A Boom

Public interest is a gala on the quJ vive conceraing the proposjd elictric road froin Detroit to Aim Arbor. Advanee agents have been on the ground and right of way to a largo extent has already been secured, especially between Detroit and this place. The line can be completed frota Detroit to Wayne tuis season if pushed forward with energy. Much of the right of way, however, remains yet to be obtained. It is understood tliat farmers along the line feel nol only a deep interest ík the road, but thai they wlll as a general tiling support the enterprise and are disposeel to meel the company fairly as to terms of acquiring landed rights. In niany cases, uear here at least, the right of way bas been doDated. Indead, tho suo cess Of the enterprise depends so innen upon the eost of privilege that parties interested must be liberal in tkta regard to get the road. However, they should at tho same time be cautious. Landed riglits can be used as well to prevent a road as to secure cue, and this may be anoiher scheire to tie up the probable route rather th.ui nso it. We hoijo this is not tho case, yet wliile granting these rights it would be well to make easy eonditions of forfeiture. The township ofiïcers through whose territorios the road will run are, as a general thiug, íavoraWy inclined toward the proposed improvoment, and it is believed that the line will not oncounter any serlous o;i;)osiüon. At Eloise it is generally agreed that the road would prove a gríai cenvenience in regard to transportation to and i'rora Detroit, there being always a large amount of travel at all seasons of the year. The Michigan Central railway will always reeeive :i ('air patronage at the regular hours f passenger trains. but the electric ears would collect the business whieh woukl be better accommodated during the middle of the day, and this Item would of itself prove :io iuconsiderable source of revenue to the coinpany. The project Is of course to continae the road through Wayne oh to a .iunction with the electric line running from Ann Arbor to Ypsilanti, whieh is now in very successful operaüon. This will give ueaxly 40 miles of firstelass suburban road, -which would not only prove a great accommodation to the traveling public lyin.g along the route, but should constitute a permanent source of proflt to the company building it. Such electrio lints are now in successful operation from all the great cities oí ñiis country out into the su'burban sections surrounding them, and they are utilizt-d by la] ge 'bodies of people in the thickly settled parts of the United States. The distance in this case, K) miles, is just about the correct mileage to make an eiectric road successful, if construeted through a section of country well papulated and settled by people of means and employnaent, as is largely the case between Detroit and Aun Arbor. The business from the tTnivsrsity and city of Ann Arbor alone would prove a source of decided profit to the company during ihe year.Wayne Review.