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

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

No Deal by Ann Arbor Road.
Manager Ashley Denies that it has bought the Wisconsin & Michigan

Toledo, Ohio, Dec. 28. - General Manager Ashley of the Ann Arbor Road today unqualifiedly denied that his company had purchased the Wisconsin & Michigan.  He said: "No negotiations of this character have been made.  It is not probable that the Ann Arbor would purchase this road, as the Green Bay is frozen up about three months of the year, and this would cut the road in fwo for that length of time.  No, you can say that there is no truth in the story."

NY Times Dec 29, 1898

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