Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-12
MINNESOTA,S LAKE PORT.

Duluth q Growing Cisy-New Business En-
terprIses There-Prospects of the City's
Future.
reporter for the GLOBE caught in a bunch
at the Metropolitan, Saturday evening, Hon. @.
d. Graves and Messrs. r. s. Munger and G.
Markell, of Duluth, and held them for a talk,
out Of which he collected number of inter-
esting facts relating to business prospects at
Duluth. They show that Duluth is having its
share of the present tidal wave of prosperity
and is assured a rapid development which will
soon place it among the most important of the
lake clties-a place which all men of Judgment
have conceded that the only lake port of the
New Northwest must sooner or later obtain.
Messrs. Graves and Munger have just re-
turned from the East where they have COM
pleted their arrangements for erecting the new
grain elevator, to the site of which the North
ern Pacific and St. Paul & Duluth railroad COM
panies are preparing to extend spur tracks.
This elevator will be the largest in the North
west having a storage capacity of l,O0O,UUU
bushels, and will have all the approved appli-
ances for handling grain and expeditiug its
transfer. The architect and constructor is MIR.
]. F. Moulton, of Chicago. the architect and
constructor of the Buckingham elevator in Chi
cago and the Vanderbilt elevator in New York.
Another very important Duluth project, and
also an assured one, is
THE IRON FURNACE,
which will be IN blast about the 1st of June
next. 1t will be adapted TO the latest and hest
methods in making charcoal iron and charcoal
kilns, to cost 1924 0O0 and turn out 4 600 bushels
of coal daily are to be erected early in the
spring for supplying the furnace-from which
it may be judged that the furnace will give
employment direct and indirect to a large
number of men. The ores, until iron
mines are opened and operated nearer by, will
be brought from the northern peninsula of
Michigan. There can be no doubt but that the
near by markets will take all the product of
this furnace, and that its location gives it
possession of the large field now supplied with
pig iron mainly by importations brought
through Duluth. Nor, considering the po-
sition of the city as to the iron mines of the
Superior region and as to the great developing
market of the New Northwest is it at all ex-
travagant to suppose that the one blast furnace
will be followed by Others and they by rolling
mills aud other iron working industries.
The railroad companies are building this
winter about fifteen hundred feet front of
docks, the business of last season having
shown a considerable deficiency of dock ROOM
Michigan capitalists have agreed to build at
Duluth, this year, ready for the wheat crop of
1880,
LARGE GRIsT MILL,
and another Michigan firm has engaged to
invest capital of $4,000 in building this
year large saw mill, which will be located at
Rice's Point. This same firm will also in
augurate the working of hard timber at Du-
luth by establishing large tub and pail fac
tory.
considerable number of residences are to
be built during the coming spring and summer
and among the builders of these will be Col.
Graves and George. Seven eight business
houses are also to be erected early in the
spring, all of which will be at once occupied
Some having already been engaged.
Among the new enterprises at Duluth worthy
of mention is Wicland q Co.'S tannery, which
was started about year ago, has met with
great success and promises to develop heavy
business in that line.
Cleveland steamboatmen are building several
new grain barges, steam vessels, to run in the
Duluth lines, which will be launched during
the spring and summer.
But, to cut long story short, it's enough to
say that Duluth has taken new start and is
having permanent as well as rapid growth
1t has a special field, as the Western outlet for
the mineral regions OF Lake Superior, in its
vast supplies of pine and hard timber and in
its advantages for -four mils-enough to lay
the foundations for and even maintain
a large city; while every season will now bring
large additions to its shipping business. We
believe Duluth has now reached that point of
progress which, besides holding out great in
ducements to judicious investors in manufac-
turing enterprises, is also guarantee of more
than ordinary security. There is no longer
place for doubt but that Duluth will share in
the growth of the New Northwest, ana in due
time be city of the first class in business,
wealth and population.