Electronic reproduction of: Transcription of newspaper article : Mining journal (Marquette, Mich.), Nov.13, 1886.

Source: The Mining Journal, Marquette, Mi., November 13, 1886, Saturday Our Prospects By this time next year Marquette will have direct rail connections with Duluth and the great "new northwest" tributary to the thriving young metropolis at the head of the lake. Before that time it will be furnished with direct rail communication with the Atlantic seaboard. Within a year, therefore, the conditions essential to the development of extensive manufacturing interests at this point will have been supplied. If the advantages that the city will obtain through the completion of the DSS and A [Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic Railway Company] line shall be properly utilized, Marquette can be made a town of very comm and ing industrial and commerical importance in a very few years. Effort in the right direction, and properly sustained, is all that is needed to reap the largest benefit from the construction of this road, the completion of which will bring to our very doors one of the great through lines which span the continent....