River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1888-08-09
A THRIVING CITY.
WEST SUPERIOR. Wis,
July 20, 1883.
ERASMUS PEPPERcORN. .
Editor Journal, Rirer Falls, Wis.

July 20, 1906. \
Editor Journal, River Falls, Wis.
DEAR SIR: Not being aware of what
was doing, on the day before leaving
River Falls, promised to write few
lines occasionally for your paper and
will now try to make my promise
good / have worked in newspaper
office long enough 10 find that, when
the editor is short of weighty matter
he is often glad to find anything that
will fill out his column. Hoping that
this may ''get there" when your col.
umns are not completely filed. and
thus find place in this week edition,
pen these few lines.
L arrived at this prosperous little
village on the second of July and it is
putting it weak to say that / was
greatly surprised at its growth during
the last three months.
Building after building is being
erected and still more are needed.
Among these is one for NJ. b. Kimball,
editor of the Sentinel, formerly of the
Wave. In this structure are to be
both the Sentinel and Call offices. 1t
is situated on Eighth Street, between
Tower and Banks Avenues. Dwell.
ing houses are springing up all over
the city within the limits of a mile
and IA half OF the depot. Water-works
have been laid on several of the bust
ness streets together with sewers, and
as these are much needed we hope to
soon see them in all parts of town.
Boats run every half hour between
here and Duluth, and one makes a
trip to Two Harbors and return each
day. Passenger trains ply between
Superior and Duluth--running through
the West End--every hour, besides
two trains from Ashland, one from st.
Paul and one from Eau Claire daily.
Coal boats arrive in such numbers
that they are often compelled to wait
several days before unloading. These
boats do not merely bring coal from
Buffalo and other points on the lakes,
but generally carry away wheat from
our four great elevators, whose capaci-
ty is about 1000, 900 bushels.
On all hands things are on the move.
The people feel a desire to see the
city grow and this, they know, is not
done by each person putting every
dollar that he gets into the lowest
corner of his inside coat pocket or in
vesting it in st. Paul or Chicago real
estate. He feels that he should put
his shoulder to the wheel and help
things along, that he should invest
his money where he earns it and help
those who help him; thus making our
little (but OH MyD at the head of the
Lakes, one of the largest cities in the
country.
West Superior has as good posi-
ton, in regard to land and water
routes, as any in the Northwest; but
this alone does not make the city. 1t
takes men who are able to see their
advantages and make use of them in
way that will not only benefit them
selves, but will benefit the community
at large. This is what West Superior
has and what is going to help her
toward her great aim, to wit: ITO be
the Chicago of the Northwest.
But among these "hustlers" are
some from Pierce Co., and these do
that place credit. There are Ross &
Lewis, real estate firm composed
of F. A. Ross, of Prescott, and Knox
Lewis, of Esdale; NJ. B. Kimball edi-
tor of the Sentinel, from Ellsworth;
G.. l.. Rice, reporter of the Duluth
Evening Herald, from Esdale, and
Prof. G. G.. Williams, the late princi-
pal of the schools of this place, from
Trimbelle. River Falls is not very
we'll represented, there being but one
family here from that place. But,
much as the city is growing and much
as it promises to grow, there is one
here, at least, who would far rather
have home in the grand old town
ON the Kinnickinnie; and there he
soon hopes to be.
Truly Yours, "DESSis."