Another New Eleclric Line Projected By Boston Men

Ann Arbor seems bound to become quite an electric railway center. Not only will it undoubtedly have within a year two lines to Jackson and two lines to Detroit, but there seems to be no reason to doubt but that the line from Toledo via Milan will also be built. The Argus today can add to these still another line projected and which has a good chance of becoming a reality. It is a line to Adrián via Saline, Macon and Tecumseh.

This is not the line that Lawyer Hatch, of Ypsilanti, has been industriously promoting. That line was intended to run along the highways and it was sought to interest New York capital. The line now spoken of is to run entirely over a private right of way and is to be built by Boston capital. The projectors of this route have as yet asked for no franchise from any city, village or township, but they claim to have secured options on 30 miles of private right of way.

The syndicate, which it is expected will build this line is made up largely of Boston capitalists. Ex-Governor Nash, of Ohio, is their western representative. They are engaged in the business of building electric lines and have built many.

The promotor went over various routes from Adrián and finally laid out two, one from Adrián to Tecumseh, thence to Clinton, from there to Milan and terminating in Ypsilanti. The other was from Adrián to Tecumseh, through Macon to Saline and Ann Arbor. The first promoter, it is understood, had no connection with Gov. Nash or the eastern syndicate. But after carefully going over both routes and getting a number of options he disappeared from this section.

Finally he reappeared upon the scène in company with two other gentlemen, who were the direct representatives of Nash and showed them over the lines. This was in May. They expressed themselves as very enthusiastic over the project and stated that they should recommend it most strongly to Gov. Nash. They stated. also, that the line to Ann Arbor was the only one they should recommend, as it offered the most favorable pros for money making. They also stated that Gov. Nash was away from home and would not return until some time this month.

These gentlemen said if the Boston syndicate took up the matter, they would proceed at once to build, as there was no question in it of raising capital. They had that. All they were looking for was favorable places to invest it in electric lines. In reply to the objection that steel rails could not be obtained short of a year, they stated that their syndicate had in orders in advance for all material, as they were making a business of electric road building and they had material they could put on the ground at once.

Since May, the only thing that has been heard from these gentlemen has been a private letter received the past week by a gentleman who is much interested in the line coming past his place, in which one of the representatives of Mr. Nash, who was over the route last month, stated that everything in connection with the matter was progressing most favorably and he himself had no doubt but that the line would be built. A line from here to Saline, Tecumseh and Adrián is a line which our business men greatly desire to see built