The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-28


ton House, by A. c. Stockton, Geo.
+. Holcomb e Co., wholesale and
retail provisions, Nettleton 81 Cul-
yer, general merchandise, DR.. Mar
cellus, physician and surgeon, Au-
gust Zachau, builder, Geo. w. Lei
cester, carpenter and joiner, VIM.
Conner, blacksmith, John NJ New
ton, hardware and stoves, VIM. Ill.
Newton, real estate office and agen-
cy for the proprietors of Superior,
YIN. Geo. Cowell, lumber yard,
William Mann, saw mill on Nemad-
j river, "Laborers Wanted" by Ho-
race Saxton in charge of improve
ments, by O. w. Rice, contractor
on Point Douglas road, Bright &
Hayes, NJ w McCracken, attor-
neys at law, Sayton Lyon, Justice
of the Peace, Ira T. Holt saloon;
and each successive issue was look
ed for to know who else bad come
to add to the list.
Before midsummer Superior be-
came a fact, accepted, treated and
valued as such by capitalists to the
extent of their bank accounts; and
by fortune-hunters, to the elasticity
Of their credits initiation.
The St. Croix & Lake Superior
Railroad Company, whose stock
subscribers were celebrities among
politicians and capitalists of the
state, became fully organized with
Governor Barstow as President.
Col. Robert Patten, Chief Engi-
neer, went into the field with To-
eating corps from Hudson north
ward, while another party Of engi-
neers under Mr.. Clark, from Superb
or, located the northern division.
The whole route from Hudson to
Superior was carefully re-surveyed
and located, maps and profIes com
pleted and estimates made up ready
for examination and bids by CON
tractors.
A firm composed of experienced
railway contractors from Pennsylva-
MIA and New Jersey, Nessrs. Dillan,
Jackman, Jarrett & Co, took the
contract.
Under these auspices aud wide
spread influences, constantly multi
plying until the close of navigation,
the town had been visited by Jesse
d. Bright, John L. Dawson, John
G. Breckenridge, John w. Forney
William A. Richardson, James b.
Beck, Beriah Magoffin, Madame Ida
Pfifer and hundreds of like men and
women ofinhuence, intelligence, and
many Of them Of course became IN
VeStOrs.
Duiing the summer about one hun
dred buildings Of all sorts were fab
ricated, commodious warehouse,
two school houses and a e-pin
alley.
James \. MARYLAND was commits
stoned as County Judge, with civil
jurisdiction, Fredel lck J. W hittaker
succeeding the former as Register
of Deeds, and Washington Ashton
Clerk of the Courts, both County
and Circuit.
Thus established in repute and in
widespread interested parties, the
Congress of 1866 became APP
proachable for the est. Croix and
Superior Land Grant, "for the pur-
"pOse of aiding in the construction
"of a railroad from Madison or Co
" lumbus by way Of Portage City to
"the St. Croix river or lake, be
"tween townships twenty-five and
"thirty-one, and from thence to the
"west end of Lake Superior and to
"Bayfeld.o The bill for which was
approved June Sd 1856, and to be
in force ten years.
With these antecedents for SUI
perior and bayfield,, these notes
might close in the full belief that
with ordinary enterprise, the ensu-
ING decade would close over two
commercial towns of twenty or fifty
thousand Inhabitants each; but not
| so.
The winter of 1856 at Superior
was a social success. The road to
St. Paul was so far opened that
Denis Dean, p NJ, received and
distributed tri-weekly mail Pie
bian, suburban and urban bad but
one level-honesty. The gather
ings were not infrequent, pleasant
and polite. Dog trains furnished
the means for sleigh rides, the beanx,
ahead on foot to keep bose from run
ming away with their precious freight,
and he who had no dog tugged the
hand-sled and Miss or Mrs himself.
The winter was, for temperature
and pleasantness, much like this OF
1874. Larders became low, but
those who had little divided with
neighbors; the chase yielded but
little, but the skillful ones secured a
try" Through the ice.
The Rev. Joseph G Wilson was
the pioneer Congregationalist and
Rev. !. NJ. Barnett the first settled
Presbyterian clergyman; and the
latter's amiable sister the first school
teacher
The "prohibitory liquor law" was
enforced in person by Gen. Scarcity,
of Bourbon, Ky.-4shland Press.