SNAGS’ CORNERS AS A RAILWAY FEEDER.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 2109, 26 November 1880, Page 3

SNAGS’ CORNERS AS A RAILWAY FEEDER.

The officials of a Michigan railroad now being extended were waited upon the other day by a person from the pine woods and sandhills who announced himself as Mr Snags who wanted to know if it could be possible that that the proposed line was not to come to any nearer than three miles to the hamlet named in his honor, “ Is Snags’ comer a place of much importance?” asked the president. “Is it? Well, I should say it was! We made over a ton of maple sugar there lost spring!” “ Does business flourish there ?” “ Flourish! Why, business is on the gallop there every minute in the whole twenty-four hours. We had three false alarms of fire in one week. How is that for a town that is to be left three miles off your railroad ?” Being asked to give the names of the business houses, he scratched his head for a while and then replied : “ Well, there’s me, to start on. I run a big store, own eight yokes of oxen, and shall soon have a dam and sawmill. Then there’s a blacksmith’s shop, a post office, a doctor, and last week a patent-right man passed through there. In one brief year we have increased from a squatter and two dogs to our present standing, and we’ll have a lawyer there before long.” “ I’m afraid we won’t be able to come any nearer the Comers than the present survey,” finally remarked the president. “ You won’t! It can’t be possible that you moan to skip a growing place like Snags’ Comer!” “ I think we’ll have to.” “Wouldn’t come if I’d clear you out a place in the store for a ticket office ?” “ I don’t see how we could.” “May be I’d subscribe 25 dollars,” continued the delegate. “ No ; we cannot change.” “ Can’t do it nohow ?” “No.” “Very well,” said Mr Snags, as he put on his hat. “If this 'ere railroad thicks it can stunt or cripple Snags’ Corners by leaving it out in the cold it has made a big mistake. Before I leave town to-day I am going to buy a windmill and a melodeon, and your old locomotives may toot and bo hanged, sir—toot and be hanged !”