The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1870-11-03
Duluth as a Harbor."

Every day Is demonstrating more and more the fact
that Duluth has nOw with the expenditure already
made of less than 100000 and the construction OF
only 600 feet of Brcakwater 81 Harbor'-such one
the expenditure of million would not make
for Superior-such one now that even money can
not make at the Entry into the Bay of Superior
Indeed there
arc plenty of Lake Captains who know, and who will
testify that the extension of present Breakwater
out even coo feet further, will make the Outer Harbor
of Duluth safer Harbor to make for in a storm than
is possessed by Milwaukee, Chicago Cleveland, or
Buffalo. y
When the Breakwater is extended only coo feet fur
ther the width of entrance and sea-room will
continue be afforded to enable vessel of any kind
without the employment of tugs to get safely behind
its protection We repeat the claim, that neither
Buffalo, Cleveland nor Chicago is there good so
safe Harbor now nor be made for the same
expenditure, as at Duluth. Nay, more that Har-
Dor as now contemplated and partly constructed WILL
when don less than either of the other harbors
mentioned; and will be, in every way, vastly superior
any of them. In short, that it will be Harbor of
Refuge which of them equal
As for the Entry to Superior, it is not worth the
of a Harbor and never can be during gale
Money will make 1t accessible In good weather: moth
ing morel
Why Congress does not bestow good appropria-
ton for our Harbor is simply because the matter is
has been fully brought to their attention
because they do not understand it.
Duluth larbor is a fixed fact its capacity de-
pcnds upon further cxpenditure.-DutuM Npenesoidn,
oct %.
We rush to the support (9 of the above
with the following, which suggests a use
for the sOuter Uarbor" that probably has
not occurred to the Ninnesotian:
"DULUTu AS AN ICE-TRAP."
Every day it is becoming more and more
a fact that Duluth will have next spring,
with the expenditure already made of less
than 100000, and the construction of only
600 feet of Breakwater, an "Ice-Trap,'
such a one nooc as the expenditure of a
million would not make for Superior-such
a one-now that even money cannot make
at the Entry into the Bay of Superior.
Indeed there are plenty of Lake Captains
who know and who will testify that the ex-
tension of the Breakwater out even 600
feet further will make the Outer Harbor of
Duluth a nicer "IceTrap'' than is posses
sed by Mlw waukee, Cleveland, Buffalo or
Superior When the Breakwater is ex-
tended only GOO feet further the same width
of entrance and sea room will continue to
be afforded to enable ice-bergs Of any size,
without the employment Of tugs, to get
safely behind its protection. We repeat
the statement that at neither Buffalo,
Cleveland nor Chicago, is there so grand
or so safe an Ice-Trap now, nor can one
be made for the same expenditureas at
Duluth. In short that it will be a House
of Refuge for Ice which none of them can
equal!
AS for the Entry to Superior it is no,
worth the name of an "IceTrap,' and
never will be till the ST. Louis and Nemadj
Rivers dry up, and some benevolent Phiia-
delphian builds an Ice House out in
the Lake in front of it.
Why Congress does not bestow an ap
preparation for the Duluth "1ce-Trap" i:
simply because the matter is not or ha:
not been fully brought to their attention
in other words they can't see it."
! Duluth Harbor is fixed fact now, bu
will be in a good deal worse fix mex
spring unless Congress appropriates'
i, 100000 acres of land to purchase cross-cu
saws and ice hooks.