The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-01-16


canal, the largest body Of fresh wa
ter in the known world, the inner
most Lake by 800 miles, backed by
country equal to twenty States
OF great fertility, whose exports and
imports must 90 over said Lake; and
then the ineXhaustible beds of ore
along It's shores and the possibilities
of iron manufactures Of all sorts in
the West, the settlement ofthe East
ern slope Of the Rocky Mountains,
&c.
At Sheyenne the roai would in
tersect the Red river, connecting
with a whole world of navigation.
besides opening mp the garden spot
pr ercellence of all that region.
The Missouri would have been
crossed somewhat below Bismarck
thence the line was drawn, skirt
ing the Black His, to the South
Pass and across the mountains to
the Pacific coast.
That the route might unite all
the great natural points and forces
Of commerce, production, carrying
and manut acture, It was provided
that a branch should be sent out
from the trunk to the Wisconsin
Stare Line at TayIor'e Falls, or what
Is the same thing, to St Croix Falls.
NJ" Blake had been in consultation
with Caleb Gushing, the chief pro
prictor, in respect TO the improve
ment ofthat unequaIIed waterpower,
and sought by the plan Of his road,
10 avail of its snrpassing privileges,
and build up there the mauutactur-
me place which St. Anthony Falls
then aspirei TO and has since sue
eeeded in becoming.
Ample depot grounds were pur-
chased on St. Louis bay on the JVts-
consio side, Mr. Blake paying as high
as 500 per acre in and around what
is known as the School section-Scc.
Is, Town 40, r. il. Oneota, on
the opposite side, was to play the
r0le Of Jersey city, tracks being eX-
tended across the river at Grassy
Point. While the Eastern or Supe-
rior shore, in the cast of the play,
was to be the New York-the seat
Of Western Empire.
We have seen a mass of cores
poudence on this head from Mr.
Blake sufficient to compose a stable
volume if printed, but written in a
scrawl which 10 decipher would
confound the most skilled Of hero
grammatists. Yet the veteran pro
iector knew his subject, and his
head held with perfect clearncss
what his hand had not the steadi-
ness to render Ineligible with pen
and paper.
The fulflimant of these things, in
some particulars twenty years later
has been Witnessed, but not brought
about in the manner designed BY
the corporators of the Nebraska
charter. We 90 to Utah and Cali
toinia, bat not by way of Sheyenne.
We 90 to Sheyrnne, which is north
Of west of Us, but not 10y the Ne
braska and Lake Superior r. r.
Aud vet we ride to St Paul, a little
west of south, over a road evolved
from the old Nebraska franchise,
but by what right, occasions the
discussion of the learned Court. On
the 18th Of May 1853, Minnesota
became State, with constitution
which provides :" that no corporation
shall be formed under special acts
except for municipal purposes"
On the Sth of March 1861 the
State Legislature attempted to enact
an amendment of the Nebraska
charter 50 aS to read substantially
that Lyman Dayton q others, their
associates and successors, be constj-
tuted a corporation under the name
Of the Like Superior Il Mississippi
Il. X. Co., with power to build a
railroad IN Minnesota from tne west
end of said Lake to some point on
the Mississippi" Under this act
the road was constructed from Du-
luth to S.. Paul.
This was "new enterprise rad
ically aud essentially different from
that contemplated in the original
Nebraska act. The territorial caar-