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That Railroad Project

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Parent Issue
Day
20
Month
January
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Severa! veáis ago tbe project of buihlng a rail ruad from tliis city to Lansing liad imiuy supporters hete, bul it was linally !ost sight of. It will be seeu from the following article publisbed íq a late ss'kí of Ule Ingbam County Farmer, that a rallroad from Lansing to Anu Arbor is beiug agttated lo that county, and perhaps it would be well for our citizens to interest thcmselves lo the matter. 'The country through wliich it bas been suggested that u railroad should be built bctween Ann Arbor ar.d Lansing is torel and freo from both rivera aud bilis. A grade could be easily made Very luw bridge, culverts or tres'.les would be required. The proposed route via Doveis j Mills, Hamburg, Pinekney, lJlainfield, Millville, Dansville, Wheatfleld and theuee to Lansing, would pass through tbc fiacst localities and best farmiug djtriets, undeveloped by ruilioads in Michigan. It will be fouad by observing a map thiit in this scction of country, between the M. C. K. H. and D. L. fc N. R. R. is the largest area in this state Outside of the lumber regions, to be fotrtid without a railroad. Good local markets woulil be dcvelopedalons the liue. The villages and towns through whicli it would pass are now extremel}' enterprisingand thrifty forlocalities without rail road facilities. If a railroad should ba added to the numerou9 advantages now possessed there would be uo limit to the progress which would be made. not ouly ia the towns through which the proposed road would pass, but also in adjacunt localities. The connections which would be made at Ann Arbor and Lansing would give farmers of cent. -al and southern Michigan all the facilities desirahle, as they would have the competitivo markets of Toledo, Detroit and Cincinnati, jnincd to Ihem by competing freight lines. If we consider whether there are disadvantages connectcd with the construction of such a road, we think of none except the apathy which pervades Ann Arbor and Lansing regardiog this ïailroad. Those cities would receive untold benefits from it. Citizens of the towns inform us that thcy will graut the right of way and besides contnbute 1,000 dollars for each mile that the road traverses their respective towuships. Of course there are uo agieements signcd, sealed aud delivcred to this effect but it is because there is no one authorizcd to receive them. A coinpany might easily be forined and these suggestions and propostions advantageously employed." Sarah Scully has tilled a bilí of dirorca against her husband, Miohacl Scully on the ground of cruelty. Marj' E. Johnston uuable louger id live with SIdney W. Johusion, usks for a divorce in the Washtcnaw circuit court. Lucia Scovill, wlfe of Dr. ]. W. Bliss, lied yesterday of pneumonía at tinage of ?!i years and 10 months. She was born in Philipstown, N. Y., and had been a resident of this city lor the past 47 years. The funeral will be held to-morrow afternoou at half past two o'clock, at the house on Williams street.

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Ann Arbor Democrat