St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-08-27
THE CITY OF SUPERIOR.
Many Rapid and Remarkable Improve
ments Noted.
BUSINESS ON THE BOOM.
Large Manufacturing Firms About to
Put in Extensive
Plants.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
WEST SUPERIOR, Aug. 26.-West Su-
perior has been having round of eX-
cursions, editorial conventions, water
ways congress, and general time of
great enjoyment; and, furthermore, an
increase of faith in the assured POSSIBLE
tiles of this plateau city at the head of
the great inland sea of America that
stretches out it's long arm further into
the great Northwestern empire than
any other navigable water in America.
1t has been touched here by the steel
arms and pulsating fingers of more rail-
ways that find terminal here than any
other city of the same size on the Amer
lean continent, and her wonderful COM
mercial location, that was fixed when
God created the world, is being more
definitely understood by the business
and moneyed brains of the nation than
was ever dreamed of before. In fact,
the state of Wisconsin and the inhab-
itantS of her Lake Michigan cities are
really waking up from their long sleep
of stupor and begin to fully realize that
the rapidly growing sister city of Su-
perior will, in few years. be reaching
after the crown of the now Wisconsin
metropolis, and be sure to take it if her
expected destiny is fully realized in the
coming years. Here we have no rocky
mountain to blast and dig down. In
putting in our system of sewers, water
works. gas works, etc., and digging
our cellars and making all necessary
excavations, we do not shake up our
foundations by dynamite earthquakes,
but instead thereof we have solid clay
foundation, without rock, that is easily
and cheaply eXcavated, so we have no
necessity for dynamite upheavals: in
fact, we are not a blasted or blasting city.
Perfect drainage can be secured at much
less cost than in most cities, and it will
not be many months before all public
Improvements necessary will be COM
pleted, or in course of speedy compile
ton, as the wants of the city demand.
Building of dwellings, business houses
and churches is being pushed with
remarkable vim. 1t will not be long be-
fore Superior will have fourteen
churches. The Methodists and Bap-
fists are now erecting fine churches, the
Methodist to cost some $4,000. Tower
avenue, which is really the choice bust
ness avenue of West Superior at the
present time, will be paved in fine
shape by the 1st of November, and
Ogden, John, Hughitt, Hammond, Cum
mings and other avenues are being
graded and put in fine shape, and there
are other avenues and streets being inn
proved as fast as possible, and on some
street cars will be running.
The encouraging crop reports from
the West and Northwest assure great
business activity, not only here at the
head of the lake, but throughout our
Western empire. Real estate activities
that have been slow are very promising
now, especially on the business ave-
nues, Central Park and Old Superior.
The land syndicate that has been Or
ganized in Superior East promises very
encouraging results. Large manufact-
uring firms are making calculations to
put in costly plants along our water
fronts that will give employment to
many laborers. In fact, Superior has
reached that point now in it's progress
that all necessary manufacturing estab-
lishments and business enterprises will
be coming in regular order by the laws
of commercial attraction. The editors
of the press in this city have been i'm
portant, lively factors in the rapid
growth and commercial Importance OF
this city, SO superior for situation.