Boland Builds In The Spring
Will Then Finish His Line to Ann Arbor
BEGINS WORK EARLY
Has Eighteen Miles Built This Side of Grass Lake and the Right of Way to This Point
Mr. Boland has not given up building his street car line to Ann Arbor. He now expects to begin work pushing the track through from Dexter to Ann Arbor with the opening of spring.
Said a gentleman who is well posted on suburban road building to the Argus: "Mr. Boland has got too much money in this line to afford to drop it. He has got 18 miles of track laid between Grass Lake and Dexter and a low estimate of the cost of grading as Mr. Boland has graded and laying the track is over $10,000 a mile. So he must have at least $180,000 in between Grass Lake and Dexter.
"Mr. Boland has paid for all the right of way from Dexter to this city but three or four pieces. His franchises have all been extended until June. He is in better shape than he was and with over a quarter of a million dollars already invested between Grass Lake and this point, there is no doubt of his finishing the line.
"Mr. Boland tells me that he has satisfied Mr. Ashley. This means that he is obligated to pay $8,000 for grade separation in Ann Arbor. He has purchased considerable right of way between Ann Arbor and Plymouth."
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