The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-16

1t was discovered that in engross-
ing the bill for the land grant of
the Nebraska & Lake Superior
Railroad an "or" had been changed
into an "and," and the land grant
thus doubled. Fraud was charged,
and the aml grant repealed. The
panic of 1857 fell. Superior's tide
| of fortune ebbed as rapidly as it
had risen. Hundreds of people left
i'll the fall of 1857. Many who cam e
with thousands of dollars had to
BEG THEIR PASSAGE
back to their homes. Many. prob
ably most of those who remained,
staid because el,ey had to. They
We're stuck. by 1860 the popula-
ton had run down to 400. Among
those who staid was MIR. James
Bardon, now editing the Superior
TIMES. The day that the Willard
party visited Superior was the
twenty,fourth anniversary of his ar
rival there July 6, 1857. Dreary
years followed, and it is not to be
wondered at that one of "ths old
inhabitants" said the other day that
his had been "a life badly spent"
The Superior Land Company dis
solved, the land was divided in fee
simple, and the metropolis went
into sevcn.ysars' sleep. Again the
tide began To rise. In 1868 jay
Cooke and J. Edgar Thomson, of
the Pacific Road, were building the
ot. Paul & Duluth. They wanted
to find their outlet at Superior City,
but the properly owners. sure that
no other place than theirs could be
taken, refused 10 make the conces-
slons Jay Cooke and his associates
wanted. 1t was fatal mistake, and
out of it came Duluth, which Jay
Cooke planted on the hillside eight
miles from Superior in the
FACE OF EVERY NATURAL DIsADvANT-
Supcrior's hopes of metropolitan
grandeur died again. They rose to
another bitter disappointment in
1872. Jay Cooke was coming with
his great Banana Belt line, the
Northern Pacific, and the Wal
bridges, of Toledo, projected line
TO meet 1t At Thomson, thirty miles
from Duluth. A roadway was
graded, but down came the panic
of 1873, aud financial hight de-
scended once more over the GUY To
be. They have been hard days
population in i few houses, living
10y farming, and by eating taxes
levied Oh The nonresident property
owners, kept guard over the site.
II WAS al they had. They remain
cd firm in their faith that the day
would dawn when some railroad
General would have to put his base
ot support At this point. Their
faces have been thinne,l and their
forms strained by hard times.
There is but one fat man in Su-
perior, and he is not healthy. The
men that met NIr. Viilnrd were of
good stock from New York, Penn
sylvania, Kentucky. The largest
building III town is
THE sCHoOL.HOUSE.
The citizens never got to poor to
educate their children.
A large owner of Superior real
estate let it go two years ago for
taxes. He lost heart at just the
wrong momsnt. The property will
within very few years be worth
800, 900, according to the estimate
of one Of those who know best
what is to be done. At last Su-
perior City's day has come, and the
prescience of those who first pitch
ed upon it, and Of those who have
held the fort ever since, is vindicat-
ed. The town owuers have given
the Northern Pacific onc-third of
all the land in Superior, amounting
10 $500 acres,
WITH TWO MILES OF WATER FRONT.
The Northern Pacific will at once
continue their main line from
Thomson to Superior. Thirty miles
have been put under contract, and,
when the road is finished in Sept
emb,r next, the Northern Pacific
will for the first time have a line OF
its own to Lake Superior. Arrange
,nents have also been made
TO BUILD A BRANCH
between Superior City and Duluth
over Rice and Corners points,
bridging The arm of the bay be-
tween them. Railroad men will
know what this new move means,
when they are informed that the
grades from Duluth reach eighty
two feet TO the mile, while from
Superior they have a maximum OF
only twenty eight feet to the mile
Every ounce OF freight that comes
up Lake Superior for the West
will be broken by the railroad at
Superior. Everything that Duluth
has to ship west by the Northern
Tactic will go by the branch line
over Rice's Point to Superior, and
SO West. All the forces of nature
fight for twenty eight-ieet grades
against eIohty-two. feet grades.
Duluth will live and grow. It's
elevators, buildings, docks, and
treafs ara Eyed canttal th a, will ba