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The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
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Puget pneries afire- Amadeus abolitonizng Gu
Camp, Eng. Mcclellan becomes Californian
Head centre of Peruvian revolution hung to a lamp
post--North Missouri R. r. goes for debt Your
fare England's railways is increased Big crops
in Manitoba yellow fever in n. Y. harbor - Fl
nancial collapse expected in Cuba Howell Mason,
eminent musician dies aged ST. Misplaced switch
ST. L. K and n. r r. kills fireman and engineer
Anti-N. P Sioux chiefs going to have Washing
ton "parey WOO" Vice Presidents mother dead
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Livingstone's friends endorse Ujiji correspondence
Peters found two new asteroids last night of July
BARNARD don't resign just Tweed didn't; don't
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rule folded up in n " -Telegraphers confess ignor
ance Alabama Abracadabra Mexicans stole million
dollars worth American cattle Sane people mpris
oned in Bloomingdale Insane Asylum Louy Nap
goes to Austria - Gold Vermilioneth at Kinsale, Ire
land Great fire Chicagozing great fair at NovgOrod
Russia Spotted Tail is wagging at st. Louis
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10 years if they come -Chas. O'Conner named fol-
Louisville Convention Standish monument begin
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Ohio r. r. in Tenn killed g. wounded 81 Old Pro
liabilities is LL.D.----N. Y. police cruel to Bergt
Gen. Sherman sick
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
Il METROPOLIS HERE DEMANDED BY
WHEAT LONE


While the wheat crop has been a COM
parative failure in many parts of Europe,
and but medium in most sections of our
own country, it is estimated that the State
of Minnesota alone has produced this sea-
son, about eighteen million bushels, Of
which thirteen millions will be for sale, and
expectation. This amazing amount Of the
leading cereal produced in one state of the
Northwest, i'll a season hardly more than
average, family images forth what wH be
the wheat crop OF the Northwest when Min
nesota is thickly settled, when the forests
of North Wisconsin are replaced (as they
soon will be) by farms and fields, when the
great valleys of the lower Red River, the
Assiniboine and Saskatchewan, are yellow
summer by summer with their myriad fields
of ripened wheat.
But the fftieth part of the capacity of
this immense wheat region has been tested.
In other words, if every nook and corner
of the great wheat producing area of the
Northwest were occupied, and titled as it
might be, and as it will be by the time the
next generation is on the stage, even if not
in this our day, there would be an annual
product in round numbers of thousand
millions of bushels of wheat, enough to feed
the world! The farms that fill this graflary
of the globe will support numberless towns
and villages, and demand far within half a
century, an immense metropolis at the head
of Lake Superior. Where Superior and
Duluth now stand, must rise the palace
warehouses of a Liverpool or London, ex-
tending along miles and miles of water
front, and looking upon thousands of masts
bearing the flags of all nations, and carry
ing the food of at least half the world
The man of thirty to-day, who lives to be
eighty years of age will see all of this pic
ture realized, while he who lives but de-
cade, or score of years hence, will behold
such mighty foundations for the future, laid
fuous in portraying its destiny. We, OF
the head Of the Lake, are often thought ex-
travagant in predicting the greatness of this
region, but the now known and ascertained
laws of the wheat demand and supply,
point with unerring finger to the result we
have named.
But all this leaves out of the question, the
trade of the Pacific coast and the Asian
world, which is so soon to come through
Lake Superior, and surely the most preu-
diced must admit that within a quarter of a
century, the combined trade from the three
sources indicated, will demand the facilities
for storage, shipping and exchanging of
commodities, which only great city at the
head of the great western lake can afford.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17

