ANN ARBOR R. R. CO. VS. C. L. GLASGOW ET AL.
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The Ann Arbor railroad starts from Cherry Street, Toledo, which is located fairly well in the heart of the city, at which point it has its own passenger station and freight station and tracks necessary for the proper handling of that business. It runs in a northerly direction to what is known as Manhattan Yard and Ottawa Yard, two large yards holding approximately a thousand cars, at which point the freight business of this company is practically all transacted. That is approximately three miles from Toledo and from there to the state line. The railroad after leaving Manhattan Yard runs in a northwesterly direction crossing the Michigan-Ohio line approximately three miles from these yards. There is no station. It is between Alexis and a motor stop known as Lords. I want to say, before leaving Toledo that we have connections at that point with the Pennsylvania Railroad direct, the Michigan Central direct, the Pere Marquette Toledo terminal, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern or New York Central lines, all direct, and through what is known as “puller service,’ that is, cars being handled directly from one yard to another yard, direct connections with the Toledo & Ohio Central, the Big Four, the Hocking Valley, and through the Toledo Terminal Railway at Hallett, which is just north of Manhattan Junction and where we cross the Toledo terminal, with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton, the Toledo Shore Line, and the Wabash West, as it is called; the Wheeling and Lake Erie; and the Wabash East we have direct connections with in our Toledo yard. After leaving the state line
We pass through Monroe County, and I would like the privilege of describing this lien a little bit more in detail by referring to some notes that I have made which have been taken from the state’s records, so far as the figures are concerned. We run through Monroe County, having therein 27 miles of railroad, which is 1/11th of the entire railroad mileage of the county, and in which there is a population of 32,017 people; 555 square miles, with a population density of 59.4 people per square mile, 142.4 people per mile of railroad. In this county there are 355,000 acres of land, 333,000 of it is highly developed. There are 13 banks, 145 schools, three newspapers and 6,237 students. The principal manufacturing industries are flour, lumber and its products, pickling stations, brick and tile works, electric light plants, chemical works, foundries and machine shops. The country produces all excellent crop of corn, beans, wheat, hay, etc. in this county is located the town of Federman, at which point we cross and make connections with the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern; and Dundee, at which point we cross and make connection with the Detroit, Toledo & Ironton in Railroad and the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad.
After leaving Monroe County we enter Washtenaw County, the principal city of which is Milan and Ann Arbor. At Milan we cross the Wabash going to Detroit and
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going to Chicago, St. Louis and the west. At Pittsfield, a little further north, a small town, we connect again with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad; and at Ann Arbor, a town of sixteen thousand to eighteen thousand people without the students being counted; we connect with the Michigan Central railroad. In this county we have 25 miles or 1/16th of the entire railroad mileage in the county. Its population is 44,714; it has 709 square miles; a population of 63.1 people per square mile, and 288.5 people per mile of railroad. There are 453,047 acres of land in this county 428,000 of which is highly developed. There are 16 banks, 16 newspapers, 174 schools, 7,818 students, not including the students of the University of Michigan located at Ann Arbor. At Ypsilanti, the next largest town, the State Normal School with a large 469 number of students is located. Ypsilanti is close to Ann Arbor and there is a large movement of students over the Ann Arbor Railroad through Ann Arbor to and from this point. The manufacturing products of this county are principally paper, flour, knitting mills, machine shops, foundries, vehicle manufacturing, lumber products, etc.; and the principal shipments from this county are cereals, wool, fruit, berries and live stock.
Leaving Washtenaw County we enter Livingston County. Lakeland in this county is the first junction point where we cross and connect with the Grand Trunk railroad. The next junction point is Annpere where we cross and connect with the Pere Marquette Railroad. These towns are located in Livingston County, which has a population of 17,736 people. We have 29 miles of railroad in this county, which is 33% of the entire mileage of the county. There are 508 square miles in the county; 30.6 people per square mile, and 221.8 people per mile of railroad. There are 370,871 acres of land in this county, 350,000 of which is developed and is considered among the very best in the state. It is the headquarters of the Holstein cattle of the west; I believe there are more Holstein cattle in this county than in any other county in the west. There are eight banks, 137 schools, 3,413 students and ten newspapers. Howell, with a population of approximately 3,500 people, is located in this county. The principal manufacturing is lumber and its products, condensed milk, flour mills, brick and tile factories, machinery factories, foundries and machine shops, granite and marble works, etc. The principal shipments are grain, live stock, dairy products, nursery products, etc.
