The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-12-01
Along TIE soufh Shore Road.

One of the reporters for the Mar
quette Mining Journal has been taking
a ride over the new Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic road, and tells his
paper all about the trip, the road and
the country through which he passed.
We have not room for his letter in full,
but clip from it, taking him up where
he leaves Gogebic lake, as follows:
Leaving lovely Gogebic the South
Shores new metropolis, Thomaston, 50
miles from Nestoria, is soon reached.
The amount of work which has been
done here in the season just ending, is
surprising. The growth of the business
on the road must result in CORES
ponding increase in the Importance of
Th0maston, and make it the largest
and liyeliest village on the line west of
Champion
9 For II miles after leaving Thomas
ton the road follows the valley of the
Black river, while off to the south rise
the high hills of the Gogebic iron range.
The scenery down the valley is very
fine and adds much to the attractive
ness OF the trip. At Thomaston the
branch to Sunday Lake, three miles
long, leaves the main line, and few
miles farther west is the Bessemer
branch. This is already completed to
Bcs jemer and ready for operation, but
South Shore trains will probably not
be seen III IronWood and Hurley until
another season, though the iron is laid
to within two miles of Hurley, and a
couple Of days Will finish it. Between
the Bessemer track and Saxon the road
crosses several very deep gorges, and
skirts along the top of an immense
wooded bluff The Montreal river is
then crossed and the traveller is then
in the State of Wisconsin. At the lit
tie town of Saxon the NJ, l.. s. & w.
is crossed, and then the road runs
through the Bad River Indian reserva-
ton, crosses FaWn creek and Bad river
on immense trestles, passes over the
Wisconsin Central line at Marengo by
an overhead crossing, and under the
Chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Oma-
ha, at Mason.
Then for eighteen miles it follows
up the valley of White river. Here
the passenger sees numbering carried
on i'll scientific manner. Every quar-
ter of a mile almost, he catches sight
of the big dams of the White River
Lumber Co., whose mills are at Mason,
see their long fumes and log chutes,
and then winds in and about the big
group of lakes known as the Pike lakes
which are the hcadw2ters Of the White.
There are scores of these beautiful lit
tie lakes, the track twisting in through
them in a very tOrtuOGS course for sew
eral miles and often crossing arms of
some of the larger ones. The shores
are dtnSely wooded and everywhere are
seen indications of the extensive opera
tions conducted by the lumber compa-
ny mentioned and which has improved
the White river at an outlay OF $780,
coo. This ride between Mason and
Iron River Junction, differs from any
thing seen on any other part Of the
South Shore system, which, figuring in
the Republic, Gogebic, and NJ. & w.
branches, amounts to $50 miles of main
track.
AT the junction the train leaves the
South Shore track proper and runs INTO
Superior and West Superior over the
Northern Pacific under a partnership
lease. Just east Of Superior men are
at work on an independent track for
the South Shore, on which it will enter
West Superior and occupy its own fine
terminal lands and waterfront. Cross
ing over the bay from West Superior
on the n. T.. bridge and trayersing
Rice's Point, winding in and out on
the n. p, Omaha and st. Paul & Du-
luth tracks with innumerable switch
ings, the train finally draws up at the
little structure digniiied by the name
of : Union Depot" the passenger is in
the Zenith City and it is 9:lG D. m, ION
the dot" All this Monkeying," as
the train men APPLY term it, VIII end
early i'll February when Dear & Hayes,
the contractors, will finish the p miles
of elevated track which they are build
ing into Duluth from the Northern
Pacific bridge for the Duluth, South
Shore and Atlantic and Eastern Min
peSOta roads.