That Link

The Vernon ínter Lake of last week liad tilia information, Ivaluable to those living along the line of this road: The Toledo, Aun Arbor and Northern Michigan railroad is an enigma to mmy. They read of men being at work on the "link" in Washtenaw, Shiawassee and Gratiot counties and they wonder what the link is, where it starts from, and wliere it goes to. We shall try to tnake this as clear as possible. The road starts at Toledo, Ohio, and runs a little west of north to Ann Arbor. An examination of the map will show that the line that far is on an alraost direct line with Ourand. At Ann Arbor, however, the road bends to the northeastand runs twelve miles to South Lyon. It was the intention of the company to continue it in that dlrectiou to Pontiac, or beyond, but before they could get beyond South Lyon, the Grand Trunk company built a road from Pontiac to Jackson througli South Lyon, and the Pontiac extensión of the T. & A. A. was abandoned. The next move of the Toledo and Ann Arbor company was to build a road from Owosso to Saint Louis, in Gratiot county, which left a break of forty miles between South Lyon and Owosso. This is misssing Link No. 1. Last ye.ir the company set about filling this gap, but instead of starting from South Lyon, theystarted at Hamburg in Livingston county, and ran north to Durand. This left two gaps, one between Ilamburg and South Lyon and the other between Durand and Owosso. (rading has commenced at botn of these gaps, but from Hamburg the road is beiug directly run to Ann Arbor, and it is the evident intention to either throw up the road between Ann Arbor or South Lyon, or use it as a branch road. Uut thcre is still another missing link in the road. A short time siuce the Toledo & Ann Arbor compuny obtained po8session of the "Lamp road" which runs between Alma and Salt rlver or Shepherd City, and which is being rapidly pushed to Mt. Pleusant, the county county seat of Isabella county. Between St. Louis and Alma U a gap in the road ot about ten miles, and that is beinü graded ag fast as possible. So now, hereafter, if your hear people fpeak of work being done on the link ask tliem which of the three they mean. The probability is that all the links will be supplied aud the cars will be running over ii contiuuous route by July Itli.