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Congress has by public act
accepted the trust and has since made this great national highway free to
the commerce of the world.
The first railroad projected and completed in all the vast domain known as
the upper peninsula was the Iron Mountain Railroad, from Marquette to
the iron mines, whose first terminus was on the present site of the city of
Ishpeming. In. 1852 the late Mr. Heman B. Ely caused a preliminary sur-
vey to be made for this road. At that time there was no general railroad
law, and at the request of the people of the district, Mr. Ely accepted the
office of representative in the State Legislature in order that he might pro-
cure the enactment of such a law.
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