The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1883-01-13

L he nrSt Shipment or bullion ylrtu-
ally through St. Paul touched this
point Saturday evening. Four ears
of the crude silver in bars of ninety
seven pounds each comprised the con-
signment These We're brought from
the Helena mines by "bull wagon
trains" 123 miles, to Muir City,
where they were loaded on Nothern
Pacific cars and brought through to
Superior City, where the Northern di-
vision of the Omaha line took charge
of them and sent them through On
Saturday evening on the express train
to North Wisconsin Junction, from
which point they were sent on through
by fast freight at 9:45 p. M. Saturday
night, reaching Chicago last evening,
whore they will be turned over to the
consignee, the First National bank,
this morning. The bars weighed, S.
900, pounds and roughly estimated
are worth about s1,OOO,OOO. The
freight bill over the Omaha line from
Superior City to the junction was
drawn at 20 cents per 100, the rate
for pig iron. Thus St. Paul can plume
herself on the new and valuable
freight, of which this is the first, Sc
cured, by her direct feeder, the North
ern Pacific. In this connection it may
be stated that quiet steps were taken
some months ago, looking toward the
securing for this city the location of
one of the branch minis. Should this
effort meet with success the shipments
of bullion will probably find longer
stopping place here than that of Sat
urday. Several gentlemen claim to
have been so excited by the mere pass
ing of so much concentrated wealth
that sleep would not be wooed last
night, and when the drowsy god final
ly drew his mantle about them for a
few moments, ftiul dreams of bars of
silver all about them drove both sleep
and dreams to the winds.
The above, which of course comes
from that very egotistical sheet,
the Pioneer Press, is enough to make
a mummy kick the clothes off and his
sides ache with laughter. There is
but one other paper in the world that
INDUCES in such flights of silly twad-
die, and that is the Duluth Tribune
when it counts Superior's population
and building statatistics in with lis re-
port of Duluth for the year, and call
ing us South Duluth. The opening
sentence in the above which is good
of itself, but the mint business, and
the ore stopping longer when it touch
es that point, and ST. Paul pluming
herself on her new and valuable
freight, and the excitement of the ST.
Paul people over the mere thought of
such wealth in their midst, is too fun
ny for anything. The reader will
better appreciate the joke when he
understands that this large amount of
silver was at no time in its travels
nearer than eighty or a hundred miles
of St. Paul. The precious freight
started from Miles City and came
straight through to Superior over the
Northern Pacific road. 1t rested here
about seventeen hours, when the Oma-
ha train took it on its way to Chicago
Superior is on the direct line for such
shipments, and St. Paul will never be
annoyed by the silver business. SUI
perior would be a good point for a
branch mint, and it is by no means i'm
probable that we may secure it yet.
The good people of Superior being
honest and not at all covetous, lost no
sleep on account of the presence of
this wealth, and after reading the
above we think it fortunate for the
owners of the silver that the load did
not touch St. Paul. The mint would
probably have been out of material if
it had