The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-06-04

THE travelling correspondent OF
the Pioneer Press, Mr.. j. IL Ham
son, visited our town last week and
here is what he says in that paper
of Monday last:
AFTER a BRISK RUN,
cur tiny craft reached the decaycd old dock
at Superior City, but We found that a n. ~
covering had been substituted for the old
planks which had laid unused and rotting
for more than decade of years. We
climbed up the modest blaff, and found our.
selves IN town CT ample proportions as
regards buildings, but lacking teri IDLY in
population. Ihe town is locasSd on what
would seem to be natural prairie, il it were
lot for the pine stuaaps visible here and
there, which showed that it had once been
covered with pine forest Ii is most ex-
cellent site for town, tile land h aying
a scarcely perceptible slope toward the bay
As long ago AS 1854 the site was selected
and the town plated, the company who pro-
jected it consisting Of n.en OF the best class,
and credited with possessing most excellent
judgment
THERE WERE SuCH MEN
as 1uoutdS OcCIt -NciSOl, lions I'M.
and Edmund Rice, Col. Banning and others
of equally high character. Their confidence
III the location cannot be wondered at, when
we consider the advantage of the splendid
sheltered harbor in front with room tor
miles OF docks; the many spacious bays for
natural log booms the deep Nemadji river,
where a large cralt can float; the many sizes
for saw mills and the inexhaustible supply
Nf bn oli
Then the remarkable St. Louis RIVER at the
back, with lis current flowing thr u.,h the
bay. and thence th,ougha natural channel
to the lake. a place with one hall the ad-
yantages would be considered sure thing
by town iocaters at the present day.
People same, houses were built, lots sold
high, and many We're held SO high that No
| body would bay them, but the traoe came
not. Prosperity deserted the village and
the people scattered. An attempt to iufuse
new he into the town alb Ut 1870 proved
abOrtIve' A little hutter OF lie sls ryluent.
but relapse followed and the town eaAk
into another long nap.
| sauntered through the village, past
stores whose windows had long been boarded
up, by great hotel lonely and deserted.
On every side "ere houses whose bIackened
weather beaten sides, 18th windows devoid
OF sashes, looked like skulis with gaping,
empty eye-sOckets. There, six blocks back
stands great two story school house, vita
battered windows aud decayed s.is. Fo.
years the merry voice of chiiGrcn, or the
clatter of the WARNING bell has not been
head there. Decay Is OH everv side. Houses
have settled cut Ol shape, Sidewalks, scarcely
worn by the feet ot man, have been eaten
by the rot OF ages, duu all around is such n
dreary desoiaylon that one experiences such
feelings OF sadness as overcome nlm IN al.
old churchyard among tha iuoss grow ii
stones. but TIE sadness would muc,d t
deep AID dark huJ or the SuuSAime OF hb:.c,
the certainty 0; nc aud COM rIeic tcsulrc,-
itch TIA: giaidGns a,.u itghtlns thc hcarIs
oi The Residents. iheJ Sc tl2her iueuIc,
and alrcady are tioy iuUing OF ,icir iestlyc
robe.
y hen il was leaned that the Northern
PaclnG railroad was ulteuImg to build east.
maru, the osucrs OF the town met ald voted
70 offer thc company tai! one InItd OF TIE
plated village II they would raIld the ROAD
TO superior City tGIs year. lac gift coYcrs
1900 acres, ana includes 200 acres OF water
front, most admirably located for dcpots,
Yards, freight houses ami duckagc. Besides
there is aGaed q large amount of property
Ill the county.