Another Milwaukee Southern article

ROADS TO ENTER MILWAUKEE.
Burlington, Wabash and Illinois Central Have Building Plans.

••Milwaukee. Wis., July 26.—Rumors in railroad circles are crystalizing to the effect that Milwaukee will be placed on the direct lines of the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railway system, the Wabash railway and the Illinois Central, provided that the Milwaukee Southern succeeds in building lines in to this city for which franchises have been granted.

The visit to this city ais week of H. I). Judson, general superintendent of the Illinois district of the Burlington, with Attorney Miller of Chicago, Ill. said to have had the purpose of ascertaining the lay of the land here, preparatory to considering a proposal to enter Milwaukee over the Milwaukee
Southern line from De Kalb and Rock ford, Ill.

It is said that at present the Milwaukee-Southern has not the money to build its proposed lines and that the Burlington or some other railway has been asked to lend financial as well as moral support.

Evening times-Republican. (Marshalltown, Iowa), July 26, 1906

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

Wabash carferry to Milwaukee?

Milwaukee Wabash Terminal

Line to be Extended to Benton Harbor, Mich., and connection made by car ferries.

Milwaukee, Aug. 15 - The announcement was made by officials of the Wabash line who are in the the city today that Milwaukee is to be made the terminal of the Wabash Railroad through a car ferry connection with Benton Harbor, Mich.  The line of the road from a point near South Bend, Ind., will be extended to South Bend, and from there to Benton Harbor

A system of car ferries will be run from Benton Harbor to Milwaukee.  Terminal facilities will be intalled on property on the lake front which will cost in the neighborhood of $5 million.

NY Times - August 16, 1903