Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1870-10-14
OPENING OF THE RAILROAD TO
DULUTH-sT. PAUL ALMOST a
LAKE SUPERIOR PORT

LAKE SUPERIOR PORT
The opening of the Lake Superior
| and Mississippi Railroad is an event the
most important and auspicious that has
! transpired in the history of St. Paul and
Minnesota. 1t connects the greatest
| lake and the greatest river on the conti-
nent by an easy stretch Of railroad, and
makes St. Paul, in addition TO its COM
manding position at the head Of naviga-
] ton on the Mississippi, almost a port on
! Lake Superior. The travel and trade
over this line of road must always be
enormous in amount, for il IS far from
probable that any ether railroad viii be
built in competition with q Tor many
years to come, When the ST. Paul and
| Sioux CITY Railroad and the link TO the
southwestward that will connect with the
Union Pacific are completed, sun
! greater importance viii be given GO this
/ highway Of travel and trade, and sdl
greater wealth and prosperity VIII be
made to flow along this continental
channel Of commerce.
| The completion Of this road confirms
the position of Duluth, and renders its
future one of promise and splendor,
without an equal among the young clles
of the West. Its place is not that az
rival to St. Paul, but they viii mutually
share in the harvest Of unbounded pros
perity that is dawning upon them, and
every stride in advance that ei-her
makes in wealth and greatness VIII be
timed to the forward progress Of the other.
There can be no set back or delay in
the growth Of either, for they have both
surmounted the first and most difficult
steps to be taken, and the board, unob-
| suucted onward road lays before tneia'
1 Duluth wih be the largest city on Lake
1 Superior, possibly upon any cham U
lakes. with the exception OF chicago
| and ST. Paul, St. Louis and New orleans
/ ,,-;U ~, the Great cities Of the Mississippi.
-ybis ron pathway makes us neigh
49, - tbe city on the lake shore and
no distant neighbors either and the iD-
innate relations that we shall hold 20
each other viii be full and fruitful of
lasting mutual benefits,
AS yet the most sangtiine can hardly
compute the measure of the prosperity
that this railroad VIII bring 10 these two
cities, or the importance that it win oc-
eupy as a highway Of travel and com
merce. Il now runs across spar
settled country and its connections
with but fragments OF incomplete lire2
OF railway bQt us A|tA A4AAA@ HAAt a-N
vast trains loaded with merchnndise
and with the product Of our unlivnltd
fields thronginE its course, and unvrl
will crowd its entire length as t cl1u1g
no other thoToughfare in the West lt
will be the outlet of the great NoUhwest
20 the seaboard, and carry tribute To1n
the upper Missouri, from the golden
mountains Of Montana, and from tne iar
Saskatchewan. It will have no ElVai 90
competing line, and gill nionopoliEe the
trafI5o of many parallels Of latitude and
lopoifp5e. will convey away the abuu-
Sa5ee of their hRrvestai and bring o.
thesl the supplies that they require ifurn
ne markets Of the world. A great 90,
ture is opened to-day, and ils eomplsu
can scarcely be eGceilod BY tse roaiest
Arearns thae the human fancy may in-
vents 3tEatf &23g4trh