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Tore Up Dean's Tracks

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Parent Issue
Day
6
Month
March
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

A gang of men on the Ann Arbor railroad continued the work of tearing ing up sidetracks, begun Thursday, at an early hour Friday morning by disconnecting the sidetrack of Dean & Co. The sidetrack itself was on Dean & Co.'s land and the rails belonged to Dean & Co. so that all that was done was to tear up the connection. Two cars were on the sidetrack, one loaded with crockery for Dean & Co. They were removed before the track was disconnected.

The Ann Arbor Organ Co. are also without a sidetrack. They used the same sidetrack as did the Fruit and Vinegar works, so that when that was disconnected they were also put out of business, and will be obliged to haul all the lumber they use in manufacturing.

Since the sidetracks were torn up, the Milling Co. have shipped 75 barrels of flour by hauling it to the Ann Arbor freight depot, which gives the road the labor of loading, and Dean & Co. have shipped 25 barrels of oil in the same way.

The Milling Co. pay about $30,000 a year freight bills, for freight that comes or goes over the Ann Arbor road and Dean Co. over $9,000.

It is a most serious inconvenience and expense to manufacturing plants to be deprived of sidetracks, and the reasons for the sudden action of the road so long before they needed to remove the tracks in separating the grade, and without notice that the customers of the road could prepare for the emergency, hare not been made public.