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so, but we need others leading to the northern portions of our State. 

 One to Port Huron; one to Saginaw, thence to Mackinaw; also, one 

 from Detroit to Adrian, thence to the State line to connect with the 

 Logansport and Northern Indiana Railroad, which is already extended 

 to within fifteen miles of our State line, passing through the Wabash 

 and Eel River valleys, and connecting with the Mississippi and Atlantic 

 Railroad, forming a direct route to St. Louis, 80 miles less distance from 

 New York than by any other. Let the doors be thrown open wide, 

 and let the citizens of Detroit extend every aid within their power for 

 the construction of roads terminating in the city, wherever they may 

 extend. 



LANSING AND SAGINAW RAILROAD. — PRELIMINARY SURVEY, BY WILLIAM 



WALLACE. 



To the President and Directors of the Lansing and Saginaw Rail- 

 road Company: 



Gentlemen — The road in contemplation, as designated by the red 

 line on the accompanying map, commences at Saginaw, on the Saginaw 

 River, twenty miles from its mouth, where it empties into Saginaw Bay, 

 on Lake Huron, and runs thence in a south-westerly direction thirty- 

 three miles, to Owosso, on the Shiawassee River, where a connection is 

 made with the Detroit and Milwaukee, and the Port Huron and Owosso 

 Railways. 



This constitutes the first division of vour road, and will form an im- 

 portant link in the through route to Detroit, To'edo, and the Ohio and 

 Mississippi Rivers, and the southern States, as well as the eastern cities 

 on the Atlantic sea-board, by the way of Port Huron and the Suspen- 

 sion Bridge or Buffalo. It will aUo form a link in the through route to 

 Grand Haven, Milwaukee, and the country west. 



The second division, which extends twenty- five and a half miles from 

 Owosso, to Lansing, the Capital of Michigan, and the third division, 

 which extends thence through ' the beautiful town of Charlotte, the 

 county seat and [irincipal market of Eaton county, and Bellevue, another 

 flourishing town, to the M. C. R. R. at Battle Creek, on the Kalamazoo 

 River, forty-three and ihree-quartt-r milcs from Lansing, constitute an- 

 other Unk in the through route to Chicago, the great commercial em- 



