Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-08-25

cent WneLner L am at present VocdliSb,
an editor or merchant; or whether d. W.
r. ever passed another mans wife off for
his own or whether he is at present an
infdel or Mormon The great ques ton
is, is Duluth an honest fact or a villain
GUS, swim ding bubbles
I am constantly in receipt of letters
from all parts of the country asking for
truthful information and the facts in
my possession warrant me to say that Du-
luth is the most gigantic swindle of the
nineteenth century.
When / make this statement, and pro-
duce incontrovertible facts to prove it,
expect that every wounded cur will yelp,
and that the infamous Williams who will
deliberately swindle honest immigrants
by Icing about corner lots, will lie equally
hard about how good or bad vocalist or
editor I have been, the size of my boots,
hat and overcoat, and will swear I have
once expressed different opinion of Du-
luth. Facts, however, are too prominent
to be hidden or perverted, and L will give
a thousand dollars to any person who will
produce a line from my pen contradicting
single statement made below.
There are two small settlements seven
miles apart, at the head of the lake,
Duluth and Superior. The former is in
Minnesota latter in Wisconsin. Su-
perior has fair harbor, Duluth has none J;
but is trying to make one, by building
out breakwaters, where the great engineer
General Sherman and other eminent men,
have declared that no construction from
the hands of man can ever be made to
Withstand the tempcs tuous gales of each
spring and fall on these waters.
Duluth has the advantage of being the
present R. r. terminus: although the
l+~ok will shortly extend to both places.
As annual shipping points for millions OF
Minnesota wheat, both places will furnish
occupation for score or 80 of laborers to
manage freight trains and elevators,-but
spectators who have had their eyes open
ed, look for nothing further,-as both
places are devoid of water power, good
soil, mineral, or first. class harbor
Duluth has sold many of her rocky
lots by claiming that she would be the
Eastern terminus of the Northern Pacific
Railway. These representations, though
made with the intention to defraud and
swindle, are seasoned with just enough
truth to mislead many shrewd fnancier.
For instance, the Northern Pacific Co.
contracted with Duluth lin exchange for
the best part of the town to make that
place its base of supplies during construc-
ton. These supplies come up the lake
during the few summer months of naviga-
ton and are landed at Duluth. The COM
pany has also contracted with the Lake
Superior & Mississippi River R. R. for the
use of it's track to transport these supplies
twenty-five miles south to Thompson, the
point where the two roads cross at right
angles.
Thus, for hollow fame to catch YER
dant strangers, and the honor Of furnish
ing q storehouse for supplies purchased
East, Duluth gave away her best prop
erty.
Going west from Thompson lat present
small settlement Of about a dozen
houses, good water power and an excel
lent slate quarry, the Northern Pacific
r. r. strikes direct for the head waters
of Columbia river. The three important
acts of the company during the next six
uAars viii -. - -~---r>I~.~ 40 -nad to the
Pacific, to trade off its property in Du-
luth, and then leave the town a wreck
and wilderness by continuing its line IS
miles down the lake to bayfield,, the ulti-
mate eastern terminus of the road. Pre-
paratory to this, it has already secured
the best portions of bayfield,, and large
interests in the invaluable adjoining
mines.
Bayfield, possesses four prominent fea-
lures to insure its success.
LIST, 1t has rich back lands. I'd. 1t is
in close proximity to the best iron mines
in the world. Sd. Its waters are navig-
able from two TO three months longer
every year than at Duluth. 4th. 1t has
the only first class harbor ON the entire
Lake, with waters broad and deep enough
for the largest vesseis,-and safely pro-
teoted from the numerous fearful gales of
this section.
prophesied in public letter,-a short
time ago,-that the Duluth bubble would
burst within ninety daysl The truth of
my PREDICTION has been verified in re-
markable manner. Negotiations were at
that time pending between heavy capital
lists and Mr.. Conda--the king of contract
ors at Chicago-for the erection of docks
at Duluth to the extent of over half a
million. Since my letter was published
Mr.. Conda has been telegraphed to sus-
pend all further work on Duluth!
The fact that the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, instead of making the place ter
minus,-will never lay rail within
twenty miles of its barren, rocky Shore
has SO frightened the citizens, that nearly
all sales in real aestate have come to a
std1 uSlI4A anu VIC hOAOSS VI IdECiAiy
spectators and drunken gamblers,-so
graphically described by their own lead
ing paper, are placarding two-thirds of
their lots and houses ITO Let, or For
Sale Very Low"
Two month"; ago the real estate which
commanded from seventy-fve to one hun
bred dollars per front foot, am now told
goes begging at twenty dollars an acre.
The fact is, the bubble has already burst
ed, and respectable people are flying the
town like scared rats from sinking ship.
So general is this Generalization, that
one of the town papers acknowledges that
rev dies and midnight brawlers govern
the town, and that no mans life or prop
erty is safe from drunken mobs.
Some pennywise, pound foolish inter-
ested persons blame me for exposing the
rottenness of these soulless spectators !;
but the honest, honorable citizens of Min
aesota exclaim as with one voice,-"In
your correspondence with nearly five