The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1886-07-17
west superior. WISCONSIN.

/ the cast 1t faces the long spacious bay
+ of Superior; on the north the broader
/ bay Of ST. Louis On these two beau
tiful inlets of Lake Superior there is
wharf frontage sufficient for the needs
of large commercial city, and the
/ plateau of West Superior, level, save
for its gentle slope toward the water,
is well adapted for railway uses, for
manufacturing enterprises requiring
ample grounds, and for the streets and
buildings of busy town.
I cruised along the harbor front of
the present site of West Superior in a
tug in the summer of 1884. There
was nothing to see then but woods and
water, The following winter | walk
ed over on the ice from Duluth to
look at the beginnings Of the project
ed town, which then consisted Of a
clearing and two houses, and to see
the pile-driying work for the great
Northern Pacific bridge. Now West
Superior can show handsome union
depot. large hotel, a school house,
the big Manitoba Railway elevator,
under construction, the great coal
dock OF the Lehigh Company, and
perhaps q hundred stores and dwell
ings. Laying claim to the improve
ments in Conner's Point, as it has a
right to do, for the point belongs to
West Superior, it can also enumerate
among It's possessions two big saw
mills, and the extensive docks of the
| St. Paul & Pacific Coal Company
Six trains now run daily each way
| between the Superiors and Duluth,
the local run being operated jointly by
/ the Northern Pacific and Omaha com
panias. The long Northern Pacific
bridge across the Bay of st. Louis,
with its two iron draws, is used by the
Omaha Company for It's trains to St.
Paul and Chicago, and by the North
ern Pacific for It's connection with the
main line west and for It's Wisconsin
division trains to Ashland. The Man
itoba Company has a few hundred
yards Of tracks already laid to its en-
ormous elevator, as an earnest Of its
purpose to build q road of its own at
an early day from Hinckley to West
Superior. At present its trains from
Hinckley run over the St. Paul & Du-
luth tracks. This elevator, by the
way, with It's storage house attached,
will have q capacity greater than that
Of any elevator in the Northwest, be-
able to store about 100000 bushels
Of wheat. It Will be completed this
year.
The great Lehigh dock viii be The
largest on the lakes, and will be 20C
by 1000 feet, covering seven acres Of
ground It will cost, when completed
! 100000, and viii have a storage ca
pacity Of 100000 tons of coal. The
dock is Of crib work, twenty-one feet
and six inches in height anC
sunk sixteen feet below the
water, and viii have pile
facing. Slips will be made on boil
sides, one hundred and fifty feet wide
and eighteen feet deep. The dock il
being built in two sections. The frs
section will be completed and equip
ped with machinery this season. The
work will require 100000 feet O
lumber
All new roads coming to Duluth
from the west or south, and there are
many projected, must come first t.
West Superior. The situation of The
place is 50 favorable for manufacturing
and other business enterprises require
q good deal of ground and convenient
shipping facilities by both rail ant
water, that It's steady growth is fully
| assured
West Superior is in fact q creation
of the railroads. 1t was established
| by the Land an River improvement
! Company, a strong and liberal corp
Grafton Of st. Paul and Eastern cap
italists, bat back Of It from the star
were i've railroad companies, which
with sagacious foresight, secured eacI
from twenty to forty acres Of ground
with water front, in the new town, be
sides jointly purchasing union depo
grounds, anticipating a business in tn,
near future which will demand sucl
extensive accommodations. At Il,
other point on the Great Lake
haye such extensive terminal facilitie
been secured by railroad enterprise
The West Superior location was sci
ected with great care, to give til,
practicable economy and convenienc,
in the interchange Of business between
, water and rail and between the differ
ent railroad lines. The FIVE railroad
unite 10 form a terminal company
which owns the handsome UnioI
Depot, and the grounds attached t.
it.
The present rail facilities of Yves
Superior are furnished by the North
ern Pacific, running west 10 Montana
Washington and Oregon, and east t,
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