DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORY – TRANSPORTATION – RAILROADS [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] GENERAL RAILROAD XI, Number 6 [Thursday, May 2, 1889], INFORMATION page 1, column 2 The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, All But The Meanest Man. Menominee County, Michigan, Volume XI, Number 3 [Thursday, April 11, 1889], The meanest man on earth, outside of page 1, column 2 the wart who writes “refused” on a newspaper he is owing for, has been Tremendous Train Service. unearthed at Iron River. Last Tuesday he and a little daughter boarded a passenger train at that place. The conductor wanted a Any one [sic – Anyone] passing through half-fare for the child and the father to avoid the main street of Iron Mountain, and paying it, denied the child, his own hearing the perpetual jangling of the daughter. At Iron Mountain the conductor warning locomotive bells, would scarcely told the little girl that her fare must be paid imagine the enormous extent of the traffic before the train reached Norway or she that has to be registered up at Antoine. would be put off. The child went into the From the 5th of May until the 24th of smoking car and with big tears swelling in October last year no fewer than 8,067 her eyes told her brute-father of the different trains were registered, and the conductor’s orders. When he saw the probability is that the great average will be game was up the money was paid over. considerably exceeded this year. Things of that make are scarce, thank goodness. –Drill. [The Diamond Drill, The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, Crystal Falls, Mich.] Menominee County, Michigan, Volume XI, Number 3 [Thursday, April 11, 1889], Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, page 1, column 3 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Number 21 [sic] [Thursday, October 13, OF the 158 trains that will run on the 1904], page 5, column 1 upper peninsula division of the C.N. & W. [sic – C. & N.W.] this summer, all but 60 will run on the Menominee range CHIPS FROM CHANNING. branch. As the branch is a single track _____ part of the way it will require some close running to keep all this traffic moving along Iron ore shipments passing through without delay. Ninety eight trains a day is Channing for Escanaba have averaged four every hour out of the 24, with two 225 cars per day for the past week, 100 over to be sandwiched in somewhere. In cars coming from the Iron Mountain district fact we saw three ore trains pull out after and 125 cars from the Crystal Falls district. the morning passenger had passed, the other day, not more than five minutes apart. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, Here is one employment, at least, where it Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, behooves a man to be on time. Number 21 [sic] [Thursday, October 13, 1904], page 5, column 1 The Menominee Range, Iron Mountain, Menominee County, Michigan, Volume RANDVILLE REPORTS. 1 DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORY – TRANSPORTATION – RAILROADS [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] _____ _____ The railroad company has a crew of The log shipments are increasing men at work on the new concrete bridge now that cold weather has come. About across the Sturgeon river. Louis forty cars of logs per day are being Braunschwerg, of Watertown, Wis., is in received from the Ontonagon branch, charge of the work. The bridge is to be fifty thirty for Oconto and ten for Sagola. feet wide with wings on each side reaching The last ore train for Escanaba for within two feet of the edge of the right of this season passed through Channing way. The abutments and wings will be built to-day [sic – today]. The ore was from of concrete and will require 1,000 cubic Republic. The Tobin mine at Crystal yards of crushed rock and 700 barrels of Falls made the last shipment for the cement. The arch will have a thirty-foot season yesterday. span and will be built of Puttington paving The train crew on the Copper Range brick, requiring 1,000,000 bricks to build it. railroad played a good joke on the agent The construction of the bridge will take at at Rockland and Conductor Allen and least four months. his crew on the St. Paul last week Thursday. When the Copper Range train Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, came from Ontonagon the engineer Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, reported that there was a wounded buck Number 23 [Thursday, October 27, near the track about a mile from 1904], page 5, column 3 Rockland, and Allen, anxious to secure the deer, cut the engine loose from his train NEWS GOSSIP FROM SAGOLA. and with his brakeman, P.L. Vincent, and _____ J.H. Kohne, agent at Rockland, all got on the engine and ran down to where the deer Superintendent Hastings stopped off was reported. They soon came in sight of here last Saturday for a few hours and the deer, which was a fine specimen with looked over the ground where the large antlers. The buck had evidently been railroad company is going to build new wounded in the back and was sitting on his sidings. They will put in about 2,500 feet haunches in the snow and held his head of new siding to handle the business from high in the air in defiance of the new- this place. The business has grown so comers. The engine was brought to a stop, much that the present trackage is not Engineer Jas. Hart took the gun and fired capable of accomodating [sic – three shoots [sic – shots] at the wounded accommodating] the patrons. Work has deer, missing him each time. The already commenced on the log track brakeman, P.L. Vincent, also tried three extension. shots, and in his excitement also missed the deer. Agent Kohne then said to give Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, him the gun and he would kill the deer. He Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, shot twice and the second shot hit the deer Number 28 [Thursday, December 1, in the head, but did not seem to hurt him 1904], page 5, columns 1-2 any, as he did not move, and still maintained his defiant position. The men CHIPS FROM CHANNING. then decided to investigate and found on 2 DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORY – TRANSPORTATION – RAILROADS [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] close inspection that the deer had been driven in the ground on the land side of the dead about a month and the crew of the wall. This, it is thought, will prevent the wall Copper Range train had placed the carcass from giving away under the pressure of the in a sitting position, propping the head up dirt used in filling the approach. with a forked stick. The St. Paul crew took the joke in good humor and are [sic – is] Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, now devising some means to get even. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, 1904], page 5, column 5 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Number 28 [Thursday, December 1, RANDVILLE REPORTS. 1904], page 5, column 3 _____ RANDVILLE REPORTS. The pile-driver crew arrived last _____ Tuesday morning to drive the piles for the support of the abutments for the new The superstructure for the new railroad bridge across the Sturgeon railroad bridge across the Sturgeon river river. was completed last Saturday, and the pile- driving crew went to Escanaba to do Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, some work on the ore docks. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Number 31 [Thursday, December 22, Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, 1904], page 11, column 2 Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, Number 29 [Thursday, December 8, CHIPS FROM CHANNING. 1904], page 5, column 2 _____ QUINNESEC ITEMS. There are four log trains on the _____ Ontonagon branch and they are bringing down about seventy cars of logs per The approach to the Cundy bridge on day. the Michigan side of the river is … completed and the rails for the train cars A snow plow was sent over the have been laid across the bridge to the Ontonagon branch last Monday to clear Wisconsin side. Contractor Fredeen has the track of snow. About sixteen inches of ordered ten new cars and expects them this snow was reported on the branch. week. As soon as they arrive he will proceed to fill the approach on that side of Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, the river. Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, … Number 32 [Thursday, December 29, The work of repairing the break in the 1904], page 1, column 2 retaining wall at the Cundy bridge is in progress this week. Holes have been THE BLIZZARD drilled through the wall and eye-bolts inserted which will be anchored to piles WAS A BEAUT 3 DICKINSON COUNTY HISTORY – TRANSPORTATION – RAILROADS [Compiled and Transcribed by William J. Cummings] _____ Wednesday – Morning train, north, three hours late. RAGED FOR FORTY-EIGHT Day train, between Crystal Falls and HOURS DEALYING ALL TRAINS. Powers, one hour late, both ways. Trains on both roads nearly on time this _____ morning. The storm which raged from Monday night until last night was the worst ever. Iron Mountain Press, Iron Mountain, There was an unusually heavy fall of snow Dickinson County, Michigan, Volume 9, for this section – perhaps sixteen inches Number 32 [Thursday, December 29, on the level – and a high wind prevailed 1904], page 5, column 3 causing “the beautiful” to drift badly. Business was nearly at a standstill.