Sarnia Observer and Lambton Advertiser
Railroad to Lake Superior
The subject of a Railroad to Lake Superior we see is earnestly being canvassed. The proposed route to which we allude is for the extension of the Canada road ( which has already been finished to Lake Huron). Thence along the coast to this place. Thence in a direct route to Marquette, at which place diverging from a straight line by following the lake shore for a few miles, from which point in a direct line again to Ontonagon and even to Fond du Lac. It is very certain that such a route if practicable, will be an air line from the head of Lake Superior to the Atlantic coast, and we would advise our Canadian friends to look into the matter and cause an examination and survey of the route to be made with out delay. Such a route would be of mutual interest and more strongly bind the friendly feeling which is duly and mutually increasing between them. It would also open a communication with this
region in all seasons of the year, which must inevitably be sooner or later either by way of Canada or upon our own side. A railroad has been talked of to connect Chicago, Green Bay and Marquette, which from all information we can acquire upon the subject, can be built with the least possible trouble. We are confident of the fact that the great bugbear in the way of Railroads in the northern region (the depth of the snow) is in common parlance and moonshine. We believe that there would be
much less trouble attending the keeping of the track clear of snow than further south, from the fact that the snow is so dry and falls so light that it would present a slight impediment to the passage of a train. That we have got to have a winter communication in some way is a sure case, and some means will everlong be devised to accomplish that end. A railroad being the only one which we can think of,
we would urge everyone interested in this section of the country to canvass the subject and urge others to the same end. The Press is a legitimate channel for agitation a matter of the kind, and we hope it will take up the subject at once and keep it before the people. We have no doubt the enterprising citizens of Wisconsin will have a road conststructed from St. Paul to Fond du Lac on Lake Superior within a very few years, and ours should not be found behind them intervening a proper
spirit of enterprise. The feasibility of a route from this place to the head of Lake Superior cannot be doubted, as our information upon the subject is from an engineer who has resided on the shore of Lake Superior for years past, and has passed over almost every inch of the ground many times. Lake Superior Journal
