. The historical geography of Detroit. tructionand use there was much delay in breaking up trains,loading and unloading car-ferries and the the winter, ice in the river—and during the seasonof navigation the heavy traffic passing up and downthe river—interfered with the passage of the car- 64. Ibid. 65. Sherzer, Geology of Wayne Co., 24. 66. Ibid.; Mich. Pamphlets 1S50 to 1S77, XIX, 106. .r!-fi-Tt ?/? i 276 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT ferries. Trains now pass through the tunnel in thetime it formerly took to load the car-ferries. Interurban railroads are projected from larg
. The historical geography of Detroit. tructionand use there was much delay in breaking up trains,loading and unloading car-ferries and the the winter, ice in the river—and during the seasonof navigation the heavy traffic passing up and downthe river—interfered with the passage of the car- 64. Ibid. 65. Sherzer, Geology of Wayne Co., 24. 66. Ibid.; Mich. Pamphlets 1S50 to 1S77, XIX, 106. .r!-fi-Tt ?/? i 276 HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY OF DETROIT ferries. Trains now pass through the tunnel in thetime it formerly took to load the car-ferries. Interurban railroads are projected from large popula-tion centers wherever the density of population in theneighboring rural districts is sufficient to furnish alarge passenger traffic, or where there are other citieswithin fifty or one hundred miles. Both these condi-tions exist in the region about Detroit. Within aradius of seventy-five miles of Detroit are Port Huron,Flint, Jackson, Ann Arbor, Pontiac, Adrian, andToledo, cities of ten thousand people and over. Within. Interurban Lines Centering at Detroit,WITH A FEW Connecting Lines a radius of one hundred miles there are also Bay City,Saginaw, East Saginaw, Lansing, and Battle the hundred mile radius of Detroit there arelarge areas in which the density of rural population isfrom forty to one hundred people per square the above-named cities, except Adrian, and mostof the lesser cities and towns are connected withDetroit by interurban lines which furnish hourly andin some cases half-hourly service. On all the lines fastlimited cars are lom. In 1911 more than 260 pas- ,..^T r ! t ^ ?:jrr ?> ?.;. LAND TRANSPORTATION 277 senger cars and 40 express (freight) cars ran daily overthese various electric lines. The several lines radiat-ing from Detroit have extended the area from whichshoppers come to the city. Many of the merchantsin the smaller towns report a loss of trade. Sincemany of the intemrban lines parallel the steam rail-ways, some of
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