The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1871-07-22
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ALL that is needed 10 develop this place
Immediately is a railroad. Without q rail
road, no amount Of capital and energy, in
vested IN manufacturing, or farming, would
enable rs to compete successfully with any
place At the head Of Lake Superior, 50 for
tunate as to have the iron path of modern
c. .Gmerco at its very door. For q greater
amount OF capital wo uld at once be attract
cd to such a place than to this. And we
would not only have odds to contend
against in point Of numbers, but in extra
transfers Of freight, with their tedious de-
lays and consuming charges. It would pay
every one OF our farmers and manufacture
ers after had succeeded by great effort
in establishing them in this place and
county, to leave us and draw nearer rail
road town. The steamboat lines would
neglect US of course, as it is to their inter
est to make direct connections with through
routes, ans! the attempt to build up res
pecta3le town, nluoh less a city, at one
side oI u great national route, such rs any
one railroad running to the head OF Lake
Superior would form, would prove 8 hope
less task.
5uG bring q railroad to this place, and we
not only compete on equal terms with other
places, but even on the mos, advantageous
terms possible Give Superior a railway,
and more can be accomplished at less ex
pen5e ii this place, them at any other poin.
on the continent, with the single exception
of PUGET Sound All that car be sad 81
our Minnesota rival for the headshiD OF
Lake Superior, can then be s@id in most
emphatic terms Of ,nis town, and that with
out danger OF Misrepresentation.
Il is safe TO say that the most sauguiue
Of our citizens have not fully realized the
certain future before us. What would the
prospects Of the little town up the bay be
worsh al this hour, II railway were IN full
operation % this point? Who would 60
that far out Of the way to invest il the cost
y artiicialties, and enormous taxes that
got.ld al be avoided by investing here?
It is q f.yor,te game with our Duluth
friends 20 insist that this place Is played
ont, dead, arl buried. Wei, poor fellows,
,ley arc not O. DO Blamed Ior II, for Sup
r,or IS 4 standing menace to their future
operations. Even now, prudent men are
slow % invest there, and will insist on com
iug over TO Superior, and wondering why
in the world men ever undertook for any
reason to build q town on the other
sid, sn1 conclude that tLey viii wait 8!
little longer.
7hey ,oW not haye to egait 22ng. We
can afford TO let our neighbor make all the
noise possible. In fact we are under many
Obligations for what they have already done
for rs. 1t is 4 tru.h--though Duluth will
noi believe It now, whatever may be her
belief Aereatter-it is truth that we cher
ISL none but the blndest Of feelings toward
our ambitious, energetic, spunky little rival
This is not saying that We admire what Of
falsehood some OF her agents may have ut
tered, nor is ii SAYING that we can feel IL
different TO the Illegal and unfair work that
some of her chief proprietors and advocates
have boldly engaged ii, but toward Duluth
as . ncighborng community, and even as
4 town site to which Minnesota may feel
herself entitled, we entertain nothing but
wei wishes, and as IN earnest Of that as
sertion, we advance the idea III all sincerity
to those of our Duluth friends who can
understand the argspaeat, that it is best to
be on the safe side by quietly investing IN
this place, while it can be done at moderate
rates They can thus enjoy the present
and temporary prosperity OF Duluth, and
the absolutely certain and permanent pros
perity of Superior, that viii commence in
the near future And that prosperity viii
commence with railroad running to Su-
perior.
We wish 10 put on record three predic-
tons respecting that railroad and its con
sequences. The first IS, that it will be COM
pleted to Superior inside Of two years with
out faii. The next is that it viii insure the
heaviest Investments here from al parts Of
the laad, without a 1.-THE of the advertising
our neighbor has done. And lastly that it
will drain Duluth Of every enterprlsing cit
izen and manufacturing establishment, IN
side OF three years from this date.
CufcAGo and ST. Paul are making every
effort 10 retain and extend their trade with
the Northwest, notwithstanding the Lake