centre of the finest grain growing country
on the conlinent.-Red Rioer Gazette.
Our city is thronged ith new corners
Our motto now is, say nothing Of any
portion of Central or Northern Wisconsin,
unless we can say good word.-.Stevens
Point Journal.
Although our growth for the past six
months has been pronounced solid one,
mediately built and put in operation, the
last ray OF doubt as to the future of this
important point, vanishes like dew beneath
a noon day sun. THREE CHEERS FOR
BRAINERD!- D!-Brainer3 Iridune.
Capt. E. B. Pike in charge of survey
ing party for the Wis. Cen. r. r., arriv
here Thursday from Stevens Point. The
Captain and crew have been on the line
upwards of eight months and have just
completed the location of the line to within
4 short distance 6 miles] of Penoka Gap,
of the entire unconstructed portion of the
road.-4shlaua Press.
Our local visited the farm of James
Holes few days ago, and reports that he
never saw finer crop of growing vegeta-
bles, ETC., than he there witnessed. Pota-
toes are as large as turkeys eggs, squash
and other vines fifteen feet long and full of
blossoms, corn which has been in the milk
for the last ten dayS peas dead ripe and
other things accordingly, and yet croakers
say the Red River valley is the home of
the grasshopper, with climate too cold to
raise the necessities Of life. Bah! How
many of our readers are aware that the first
premium at the last Annual State Fair of
Minnesota was taken by a'resident of Fort
Garry, on Caulihowers, and yetit is the fact.
Red Rioer Moorehead] Star.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
F1RIING AROUND SUPERIOR.


Ii you want to good farming, take a
ride out to the Messrs. Fay's, and to James
Wright's, on the beautiful Nemadji, four
and five miles from town; and don't fail to
stop at II. w. Shaw's fine farm on the Mil
itary road about miles out, where you will
see in operation his "Meadow King" clean
ly moving acres of clover and timothy,
whilst his Hay Rake and Harpoon Pitch
Fork working by horse power, stirs and
pitches the sweet scented hay.
Mr. Shaw has 80 acres of land cleared
and under cultivation; most of it in grasses,
his crop of which, is very good this season.
lie expects to put up about so tons Of hay.
His other crops also promise we'll
The crops of oats, hay, potatoes &c. of
Messrs. Wright and the Fays, we under
stand, are very promising. Both these
farmers have raised fine cattle and horses
on their places, and can show as good horse
teams raised by themselves, as can be found
in any section.
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TERMS:
n. p. SUEvEYs.-A party of Northern

n. p. SUEvEYs.-A party of Northern
Pacific Engineers under Geo. F. Bailey,
Esq, have been engaged this week, survey
ing line from Rce's Point, across the St.
Louis entry to Conner Point, thence along
the bay front of Superior to the mouth of Ne
madii river; and rumor has it, that there is
a corps running a line from Komoko, On.
p. Junction. "a miles west of us, to the
Bay of Superior All which we opine,
points to the carrying out of the arrange
ment made between the Northern Pacific
railroad parties and Superior last spring,
and to which we made some reference in
our last weeks issue
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
Notice..

HAVE left in the hands of James Bardon for
justment and all indebted to respectfully but
requested with him without delay
the last notice the subject B, W. FRENCH,
Superior June 6, 1872. junS
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
CITY Meat NJ ark ct :!
S. WAKELIN, Prop'r,

Nos. 365, G 367, End St., Superior,
Will keep constantly hand full stock Of FRESH
BEEF. PORK VEAL. MUTTON, SAUSAGE, FISH,
&c Also SALTED MEATS and FISH. TURKEYS,
CHICKENS VENIsoN and OYSTERS. Orders solicited and
promptly filled for large small quantities. Give
me call am sure you will be suited IN price and
quality. To- ,. WAhELlN
sep22,70
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
THE THREE ORTIZ WESTERN 4S2IA7,E.S

