The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-04-25
COMMUNICATION.
DULUTH, MIN. APR. 10th 1879

seas tue future great metropolis" Du
luth. afsso.aa.a
i I arrived here on the 10Th inst. from
st. Paul via the Lake Superior and Mis-
sissippi r. r. a run Of one hundred and
sixty miles, through numerous towns and
varied scenery. A considerable portion
of this road runs through an unbroken
Ewil6, which will never be of any use, ex
cept the one originally designed by ma
ture, Chat of holding or planet togeth-
err for its only natural productions are
scrubby pines, and bull rushes, and an.
other portion is through section which
only abounds in hills three or four hun
dred feet high, and chasms as deep,
over and through which the perseverance
of man has constructed safe and com
Portable passage.
| Some of the scenery in this part is in
describably grand, and other sections
along the route are well adapted to
farming purposes, which will no doubt
soon be dotted with happy homes, and
the broad acres now desolate and wild,
will be transformed into fields of golden
grain. The merry laugh of children will
ring from hill to vale. Songs of praise
will raise from each hamlet to the Giver of
all Good, and the place so nninviting
now, will soon be known as "dear old
home" by those who reap it's benefits.
But here I am at Duluth. Had I the
imagination of some Duluthian resident,
or few thousand shares in DuIuthian
stock, the value of which depended upon
the success Of the town, would map out
to you culture great city" l would de.
scribe to you how these mighty hills
could be hewn down, and be replaced by
mammoth blocks of granite buildings
How the commerce of the world would
flow into our laps through the great
lakes from one side, and over the Nor.
thern Pacific on the other. would
show you (by actual measure). that the
route around the world is several thous.
and miles shorter by Duluth, than by
any other way, and that God never made
such a magnificent location, such natural
advantages, and such outLGnd5sk sur
roundjng8 of "future great city" for
nothing else, but only to develop the per.
severance and indomitab9 will of man,
TO adapt every means however difficult
and intricate to his own end and ag-
grandizement.
| w0uld also refer you to the placid |
waters of Superior stretched out before |
us (now condensed), and cite you to the
numerous stately forms of steamers, pro,
pellers and schooners which walk into
our harbors ''like thing of life" and |
show you also by one Of Fairbanks |
Scales, Improved pattern that during
last season their tonnage amounted to
one hundred ald sixty Thousand tons,
(most al railroad iron for the Northern
Pacific. would bring your attention
to the fact as shown by our mortality
list, that no person ever died within the |
limits of our corporation from disease
con lract,d here, but beyond doubt those |
who have gone to the hill side were pre-
disposed and subsisted under some con
stitutional difficulty, or caught q bad |
cold down at St. Paul, where fcw per.
sons exist under the halluCination that
they are living in city.
[ am not Duluthlan, and like all dis
trustful persons see things from disin-
terested standpoint, and on. of charity |
feel that it ia nay duty to ''unveil the |
brother, and let him see himself as others
see him " (Spe Sons Of Malta \
No person with reason cali disparage
the business tact and go-ahead-atiVeness
of the citizens of Duluth, no one can
wish them ill-and none can boast of
having a more slender reed to lean upon
than they. for even the great American
nation do net build cities from force oil
habit Dollars and cents IS the great in
centive ! Where the products of nations
are sent, and people congregate to ex-
change their wares, there is the multi
Jude. Is Duluth a convenient place for
this purpose? neVer-when the Northern
Pacific Railway is completed, Duluth
will have a transfer station, that is avail
able. But as to natural ADVANTAGES
where are your millions OF acres of farm
ing lands, and thousands of inland towns
and cities which are indispe nsable to a
great metropolis9 Duluth has no "nat-
uraI advantages" in that direction.
Chicago wos a fixed fact before the Pa
cite Railway, and she is built upon one
Of the "uDsalted seas" bNS the produc-
lions Of nature have made her what she
is. The ropes were laid there for "fu-
rure great city" but the clicking Of the
reaper, and the believing of the herd
| has made her q ppcpSStU
Cities are forced INFO the world, they
cannot be located, designed ard plated
out to suit mankind, but circumstances
will hnild than and mnIrn thnr,, r,,I,4