Source; Northwestern Lumberman,
Oct. 18, 1890
p. 11
It seems likely that but a short time will elapse before all the upper peninsula will be grid-ironed by railroads. Railroad people of late seem to look more at the timber resources of the country to be traversed by their lines. The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western has let a contract to Henry & Balch Co. of Minneapolis, to build the line of its present terminus at Interior, near Watersmeet, to Bruce's Crossing, a station on the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic, near where the road crosses the Ontonagon river. This line will then tap some of the heaviest timbered parts of Ongonagon[sic] county and will doubtless have a heavy traffic in forest products.
In all probability the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western people will not be content with a terminus at Bruce's Crossing but will push for an outlet on Lake Superior, either at Houghton or Ontonagon
