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TOLEDO, CANADA SOUTHERN AND DETROIT RAILWAY COMPANY

This company was formed by consolidating, under articles of agreement dated May 29, 1872, and filed with the Secretary of State of Ohio July 15, 1872 (Record of Incorporations No. 10, p. 328), [confirmatory certificate of July 19 filed August 1 – Record No. 1, p. 106], the Detroit and State line Railroad Company of Michigan, organized February 21, 1872, and the Junction Railway Company of Ohio; termini, Toledo and Detroit, 58 miles.

The latter company filed its certificate in the office of the Secretary of State March 8, 1872 (Record No. 9, p. 541), to construct a railroad from the northerly line of the State of Ohio, in Manhattan township, to Toledo, seven miles, all within the county of Lucas.

Annual returns made by the company June 30, 1874 show the entire line laid with rail, but no report has yet been made to the commissioner of the operation thereon.