Press enter after choosing selection

Michigan Central Railway

Michigan Central Railway image
Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
September
Year
1871
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

I he iol.owing poragraph is goin the rounds conoemiag tho managoment of traína on this road : %, Tlic management of tno Michigan Central liuihvíiy is highly spoken of. Fot ovdr BÍxteon years not a drop of blond has boon drawn tVüín man, woman or child inside the cara oí that Road. At all honra ot' the day and night t'aere sits ui operator in Kalamazoo depot (midway of the line), who receives telegmms from erory train on the road the instant tliey enter or a station, so that he holds or starts them at will. His eyeis literally on the entire line eontinualiy, making colüsions next to an impossibillty, and itd immense single track quite equivalent, so fox as safetyis concomod, to the lu'st doublotrack roads. lts twelve and sixteen-whoel coaches, admitting of the broaking of almost any one of tne wheels without disuliliiif; tho truck, eonstitutes also no small item in this aggregate of immvmity from periL The people of Yankton Dakota, an trying to get up a diamond excitement. The Union and Dukotian ui' the Ttli says a rouh. diamond was found on tlie b:ink ut' Jim River liy ;i Mr. Eltch, which iv:i roughly estimatöd as worth $30,000. It wil?, sent to a jewokr Bast who sends back the oteering news that it is a genuine diamond, of the first water and very valualile. Mr. Cook, of Yankton, a jeweler, says it is worth (10,000. It is claimed that othcr diamonds have gineo been found.

Article

Subjects
Old News
Michigan Argus