The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-06-22
superior Consolidated Land Company.

Darkness, gloom and nought but dis.
enlargement has hung over Superior
proper, por many years. Hopes have
risen nigh at times, It's true, and new
/ eXertlons have been put forth by few
Only to be met with opposition, often
from uneXpected sources, and final dis
appointment and defeat, St Paul,
Minneapolis, Ashland, Fargo, Duluth
and other towns, not to omit the eX-
IRENE west end of our own limits,
have grown from small cities to large
ones, or from mere hamlets to flourish
ing cities, III the past decade, while
Old Superior, owned and backed by a
list OF owners WhoTepreSents probably
fifty millions of capital, has lain as
dormant as toad in winter, slept on,
Van W mike like, not only twenty, but
for more than thirty years, until today
when these same town proprietorS
wake up from their sleep ana visit
their possessions they are Gazed and
beWlldared at what they see all about
them, the great prosperity and wealth
on every hand but in which they have
no interest
But, praise the Lord, while there is
life there is hope, and we are glad to
know that there is lots of life left in
the old Superior proprletorship yet,
and that this life has been reused from
It's sleep as from a shock of electricity
which not only WakenS he droWsy son
sibilities, but at the same time infuses
new and vigorous life into the veins of
the sluggard
1t is not necessary for us to go over
the ground again to explain what the
Consolidated Company of Superior is,
as our readers are already Informed on
that point, what they want to know
now ISIS the scheme going to mate
rialize? We answer, Yea, verify it is!
At the meeting held n New York
recently, a plan of organization was
agreed upon by owners Of property rep
reSenting about one-half of the origi-
nal townsite Of Superior; temporary
Board of nine Directors were chosen,
and the meeting adjourned, the direct
orS to meet III Superior on June Goth,
with IoNer to perfect the organization
and to elect officers, permanent
Board of Directors, to select local
management, formulate plans, lay out
work, etc.
In pursuance Of that adjournment,
the following gentlemen all to a greater
or less degree interested i'll the project
on foot, are in the city this week, some
arriving Wednesday morning, Others
on Thursday morning: Hiram S.Wal
bridge and Ira Z. Lee of Toledo, Ohio;
Arson Maltby Of New York; Charles
f. and J. l.. Dawson Speer, of Pitts
burg, Pa. G. NJ. Mathews, of Wash
ington, ID. c.; j. b. Tyler, of Kansas
City; James Stinson and Edwin Stew
art, Of Chicago; Victor GuillOu, OF
Philadelphia; Geo. w. Board and Her
man Trott, Of St. Paul.
OF these gentlemen seven are mem
bers Of the temporary Board of Direc
tors named at the New York meeting
to-wit: Geo. W. Board, who represent:
the Northern Pacific interest; Jane!
Stinson, his own interest; Arson Malt
, by, represents his own and the Breck
E enridge and Beck interests; Charles +
Speer represents the Dawson estate
, Victor Guill0u the Scott estate; G. NJ
9 Mathews the COrcOran and Riggs eS
tate, and IL S Walbridge his own an,
E brothers interest.
Everybody knows the TINES is no
! given to flattery, but we must say tina
: it would be difficult to pick up from
, different parts of the Union a fine
looking and level headed lot Of busi
ness men than the gentlemen herei
{ named and III this very fact LES on
n greatest hope for grand Termination
q Of the project for the advancement Q
r our city. There Will be 10 boys pla
8 here. The gentlemen who have til
+ business in hand have been in almOs
+ perpetual session since Wednesda
81 tN NlliIioS lOi w > StiiNi 'tAN
! for the government of the cOmpan.
? and as we 90 to press, Friday afte]
) noon, their work is still incomplete, S
(: We cannot give details nor list Of O
t fcers this week, but we have no feaI
n for the details with such compete1
n gentlemen managing them. We fe'
Il that our day of rest has passed an
/, that henc2foTth ours is to be a life {
n push and activity of the get thel
is Ely" sort peculiar alone to this gTef
,e Northwest country.
if While writing this we have by Il
q means forgotten such men as jaime
Bard0n, c. L. Catlin, Z. J.. johnson
II. S. Butler, Hiram Hayes, Judge
le II. Clougb, |. w. Gates, Z. d. Robert
It Neil Smith, Martin Pattison, Phil |
# Perkins, L. f. Johnston, q. l.. Brook
fc Denis Dean, DIR. Conan, J. S. Ritchl
le and score Of others Of our reSidel
,y citizens who are doing all they can
e their respective ways to give aid al
le encouragement and property assistan,
~ to the new company, but space f0rbiC
I'd that we allude to them and their worl
IS individually. It is safe to say that Il
* Consolidated Company has friend
OF every man, and woman too, for til
IS matter, Of our city and all stand reat
he to lend helping hand in The good wo
. now inaugurated.
Rev. IL. II. Van Deusen, of t
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