, 1873-09-27
DULUTH.
"What a Wonderful City We
Have, Sir ~
Jay Cooke Only Remotely Connected with
tho "zcnith City Of tho Un'
saltod Seas"
The Lake Superior g. mississippi
Branch of tho Northern Paciile-.-
Tho Dallcs Of the st.
Louis River.
Correspondence qf The Chicago Tribune.

Correspondence qf The Chicago Tribune.
DULUTH, Sept a. 1878.
At @ o'clock this evening roaclea this place,
via tho Lako Superior i Mississippi Drauch Of
| tho Northern Pacific Rond, In nine hours and
ha]f from st. Paul. To my surprise, found
ono end OF tho Northern Pacific Road still hero
at Duluth. Ever since reached Minnesota,
there las boon 30 mitch talk and excitement
! about Jay Cooke an1 tho Norehorn Pacific TINT I
canlldly expected to find, on my arrival lloro,
thMt the eastern log Of tho great isotlermal had
/ walkod OF Duluth yoB,
THE NA1LNuAD Is MEnE;
aud twenty minutes ON Duluth's principal street
would convince tho moBt Hkeptical that 1t will
remain lloro, though twenty thousand Jay
Cookies Rhorld go up. Tho Duluth man Is diff
forent from any other man in tho world speak
Of thom III the singular number, for every man.
woman, child, Indian, and half-brood, In Duluth,
arc ono aud tho same ION tho subject Of Duluth's
grontnoas). Tho Duluth man is not solllBh
he iB not misorly he giveth liborolly to charity
aud churches. But, for vanity,-puro unadul-
toratod ''blow,"-in hope, living paraphrase Of
Ca1npbons apoAtropho,-tho Duluth man
stands pre-ominont. Baid Armand: "Paris is
France" 'YeB," aaid Camille ''but Franco Is
not Paris" Outside of Duluth there is no
Minnesota. Ono Of tho first useu met was
atate Senator Graves "Ahl" said the modest
Senator, "what wonderful city wo havo, cir II
And tho1e ho stood in front Of glowing an-
thracito-furnaco,-in tho middle Of what, In
civilization. Is mollow, golden autumn,-and
wolidorinGly inquired of mo
WHY THOUGHT IT CoLDl
Duluth is just q littlo too far north for Sep
so, sombor y weathor; It's people. however don;
IT, certainly no one else should complain. On
CHI faip rbcso S g. Ra lsssy ay wo ss unaa sa %
brcod pronunciation: s'DufFor." 1Io Ind
boon to st. Paul for the first timo: Through
tho aid Of his daughter, eomoy Looking sqnaw,
big. Dulnth-he much big-magnifique !"
Wien Indians award tho palm Of superiority Of
Duluth over st. Paul, no wonder Graves is
gravely sincere.
Duluth is wonderful city, aud I would not
sock to disparagc 1t. And, on my. questioning
itH loading mon, was rollly glad to be con-
vinced TINT tho present embarrassment of tho
Northern, Pacific Company doea not In tho loast
iy toward tho future. Fortunately for tho
financial prosperity Of Dnlutl,- and very con-
trary to gonoral aurmiao Jay Cooke / Co. wore
ONLY nEMoTELY CONNECTED
with It. The only direct moneyed interest tho
fallen firm had harc was subscription Of
$4,000 toward the hlast~furnaco, of which 85
per cont has boon paid in. OF tho three banks
hero, only ono Of them lad correspondence with
Jay Cooke 4 Co., aud that ono will loae no more
Aa medium OF communication between Du-
luth and St. Paul. tho
LAKE SUPERIOR & M1ss1ssrrp1 BRANCH
Of the Northern Pacific III valuable. But for
any local bueinoss, beyond tho frat thirty n,iles
this aide Of St. Paul, should say the building
Of tho road Was 4 grand mistako. From P,uo
City to Thompson Junction. the line ruus
through . most deHolate and forbidding country,
"a country that can never be made productive,
even aftor, In yeara to como, It bo donuded Of
ita inferior timber. Hour after hour tho train
speeds along (for tho road is we'll built and tho
nothing is presented to tho view but tic ghostly
trunks Of tho birch, and the linarled, knotty
| limbs Of the scrub-piue, At Thompson juno
ton, &c miles from Duluth, tho main limo Of tho
| Northern Pacific iH reaciled; and another quar-
ter Of mile opens to the yiow tho grand scenery
OF the
ST. LOUIS RIVER DALLEs.
Tho river, itself an insignificant stream,
sna Maa'es esuOng esps Of 'an qsIsa sso xass
deposits q boulders Dcc, VIZ lav,nes d'tp lead Off
from tho river, aud aerosa .aese, by bridges 300
feet long and 150 foet high, the track III built-
rendering tic road perfectly snto. Nowhere
In the United States, Outside of the Lake Supo-
rior region, are there such awo-insplring re-
minuGrH OF that great volcanic period which at
one timo convulUed our continent, than In the
Dalles Of the st. Louis River. Tho gloomy rido
before tho DaieB nre reRchod ftH tho mind for
indulgng In waking droams aud then, when
the Da1les burnt Oh the sight with a speed OF 81
miles nn hour,
ruB 1MAo1NAr1oN PLAYS wASToS.
I gave rein to fancy. In tho shade Of yondor
ovcrnangfng cliR stalked great Leptothorium,
etolidly gazing into tho cayornous depths; fur.
down tho gorge, tho Mosicotheriu1n awkwardly
ga,nbolod; whilo from overy ravino pachvlor-
matusee sta1od up in wonderment at tic strange
monster who rllmblingly broke In upon their
! solitude. lIhus fur had got in this handsome
style, when o prayor-meoting broke out III
room of the hotel nsar mo, and-I come buck to
poetic Duluth aud tho prosy Northern Pacifo.J
To-day met the pay-oGr Of tho Northern
Pacific Company. Tho Fnymastor WAS diaburs-
ing to employees for the mouth OF August. It
aeoms tlat under tho administration Of C. W.
Mead, tho Company has boon able to ocononize
mud to
nE-E8TAnL1su ITS CREDIT.
deneral-Managor Mead has done good work,
| aud deserves prRiHo. Another reason which
operated favorably to the finances OF tho road
~, that this season no large bills for conBtruc-
ti0n have boon created. Since the road reached
the Missouri River, expenses have been limited
to actual employees, supply-agentB, and REPAIRS
Tomorrow leave for Brainerd tho head
quarters OF the main limo, and shall fortify nv
self with statistics. For tho present, enough Of
Duluth. p1uoo1oy.
The Volcano OF NIn,lnn Lon.
From the Haleaitan Gazeite Sept o.
This lofty volcano IL burning RH brilliantly now
aa m TIM Dirht ,ghnn II bl1rst firth Ian p ~