TitleSpecial consisting of engine no 2 Date1887-02-05 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA special consisting of engine number 2 and a coach passed over a portion of the MH&O Wednesday. Th... View Details
TitleMinneapolis Journal Date1887-02-11 SubjectRailroads DescriptionGeneral W. D. Washburn returned from the east this morning where he has been for some time in the in... View Details
TitleAfter Gogebic Ore Date1887-02-12 SubjectRailroads DescriptionL'anse Sentiel understands from information funished it that as soon as the survey of the main line ... View Details
TitleFor his new position Date1887-02-19 SubjectRailroads DescriptionOn Sunday Mr. L.S. Glasier will leave Marquette to begin with duties of his new position as train de... View Details
TitleTranscontinental line Date1887-02-17 SubjectRailroads DescriptionNew York dispatches state that R.J. Harvey, the principle member of the syndicate which is building ... View Details
TitleBetween four and five hundred men are at work Date1887-02-19 SubjectRailroads DescriptionBetween four and five hundred men at work on the Sault branch for Rexford Bros. & Hodge, near Sault ... View Details
TitleRailroad building in Upper Michigan Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionRailroad building in Upper Peninsula has created a good deman for labor in the (Saginaw) valley and ... View Details
TitleWork on the docks Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads -- Employees DescriptionAnnual spring operations on the ore docks are now well under way. Pockets are being repaired, broke... View Details
TitleUpper Peninsula Railroads Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionS.A. Harrison senior member of the firm of Harrison & Green, contractors, who have taken the contrac... View Details
TitleGogebic Division Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionHarrison & Green, of Milwaukee, has taken the contract for the construction of the Gogebic division ... View Details
TitleTo be operated as One Line Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionA New York dispatcher to the Boston Sunday Harold gives the following particulars concerning the pla... View Details
TitleTo Form the DSS&A Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionFriday a special meeting of the stockholders of the Mackinac & Marquette RR., formerly the DM&M was ... View Details
TitleBasis for the deal Date1887-02-26 SubjectRailroads DescriptionOur readers generally will be interested in learning under what conditions the MH&O has been transfe... View Details
TitleSomething of an order Date1887-03-03 SubjectRailroads DescriptionDSS&A placed its first order for rollling stock for its new lines, and the order includes 20 Mogul ... View Details
TitleFlorence Mining news has it on the highest authority Date1887-03-05 SubjectRailroads DescriptionFlorence Mining News has it on the highest authority that the contract for the construction of the M... View Details
TitleCaused by the railroads Date1887-03-05 SubjectRailroads DescriptionIn addition to the general activity in business the merchants of the city report a heavy trade with ... View Details
TitleBoom is setting in Date1887-03-05 SubjectRailroads DescriptionThe fact that on the first of March many of the leading mines of the county increased the wages of t... View Details
TitleMackinaw and Marquette Railroad Company Date1928-01-01 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionTranscript of a portion of A Short history of the DSS&A Ry. Regarding the Mackinaw and Marquette Rai... View Details
TitleJohn Hodgson fireman Date1887-03-09 SubjectRailroads DescriptionJohn Hodgson, Fireman. Commenced as engineman July 30. E. Knight, Firemen. Commenced running on b... View Details
TitleA. Watson, and William Orr arrive in Negaunee Date1887-05-07 SubjectRailroads DescriptionNegaunee - Thursday morning A. Watson, general superintendent and William Orr, general freight agent... View Details
TitleL'Anse News Notes Date1887-05-07 SubjectRailroads DescriptionL'Anse - C.M. Crawford a contractor on the DSS&A, now a few miles back of Nestoria, came to town on ... View Details
TitleDurning the winter the ore hoisted from pits Date1887-05-07 SubjectJackson Mining Company DescriptionNegaunee - Durning the winter the ore hoisted from pits seven and eight of the Jackson Mine were sta... View Details
TitleBates and Chandler who own and operate two large limekilns Date1887-05-04 SubjectLimekilns DescriptionNegaunee - Bates and Chandler who own and operate two large limekilns at Palms on the Mackinac Islan... View Details
TitleNegaunee One of the improvements inaugurated by the DSS&A Date1887-05-07 SubjectRailroad -- Mangement DescriptionNegaunee - One of the improvements inaugurated by the DSS&A management is the use of manifold for te... View Details
TitleIshpeming Tis now the DSS&A, if you please. Date1887-05-07 SubjectDuluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company DescriptionIshpeming - The name is hardly as euphonimous as the MH&O, but in consideration of the benefits whic... View Details
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