The Boland Line West Of Jackson

THE BOLAND LINE WEST OF JACKSON

IS AT LAST NEARLY COMPLETED TO JACKSON

And Cars Will Soon Run from Jackson to Battle Creek-Said to Have Extra Good Roadbed.

The rumble of the  electric cars from the west, says the Jackson Patriot, can almost be heard in the streets of Jackson- almost The iron is laid on Boland line, connecting Jackson and Battle Creek, with the exception of a short span near Bath Mills, and a gang of men is now engaged in ballasting. Work is progressing steadily, though slowly. It is said' with the gang of men which it is practicable to work, the road can be carried to completion from its present stage at the rate of half a mile a day. This progress is not however, being made, and it may be that the road will not be completed for traffic before work is stopped by freezing weather. The trouble seems to be the difficulty in obtaining men, although as high as $1.75 a day is paid. The men now employed are principally Italians.

The rails of the interurban line have been connected with the city system  at West avenue, to which point the line was extended last spring.

The construction seems to be, on the whole, superior to any electric roadway entering the city, the grading approximating that of the steam road. Seventy-pound rails are used. The third rail for transmitting the electric power has not yet been laid.

The company has a steam shovel at work in the gravel pit at Parma, and the material for ballasting is carried to the desired point by two engines and work trains.