A New Railway System

Negotiations to secure an unbroken connection between Milwaukee & New Orleans

Richmond, Ind., Oct. 25. _ Close on the heels of the announcement from Milwaukee that the Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie Railroad. the new Cincinnati-Chicago short line, is to gain access to that city by a traffic agreement with the Pere Marquette system which will run a car ferry between Milwaukee and Lacrosse, Ind., comes the added information that Cincinnati is not to be the southern terminal.  Instead the present indications point to a connection with the Cincinnati Southern Railroad. thus making a direct line from Milwaukee to New Orleans.  The report is confirmed by an official of the new road, who says it is substantially correct.

The construction of a "Y" is all that is necessary to connect the two systems.  There is no formal agreement as yet, but the feeling between the companies is of the most cordial nature.  Henry C. Starr of this city, general counsel for the road, did not confirm the report but said the company has an important deal on.

NY Times 10-26-1902

PRR to Sault Ste Marie? Manistique Marquette & Northern

A preliminary survey for a railroad from St. Ignace to Sault Ste. Marie for the Pennsylvania interests, controlling the Grand Rapids & Indiana road, has not progressed further.

The Manistique. Marquette & Northern road, extending from Manistique to the South Shore at Shingleton, has been materially improved since being acquired bv the Pere Marquette system
some months ago. It is reported the intention to build to a connection with the Cleveland Cliffs company's system.

Minneapolis Journal, 9-12-1904

Pennsylvania RR trying to reach Lake Superior Country

A Duluth man who recently returned from the East says that the Pennsylvania railway system is aiming to reach the south shore of Lake Superior and Duluth via the Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic from Shingleton.  He says:

"It is currently reported in railroad circles in New York that the Pennsylvania system is going to push farther into the Lake Superior region in search of business in connection with the Grand Rapids &
Indiana road which it is said to control.

The Grand Rapids & Indiana runs north in Michigan to Nortbport, and it is claimed that negotiations are now in progress for the establishment of a car ferry between there and Manistique.

From Manistique to Shingleton there is a logging road, formerly owned by the Chicago Lumber company. It is now in other hands, and is known as the Kauffman line. The Pennsylvania line is supposed to be behind the Kauffmans. The Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic touches Shingleton.

In connection with this road a new route would be furnished from the Lake Superior region to the East. If the movement of ore ever becomes an important factor in all rail transportation, the Pennsylvania system would be in an excellent position to reach many of the important points of consumption from the Lake Superior region."

L'Anse Sentinel, 1-17-1903

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

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,

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

Ann Arbor's New Route.

Menominee, Dec. 8: When navigation closes In Green Bay, the apron for loading cars onto the Ann Arbor ferries will be taken from Gladstone to Manistique, and the boats run there. This will give the
Ann Arbor road a connection with the east and the Lake Superior country, as the Chicago lumber  company owns a 30-mile stretch of road that runs to Munising, where connections with the Duiuth, South Shore & Atlantic railroad will be made. This will open up a splendid new territory for the Ann Arbor, and the boats will ran all the year.

The Owosso Times 12-10-1897

Cheap excursions in northern Michigan

Cheap excursions to open a new line which is sure to become a favorite route between the north country and lower Michigan and Ohio are to be run next week.  Next Tuesday and Thursday, Sept. 2d and 4th, the D., S. S. & A.railway will sell tickets to Toledo,Oh, and lower Michigan at the extremely
low rate of $10.50 from L'Anse and Baraga for the round trip. These excursion tickets will be valid for return until Sept. 20th, inclusive.

The trip will bo made over the D.S. S. '& A. railway to Shingleton; Manistique, Marquette & Northern railway to Manistique; Ann Arbor ferry to Frankfort; Ann Arbor railway to Toledo, Oh. Tickets will be valid for passage on regular trains which leave L'Anse at 9:55 a. m. and Baraga 9:45 a. m., Tuesday and Thursday. The tickets will read to Toledo, but excursionists can stop at any of
the stations on the Ann Arbor road between Frankfort and Toledo, returning home direct from that
point; they will not be obliged to go to Toledo to have their tickets stamped and made available for the return journey.

L'Anse Sentinal (L'Anse, MI) 8-30-1902

AA/M&LS - Northport Ferry

Taps Rich Ore Regions Of Upper Peninsula And Stops Competition.
ABANDONS NORTHPORT FERRY

Fight Between Roads For The Northern Business Stopped By This Purchase.

A deal is consummated, whereby the Ann Arbor Railroad company takes over the Manistique, Marquette & Northern railroad, which taps the rich ore regions of the Upper Peninsula. By this move the Ann Arbor practically closes the car ferry from Northport- to Manistique.  For a number of years the entire business of the Traverse City, Leelanau & Manistique railroad from the Upper Peninsula came by way of the M., M. & N. by way of these huge car ferries.  By this move the Ann Arbor taps the rich country not heretofore reached by any of the big lines.

