The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1870-09-08

was but handful of Indians here, AM
now $500 people. Brushing away 81
these cobwebs of speculation, the sole
claims which she makes for future sue
cess are founded on the Northern Pacifi
land Lake Superior Railroads, portion
Eof the latter being the outlet for tn,
former when 1t shall have been com
pleted This Lake Superior road traver
SEES one hundred and forty miles of wilder
ness to St. Paul, the eastern seventy
miles of which is poorly engineered, and
has suggestions of disaster in the deeI
ravines which it crosses on trestle work
| It is n literally endowed road, having
| 1 100000 acres of well-timbered land
Duluth claims that the Minnesota wheat
which now goes by steamer to La Crosse
or Prairie Du Chen, or is transported by
rBil from st. Paul to Milwaukee, and the
products of Minnesota must seek their
outlet at the head of Lake Superior,
because Duluth is as near by water to the
Atlantic cities as Chicago, and that wheat
can be transported fifteen or twenty
cents per bushel cheaper, and that the
difference on freight in bulk will be still
more marked. But there is one stand
ing obstacle in the way Of Duluth, and
that is Bayfield,, with its magnificent
harbor, open three weeks earlier in
spring and three weeks later in fall.
Nature says Bayfield,. Speculation says
Duluth. And when speculation has
realized on its lands, probably common
sense will then say Bayfield,. 6f
Duluth makes two other claims The
geological formation of the north shore
Of Lake Superior is granite ; but granite
stopsa at Duluth, and as we 90 up the
st, Louis River ridge of slate outcrops,
running, like aasharp backbone, between
the lakes and the Mississippi River
Out of this ridge Duluth proposes to
quarry superior article of slate, equal to,
it not better than, the states of Vermont
She does not expect to find market at
the East for this slate, but in her own
region, aud along the Northwestern Mis-
sissippi Valley; but, as she also claims
that her lumber is inexhaustible, and
that it can be had for a song, what par
ticular encouragement is there for states
when shingles can be had cheaper? As
her last claim, she points to the Dalles of
the st. Louis River as the grandest water
power in the world, aud prognostlcates
upon the sale of a rag carpet to St. Paul,
the erection of manufactures, which are
going to silence the looms of Lowell and
close up the FORCES and furnaces of
New York and Pennsylvania; which she
could undoubtedly do if water power
alone were necessary to the establishment
and growth of manufactures Water
power is necessity, but it does not
enter into the possibility of esta blishing
manufactures any further than steam.
Both are but the horses to carry the load
1t IS first necessary to get the load !;
second, to have place to take it to ;
third, to have somebody who wants 1t !;
and, fourth, to make it for his advantage
to buy 1t. .e
Where there is so much smoke there
must be some fire. But if you 90 TO
Duluth, don't believe all they tell you.
1t Is city of magnificent distances, of
magnificent expectations,and magnificent
ly airy. The fullfllmeut is yet far off
If you invest to hold, 60 slow. If you
invest to make money. turn it over quick
ly, and make your hay while the sun
shines. sin a9 tl5ei sa
Superior City had magnificent expccta-
tions, but Superior City is dead, and tho
few people left there are drying up. and
half the houses are unoccupied, except by
owls and ghosts, and her once fine har-
Dor is choking up with the amber debris
washed into it from the tamarack
swamps above. Superior City made a
mistake in surprising it was destined to
be commercial centre, the proper place
being sixHmiles flu Their off at Duluth.
Duluth may have made the same mistake,
the proper place being sixty miles fur
ther off, at Bayfield,. 9ar.
SECS THE NORTH SHORE.
If you ever go to Lake Superior and
have the opportunity, don't fail to go to
the north shore. On Monday, the 25th,
we left Duluth, and at five o'clock the
next morning We were in sight of Bay
field, quietly sleeping on its hillside, its
neat, trim houses and old churches sniigly
nestled among the pines, cow
bells tinkling among the trees, crows la
zily sailing through the air over the
woods full of birds, whose songs came
floating over the water like morning
benison. 1t is a lovely place and as quiet
as dream, and soon thereafter we were
steaming among the Apostle Islands,
which for an hour appeared and disap-
peared, each more beautiful than the
other, sometimes but one in sight, and, as
we round it, a whole cluster coming into
view, each overlapping the other with it's
curving outlines, the sun gliding the tree
tops, little boat dancing here and there
on the waves, beauty everywhere BY Z
o'clock the outermost Apostle had disap-
peared, and at half past one we were
passing Isle Rovale, sleeping in the blue
distance. We were leaving civilization
behind US. Goodbye to the opera, Chat
eau Margaux, Salads railroad and tele-