The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-01-14
WHAT STRANGERS SAY OF Us.

fed as to our future is fully set forth
from the following letter which he
sent TO his paper from this city under
date Of August 18th last. OF course
much Of that which he mentioned rs
III the future is now realized, but we
give the letter in his OWN language,
as the utterances of q stranger and
disintereated man:
We yesterday wrote from Duluth,
the mushroom city" on the opposite
side Of Superior Bay and Lake Su-
perior, eight miles from here. and
very naturally we have come here,
since this place now promises to be
GREAT city at the head of this grand
old lake. In company with Mr..
Albert b. Brady, an Intelligent young
gentleman, who is correspondent Of
the Northwestern News and Inter
State Press, of Davenport, Iowa,
whose acquaintance we made in the
cars on our way here, We crossed the
bay on 4 small steam propeller ferry
boat, passing near the wreck Of the
steamer Winnipeg, Of the Canadian
line from Duluth 10 Collingwood, on
Lake George. The steamer had taken
fire at the dock, but burned loose, was
towed q safe distance to a bar and
sunk. One human life and several
horses We're lost.
As this is the oldest town Of the
two, Duluth has felt very jealous of it
particularly rs it has natural adj
vantages over her-so when the people
Of Duluth came to dig their canal
through Minnesota Point from Su-
perior Bay 10 Lake Superior, they
were afraid if they went 10 far out
they might benefit their rival, and
very foolishly cut it within "a half
mile from their main business street
so that they are now cramped for
dock room.
On landing here, We found a greater
elevation Of land than we expected,
and the site well adapted to building
city. The water front is much bet
ter, naturally, than at Duluth, and
two dredge boats are 1T work-one by
the Government and the other by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
clearing out the channel and har-
Dor 70 the depth of sixteen feet
About the center Of the city, as laid
out, come in Nemadji River, with a
depth of sixteen feet Of water for sew
eral miles, and the capacious Aloues
Bay, at its mouth, makes a magnifi-
cent harbor for the collection Of the
millions of saw-logs which will event
ually be cut at the head OF the river
At the mouth Of this river and around
Aloues Bay will be clustered many
saw-mills and other manufacturing
establishments. The land on the west
side of the river is quite high, but
rather low on the opposite bank.
Since the Northern Pacific Railroad
company have been given onc-third
interest in this place, they have com
menced grading the thirty miles ex-
tension from the Junction with the
st. Paul d Duluth, and we saw the
grading in progress of the work in
the town. The line is running down
one of the large avenues to the BAY,
and thence for half a mile or more
along the waters edge, where they
will build large docks, sufficient to ac-
commodate all the shipping Of the
lake, an immense elevator, etc, and
as the great northwest, along the line
Of their road, is the best wheat coun-
try Of Minnesota or the world, with
the Dalrymplc and other farms Of
many thousand acres each, there is no
doubt about the future Of this place.
In addition to the Northern Pacific
Railroad, (Which Of itself would make
an important place Of Superior City,
the Northern Wisconsin Railroad,
now completed to within 81 miles of
this place, has % miles under contract
and 70 men at work the Chicago,
Portage & Lake Superior Air Line
have contracted for the building Of
road to Superior City while the Min
neapolis IL St. Paul contemplate the
of their road from Tavlor's
Falls to Superior City, and the Du-
luth 4 Winnipeg company may also
make their southern terminus at the
same place. Thus it will be seen that
this promises, at no remote day, to
become a great railroad center, and
as Lake Superior extends so much
farther west than Lake Michigan, and
Will give cheaper water transporta-
ton for longer distance than any
other eastern route, it is but natural
to suppose that Superior City, as the
chief town at the head Of the lake,
has a prospect Of becoming a rival Of
Chicago, some day. The streets of the
town are all very wide and straight.
which adds to the beauty ofthe place.
The surrounding country is fiat, and
it is always cool near the lake, the
vicinity will hardly ever
become good agricultural country
but its support will be from the ship
ping and trade with the great region
to the north and west, now so rapidly
developing, this being their nearest
point.
a correspondent of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch speaks as follows of
these two cities, and as a great city is
to be grown up here, all will be inter
ested i'll the article:
Duluth, the zenith city Of the un-
sailed seas, as one of Jay Cookies
hired mea called it, is eniovinr the