Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1871-06-16
IOWA PRESS EXCURSION.


IOWA PRESS EXCURSION.
From Marshalltown to Duluth.
There now, reader! don't imagin,
THAT we are going to bore you with .
seventeen column article. True, an
excursion from Central Iowa to tn,
mead OF the Father of Lakes, com.
posed Of a party of $50, would make
q complete history of itself, but a,
We are not writing for those who
were on the trip. the personnel of the
party, with incidents, must be lief,
tout.
/ The excursion, of which we form.
ed an humble part, left Marshall.
town Thursday morning of last
week, by special train, furnished by
that King of railroad men-Charley
Gilman. At ten A. M. AckIey was
reached, where we were Joined by q
number OF editors and their wives
who were not able to be at the con.
vention, Arriving at Mason City al
noon, we were uRceremoniously
ushsred into on improvised dining
room, spread with all that hungry
travellers could wish for. Mason
City was cheered and musicked by
the band, and we were off for st.
Paul, Via the Milwaukee, st. Paul &
Minneapolis Railroad. At Austin
we had no time to interview" the
town. The proprietor of the Mans
Held House came aboard and handed
US card on which 1t read, "no dead
heads wanted" We didn't STOP
The country along the route was
beautiful, becoming more bluffy and
picturesque a. We approached st.
Paul.
The cspital Of Minnesota was
reached at 7 o'clock and the party
made grand brake for the hotels of
the city-the Merchants, Metropoli-
tan and Park Place. The people of
st. Paul did not know We were COM
ing until too late, as they claimed, to
give US q reception. The next morn.
Ing = drive was made through the
city, when the party left at half. past
ten for the famous city Of Duluth.
Through the courtesy of. N.
Clark, President of the Lake SUPERB.
or d Mississippi. and w. w. Hun
gerford, Gen. Superintendent, q com.
modious train and free lunch for
dinner was furnished. This road
extends from st. Paul to Duluth at
the west end Of Lake Superior-156
miles-with branch to saltwater,
on the st. Croix river. After leav-
Ing st. Paul some ten miles, We came
to o Hat country dotted over with
beautiful lakes. The land IL covered
with growth Of small oak, and tn Q
soil Is OF poor clayey substance.
Seventy-five miles out. and the tim
Der regions, or the pine country is
reached. We have heard of their
being place where civilization had
hard time Of 1t, and we found the
location on the road to Duluth. We
never travelled through a more DESC
late country since we left the swami DIS
of the South. At a place called
Hinkley, resident informed us that
he had just shot bear in town only
few days before we passed through.
The musqustoes also get fighting
mad and attack the "white folksn In
solid columns, by regiments and
plattoons.
Twenty-Five miles from Duluth the
Saint Louis river comes pouring
through the "Delis," and its swift
current rushing down over the i'm
mense rocks, forms a sight that
will amply repay the sight seesr.-I
After striking the st. Louis river,
the rail road follows down the valley
until 1t reaches Duluth. From the
cars looking down at times hundreds
OF feet on the foaming waters below
IL forms grand and picturesque view
seldom seen.
Fifteen miles out from Duluth, we
were met by Mayor Markell and
other citizens, who gave US cordial
welcome, and informed US where we
were to chang out" for lhe night
Our stay In and around Duluth, was
the most pleasant part of our "trip.
And now what of the much talked
of embryo metropolis of America /? |
Reader judgs for yourselfl II IL q
two year old CITY of $500 inhabitants
located at the head Of Lake Superior.
The business street runs along the
base of the bluff, resembling some-
what Dubuque.
The residences are built back on
the bluffs, overlooking the city and
lakes. To see the front yards 30 full
of stumps that one could scarcely get |
through, was no uncommon sight,
They have three fine looking |
and q number of societies.
A Philadelphia firm put up q hotel |
costing some $4,000. The harbor
cannot be excelled, when the Inn
provements they are pow making |
are completed. The famous canal OF
which SO much has been said, In 1850
feet long, for the purpose of opening |
to the people of Duluth the sdvant-
ages OF st. Louis bay, without going
the distance around the seven miles
point Of land, 1t 10 not completed
for vessels. but the workmen were
busy putting In cribs to keep the
sand from washing In and filling up
the channel.
Is Duluth to make u second Chica-
go? Ask the denizens, and You can
no longer doubt-that they believe It.
But seriously we don't believe Du.
luth Is humbug, not by any means.
Its location will make IL an impor-
tant transfer point. being the ter
minus Of the Lake Superior d Mis-.
sissippi, and the North Pacific n. r.,
The latter road 10 now built out 1870
miles, and 10 making for Puget
Sound. The North Pacific opens a
market for q splendid farming coun-
try after you get back one hundred
and twenty miles. but the csuatry
Duluth, within radius of q |
hundred pniles. II OF little account
for farming purposes, except perhaps |
Tor wheat. If cleared OF the stumps
aud timber. II 10 evident that the
Garden of Eden was not located In |