The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-01-29
Who's Stirring up III Feelings

leading owners of propert. IN SUI
perior proposed to the Northern
Pacific Railroad Company that II
the company, III extending its line
.astw ard through Wiscou sin, would
run us main line, or bnild branch
line, 10 the Bay OF Superior within
the original town of Superior, they,
the said owners, would secure 10
the company donation Of one
third OF the town, or about 1000
acre, OF land in lots and blocks.
After considerable negotiation the
Company on December lG last
formally accepted the offer; which
WAS conditioned that they get the
property it they build the rod dur
ny 1881.
The Mp Co., immc diately pm,
a corps ot engineers in The lie d TO
locate tho line eastward from Thorn
son Junction, aBd it was commonly
un,erstood that the line would run
through Superior, or south OF the
town some distance, according he
the best roHte might be found.
Duluth in the meantime, or quite
IN element in Duluth, was looking
on With jealous eyes tearing that
the Mp. road was going to cut
loose from their town aud tie to
Supc:.or,b but they kept thetr anxiety
quiet with the hope that Superior
would make failure OF this scheme
rs in the case OF most former Oncs.
Still, as time progressed, and the
SURVEYORS advanced towards Super
Tor it began 10 dawn upon the
benightcd vision Of the Dululhians
that perhaps, after all, there WAS
something in the scheme that the
road was really going mo Super
ior Then they, or few OF their
friends, went 10 work md secured
n few hundred acres OF land OH and
near the St. Louis Bay, OH the main
shore about a mile west Of the 81.
Louis entry and i've miles north OF
the mouth OF the Nemadji, with
the ;dea, IS we understand il, OF
offering the p. Go. I portion of
the land, AMI getting lhe company
10 make that the point on the Wis
consin shore, aud 10 cross tho S..
Louis Bay from there 10 Rlces
Poiut III DnIuth by long pile
bridge thus buildiug up new
town TO HE north Of IL 10 be called
South Du'uth, and making the y.
=. road tributary 10 that point and
TO the original Duluth Itself. All
This time statements were going on
from Duluih by telegraph and
through one OF The paper, NJ least,
that The main Inc Of the \ z. would
run ten or more miles south Of
Superior They really knew no.
thing as 10 where it woald run, Cor
that Is matter yet to be
decided by the surveys but
evidently wished it would run
al least ten miles south, IN the child
ISL hope that it would keep far
enough away from Superior TO be
no hoip to tie place.
Those Interested in Superior
have no, been blind or asleep lately
and could see and readily understand
all these things.
Two years ago Superior united
with Duluth in asking Congress tor
an appropriation TO survey the har-
Dor at the head Of Lake Superior
and lay out = permanent plan COR
the same. The St. Paul CONNER
DIAL convention endorsed the APP
p!ioa;ion. The appropriation was
made, and the survey under It was
carefully msdo and reported on
over year ago. The Duluth
Chamber of Commerce. laborinG
evidently under the delHs.on that
there was no locality 1t tho head of
the lake but Duluth, and 40 harbor
but the upper end Of the bay, in
December last passed a re-
solution requesting Hon. Alex.
Ramsey, Secretary Of War, 10 ap-
point under the said act of Congress,
board of Us. Engineers TO ex-
anime and report on plan tor the
harbor Of DULUTH, mind you,
Duluth only. 4 few citizens OF
Superior on seeing this selfish &C
ton Immediately addressed polite
letter to the Hon. Secretary of " ar,
calling his a;tcntion to the fact that
Wisconsin VAS interested in the
harbor here rs we'll as Minnesota,
and that the Act of Congress refer
red 10 the whole harbor, ard request