CHICAGO TO NIAGARA FALLS. 



ITINERARY. 



By G. K. Gilbert. 





Distance. 



Elevation. 



Popula- 



tion. 



Station. 



Distance. Klevation. 





Station. 



a 



1 



■ 



V 



| 



3 



9 



BQ 



g 



t 



3 



1 



. 



T. 



t- 

 V 



s 



3 £ 



go 



3 



o 



?; 



267 

 251 

 256 

 341 

 178 

 179 

 246 

 291 

 224 



Popula- 

 tion. 



Chicago 







8 



20 



23 



25 



31 



30 



39 



45 



50 



55 



100 



104 



122 



13 



32 



38 



42 



51 



59 



64 



74 



82 



90 



162 



167 



196 



594 



181 



1, 099, 850 : 



Schoolcraft 



Battle Creek.... 



l4li 



2SS S7H 





Elsdon 



175 282 823 

 220 354 836 

 262 400 7M 

 836 539 584 

 330 541 5S7 

 397 639 806 

 426 685 951 





DluelHland June 













13 197 



llarvev 









18, 102 



Thornton June .. 









Port Huron 



Sarnia 



Woodstock 



Harrisburg 



Duinlas 



Maynard 









13 543 



Griffith 











Redeadale 











Ainswurth 









453 731 



734 





Sedley 



604 

 806 

 713 

 721 

 880 



212 

 245 

 217 

 220 

 268 









Valparaiso 





Hamilton 



Niagara Palls: 

 < lanadian side 



American. side 







472 760 



616 830 



51 K Kit 



255 



573 

 574 



78 



174 

 175 





South Bend 



M ishau aka 



21,819 





Cassapolis 















Leaving Chicago at 3 o'clock p. in., we cross before night the corners 

 of Illinois and Indiana and a part of Michigan. In passing about the 

 head of Lake Michigan the underlying Silurian and Devonian rocks 

 are not seen, but only the Champlain sands accumulated by winds and 

 waves at the end of the lake when its water stood at higher levels. 

 The winds are still busy with them, piling them in traveling dunes 

 which block the drainage, converting much of the land into marsh. 



Soon after entering the State of Michigan we pass from Devonian to 

 rarboniferous terranes, entering the Michigan coal basin. That por- 

 tion of the State lying between lakes Michigan and Huron, called the 

 Lower Peninsula, is characterized by a synclinal basin of gentle dips, 

 carrying the Silurian rocks below the level of the sea and bringing the 

 ( 'arboniferous below the plane of denudation. In this structural basin 

 brines are preserved, on which an important salt industry is based. 



It is of interest to note the relation of the Michigan syncline to the 

 general structure and to the basins of the Lament ian lakes. Through- 

 out a large region, including the lake district, the general strike of out- 

 crops Is east and west, the older rocks lying at the north and the 



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