The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1878-02-09
TIE DULUTH AND WINNIPEG RAIL
Road COMPANY.

ROAD COMPANY.
a company under the above name
has been recently organized, with a
capital stock of four millions of dol
lars, and the articles of incorpora-
ton filed in the Secretary Of States
office at St. Paul and published in
the St. Paul Dispatch. The incor-
porators are W. w. Spalding, A.
NJ. Miller, John c. Hunter, r.. c..
Mitchell, \. J. Sawyer, Il NJ. Pey-
ton, ali Of Duluth, Mimi, and James
Bardou, OF Superior, Wis. The
officers are w. w. Spalding Presi-
dent, John C. Hunter Vice Presi-
dent, II. NJ. Peyton Treasurer,
James Bardon Secretary.
The object OF the corporation is
to build a railroad to run from Du-
luth il northwestcrly direction to
the northern boundary line Of Min
nesota between Red River and the
Lake Of the Woods it being eX-
pected that The Canadians will build
between the point Of intersection
on the boundary and the city of
| Winnipeg. The distance from the
head OF Lake Superior to the north
ern boundary, through Minnesota
soil is 225 miles thence to Winni-
peg, through Canadian territory, 90
miles, in all 29O mlles-for practi-
cal purposes say 800 miles. AS
compared with other lines it makes
the distance from Like Superior TO
Winnipeg fully $50 miles shorter
than via. the Northern Pacific and
St. Vincent roads, and actually sixty
to seventy miles less thar by the
Canadian Pacific "a located from
Thunder Bay. In Minnesota the
line runs nearly the entire distance
through an unbroken wilderness,
Ircputed rich in timber, minerals and
agricultural soil; in Manitoba it
traycrscs a rich and rapidly settling
prairie country.
/ This proposed line is practically
an extension Of the Wisconsin Cen
trail railroad into the fast growing
and productive agricultural prov
ince Of Manitoba. A glance at the
map will show that line laid down
with one end resting on Chicago or
/ Milwaukee, and the other on Win
nipeg, will, with very slight defec-
tons, pass through Ashland, Supe-
rior and Duluth, and if projected in
the same general direction for 200
miles beyond Winnipeg, would
simply follow the located line Of the
Canadian Pacific to North Cote,
from whence that road takes its
westerly course to the Pacific.
The building Of the road would
open to the markets of Lakes Supe-
rior and Michigan, by the shortest
possible route, the great wheat
fields OF the Northwest, including
those of the Saskatchewan, as well
as all the business incident to half a
million of sturdy settlers in Mani
/ toba, and its capital city Of Wmni-
peg with a population of 5000 in
terprising citizens; and while afford
ing the Canadians better and
shorter route between the disiointed
sections of the Dominion than any
that can be secured running entirely
through their own territory, it would
at the same time have an important
influence in solving the problem Of
an "eastern outlet in winter for
this country, by Fastening the build
ing of road along the south shore
TO tie Saul and the Straits Of
Mackinaw, as well as the compile
ton of tina. section of the Wisconsin
Central between Ashland and Supe
rior
That the scheme is possessed of
considerable merit is quite apparent,
even upon casual examination Of
the situation, and it viii occur to
many that if ever project Of its
kind deserved state and govern