Ypsi Wants The New Road

Mayor Huston of Ypsilanti was inquiring yesterday for the gentlemen who were in the city Wednesday in connection with the project of building an electric railroad from Toledo to Ann Arbor. The executive of the Greek City declares that Ypsilanti does not propose to let that road come here. He thinks it should come to Ypsilanti and says that they propose to see that it does come there. 

It will be remembered that the original plan was to go to Ypsilanti instead of Ann Arbor. Mayor Huston says if the company which is to build the new road does not consent to tap Ypsilanti instead of Ann Arbor. Ypsilanti will build a road from there to Milan before the Toledo road can reach Milan. A route for such a road was surveyed a year or two ago and most all the needed franchises obtained, but for one reason or another the plan was for the time abandoned.

It was suggested to Mayor Huston that inasmuch as the proposed Toledo Ann Arbor road was to cross two electric railways running to Ypsilanti, it would give easy access any way, but the mayor insisted that any such connection with Ypsilanti would not suffice at all and they proposed to have the road direct from Milan to that city, and so tt looks as though there may be a lively skirmish on between the two cities for the new road. Unquestionably this road will lay a large and rich farming territory closely tributary to whichever of the two cities that uses it.