THE THREE NORTH WESTERN STA7 TIES.
The Census Bureau is gradually reducing
into general facts the immense mass Of in
dividual details accumulated by the census
of 1870. The statistics contained in the
last publication of the Bureau relative to
the growth of the Northwest will be partic-
ularly interesting to our readers. Take for
examples the three States of the most
northwesterly group, Iowa, Wisconsin and
Minnesota. The Youngest of these, Mime
sofa, was admitted into the Union fourteen
wears ago, Wisconsin twenty-four, and
Iowa, the oldest of the three, twenty-seven
years ago.
These three states, though so young in
years, contained an aggregate population of
2,6s6,l6s in 1870, or adding the natural in
crease for two years. more than 100000
in 1872. Twenty years ago all the inhab-
itants Of what is now Minnesota, numbered
less than 5000 souls. Now her population
numbers more than half million. Wis
consin has advanced from population of
500, 900 in 1850, to more than million in
1870, and Iowa counted million and a
quarter, against 900 in 1850. The in,
crease in the values of real and personal
estate in the three last decennial eras in
these three States is as follows:
Comparative Values Of Real and Personal Estate.
1850. 1860. 1870.
Minnesota Not estd 52,294,4l3 1928, ,9O9, $50
Iowa S23, ,63S 24I,33S,26S III, GA, $50
Wisconsin 42,956,595 233,67 ,66S 7o2,3o7,329
Minnesota has six and half millions of
acres of land under cultivation, against two
and half millions of acres ten years ago;
and Wisconsin shows a similar rate of de-
velopment. But the most notable feature
Of the agricultural returns relates to the
production of wheat in this Northwestern
cluster of rich States-the figures for three
decennial periods in Minnesota being as
follows: In 1850, only l,4O0 bushels; in
1860, 2,ls6,9 bushels; in 1870, l9,ooo,-
600 bushels. The wheat product of Iowa
has increased from 100000 bushels In
1850, to 10000, 900 bushels in 1870; the
same crop in Wisconsin has increased from
100000 bushels in 1850, to 25,6OO,OOo
bushels in 1870. The crops OF rye, corn,
oats and barley, also increased in similar
proportions The total grain product OF
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-AUONG OUR EXCHANGES.
lOmitted last week.

We confidently expect to see before
this time next year a population of at least
1900 to 1900 in Glyndon. And it will be
permanent too, as the place is the junction
of two important lines of railroad, Pembi-
na branch and n. z. Il. r.. will be the fu-
ture county seat, and is the commercial
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17

the three States in 1870 was upwards of
two hundred and twenty million bushels.
At this rate Of advance these three
Northwestern States will, ten years from
now, be among the richest and most popu-
lous In the Union.-St Paul Press.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-17
A.-The Wheat Field of America.
HEALTHFUL CLIMATE-FREE HOMESTEADS-CONVEN
EfT NJ ARKETS.


The Northern Pacific Railroad offers for sale 3oO0O acres
Land In Central and Western Minnesota embracing Some
productive wheat lands in Excellent tim
the MILL the farm and the fire. Rich prairie pastrrage
meadow with clear lakes and running streams
mate where fever and unk Grain
this section to the Atlantic cities cheapy
Contra Illinois Cars running through
Lake Dakota 253 miles Price OF
land track 81 $S per further $4OO will
credit; warrantee deeds
Northern Pacific 30 irod bonds received in payment for
lands 81 No other lands such advan-
tsges to settlers
under the law-March 1S72get 100 free
the railroad, by one and two years residence.
reduced rates furnished from all principal
purchasers of railroad lands and to settlers
Purchasers will have the
Northern Pacific Railroad deducted Now the time for set
tiers nd colonies get land close to the road
containing and description Of lands and
Homestead law sent free, and full information
furnished Address by letter apply in to the
LAND DEPARTMENT NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD,
may11- St. Paul. Mimi, or l20 broadway, New York.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12

1t is hopeless to attempt to fatten
chickens while they are at libery. They
must be put in proper coop; and this,
like most other poultry appurtenances.
need not be expensive. To fatten twelve
fowls, a coop may be three feet long,
eighteen inches high, and eighteen inches
deep, made entirely of bars. No part
solid-neither top, side nor bottom. Dis.
erection must be used, according to the
size OF the chickens put up. They do not
want room indeed, the closer they are
the better, provided they can all stana up
atthe same time. Care must be taken to
put up such as have been accustomed to
be together or they will fight. II one is
quarrelsOme, it is better to remove it at
once, as, like other bad examples. it soon
finds imitatofs. "A diseased chicken
should not be put up. The food should
be ground oats, and may either be put up
In trough or on flat board running
along the front of the coop. It may be
mixed with water or milk-the latter is
the better. It should be we'll soaked.
forming pulp as loose as can be, pro.
vided it does not run off the board. They
must be well fed three or four times
day-the first time as soon after breakfast
rs may be possible or convenient, and
then at intervals of four hours. Each
meal should be as much and no more
than they can eat up clean. When they
have done feeding, the board should be
wiped and some gravel may be spread.
1t causes them to feed and thrive.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12
The report says: "The Superintend.
Mt, being well aware that the table, 90

