St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-01-27
THE ZENITH CITY.
DuIuIh's Growth 600 Per Cent. i'm
Five Years.

it at present can boast of IS, 600 inhabitants,
having added 400 per cent. to its popula-
ton since that time, which is a faster rate
of increase than that of either Chicago, st.
Paul. Kansas City or Minneapolis. During
the present year (1S85) COO dwelling houses
have been erected, most of them costly and
handsome buildings, besides a number of
metropolitan business blocks, wheat ele-
vatOrs, ETC., among which might be mem
toned:
Oraln elevators. ..................... SZo5,cOO
Exchange block. Observation-Disclosures. 10000
Board Of Trade block. 10000
fdrgusson. .......-.....----....--. sO'OvO
DouEe 8. 49,. .........--....-.-... SJ'OOO
Norris-McDougall. e. ................ 10000
And many others. upwards of 81. 600, 600
having been expended for building improve
ments. Duluth is fast becoming an im-
portant railroad center. Ii is now the termi-
nal point of four railroads. viz: Northern
Pacific, st. Paul. Minneapolis 81 Manitoba,
st. Paul & Duluth and Chicago. ST. Paul
Minneapolis & Omaha. and with a good
prospect of having double that number of
railroads within the next year. The Du-
luth & Iron Range railroad expect to build
the thirty-mile gap from Two Harbors TO
Duluth, which will bring this city in
DIRECT COMMUNICATION
with the immense iron ore deposits in the
Vermillion district. A corps of surveyors,
surveying the line of the Duluth a.
Northern railroad from Duluth to the
Canadian boundary, have just returned.
bringing very favorable report, and the
directors Of that road say work will be
commenced early in the spring, and the
line pushed through as rapidly as possible
The Minnesota d Northwestern railroad is
heading for Duluth, and that road will
probably be here within year. Strong
efforts are also being made to revive the
old Duluth & Winnipeg road. This
road had already been graded and
bridges built for the first eight
miles out of Duluth before work
was stopped. This road if built will
do for Duluth what the st. Paul. Minneap-
oils & Manitoba railroad has done for st.
Paul and Minneapolis. The railroads now
here have spent considerable money during
the present year to improve their terminal
facilities. A large bridge has just been
completed across the st. Louis bay here at
a cost of about S275, 900. nearly twenty
five miles of sidetracks for yard room have
been built, besides other Improvements,
and it is expected that about 5000. 600 will
be expended this winter in building new
docks and warehouses 10 take care of the
Z.
wool and merchandise which finds tran
shipment here, the present facilities prov
ing entirely inadequate to do the business
work has already been commenced on these
docks, which will give steady employment
to number of men all winter. Duluth is
now formidable rival of Chicago, St
Paul and Minneapolis for the distribution
of coarse products and raw material, such
as wheat, coal. salt lime, cement, iron ore
lumber, etc. The Minnesota Iron company
have shipped from their mills, a few miles
back of Duluth. 227, 600 tons of high grade
iron ore. This year their output was eX-
ceeded by only one mine i'm this country,
and that was the Republic Iron company in
the Marquette iron region. The lumber
business here has grown astonishingly from
an annual cut of LOCO. 600 feet, and only
one saw mill, in 1880, 1t now has ten large
saw mills cutting $50, 900, 600 feet annually
besides planning mills, sash and door fac
tories, etc. Duluth is also the great coal
depot of the Northwest, four large coal
companies doing business here have
handled over 200, 600 tons of coal during
the present year, which is distributed over
the entire Northwest. But what has done
more than anything else to bring Duluth
more prominently before the country is its
enormous wheat trade, which from small
business in 1880, has assumed huge proper
TONS It's elevator capacity is now l0.4Q0,-
600 bushels, and constantly increasing.
During the last crop year ID. Sl9, 462 bushels
of wheat was handled here and will prob
ably handle 20, 5000, 600 bushels during the
present crop year.
THE BOARD OF TRADE
is an object of special interest in this city.
itswheat speculative market is the largest
of any city in this country outside of Chi
cago. sales of over 1000, 900 bushels of
wheat in one day being of frequent occur
ence. The manufacturing interests in this
place are small at present. with the eXcep-
ton of lumber. But plans have already
been drawn for flour mill with a capacity
of 5000 barrels per day. and as soon as the
-four interests look brighter it will be i'm
mediately erected, the site having already
been secured. This city offers better adj
vantages for the location of manufacturing
establishments by reason of its good sites.
cheap fuel, ready markets. and low trans
portatlon than any other city i'm the North
west. Thus it will be seen that Duluth is
bound to come to the front as great COM
mercial center, having an unrivaled position
at the head of Lake Superior. which gives il
cheap water communications for seven
months in the year, also having two direct
railroad lines to Milwaukee, Chicago and
the East the year round.