The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-03-13
THE 81. PAUL PRESS


a Correspondent 1akss Escepeion
to tie C6sese or that Pdper IN
Regard to ess Had ef tAe Lahe.
EDITORS TINES
Herculaneum and Pompeii were
buried A. d. 70 in the ashes Of We
suvius. Sodon vas extinguished
somewhst earlier and other great
Assyrisss eities have left no
certain max Of yh.re they were.
So the rqias of Central America
aisest the h%u plspes Of people long
perished sed noivs uHaam.ble; al
which is very melancholy iand ..d
to think Of. Have We = m$dern and
ccstemporaneoss instance Of
oblivion fatal - aay abSRs men
toned, though not attended with
all the tragicsl circumstances of de-
struc,ion which histor- records Of
some of the ancient cataclysms?
According to The st Paul Press
we have just sach q case. Take
one Of its articles Of March 7th,
headed "North Wisconsin Rail-
way, from which we quote:
A general feeling of anxiety is
expressed a. to the effect which the
failure Of the st. Crots and Bay
field extension bill to pass Congress
will have upon the fortunes OF the
North Wisconsin.
The Supreme Court Of the Unit
ed States lately came to the rescue
of the Bayfield, grant,
How studiously that paper always
ignores the name Of Superior, when
ever mention is made of this end Of
Lake Superior and vicinity! Ev-
erybody except The Press, knows
that the land grant, in terms, ex-
tends "to Superior and to Bayfield,.
Why this attempt TO damn by onis-
sion? Can the editor tell? How
much of it is due to spite and spleen
towards the one place, and how
much to personal interest in the
other? Or il it to be accounted
for on another theory, to-wit:
that some town up here, will one
day. attain to- too much import
ance for the commercial saiety of
St. Paul, = danger to be avoided by
dividing and scattering the strength
of the Lake all along It's coast line,
and making half dozen little, weak
towns in place of ore, populous
and vigorous.
And here may be r,marked the
never-to-be-forgiven mistake that
was made in maintaining the Mill
ary road for 30 many years, At a
cost to this county Of tens Of thou
sands Of dollars road running
almost entirely through Minnesota,
and which made US the hangers-on
and dependents Of St Paul, place
a. alien to us nj sympathy as it is
foreign in situation. And to this
day we pass in and out through St.
Paul, sojouru there, spend our sub
stance there, take the color Of the
days intelligence from her news
papers, and get our pay for our
folly in the silent contempt OF their
columns
; Had the wagon read been main-
tanned within or own State, the
railroad to Hud son would have fol-
lowed long since, and all the dis
puted questions that have ensued,
would have been merged and set
tied in the existence of one success
full and busy town It Superior, big
enough and able to command first
class notice from even such power
as The st. Paul Press.
Again: ~
"This, (the North Wisconsin, is
the present designation Of the road,
which is destined 20 extend from
Hudson to Bayfield,, which will
eventually become the St ST. Croix
4 Bayfield, Railroad, and which
will afford by way OF the lake new,
independent, cheap and more direct
inlet for merchandise for consump-
tion in the Northwest, than any
route yet in existence or yet con-
templsted.
From Hudson to. Superior air
line) it is I2s miles; air line, Hudson
to Bayfield,, $50 miles; difference,
30 miles. Bayfield, is some 80 miles
east Of Superior by water.
In whose favor are these differ
ences, and what is eighty miles Of
navigation compared with near
forty miles OF railroading? But
these figures are stated with refer.
ence to the geographical point of
St. Paul. How about the "North.