Leaving Livingston County we enter Shiawassee County in which we have 34 miles of railroad, 25 per cent., approximately, of the entire mileage of the county. It has a population of 33,246. There are 539 square miles in this county, and its passenger density, or the number of people per square mile is 61.8, and its population per mile of railroad is 241.8. Durand is the principal town in this county. Durand and Owosso are the principal towns in this county. At Durand we connect with the Grand Trunk Railroad in five directions, and at Owosso we connect with the Michigan Central and Grand Trunk railroads. This county has 345,200 acres of land, 328,000 of which is highly developed; 12 banks, 11
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newspapers, 128 schools and 3,515 students. Owosso has a population of approximately 11,000; the general car shops, yards and division terminals of the Ann Arbor railroad are located at this point. The principal manufacturing is castings, furniture, screen doors, sash, doors, and many other products of lumber, sugar beet plants, flour nulls and so forth. The principal shipments are products of lumber, creameries, products of sugar beet factories, etc.
Leaving Shiawassee County we enter Gratiot County, in which Ashley and Alma are located and are the principal towns. At Ashley we connect with the Grand Trunk Railroad; in fact, the Grand Trunk Railroad use our line between Detroit and Durand and Muskegon between Owosso Junction and Ashley. The mileage is approximately 23. At Alma we connect with the Pere Marquette Railroad. In this county we have 29 miles of railroad, or approximately 40 per cent of the entire railroad mileage. Its population is 28,820 people. There are 570 square miles with 50.2 people per square mile, and 418 people per mile of railroad. In Gratiot County there are 364,623 acres of land, 335,000 of which is highly developed. There are 17 banks, 11 newspapers, 135 schools and 6,544 students. The principal manufactures are: sugar from sugar beets, gas engines, foundries and machine shops, creameries, hay presses, etc., and the principal shipments are sugar beets, creamery products, hay, castings, etc.
The next county south of Gratiot is Clinton County. This county has a population of 23,124 people, in which we have six per cent of the mileage of the county. There are 570 square miles; 40.5 people per square mile, and 361 people per mile of railroad, in this county there are 361,972 acres of land, 352,000 of which is highly developed. There are 10 banks, 5 newspapers, 131 schools, and 4,385 students. The principal manufacturing are from saw and grist mills, grain elevators, foundries, gas engine works, boiler plants, vehicle factories, etc. Principal shipments are products of lumber, agriculture, sugar beets, creamery products, etc.
Leaving Gratiot County we enter Isabella County, in which is located Mount Pleasant, the principal town in the county, and where we have connections with the Pere Marquette Railroad. This county has a population of 23,029 people, 576 square miles, 40 people per square mile and 418 people per mile of railroad. We have 26 miles or approximately 30 per cent of railroad—of the entire railroad mileage of this county. It has 368,746 acres of land, 300,000 of which is developed. There are 8 banks, 4 newspapers, 113 schools, 4806 students. The principal manufacturing are from condensed milk factories, chicory, calcium works, grain elevators, lumber mills, etc. The principal shipments are products of creameries, elevators and manufactured lumber.
Leaving Isabella County—and here I desire to call your particular attention to the material decrease in population and the very material decrease in time amount of land which is developed. Clare County has 9240 people, 554 square miles, 16.6 people per square mile, and, 140 people per mile of railroad. We have 26 miles of line in this county, or approximately 40 per cent of the entire rail-
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road mileage. There are 364,756 acres of land in this county, 165,000 of which is developed and is devoted to farms. There are 6 banks, 4 newspapers, 71 schools and 2,376 students. The manufacturing industries include saw and shingle mills, planing mills, flour mills, stave and heading factories, electric lighting plants, foundry and machine shops, creameries, pickle salting stations, some fish shipments, lumber, staves, bark, telegraph poles, wheat, hay products and cattle.
Leaving Clare County we enter Osceola County where the population per square mile is a little better. In this county we have 10 miles of line, or approximately 12 per cent of the entire railroad mileage in the county. There are 17,889 people in the county which has 574 square miles. There are 31.1 people per square mile, and 210.3 people per mile of railroad. There are 364,769 acres of land in this county, and only 60,000 of it is devoted to farms, the balance undeveloped. There are 2 banks, 29 schools, 521 students and one weekly newspaper. The manufacturing products consist of shingles, flooring, some saw and planing mills, some heading factories, flour and woolen mills, etc. The principal shipments are lumber and farm products. There was a mistake in copying—the figures for Osceola County should be, total acreage, 367,337 and the developed acreage 249,000.