For many years past the Ann Arbor has conducted a line from Frankfort to Manistique by means of a system of car ferries, which have received considerable patronage, but the leakage into the T. C, L. &M. line was very antagonistic to their business as offering a more direct line to the lower peninsula points and a consequent lowering of the tariffs. The purchase of the road throws the entire traffic in the Ann Arbor's hands.  There is no doubt but that this will deal a severe blow to Northport, depending as it does, largely on the northern system for work for its men.  This is a year round occupation, the big boats never stopping for ice or the elements. It will be some few days before the tariffs can be adjusted to suit the requirements of the new system, and it will also be necessary to allow an interim for the handling of the business which is now under contract to the T.C, L. & M. Just what will become of the road from Traverse City to Northport cannot be determined.

Alma Record (Alma MI) 8-12-1909

Absorbs Copper Railroad

Ann Arbor Company to develop upper peninsula business.

Manistique, Mich., Aug. 7. - By a deal which has been practically closed in the past few days, the Ann Arbor Railway Company has gained control of the Manistique, Marquette, and Northern Railroad, which extends from this place to Shingleton, forty-five miles, and connects there with the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic.

This line, which will be made an extension of the Ann Arbor from here, will give that road a large percentage of the vast timber and copper business of the upper peninsula.  The timber and ore will be carried from Manistique to Frankfort by the railroad's car ferry and shipped from there to Toledo by rail, making the latter city the distributing point for shipments to the East and South.

The railroad was renamed "Manistique & Lake Superior"

NY Times 8-8-1909

A Michigan Railroad Scheme

Holland, Mich., Oct. 1. - It is asserted by a resident capitalist who has interested himself in the scheme that the Detroit, Lima, and Northern Road will purchase the Allegan branch of the Chicago and West Michigan Road and make Holland its main port on the east of Lake Michigan, running a carferry between here and Milwaukee.  The name of the road will be the Detroit, Toledo, and Milwaukee.

NY Time 10-2-1897

New Line to Milwaukee

Milwaukee, Wis., Dec. 21. - Milwaukee merchants and shippers are in receipt of a prospectus issued by the Central Michigan Railroad Company and the Michigan and Ohio Belt Line Railroad Company, which propose to furnish Milwaukee with new railroad connections with the east.  Local railroad men who have no interest in the project say they understand the projectors of the roads have good financial backing.

The object of the organization of the companies named is to maintain a continues line of rail and water way from Milwaukee by way of Grand Haven, Grand Rapids, Battle Creek, Coldwater, and Camden. Mich.; Napoleon, Bowling Green, Fremont, and Cleveland, Ohio.  This line with car ferry connections between Milwaukee and Grand Haven, would carry through freight to the Atlantic seaports, including Newport News, while freight westbound could be sent all over the Northwest from Milwaukee.

The railroad connections of the line as proposed will be the Chicago and Grant Trunk, Pennsylvania, Michigan Central, Lake Shore, Baltimore and Ohio, Erie, and the Norfolk and Western.  It will also make direct connections with the Cincinnati Northern and the Cincinnati, Hamilton, and Dayton for Cincinnati and southern Points.

An issue of $7,000,000 5% first mortgage gold bonds has been arranged for.

NY Times  12-22-1898

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

New Line for Pennsylvania

Menominee, Mich., May 9.-A big railroad scheme is likely to develop here within a sort time.  Representatives of the Pennsylvania Railroad are now at Minneapolis figuring on a line to be built between that city and Marinette, by which a connection will be formed with the Grand Trunk Road and the Pennsylvania by a car ferry at either Grand Haven or Muskegon, on the east shore of Lake Michigan.

NY Times - May 10, 1901

Illinois Central Extension - Fond du Lac

Decided to build from Madison to Fond du Lac.

Oconto, Wis., Sept.11. - From a well known railway official it was learned today that the Illinois Central Railway Company has practically decided to extend its line from Madison to Fond du Lac, thus extending the plan to make Fond Du Lac a big railway center.

It is part of the scheme to make both the Wisconsin Central and Illinois Central Railroad feeders from Fond Du Lac to Manitowoc with the car ferry route to Ann Arbor, Mich.

New York Times - Sept 12, 1899

NYC & Monon Carferries to Milwaukee?

New Milwaukee Terminal

Shipping Line also to build one at Michigan City

Milwaukee, Aug 7, - Expansion of the scope of the Milwaukee, Chicago, & Michigan City Line was announced here today, providing for the acquisition of additional ships, the building of terminals here and at Michigan City, and the extension of service of the New York Central and Monon routes into this territory.

Present plans, expected to be in effect by next spring include the erection here of a great terminal on the docks north of the river, the building of a $1,500,000 terminal on the plan of the Bush Terminal, New York, at Michigan City Ind; the acquisition of three steel ships from the United States Shipping Board and an outlet to Milwaukee for the New York Central and Monon Routes.

The additional ships will give the company a fleet of eight.  In addition a working agreement has been effected with the Tri-State Steamship Company to give Milwaukee shippers another all water route to Detroit, Cleveland, and Buffalo.

NY Times Aug 8, 1920

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