The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-12-01
Northern Wisconsin.

Northern Wisconsin has ceased to
be a wilderness, or the transatory
abiding place of the venturesome spec
ulator. Its forests, which few years
since were resting in their undisturbed
solitude-so far as the white race was
concerned-save perhaps a few months
during the winter season when the
pinery boys were at their labors, now
TEEN with industrial life in hundreds
of localities Where few years since
the dense forests covered the surface
of the country, now are stretched eX-
tensive, cleared fields, teeming with
agricultural wealth for the farmer, or
are situated bright, busy towns, where
the hum of the mill and factory wheels
indicate that the first harvest of the
New North (its TIMBER is being
reaped. Where the venturesome spec
ulators searched out the trail into its
richest timber and mineral localities,
now thunders along the never firing
Iron Horse, bearing hither the farm
er, merchant, the capitalist the profes-
sional man and the day laborer
When it has unburdened itself of its
freightage of humanity, it takes its re-
turn to the older settled portions of
the country, bearing thence the man
ufactured timber wealth of the North
From the hundreds, and we might
say from the thousands of stations that
have sprung up along the lines of
railroads that pierce Northern Wis
consin, are settlers thronging them in
search Of new homes. Along these
roads, the cabins of the hardy pion-
GERS are already giving way to the
tasty, substantial and comfortable
farm structures, and broad fields are
opening to sunlight. The transforma-
ton form a wilderness to a thrifty
community has been so rapid that one
might infer that the wealth fascinat-
ing Siren that has beckoned so many
to the hopper feasted, storm dashed
prairies of the west, was inviting set
tiers to similar privations and poverty
in the woodland homes of New North.
Vastly different the finding.
The poor man finds on the day of
his arrival, grand market for his
capital -labor-and the meager sum
he may have been able to save until
this hour, instead of being demanded for
slstenance Of himself and family, finds
its way into tract of land for a farm
home, while his busy hands supply the
needs of the family and puts by many
a penny for future demands, when
they come in the way of need and pro-
fitable improvements. The mechan-
ic is eagerly watched for, and he has
hardly reached the station platform
ere he is employed on paying terms,
and ut the onset finds himself busy
aiding the growth of the many busy
towns now building along the railway
lines. The manufactures finds wealth
Of all species of timber awaiting his
genius and means, to reduce it to a
understandable product. The profes-
sional man finds an intelligent and
progressive people awaiting his speci
ally trained faculties, and the capital
list finds hundreds Of avenues for in
vestmcnt, which awards the most pro
htable returns. A glance upon your
arrival convinces you that the induce
ments that draw hither people from
all quarters so rapidly are by no
means mythical and false colored, but
real practical truths, drawn with care
full precision-true to life. On every
hand abound evidences of thrift and
progressive prosperity. No oilers or
grumblers are to be found, but indus
try and contentment smile all around.
Every attraction that Northern Wis
consin holds forth to induce settlers to
flock to its woodlands are found to
exist at par value, when tested.-Ex.