The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-08-03
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Many of the advantages which are claim,
cd by Duluth and advertised as peculiar to
that place, are only hers in common with
the future city of Superior, and the present
eligible site and nucleus thereof For ex-
ample, all the maps, tables of distances, and
lengthy comparisons between the geograph-
ical position of Duluth and Chicago, and
other places, are only so many settings
forth of the advantag3 IS of the head Of Lake
Superior as D commercial point. They
would apply to any site whatever at the
head of the lake, where capital and labor
may choose to build a city.
OF course they apply even to town
founded and maintained on the rather infe-
licitous site of Duluth; but to draw the
hasty conclusion that because Of this advan-
tageous site as compared with, say Chicago,
Duluth is destined to be a London, or even
a St. Paul, is certainly wild reasoning.
IT takes for granted that Duluth and the
head Of Lake Superior are identical terms.
Mistake first.
1t assumes that Mr. Cooke is the only
man in the country, who can build towns
and railways about the head of Lake Supe-
rior. Second mistake.
1t assumes that the country at large is
seeking connections with the head Of Lake
Superior, from deep desire to build up a
Philadelphia suburb at the head Of Mime
sofa point. Mistake number three.
1t takes for granted that if an inside
track were laid to finer site and better
harbor, at the head of Lake Superior by
other capitalists and railroad men, the trade
Of the whole country would neglect that adj
yantagcous connection and its own interest
from IN insane desire to benefit gentlemen
who have hastily invested on the North
Shore. Mistake the fourth.
It takes for granted further that Superior
is SO poor and friendless; so detected by
the flaming advertisements of Duluth's geo.
grapHical advantages SO demoralized at
the mighty name of a good moral banker in
the Quaker City, and Of the terrible young
fellows who run Duluth, that it don't, won't t,
can't and shan't have anything to say or do
in the coming development of the Lake Su-
perior route. This we denominate mistake
number five, delusion of the first magni-
tude.
In regard to these mistaken arrogations,
it may be truthfully said, that if Duluth
were removed bodily to Gibraltar or Chel-
ten Hills, the best and greatest part of, and
the only natural facilities for, commerce at
the head of Lake Superior would remain
untouched. They would fit as nicely in the
map circles as Duluth, figure as well in the
distance tables, look as we'll in the broad
advertisements, and be far nearer the truth
by simply inserting the word Superior for
Duluth as they are all a setting forth of
the advantages of the head Of Lake Supe-
rior under the msnomer of Duluth. If any
one site has the right to assume the whole
headship of the lake, what site has more
reason to do 50, than that which lies along
the plateau, bays and rivers that occupy 10
miles width of the "head of Lake SUPERIOR:
And we seriously advise our neighbors to
build on better foundation than assuming
Duluth as Lake Superior, or Jay Cooke as
the human race. Such assumptions will
certainly prove a sandy foundation.
COMMON SENSE AD TERTISLNG.