The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-03-14

Alexander Paul was succeeded
by Messrs. p. E. Bradshaw & Co.,
who have kept up general Indian
trade as well as general assert
ment for all sorts of buyers. J. D.
Howard and H. M. Peyton employ
ed large number of residents by
getting out and disposing of lumber
D. Schultz and Y. Roy, by close
application to business, have from
small beginnings, well demonstrated
the character of successful mer-
chants. X. &. Coburn, for industry
in the management of an extended
business, numbering, shipping, and
affording employment to laborers
and mechanics, viii ever be regard
ed as one Of the supports of the
town. August Zachau's store Of all
sorts of goods has proved alike ben
eficial to his customers and himself.
| Owen Sheridan-the successor Of
the late John NJ. Newton-contin-
ued the hardware establishment, and
this latter business was also follow
ed by Il. w. French, now of Ash
land.
The pursuits, as numbering, fish
ing and mining by James Edwards
and J. 0. Sargent, gave to Superior
business character, and kept up a
/ lake commerce and overland trade
with the productive valleys of the
Mississippi and St. Croix no
small item of the latter was the cat
tie trade, amounting to nearly a
thousand head annually-chiefly by
Fl. w. Shaw, whose market was at
the mining towns down the Lake.
From what may be called the ru-
ms of 1857 dozen men at Superior
| have maintained trade and com
merce at the head of the lake, aver
aging little if any less than a quar-
ter of a million dollars annually. By
county subsidy and voluntary con-
tribution, a hundred thousand dol
lars have been expended in inprov-
ing team roads; no small portion of
which was applied to roads in Min
nesota; but, for this last devotion,
the people of Superior ought to re-
greet that less had not been done,
and more for a good wagon road
direct to the St. CroiX valley.
This persistent energy attracted
constant scheming for railway
connection with the Mississippi and
St. Croix valleys; not a whole year
passed without some demonstration
Three or four reorganization of the
St. Croix and Lake Superior Com
pany were had; the route was loca-
ted and the land grant plated upon
the maps and withheld to this day
from market. The history of all
these schemes and the biography of
the schemers would be as valueless
in print as are the corruption
bonds which doomed the grant
/ to become the object of buffoon cry
by a Proctor Knott The truth is.
the people of Superior, Ashland and
Bayfield, never heartily united in
the support of common project to
have the road constructed. In the
st. Croix valley, until quite recent
ly, the surplus product was INSULT
cient to invite capital to engage in
the enterprise The grant remains,
as it should, until we have a legisla-
ture comprehending the true policy
for the Northwest quarter OF the
State. Every effort to defeat the
original object of Congress has fail
ed, except to delay.
SO soon as Minnesota began to
produce surplus, the demand for
cheap expectation was listened to
in that States Legislature. Her av-
erage wheat field is a hundred miles
nearer Lake Superior than to Lake
Michigan to this fact is due the
construction Of the Lake Superior
and Mississippi Railway, which was
open for traffic August lst, 1870. 1t.
transpres, however, that one road
and one lake port do not meet the
expected result this one road has
only modified the evil of extortion,
but when the system designed by
the munificence of Congress for the
st. Croix valley and Wisconsin's
Lake Superior counties shall be &C.
complished, capital and competition
viii solve the problem and give