The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-02-17

superior feN estate, sends us Il draft
for two years subscription, with
note in which he says:
Don't be too hard on non-residents
IN next years paper, a. they really pay
town expenses" We have not aimed
to be hard on nonresident friends.
but have tried to point out some of
their inconsistencies. Nor instance,
we do not see how they expect to
build up city here while they hold
all the real estate, We know some of
them at least will jump right up and
say there is plenty of real estate for
sale in Superior today, and we are
wrong III saying there is not; and while
they are doing this we will quietly
keep our seat and maintain our asscr-
ton. We know we can buv all the
lots we want for resident purposes,
from Fourth to Fourteenth streets. in
Superior, and in Uppcrtown we can
buy lot for q store or residence if we
are willing to submit to the demands
OF the sellers, and they will require
you to build at once Il good residence
or a store building to cost "a given
amount, and within Il certain time or
forfeit your claim or chance to get the
property. OF this kind and under
these conditions, there is Il great
plenty of property for sale here, but
this is not what we want.
We have all the stores and all the
people that can live here under exist
ing circumstances. We do not want
any more stores only to haye them
fail, nor more people to come only to
so away again. What we want now
Is mills, elevators and manufacturing
enterprises of various kinds which will
give employment to hundreds, or
thousands of men, and these men will
build houses and furnish trade for
more stores, but real estate on which
to erect such institutions is not to be
had on any terms, or, at least, if any
such owner IS willing to sell he is very
careful not to let anybody know it.
Now gentleman put that class of prop
erty on the market ut such prices as
you would be willing to pay for it,
and without the compulsory clauses
you would not yourselves subscribe to,
and use your influence TO direct capt.
tai here, and see how soon boom
would start that would astcni>h even
our western people.
1t is quite true that the nonresident
owners pay large portion of our To-
cal expenses, and that may be put
down as another reason why we are
anxious to have you sell out. We
know you have been paying the ex-
penses of the county for many long
years, and We think it high time some
body else was shouldering the load.
And we know further, that by the
policy you are now pursuing you will
continue to support the county for the
next twenty five years, and we are
anxious to have YOU Adopt new pol
icy, one which will relieve YOU Of this
great burden. Don't try to make for
yourselves all there is in it now, or
will be in it twenty years hence.
Don't try to correct today the mis-
takes Of thirty years ago. If you gave
$1,000 for a twenty five foot lot then,
you must not expect to get your
money back with taxes and compound
interest added. You made mistake
then that ought not to be righted now
1t is just like buying horse for 800,
and a year later he meets with an ac-
cident and loses an eve or breaks n
leg, but still you want some one to
step up and pay you S112 for the
animal and take him off your hands.
You will get one just about as soon as
the other We acknowledge your right
to keep your property just a. long as
it pleases you to do 50, but we can
assure you that just so long as the
present owners Of the town site hold
or own the same, just so long will the
town remain where it is and rs it is
a very pretty little hamlet, with many
natural advantages" but with a pro-
prietorship that forbids progress or
development. Sell ont gentlemen, and
let some other parties step in and pay
the expenses of the county, for it is
not right that you should be thus i'm
posed upon.
P.S.-Since the above was put in
type the proprietors Of the Roy Addi-
ton, Uppertown, have handed in an
advertisement which please read else
where, announcing their intention TO
sell their lots, blocks, mill and dock
sites, and we are informed that at least
80 per cent, of this property will be
decided without the improvement
clause above alluded to. While two
or three mill sites were sold in Upper
town last summer, this is the first time
a mill or dock site or any kind Of q
water front has been publically offered
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