The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1875-09-09

planted on the 2Ottl OF June last
beat that who can.
Having enjoyed very pleasant
walk and failing to find the Times
editor at home, he being, as we
were informed, at neighbours en-
gagged III little croqnet, We We're
steered back 10 the boat and were
steered out through the Superior
Harbor entry and returned to Du-
luth by what is called the outside
route--or up the lake.
70 say it was p IeaSant trip does
not begin to express it, but as
we are ma bic to do the matter us
tice, we viii not attempt it farther.
Every thing that could be done
to make the time pass pleasantly
was done by Capt. Edwards, and
not little of his time was engaged
in answering our questions about
the quaint old city he is a resident
Of, and its prospects, etc, from
which we gathered something like
the 1OllOWlng:
SUPERIOR CITY
is at present laying on her oars, and
ike Brainerd her brightest days are
in the future, and depend
ent upon the progress OF the
Northern Pacific railroad; for that
Superior City will at no distant day
be the lake terminus of that great
transcontinental thoroughfare, is u
more than moral certainty. 1t is
confidently expected by those who
are interested in the place, and is
the one great dread of her rival,
Duluth.
Her claims are not groundless, or
of light weight, as the people Of
her neighhor town try to induce
themselves to believe, but are
based upon facts of a peculiarly stub
born breed, such, for instance, rs
the fact that six million acres of
land are held by Government to be
transferred to the Northern Pacific
railroad company when they have
made their terminus on Lake Supe-
rior, which they long since would
have awaited themselves of if Du-
lnlh is To be their terminus, as the
necessary coalition with the l.. S.
Il NJ. II. r. Co, whose road they
now use from the Junction to Du-
luth, could long since have been ar
ranged. but the n. =. is intended to
run to Superior City, and thence at
some future time down the Lake to
intersect the route leading to Chi
cago for an all rail route east.
Again, those trest|es on the l.. S.
e NJ. route to Duluth VIII soon have
to be rebuilt, and it is the opinion
Of competent engineers and railroad
men that it will cost more to keep
them in repair than to fill up the
ravines over which they are built,
and which alone will cost more
than to build the proposed road
from the Junction to Superior City.
And again tor the name of these
grounds is legion), Superior City
has a beautiful and natural harbor,
which Duluth has not, and its equal
exists nowhere else on the Lake.
She has wharfage room not less
than six or seven miles in length,
while Duluth has not a mile, and is
alre ady cramped for room.
Superior is located on beautiful
level plateau, about ten miles long
10y fonr or five miles deep, while
Duluth is crowded up on a side bin,
winch lies at an angle of about A.
degrees.
1t may be said in argument for
Duluth that it is in this State, and
should receive our support III this
matter, but steps have already been
taken by the people Of the vicinity
OF Superior City to have two or
three counties of Wisconsin, in
GLIDING Superior City, annexed to
Mnne>ota,as being more CON
tignouS territory to Minnesota than
Wisconsin proper. And last, but
not least, Duluth has IN her frantic
vndeavors to outStrlp Superior
burdened herself by a debt that
is simply enormous, away up, 1t we
mistake not, III the mill, Ms, and