St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-30
AT THE zenith CITY.
A Grand Display Of the
Wealth and Stability Of
Duluth.
The BOundless Riches of the
Vermillion Country Only
Half Told.
Four Thousand Men to Be En-
ployed on the Winni-
peg Road.
Booming Times in Store for
the City by the Unsalt-
ed Sea.

The schooner Wayne ran into the
Northern Pacific draw bridge this morn
ing and knocked it out of plumb three
ten hours.
The following is Auditor Savage's an
nual statement Of personal property for
st. Louis county. Duluth is credited
with 81 ,4334,94 S. The number of persons
assessed for Duluth outside of i. firms is
1,746. This report goes to the state aud
itor tonight, and the items in it are as
follows: Number of horses, 1857, val
ued at 500, 069; cattle, 634, valued at SILL
670; wagons and carriages, $23. 400; sew
ing machines, ETC., $22, AS; melO-
dians. etc.,. SOTO; pianos. 49,
O65; household goods and Office fur
niture, s445, 400; agricultural tools,
$2,490; gold and silver plate, s11, 246;
diamonds and jewelry, s7,21O; fran
chises. etc.. s1,25O; steamboats,, $751;
$50; goods and merchandise, 1876, 800;
manufacturers tools, ETC., s104,965;
moneys of banks, $139,920; credits of
saloons, ETC., 1856; elevators, ETC.,
vested in railroads, S444,650; improve
ments ON United States homestead
lands, $3.50; 210 dogs, $1,110; moneys
other than bankers, SIS, 4S0; credits other
than bankers, S.. 48O, bonds and stocks,
1886, 500; shares of bank stock, 81, 006, $50;
shares of capital stock, $1,000. This
shows large increase over last year, a
record creditable to the growing city.
The rich iron belt that runs between
Ely and Tower in direction little
south of west, and extends eastward
from Ely to the international boundary,
has been thought to end at Lake YER
million. This, however, is far from the
true state of tine case. West of Lake
Vermilion and the phenomenal mines
of the Minnesota Iron company the ore
body trends more to the south and
passes in southwestern direction al
most, if not quite, to the Mississippi
river. A little west of the Minnesota
mines the ore bodies known as the Yer
million range, on which are all present
developments, and the Mesabi range
join, making a vast body of ore of great
richness.
Messrs Griffin and Smith, who are
owners of large tract of this rich min
eral land, have been in Duluth for day
or two looking up business and confer
ring with officials OF the Duluth & Win
nipeg. They have already made ar
rangementS for branch line to their
mines, and the contracts for ten-mlle
section, to reach from the main line to
the head of the ore bodies, has already
been signed, Oh will be in day OR two.
These ore bodies OutcrOp four miles
from the line of the road and about 100
miles, via the surveyed line, from Du-
luth. Samples of the ore, as well as
assays made, all show remarkable rich
ness and fine quality of ore. Many of
the assays have showing of SO per cent
metallic iron, while some are as high as
70 per cent, fully as good as any ore in
the VermlliOn district. 1t is also solow
in PHOSPHORUS to come within the Bes-
Semer limit. 1t is much softer quality
mines, and resembles the Chandler or
several Gogebic ores in many respects.
There is energy enough on the Du-
luth q Winnipeg road to suit the most
fastidious. ''We'll cover it with men
as thick as they can stand" said Gen.
eral Manager Fisher last night. Instead
of putting 5000 men on the fifty miles
of lines the contractors will put 1000 at
work. Instead of completing ready for
trains to the Mississippi by December
it will be done in ninety days or less.
One day this week 500 men were sent
up the Mississippi from Aitkin to begin
work on the line at the river. Four
thousand men strung along fifty miles
of line will be eighty men to the mile.
When the character of most of the work
is considered it will not be doubted that
this force will complete the work In
short order. Rails are purchased and
will be delivered at the end of track in
a very short time. Rolling stock. of
which the road possesses not wheel as
yet, is being bargained for, and it is
quite probable that good share of it
will be built in Duluth. The Mississippi
river has been set as the terminus for
operations this year. Whether it will
be such remains to be seen later on. 1t
is not at all improbable that construc-
ton may be pushed beyond the river
this year, as it certainly will be next.
The city council will repeal the last
clause in the contract with the Union
Depot company, E. l.. Dudley, ST. Paul,
president, requiring it to guarantee i'm
munity to the CITY from damages from
property owner owning property abut-
ting on the Sixth avenue viaduct.