TitleLester Brown has resigned Date1890-01-09 SubjectRailroads DescriptionLester Brown has resigned his position as telegraph operator at this place for the DSS&A. Mr. Brow... View Details
TitleSurveyors are at work running the line for a branch of the C&NW RY. Date1890-01-09 SubjectRailroads DescriptionSurveyors are at work running the line for a branch of the C&NW Railroad from Lathrop to Autrain, am... View Details
TitleWorst of the season Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe recent remarks concerning the weather predictions must have made the bureau man mad and led him ... View Details
TitleCollided with the Harbor Line Date1890-03-15 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe DSS&A Railroad in its effects to prive for the rapidly increasing ore trade of this port has met... View Details
TitleCollided With the Harbor Line (2 pages) Date1890-03-15 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe DSS&A Railroad in its effects to prive for the rapidly increasing ore trade of this port has met... View Details
TitleNew approach to no. 3 dock Date1890-03-21 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe South Shore has notified Alex Grant to remove his house which stands on the company's lands sout... View Details
TitleWork progressing fast Date1890-03-21 SubjectRailroads DescriptionPile driving the new number 4 dock is progressing rapidly. The contractors, Messers, Henry and Balc... View Details
TitleDSS&A Date1890-03-22 SubjectRailroads DescriptionDSS&A Company Vs the City of Marquette to recover $831.00 taxes piad under protest., 1890. View Details
TitleDuluth South Shore & Atlantic Railroad Date1890-01-27 SubjectRailroads DescriptionDuluth South Shore & Atlantic Railroad. Direct route between east and southeast and the great north... View Details
TitleClaim no. 134 Date1890-01-29 SubjectRailroads DescriptionWilliam Shocks, St Ignance, Michigan for $31.25, wages as sectionman withheld account of board bill ... View Details
TitleHoughton - a large portion of the machinery for the new hoist engine Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA large portion of the machinery for the new hoist engine of the Atlantic mine arrived this week. View Details
TitleSeveral bents of no. 3 dock Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionSeveral vents of No 3 dock are up and the pile driving has advanced over 100 feet. View Details
TitleIshpeming - there is scarcely a branch of railroad work Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThere is scarcely a branch of railroad work that keeping track of the rolling stock of the road, and... View Details
TitleDead River lumber cut Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionJ. C. Brown who has been operating on the upper Dead River for Hawley & McGraw was in the city last ... View Details
TitleTo the common council of the City of Marquette Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads -- Engineering DescriptionThe Dead River Railroad Company is constructing its line of road from the DSS&A to the mouth of the ... View Details
TitleRepublic - a number of cars of coal, wood and lumber Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA number of cars of coal, wood and lumber are arriving at present via the DSS&A for Manson and Peter... View Details
TitleRepublic - the DSS&A pay car Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe DSS&A pay car did the needful here on Thursday. View Details
TitleNegaunee - a log hauler had a narrow escape Date1890-03-01 SubjectLogging railroads DescriptionA log hauler had a narrow escape from having his horses and load demolished Thursday afternoon. He ... View Details
TitleHoughton - a large portion of the machinery for the new hoisting engine Date1890-03-01 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA large portion of the machinery for the new hoist engine of the Atlantic mine arrived this week. View Details
TitleArches of flying snow (2 pages) Date1890-03-08 SubjectRailroads DescriptionAt seven o'clock Monday morning a represenative of the Mining Journal boarded the DSS&A's big rotary... View Details
TitleCollided With the Harbor Line (2 pages) Date1890-03-15 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe DSS&A in its efforts to provide for a rapdily increasing ore trade of this port has met with an ... View Details
TitleHoughton - postal clerks have been put on the M&N Date1890-03-22 SubjectRailroads DescriptionPostal clerks have been put on the M&N between Champion and Milwaukee so hereafter the copper countr... View Details
TitleNegaunee - South Shore surveyors are at work Date1890-03-22 SubjectRailroads DescriptionSouth Shore surveyors are at work running new lines to some of the mines. View Details
TitleRepublic - the DSS&A depot officials here appear quite natty Date1890-03-22 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe DSS&A depot officals here appear quite natty in their new uniforms. View Details
TitleBoys who run on the South Shore report that W. A. Locke Date1890-03-22 SubjectRailroads DescriptionBoys who run on the South Shore report that W. A. Locke of McMillan has a seven pound smile these da... View Details
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