Will Get Franchise

                   LIMA WILL NOT BLOCK ANN ARBOR
                                 AND JACKSON ROAD.

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                      Supervisor Beach Says He Will Vote
                           for Franchise if People on the
                                     Road Want it Given.

As has been several times stated in the Daily Argus the franchises have been secured for an electric road from Ann Arbor to Jackson by T. D. Kearney and Arthur Brown, with the exception of Lima.
Nothing new has developed concerning this line excepting that Supervisor Beach, of Lima, now intimates that he is willing to grant the road the franchise it wants if the people along the road want it.
Last winter the town board of Lima offered to grant the company a franchise on the territorial road through Lima tied up with such conditions as would allow a man to tether an old horse on the track and compel the road to pay for it if it were killed.
This franchise they refused to accept. They did not desire to sidetrack Dexter and wished a franchise over the north road from Dexter to Chelsea. It was understood at the time that Supervisor Beach and the town board were not willing that the road should be built on any but the territorial road.
Now, , however, be is quoted as saying that if the people along the north road want the franchise given on that road he will vote to grant it. There should be no question about the farmers on that road wanting it, as the invariable result of electric lines has been to raise the price of adjacent farm land. If this franchise is granted at once a big stumbling block will be lifted from the path of the promoters of the new line.

As was predicted some months ago, exclusively in the Argus an electric line will be run from Detroit to Chicago, within five years. The prospects for this are growing brigher. But before Detroit and Chicago are connected, Detroit and Grand Rapids will be.

There has been some talk about the Ann Arbor and Jackson line running on through to Saline, if the Ypsilanti-Saline line runs to Adrian, but there seems to be no real foundation for this desirable statement. The Daily Argus would be glad if this were possible but the Ann Arbor and Jackson road is not apt to branch out until some time after it gets its main line in good working order.
The story that Ann Arbor is to be made a spur of the present road to Detroit the main line passing from Ypsilanti to Adrian, will undoubtedly only come true if another line is built from here to Detroit through Superior, four miles shorter than the present line.