The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-12-13

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The steam tug Siskowet, Capt.
! McLaren, still continues to make
regular trips between Duluth and
Prince ArJhu's Landing. She ar
rived on Thursday from the latter
point, several days behind time,
having been obliged to lay over
at Grand Marais during the heavy
snow storm. This navigating Of
Lake Superior in the winter season
is pretty risky business, and the
gallant Captain and his trustY crew
are really greater heroes than they
themselves or people generally
think they are.
The work on section A OF the
Canadian Pacific Railway has bcen
pushed forw ard wish all possible
rapidity by the Contractors, and in
a couple Of weeks the rails will be
laid as far as GuII River. Messrs.
Purcell & Co have 900 men en-
ployed, to whom they pay $3.50
each per day and have received
$4,000 worth Of supplies which
they calculate will put them
through till spring. Messrs. Ryan
and Ginty have gone home to their
families for the winter, while Mr..
Purcell remains here to oversee the
work.-Ii2. A. Landing Sentinel.
The Northern Pacific railroad
company have just let a contract to
r. S. Munger and Q. II. Graves, of
DRInth, TO bujld an elevator of one
million bushels capacity at Duluth.
Tits specified that the structure and
lis machinery are to be Of the
latest and mostapproycd character,
sUch as the New ! orll Central rail-
road co.1pany is now building on
the line Of its road. We under.
stand the elevator viii be built on
piles in the bay between the end
Of The Northern Pacific docks and
klces Point. Work viii be COM
menced on the foundation early in
January and the building complet-
ell by Sept. lst, 1880, IN time to
handle the wheat of that year. The
contractors have bound themselves
to erect two more elevators oi sim
liar capacity, one in 1882 and the
other in 1884, should lie railroad
company require it. Verify, things
are working, and there is no telling
when or where they may stop.
The proposed building of three
large elevators q, Duluth and the
making Of other heavy improve
monts in tho harbor and on land
there by the Northern Pacific rail
road company, to our mind. more
firmly fxes the practical terminus
Of their road at that point than any
thing heretofore developed. And
It's well. It's far better for Super
Tor to have the road come into
Duluth with It's trade and traffic
than to see It running easta ard
from Thomson on u line south Of
Superior ana Duluth. Go east, anI
before long too, the road must, and
once in DuiUth it can't very well do
that without coming over into Sup
crior via Rica's and Corners
Points. With i bridge between
those points aud a line OF road pas
sing down along the bay front, the
splendid and capacions harbor Of
Superior would be just as available
Tor business IS chat Of Durutb, and
with that harbor, our unequaIled
Size for city and low taxes if Sup
erior could not be abe to share
with Duluth the immense business
incident to the lake terminus Of this
. great continental highway, why.then,
We might as well giveup the town st
( once and say that our bright antici-
pa;ions Of the place for the past
twenty-five years have all been q
mistake
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