to the Twin Cities

 PENNSYLVANIA BEHIND IT.

Marinette, Wis., March 21. —The announcement has been made here that the Pennsylvania railroad is behind the Ann Arbor in its project to secure terminals and build a belt line in Marinette and Menominee. This is only preliminary to extending the road from here to St. Paul and Minneapolis and ultimately to the grain fields of the northwest. This will give the shortest line from the grain fields to the Atlantic seaboard.

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Wood County Reporter - March 23, 1899

Ed note: guessing this is related to the Menominee & St. Paul proposal.

WISCONSIN RAILWAY SOLD

The Wisconsin & Michigan Passes Into the Control of the Toledo & Ann Arbor.

MARINETTE, WIS , Dec. 21 The Wisconsin & Michigan railway, 60 miles long, has been sold to the Toledo & Ann Arbor Railroad Company. The Wisconsin & Michigan is to be extended six miles to connect with the Holmes & Son logging railroad, which extends forty miles in a northwesterly direction, with Pembine. The Holmes road will be extended to tap a big tract of nine In Forest and Vilas counties, estimated at one billion feet. This vast amount of timber will he brought to Marinette to be sawed in Marinette and Menominee mills and will prolong the life of the mills here many years.  Ultimately the Holmes road will be extended to Duluth. The Wisconsin &. Michigan railroad extends trom Peshtigo harbor to Faithorn Junction. The company will lay its own tracks into this city. Next jear the extension will reach the Menominee iron range and the Ann Arbor & Chicago ferry
systems will become great carriers of ore.

Kansas City Journal 12-25-1898

Right into St. Paul from Menominee

Menominee Road Gets a Direct Line Already Built.

MARINETTE, Wis., Oct. 19.—1t is reported that the Holmes Legging railroad, sixty miles-in length, has been purchased, by the Menominee & St. Paul, and will save, the construction of that much new roadbed. The main line of the Menominee & St. Paul railway will not be begun until
spring.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.)  October 20, 1899,

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,

Ann Arbor ferries move Ore

Something never before witnessed in Menominee in railroad shipments took place a few days ago, when four Ann Arbor car ferries took out a total of 128 cars of iron ore to be shipped to Detroit and eastern points. The car ferries. Nos. 3, 4. 5, and 6, were loaded to capacity and departed for Frankfort.
The shortage of steam boats compelled the mine owners to take the matter up with the Northwestern and Ann Arbor Railroads, and arranged to have the ore shipped by rail to points in the east.

The Ann Arbor Company has been having an average of two boats a day for the past three weeks. There are several hundred cars of ore yet to be shipped by the mining companies, and the Ann Arbor road will continue to run boats here each day to take care of these shipments. Last year was the biggest year the Ann Arbor ever had in Menominee, but according to present indications the year of 1917 is going to be the banner year for the road at this point - Michigan Investor.

The Owosso Times 1-11-1918

Peninsula News & Menominee tidbits

The Ann Arbor and Menominee & St. Paul roads have commenced the erection of a big warehouse in
Menominee. A union depot, to cost $40,000, will be built in the spring. The general offices of the Menominee & St. Paul road are to be located in that city.

L'Anse Sentinel 2-17-1900
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Deeds for the proposed Ann Arbor railroad terminal in Menominee were signed Monday. Manager W. II. Ashley and other officials will be there in a few days to perfect plans for building. Citizens granted a terminal site free. They will build a belt line around Menominee and Marinette.

L'Anse Sentinel 5-13-1899
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FIRST SHIPMENT ON A NEW WESTERN ROAD
Marinette, Wis. Oct. 17 - The first shipment was made yesterday on the new Wisconsin & Michigan Railway.  This line extends from the Soo road on the north to Peshtigo, and over the Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul to Marinette on the south.  It will make close connections with the Soo road and the Toledo and Ann Arbor car-ferry line in Menominee.  It is designed in this way to open up a new route to the Eastern Seaboard.

NY Tribune 10-18-1894

A few Ann Arbor tidbits

Sold to the Toledo & Ann Arbor.

Marinette, Wis., Dec.24 - The Wisconsin & Michigan Railway, sixty miles long, has been sold to the Toledo & Ann Arbor Railroad Company.  The Wisconsin and Michigan is to be extended six miles to connect with the Holmes & Son logging railroad which extends forty miles in a northwesterly direction from Pembine.  The Holmes road will be extended to tap a big tract of pine in Forest and Vilas Counties, estimated to contain 1,000,000,000 feet.  This vast amount of timber will be sawed in Marinette & Menominee sawmills.

NY Times December 26, 1898

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New $2,000,000 Michigan Railroad

Menominee, Mich., June 9 - The Menominee & St. Paul Railroad Company was organized today with a capital stock of $2,000,000.  It will build a road from this city to St. Paul, a distance of 300 miles.  The incorporators are ex Congressman Samuel M. Stephenson and ofthers of this city, Wellington R. Burt of Saginaw, President of the Ann Arbor Railroad, and Henry W. Ashdown of Toledo.  The officers are: Preseident S.M.Stephenson; Secretary & Treasurer Joseph Flesheim; General Manger - H.W.Ashley, General Counsel - A.L.Smith of Toledo.  THe Pennsylvania and Ann Arbor Railroads are both indirectly interested.  Elevators and flour mills will be established in this city.

NY Times June 10, 1899

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Big Railway War Possible

The Wabash threatens to tap the CHicago & Northwestern's Michigan ore business

Menominee, Mich., July 22 - Beginning in a war over switching charges between this city and Marinette, Wis., just across the Menominee River, a contest has developed between the C&NW and Ann Arbor, a part of the Wabash system, which threatens to involve the two big railroads in a war for the entire ore business of the upper penninsula of Michigan.  The conflict may also involve the St. Paul system.

The Ann Arbor refused to keep up the high charges made by other roads, and was then forced to pay commissions to the belt lines to get ore from its own connections to its docks in this city.  As a result a corps of surveyors is here tonight, and in the morning will begin to lay out a line across the river, to connect with the Wisconsin & Michigan Road.  It is stated authoritatively that the surveyors are the scouts who will prepare the way for the buying up and connection of small railraods in the iron ore district, resulting in expenditure of millions in the iron mine region by the Wabash.

What has hitherto been the Northwestern's exclusive territory will be tapped.  A cross lake cary ferry service is part of the plan.

NY Times July 23, 1902