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Through To Chicago

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Parent Issue
Day
28
Month
July
Year
1899
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

OUTSIDE NEWS CONCERNING THE ELECTRIC LINE.

News of Which the Argus First of Any Paper in Michigan Published Some Months Ago.

Laporte, Ind., July 21. --George R. Bullard and C. E. Sawyer, of Marshall, Mich., are negotiating for a franchise to build an electric railway to Michigan City and to South Bend via Niles and other southern Michigan towns. The Marshall promoters are said to represent an eastern syndicate.

This is one of the links in the chain of electric roads which will shortly connect Detroit and Chicago.

The Kalamazoo Telegraph contains the following on this subject.

The possibility of an interurban trolley line extending clean across the peninsula of Michigan, with Kalamazoo squarely in the middle of it, is the latest enterprise to dazzle the venturesome capitalist.

That such is likely to be the fact, that Kalamazoo money is bound to be in the scheme and that negotiations are already under way with that end ultimately in view are a climax of features of the deal which came as a succession of surprises to local people not on the inside.

The first link in the chain is of course the Detroit-Ann Arbor road, which has been in successful operation for some time past. Link No. 2 is the Kalamazoo-Battle Creek line now in process of construction. News comes of the promotion of two independent lines which will span the distance between Ann Arbor and Battle Creek with Jackson as the meeting place. And now the missing link in this electric girdle of the state is found in the promotion of a scheme to extend the line westward to Michigan City and South Bend.

It will be remembered that Frederick N. Rowley of this city recently petitioned the Marshall council for a franchise in that city. At the time he said that he represented others in the deal. It is thought that this has some connection with three eastern syndicates which are said to be back of the scheme to extend the line west from Marshall. From what could be learned this afternoon Mr. Rowley and Maj. Downs of the Michigan Traction company were both in Chicago where a conference of some kind may have been in progress.