The report says: 1.-THE superintend.
ent, being well aware that the table, 90
far - 1t relates to pauperism, viii be SUBJ
ject to severe criticism from certain
specialists, has thought It best to prefix q
full statement Of the plan which has been
followed In its construction, as well "a to
make frank admission, a. has been done
in respect to some Of the preceding tables
Of this volume, Of occasional errors and
deficiencies. The necessity OF q distinct
exposition of the rules which govern in
the treatment Of the subject of pauperism
will be best appreciated after q c0mpar-
ison Of the number which would respect
lively be returned under the several class
Ai6cations possible, and indeed wholly rea-
sonable, In this connection. Returns from
the county poor houses and the city work
and alms-houses Of the State Of New York
show that on the 1st Of December, 1859,
the actual number Of the inmates Of these
institutions was 1908. On the Let Of
December, 1870, the aggregate number Of
inmates was ID, $50. The date taken for
this return, viz, the let Of December,
would probably not show quite 90 large 1
number Of paupers as . date nearer the
close Of the winter; but December would
certainly exhibit larger number than
any other month OF the spring, summer.
or autumn, excepting March, and possibly
April, and Is therefore to bc regarded as
presenting an unexceptianably fair aver
age for the year. Yet the books Of the
same institutions record the admission
during the year, whose beginning and
ending are thus defined, including those
remaining at the beginning Of the year,
ct no less than q, 1873 "pefsons." In id.
dition, the number Of persons receiving
temporary and partial outdoor relief in
the State Of New York, through the year
In question lat IN expense of SOIL ,665. l6l,
10 returned at 10l, 706, making the total
number Of "persons" receiving aid from
funds appropriated distinctly for the
poor, 100.989. But still further extern.
sion of the list Of public pensioners
might, upon possible, and indeed from
its own point Of view IN entirely reason
able, theory Of the case, be claimed and
allowed. Tho Immigration Commission.
ersf0r New York report having expended
during the year 1859 $3.50, 900 for the re-
lief Of poor Immigrants. There WIS also
appropriated from the treasury Of the
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12
Roots In Cellars.

Every farmer knows, or thinks he
knows, how to take care Of potatoes for
winter use, but we will describe briefly
our methods. Dig the potatoes, II posi-.
BILE, when the ground 10 dry; but II this
cannot or has not been done, they should
be allowed to dry on barn floor, the ad-
herring soil removed, and then the roots
may be carried to the cellar. We pro-
vide large boxes, which viii hold about
twenty bushels each (cast-off tree boxes),
raise them few inches from the cement
floor by cross pieces of scantling, and
then Ill them with tho clean and dry pc.
tatoes. A lid excludes them from. the
light. II there happen TO be few wide
cracks in the bottom of the box, the ven.
tilation will be better; and II tho tubers
are clean and the cellar cool, there will be
little of the rot.
Beets, turnips, carrots and parsneps
win not keep fresh in this way, a. they
have not the impervious skin Of the po-
tato. Our plan IL to pack them in bar
rels, or goods boxes procured from the
country stores. They will shrivel and
spoil II the moisture IL not retained In
them by some substance to pack them in,
or to ill the interstices. Finely broken
and moderately damp moss IL best for
this purpose; but in ito absence saw-dust
answers quite we'll. At this season Of the
year there is . great deal of this material
In tho ice-house, after the removal Of the
ice, that IL quite damp enough for use.
Put in layer or two Of the roots; then
scatter enough Of the sawdust over them
to al the interstices, then another layer,
and 30 on. In barrels, more roots may
be put In at time, the sawdust being
shaken among them by rocking the bar
rels. Packed in this way, We have seen
beets taken out one full year after they
were put In, o. fresh a. the day they were
lifted from the soil while those which
were placed uncovered ON the cellar bot.
tom were q ilod In month by drying
Gentleman.
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12

