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ferries acro's the Lake to Milwaukee, connecting with the five different 

 railroads terminating in that city, extending west to the Mississippi 

 River, to-wit: The "Milwaukee and Mississippi," to Prairie du Chien, 

 the "Milwaukee and La Cross," the "Racine, Kenosha and Beloit," the 

 "Manitowoc and St. Paul's," and the "Milwaukee and Dubuque," or 

 Galena Railroad, and also with roads running north to Lake Superior. 

 The road from Detroit passes through the villages of Royal Oak, Bir- 

 mingham, Pontiac, Waterford, Rose and Holly, in Oakland county; 

 Fentonville, Linden and Gaines, in Genessee county; Owosso and Co- 

 runna, in Shiawassee county ; St. Johns, in Clinton county : Lyons, 

 Ionia and Flat River, in Ionia county ; Grand Rapids, in Kent county, 

 to Grand Haven in Ottawa county. 



At the last session of Congress a bill was introduced to donate pub- 

 lic lauds for the purpose of constructing a railroad running north, con- 

 necting with this road at Fentonville, to Saginaw and the Straits of 

 Mackinaw, thence to the Sault Ste. Marie's, and from thence through the 

 mineral regions of Lake Superior to Montreal River. And another to 

 Marquette River in the county of Mason on Lake Michigan, connecting 

 by steamboats across Lake Michigan to Manitowoc, Marquette, Eagle 

 Harbor and Ontonagon, on Lake Superior. The growing importance 

 of the mining interests on Lake Superior, render a road desirable, and 

 its construction will be required at no distant day, which will furnish to 

 the Detroit and Milwaukee road an amount of business not easily ap- 

 preciated. The Detroit and Milwaukee company received from the De- 

 troit and Pontiac company, twenty-five miles of road, from Detroit to 

 Pontiac, which had recently been re-constructed in the best manner, 

 and which was stocked with five locomotives, four passenger cars, and 

 forty-eight freight cars. The road is completed to Fentonville, 51 miles 

 from Detroit, and it will, during the present month, be opened to Cor- 

 runna, 50 miles beyond Pontiac, when 75 miles of the road from De- 

 troit will be in operation. Twenty-six hundred tons of iron have re- 

 cently been received by the company, and the grading and superstruc- 

 ture of the road is rapidly progressing, and the road bed will be ready 

 for the rails as far as Lyons, 123 miles from Detroit, by the first of De- 

 cember next. The estimated cost of the road from Detroit to Lake 

 Michigan is 16,192,050. 



The depot grounds of the company in the city of Detroit are located 



