Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-07-03
DULUTH.
The ssusatIOn City Of The West.

The Western Journals are teeming
with allusions to Duluth, Minn.,
which. for the last two or three
months. has attracted to a wonderful
extent the attention of speculators
and emigrants. Duluth is the eastern
terminus of the extreme Northern Pa
cific road ON Lake Superior, and the
starting point of a road which Con
-gress has invested with greater wealth
Thau was ever conceded to any cor
poration ever created by any Govern.
ment in the world; and yet Congress
cannot even charter q Southern IA
cific road, But read of Duiuth-an-
other Chicago, which will spring into
prosperous existence while cities OF
the South will languish because oi
Congressional Radicalism, the iatal IN
fiuence of whose deeds extends be-
yond the sphereOf politics IL would
be a foul shame If the people OF the
South prove as faithless TO their true
interests as Congress has done. A
disgrace to our intelligence as well as
a deathblow to our fortunes, would
arise from the failure of this city and
country TO build the road to Selma.
See how magical iE its influence upon
Duluth is the construction OF rail-
wave toward the western ocean. A
correspondent OF the New Bedford
Standard tells what sort of people
crowd into Duluth:
"GreeB lumber is only SIG per thou
sand. and seasoned $l7. Almost
everything is built of wood, ana IL Is,
perhaps, to be expected that IL TINS
first stage of municipal existence such
would be the case. 1t Will De Duilt OF
brick and stone only as the present
buildings are supplanted. There are
brickyarCls already near the CITY, and
excellent bricks can be had 'or 81 per
Thousand. FreestOne in abundance Is
to be had at the Apostle Islands and
up the st. Louis river, and eventually
will be in good demand. One of the
finest slate quarries in the world Is
said TO exist about sixteen miles up
the railroad, while the hills under and
above and around Duluth will yield
ali the stone for cellars that Is wanted,
though il may be too hard to cut into
the symmetrical blocks that face some
of our eastern storehOuses.
4" But YOU must not infer that all is
chaos here. that there is no arrange
ment. no method, no order. While
under this pressing necessity for
shelter there is no hindrance in the
kind of character VI the structure
erected, but sGuatters are privileged
10 locate upon Minnesota Point for
the / resent, and of course here IS
condition of affairs most primitive and
outVying the ephemeral booths around
our eastern muster fields. Without
giving you a sketch of this picture OF
the Point, we pass to the business
street, Superior street by name, eX-
tending on the side of the hill the
whole water front of the city. A
wooden sidewalk is built the whole
length on the northern side, and a
constant throng is found upon its
blanks. Here almost all the business
is done. Real estate offices, meat
markets, lawyers offices, cigar stores,
banks and beer shops, furniture stores
and insurance offices. Here lots sell
at Sl20 per front foot, and let f)r i've
years at an annual rent of $l2 per
front foot, the tenant to pay
taxes and assessments besides.
As great improvements are
constantly going forward and
involve a great outlay, the taxes must
necessarily be quite OnerOus. These !
improvements are such as grading |
streets, building bridges and sewers !
and public buildings, leaving other !
improvements of a commercial char |
acter to be made by private enterprise
and capital, There Is a company |
called the Union Elevator and I'M
provement Company, which was or |
ganized in Philadelphia, which has |
already commenced the erection Of |
an eleyator which will hold $4,000 |
bushels of wheat. A heavy substan- |
tial breakwater is being built in the 1
outer harb0r; the track of the Mis-
and Lake Superior railroad |
and Northern Pacific railroad is al
ready laid in front OF the city; docks
are being built, and blasting, the whis-
ties of steamers and the shrek of the |
locomotive, the rumble OF cars, are
constantly waking the echoes, and
giving promise to a golden future.