Missaukee County is next, where we have 8 miles of railroad, there being 44 miles of railroad in the county. Its population is 10,606, 567 square miles, and the number of people per square mile is 18.6. The population per mile of railroad is 241. In this county there are 363,289 acres of land, 148,000 of which is developed into farms. There are 4 banks, 3 newspapers, 68 schools and 2707 students. There are some flour and saw mills, electric light and water plants, and the principal shipments are lumber and farm products.
Leaving Missaukee County we enter Wexford County, where we have 36 miles of railroad, or approximately 30 per cent of the entire mileage. This county has 20,769 people, 563 square miles. There are 36.8 people per square mile and 213.7 people per mile of railroad. The total land area is 360,675 acres, 148,000 being devoted to farms. There are 8 banks, 8 newspapers, 88 schools and 5175 students. Cadillac is the principal city in this county. The manufacturing are from saw and stave and lumber and grist mills, pickling factories, iron furnaces, chemical plants, and plants manufacturing products of lumber. Principal shipments are potatoes, farm products, lumber and its products, flour, etc. In this county we connect with the G. R. & I. I am not so sure whether it is in that or Osceola County; I think it is in Wexford County. It is the Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad at Cadillac, where we make connections for the south, Grand Rapids and other cities, and to the north for Traverse City and the resorts of the upper portion of the Lower Peninsula.
Leaving Wexford County we enter Manistee County, in which is located Copemish, where we connect with the Arcadia & Betsey River Railroad and the Manistee & Northeastern Railroad. This county has a population of 26,688 people. We
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have 10 miles of line, or approximately 8 per cent of the entire mileage of this county, it has 547 square miles, 48.7 people per square mile and 215 people per mile of railroad. There are 350,100 acres of land in this county, with a total of 145,000 devoted to farms, a considerable portion of which is fruit land which has been developed within the last few years by the Buckley & Douglass Lumber Company. There are 7 banks, 9 newspapers, 76 schools, 5283 students. The principal manufacturing are from lumber and its products, salt, brick, tile, marine and engine boiler works. etc., and the principal shipments are lumber and its products, potatoes and smile fruit. Manistee is located in this county and has a population of 12,381, or nearly half time entire population of the county.
Leaving this county we enter Benzie County, in which we have 22 miles of railroad, or approximately 33 per cent of the entire mileage of the county. Its population is 10,638. It has 319 square miles. There are 33.4 people square mile and 166.3 people per mile of railroad. We connect at Thompsonville in this county with the Pere Marquette Railroad for the south and north. Frankfort is the principal town in this county, at which point is located the end of the rail line, the northerly end of the rail line of the Ann Arbor Railroad. There are 204,192 acres of land in this county, 98.588 of which is devoted to farms. There are 4 banks, 6 newspapers, 57 schools with 2798 students. The manufacturing consists of lumber and its products, and the shipping consists of lumber and its products and fruit, the largest percentage of fruit, however, is consumed locally by canning and preserving factories and is shipped to large centers across Lake Michigan, very little of it coming east. As a whole, the Ann Arbor, according’ to this detailed list of 286 miles (it is a little short of’ that actual mileage) has 22 per — of the mileage in all of the counties through which it runs. All of the counties have a population of 299,421. There are 7150 square miles in the counties, 41.8 people square mile, and 235.4 people per mile of railroad. In all of these counties there are 4,637,240 acres of land, 3,180,588 of which is devoted to farm use, an average percentage of 66 per cent, the counties south and including Gratiot County running as high as 95 to 98 per cent and the counties north running from 16 to 40 per cent. There are 115 banks located in these counties, 1352 schools, 555,710 school children and 81 newspapers. We desired to go into this in some detail to show the territory service that was served by the Ann Arbor Railroad.
Besides the railroad, in Frankfort we have a system of car ferries running to Manistique, Michigan in the upper peninsula, Menominee, Michigan, Kewaunee, Wisconsin and Manitowoc, Wisconsin. At Manistique I desire to say that we connect with and have working relations with the Manistique & Lake Superior Railroad and the Soo line. At Menominee we have connections with and working arrangements with the Chicago & Northwestern of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul through the Chicago & Northwestern. At Kewaunee we have connections with the Green Bay &
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Western or exactly, the Kewaunee, Green Bay & Western. At Manitowoc we have direct connections with the Chicago & Northwestern and the Soo Line.
