The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-12-23
The Times.
SUPERIOR. SATURDAY. DEC. %, 1876.
sALUrAToRY.


this being the first issue under the
new administration. The paper
will hereafter be conducted by
Thomas and James Bardon, under
the immediate management OF the
latter, while the former will contrib
ute to its columns from his home IN
Ashland, or wherever his business
may call him.
It will be the aim of the publish
ers 10 m Ike a paper of pariic Mar
interest to home readers and those
directly concerned in the welfare of
this Northwestern country; to note
and discuss questions relative to
local affairs to advocate an honest,
iudicious and conservative admins
trasion of town and county gov
eminent, low taxation and no unfair
determinations between resident
and nonresident owners In any
matter; in fact, to make the
TINES valued weekly visitor to
every family in the neighborhood,
to the hundreds of our former citi-
Gems residing abroad, to every man
who owns a lot or an acre here,
to every man who has his eye on
this country as his ideal of home
some day in the great West.
While the welfare of Superior
shall be paramount, the TINES will
be the advocate and friend of every
measure locking to the benefit OF
bayfield,, Ashland, Duluth and all
our sister towns-where such meas
ures are not antagonistic to Supe-
rior-belleving that it is an insane
policy to endeavor to build up our
town by pulling down those around
us. Supported, as Superior is, by
natural advantages inferior to no
other place in the West, at the
head of the great water system of
the country, with perfect, capa-
cious land locked harbor, a site un
surpassed for city, an easy access
to the broad wheat area of the
West and Northwest, and a wealthy
proprietorship, if the place cannot
stand upon her merits and hold her
own in the competition for business
and growth, then she deserves to
fill behind. Her day of prosperity
may not be as distant as some i'm
agine; the TINES firmly believes
that she will yet justify the predic-
tions of those who founded her
over twenty years ago and have
since stood by her with unfalterlng
faith, and that some day in the
near future her light will be the
brightest to greet the mar ner on
this Lake Superior coast.
The TIMES will give special con-
Germ to the railroad prospects OF
Superior, and although the subject
has been worn threadbare in dis
cussion, and some thousands of
miles built in imagination, yet its
importance is so vital that it should
be tenaciously kept alive. The
Wisconsin Central, the road that is
to be the main artery between the
Northern Pacific Railroad aud the
East, is now all but completed TO
Ashland, and next year will no
doubt witness it's engineers tran
sits pointed towards Superior, to be
followed speedily by the sound of
the axe, the thud of the pick, the
din of the sledge, the whistle OF
the locomotive. The North Wis
oonsin Railroad, initiating in the
fertile valley of the St. Croix and
aiming to strike our lake at two
points, is by heroic efforts marching
towards us, and its timetable may
appear in the TIMES much carrier
than the most sangulne reader i'm
AGNES. And the cars of the great
continental highway, the Northe n
Pacific, when that road shall be
completed from Portland to Puget
Sound, will crowd our docks and
side track, discharging for the East
and receiving for the West. These
and other roads will, inevitably, in
the current course OF events, larry
and do business at this point; and
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