The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-02-14

Guilty in passing through, and the
passage is deemed so dangerous
that in dark nights the ferry some
times will not run; while there is
still nearly a mile of dyke stretching
across the bay at IA height of from
one to three feet above the water,
and which has not been interfered
with by the parties who put it there,
except by taking off it the iron rails
which formed the track for the cars.
Indeed so far is it from being re-
moved, that the authorities of Du-
luth have considered the question of
leasing OF selling dock privileges ex-
tending both ways from the dyke,
TO reimburse the city treasury tor
the outlay in constructing it.
The good faith of the president of
the North Pacific Co. upon which
Gov. Washburn lays some stress,
we may comment on at future
time; we cannot today afford the
space to fully treat Of that and the
subject which seems to claim our
notice now.
Waving then in this discussion
the moral apothegm that cit is al
ways expedient to do right" and
giving to Gov. WashbuIn (within
state lines) the fullest benefit of the
political axiom that the adjustment
which will satisfy the greatest mum
Der is expedient, we do not hesitate
to pronounce bis settlement incXpe-
dent as well as illegal.
Twenty years ago last summer,
while yet the whole Of the territory
extending from the mouth Of the St.
Louis river to the Canadian bound
AIRY on Lake Superior, and thence
along the national boundary to Penn
bina, and thence sooth to or above
TT. Abercrombie on the Red River,
and thence by devious line east
ward across the Mississippi o Fond
du Lac Oh the lett bank Of the SAINT
Louis, thence down the St. Louis to
its mouth, was Indian territory not
yet coded to the United States; a
number OF people attracted by the
beauty of its site, and the advanta-
ges OF its position, settled at and
near the mouth Of the St. Louis riv-
er IN Wisconsin, with the avowed
determination to make there a home
and city of mark.
The chart by which some OF us
sailed over the then comparatively
unknown waters OF Lake Superior,
showed Us that since 1922 the en-
trance to the St. Louis had remain
ed substantially unchanged, and
that there was sufficiency Of water
in he channel of entrance, although
somewhat crooked, for the largest
class Of boats, and the harbor when
attained completely land-Iocked,
safe, compodious and Of capacity
sufficient to protect the shipping of
nation, maintained constantly by
the current outflow Of the s.. Louis.
The approach lakeward to the mouth
Of the river was not endangered by
rocks, but was bounded by a long
sandy beach of miles in extent, upon
which if a vessel should be forced,
there need be no peril to lite, aud
perhaps no injury to vessel
4 narrow spit of sand formed by
the ceaseIess action Of the waves Of
the Lake against the current Of the
river during countless ages, formed
the protection against Lake storms.
While a plateau rising 30 to 80 feet
above the river, surrounded except
a narrow strip, by the navigabIe
waters Of the Pokegama, St. Louis
and Nemadji rivers, extended by
easy and gradual ascent to and
across the divide between the St.
Lawrence and the Gulf Of Mexico.
inviting inspection, Improvement
and settlement. The waters Of the
st. Louis, Nemadji, AlIouez and Po-
kegama rivers discharged into the
spacious bays of st. Louis and Su-
perior and sought their common
level in the waters of Lake Superior
through the common mouth known
as St. Louis entry.
This entry with the St. Louis river
to the foot of the first rapids formed
the boundary between the State of
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