The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1888-03-03
a Few Facts.
From the Inter Ocean.
Frank Wilkison in a letter t. the


Frank Wilkison in letter t. the
New York Times recently said:
The natural channel into Duhth's
harbor, into which the st. Louis liver
flows, is around the southern sxrem>
ity Of the out-jutting bar and eads
directly to Superior City Thistown
stands on the site on which The great
city that will be built at the lead of
Lake Superior should have besl built.
But the location Of the city (neaning
DULUTH is an accomplished hct, and
it is not probable that any railroad
could pull the city away from its un-
wisely selected site.
This passage alarms Duluth, and
one Of her editors, he of the Tribune,
wakes wroth, and accuses Superior of
being a dead level in which damage
and lake water are difficult to obtain"
But it is not that which worrie Du-
luth. 1t is the combination q cor
porations, the combination d men
and the concentration OF capital at
West Superior and Superior City
which alarms her. Evidently tn, Du-
luth people permitted Wilkesm to
look on West Superior only as part
Of the elevator system of Duluth
What are facts? They are, th1 to
make Duluth decent!y habitabIe will
put Dozen generations Of city gov
ernments into bankruptcy. 1t took
almost million dollars last year to
simply grade less than eight miles of
her streets, and she hasn't foot of
paving. Responsible contractors have
offered to grade, sewer an pave with
cedar blocks ten miles If Superior 5
streets for gross sum IF 100000
And as for water, we lave already
contracted for water from Lake Su-
pcrior, at prices that would beggar
the Duiuth water company.
And we have contracted for cleo
trio lights at a figure almost third
under Duluth prices. Likewise u
telephone exchange.
To say, therefore, tba DuIuth is
the accomplished fact, i to ignore
the facts. With seven graf railroads
centering at Superior, a4d making it
their terminals, with all their acccs-
series OF, coal docks, merchandise docks
elevators, division headquarters, round
houses, etc, at this place, and within
a short period population must in
crease at such pace as to satisfy the
most timid capitalist that this is not
only where the city should have been
but where it is to be. Already East
ern capitalists Of the mtst conservat-
i've character have made heir appear
ance in Superior manufacturing in
dustrles, which is nowhere better j.
lustrated than in the very recent in
corporation of the W,st Superior
Brick Company, with James Roosevelt
and T. H. Weeks of New York as
the principal investors.
And hereafter Duluth will not be
able to keep an exclusive hold Of the
travelling public. West Superior has
had heretofore and now has very fair
hotel accommodations, lilly equal TO
the demands Of the place but no such
as to draw The travelling public from
Duluth. Now, however, We are t.
haye two superb hotels, each costing
about sl25, 0o9, with complete ela;..
ments Of steam heating, electric light
ing and water works AMI sewerage
connections. One is to lie built BIZ
the Superior Improvement company,
at some point overlooking Superior
Bay, and the other by the Land &
River Improvement company, in
West Superior The inside fnishings
are to be of native hard woods, and
the furnishings complete br a s3-a-
house. Its the company's intention
to make the hotel a rival Of the best
on the chain Of lakes. Thi, is another
step toward making Superior what it
was predestined to be, THE GREAT
CITY at the head of Lake Superior;
the light Of the Lakes financially and
commercially, Intellectually an moral
iy, industrial and in trade.