Both Will Cross The State

BOTH WILL CROSS THE STATE
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Something Doing on Boland Line West of Jackson
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JACKSON TO LANSING
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Hawks & Angus are Pushing Their Line - Mr. Hawks Makes a Statement
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Both the Boland and the Hawks-Angus electric lines will probably in time cross the state of Michigan. While the Boland line is quiescent at this point at present, there seems to have been something doing west of Jackson. From Albion to Marshall the line is said to be practically completed. Yesterday a committee from Three Rivers, where the Boland line is asking a franchise, were in Jackson, Grass Lake, Albion and Marshall looking over the completed work of the Boland company. The franchise at Three Rivers is asked with a view of running an electric road from Kalamazoo to Three Rivers and thence down into Indiana.
While the Boland line is pushing on to Chicago, the Hawks-Angus line from Lansing is starting, with a promise of beginning the line to Grand Rapids in the fall. Concerning this the Lansing Republican says:
"Work on the electric railway that will cross the state will be started before snow flies next fall," is the announcement from President Hawks, of Hawks & Angus, owners of the Lansing street railway company and a long interurban line.
Mr. Hawks writes as follows: "We beg to say that there has been so much time lost in an effort to get a suitable franchise in Ionia that spring is upon us, and we must now put our time in on the actual construction of the line from Jackson to Lansing. After this is well under way we can then take up the Ionia matter again and see what route is the most desirable to Grand Rapids.
"The Lansing and Jackson line will occupy the most of the summer months in building, but as soon as that is completed we expect to put the same force of men at work on the line from Lansing to Grand Rapids."
Recently President Hawks intimated that it was practically decided that the Lake Odessa, Ionia and Grand Ledge route would be selected west of Lansing, with the tracks parallel most of the time with the Pere Marquette tracks. It is proposed to put in the three rail system, the same as on the Grand Rapids- Muskegon line, and compete in time as well as route with the railroad. 
Vice President Thomas F. Carroll, of the Muskegon and Grand Rapids line, and principal promoter of the fine line to Muskegon state that President Hawks will probably be in Grand Rapids next week to confer with local officials of the line and probably make arangements for the survey of the line to Lansing.