State, or Of the city Of New York, under
laws of the State, during the same year,
In assistants to hospitals, dispensaries, in.
f1rmaries, asy1ums, ETC., the sum of 3D.
0O3, 076.60. Allowing for the persons
participating In the benefits of these OK.
ponditurcs, we should have the State
poor very considerably increased, even
above the enormous numbers already ex.
pressed. The number of persons given
In the table 80 supported during
the year." for the State Of New
York, is 26,152. The foregoing state.
ments will sufficiently illustrate the Inn.
portance OF having the tables Of pauper-
ism for the several States and Territories
made up upon . uniform plan. II was
the want OF such uniformity Of construc.
tion, In connection with manifest loose
ness In the collection Of material, which
yielded such impossible and altogether
irrational results In the publication If the
census Of 1850, As New York, with pop.
ulation Of 8, 680, 785, having . pauperism
OF 49,, 762 average cost per head less than
$0), while Pennsylvania, with popula-
ton OF 2, 0O5, 2l6, h the same general con.
dttion OF settlement and industry, showed
only 10. 40S persons supported during the
year lat cost of something over $40
hesdl; Michigan, with . population Of
average tis. xhi9s Illinois, With = po us
ulation Of 1,711 1851, was returned with
with a population OF 1881, COS, engaged
principally in manufactures, having
pauperism Of 1850 average 411), while
Connecticut, also . manufacturing
State, with Q population Of zoO,147,
was returned with only 4,044 paupers,
average $8l). Comparisons like these,
which might be extended pretty
much the whole list Of the then
existing States, show at . glance that NO
effort was made at the eighth census to
impose anything like uniform rule upon
tho returns Of psuperism that some
States were returned with pauper list
three, Ave, or ten times % large ~ States
In the Same general condition Of settle.
meht and industry, for no other reason
than In one State the aggregate cost Of
poor relief was practically divided by
the known cost Of sustaining one pauper
one year, and the quotient taken for the
number OF persons supported during the
year, while In another State al persons
entering work or aims house for ever 90
limited period were included, and, in .
third, every person receiving 20 much -
. half ton Of coal In . hard winter or q
dozen soup tickets was set down among
the States poor. While claiming In re.
spect to this ~ little a. in respect to aEy
other class Of the statistics Of the census,
and indeed less with respect to this than
to almost any other, absolute accuracy,
the Superintendent must claim the credit
Of having attempted to introduce q fully
as, with the vicious machinery Of tho
present census law, was possible, dis
elimination and order into tho returns Of
pauperism."
Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1872-12-12


These amounts include sums refunded and al
lowed ON drawbacks. Tho decrease in the aggre-
gate receipts for the last two years is due 70 the
s ss e Ss 1S r ~
lion bsfogs the close Of tho fiscal year 1871 The
sep show en- the
or grapes, spirits distilled from materials
S Sssf a:1 apples Ses Rsce e.. q
special Or barrel tax, Sslss, les; wiss msds in
imitation Of champagne, 30; rectiaers. ee56, 7N;
dealers sa, IN , retail os e4osS dealers
stills, 81 ,89l stills or worms manufactured, 496;
recti1eis'. Ss67, $ao; stamps, wholesale liquor
dealers SIP 6oa; excess Of gau9ess' fees $4,l1e;
The number Of grain d!stilleriss registered the
last year WAS 81; fruit dstilleries, S38; making
the last fiscal year show total production in taxa
BILE gallons from materials other than fruit Of 49,.
70 ~; from fruit, 7o7,7s; total yearly produc-
Tho Commissioner recommends that Section 81
Ct the oct Of July 80 1885, a. amended by the act Of
June 8, ASIA, be further amended 20 q to author.
izs, n more explicit manner than e present pro.
applying TO export distilled spirits for the benefit
The az received .n iernsnted liquors, at q per
barrel, during the first quarter Of the fiscal year
ending June % 1871, was 43,sl7 l9i, while the
ceipte from the same source during the nfst three
%on .a Of the present ascsl year amount to 81
crease Of about million dollars annually during
stationary character q the receipts during
ggne next bat ss inere: !: su1ns
the hret three months Of the present fiscal year. q
above stated far exceeds that Of any
this once. Tho tax received on fermented liquors
1t u per barrel wa for the years.