The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1890-03-08
SUPERIOR. WIS.,. SiIURDlY. NlEtH 5 1890
What Governor s-yInciorl THINKS
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troy. SW1icl0ri. Late OF AIDS nd non
Of Marquette, Mich, visited cur city
some three weeks ago, and when he got
back to Marquette, q reporter OF the
Mining Journal quizzed him as to wiat
he thought of the head of the lakes,
and Of Superior IN particular. From
their conversation we take the follow
ing extracts:
One would gather from the stray
hints in your remarks. Governor, that
YOU consider the natural advantages OF
Superior greater than those Of Duluth
town has the larger future before 1t.
How about that
As | have told YOU, | hadn't been
up there since 1879 or 1876, don't eX-
actly remember Which. There wasn't
any West Superior then; nothing on
the Wisconsin side bit the dilapidated,
half dead and deraying village. what is
now known as old Superior. II | was
surprised at the array OF handsome
brick and brownstone hotels and bust
ness structures III Duluth, was more
than astonished at What | saw III Su-
perior. III addition to thel" push and
energy those Duluth people, as repre-
scented by their three live daily news
papers, are possessed of a spirit of gall,
so to speak, which to the impartial OBJ
server capable of the highest appre
citation, is decidedly amusing, but
which is 1t the same time too highly
spiced with WormWood to pass as a re-
lsh with the people Of the rival city
OYER the WAY. ! have read the DUluth
papers occasionally during my absence
from the countrv. and supp oscd that
superior was 4 mere hamlet, very little
ii anything more than q suburb of the
50 called Zenith City. had read Of
the great elevators With distinguished
numerals and capital letters, Of the
immense coal docks, coke ovens, steel
liant and slip yard, and naturally eX-
pected to find Them "a Il part and par
eel Of Duluth, BY Whose papers they
have been appropriated in their tabu
latlon Of business and commercial sta
tistics. Here is where the gall comes
III. found nearly AL the great coal
docks and Il majority Of the elevators
rs we'll located III Superior, the bushes
of which can 10 more properly be
erected to Duluth then to Marquette
The coke ovens, the blaze from which
is nearly sufficient to 10 away with the
necessity for electric or gas lamps, the
steel works now III course OF constru"
ton, the immense wagon works soon
To be put III operation and other i'll
dtistrlal establishments generally cred
tied to Duluth, are located III Superior,
as Will he the steel barge works, inyol-
wing an expenditure OF two million dol
lars, and which will give employment
to all the way from ,odD 10 .,GG0 work
men. II you Will la6h over the old
files of the Mining Journal for 1870 to
ls72 You will find That then, ilnmedi
Lake. and when Duluth was III the zen
18th OF its first bloom. While cOnceding
the claim that a great city would Uiti-
matell be built near that Point pre-
dicted what is nou rapidly becoming a
fixed an unalterahle tact-lhat super
ior. not Duluth, would he its site.
What made ne think SO: y hy,
could not see, after locking the ground
over, hoN amy disnterestcd person OF
ordinary horse sense could come TO any
other conclusion; and | am 10 more
firm i'll my belief how than was near
~, II net quite, twenty years ago. The
men who joined their fortunes With
Duluth III the beginning, and who have
made 1t what il Is, would scarcely have
done 50, but for the fact that Superior,
and all the country adiacent to Super
ipr bay on the Wisconsin side, had
previously been robbed IN hy men
Who Laid out the towns of superior and
Superior city, and WHO, imagining that
they had the world hy tie tail on
down hill grade, instead Of engourag
ing the building Of railroads hy their
llliberality actually compelled the
Northern Pacific and the first st. Paul
line TO seek a terminus at Duluth.
Had the original owners Of Superior
been willing to treat literally with the
railroads il is my candid belief that
Duluth would never have risen 10 the
dignity and Importance of anything
more than an ordinary Nililge'
In what 10 the great natural al
Nantages Of superior consist, asked
the reporter, becoming interested 1T
toy. SNineford,s elaqutnce. for he
like many others. had been Id by the
Duluth papers TO believe that the W is
consin town did not amount to much
and that every thing about the head of
the lake was in Duluth Itself
What are the natural advantages
Of SUPERIOR l answer Very much
greater navigation facilities than ere
possessed ly any Of the great lake
cities mere than i dozen miles IF rer
fectls land licked water ftont-ull and
Very much more than rulWth can claim
III that respect. and III addition 4 com
paratiSelH level site on which a dozen
ChicagoeS might he bull, with room
for one or two New Yosks or LonGons
hy way Of suburban additions West
Superior, tthe city inelud@s the oil
town, the distinction III names aFII,-
ing only 10 post Offices already has a
population Of ten 10 twelve thousand.
With every prospect OF the number be
ing doubled hy the enl another year
Il Is tile natural terminus If All the
railroads ccutering Al The head - the
bake. OF which ii nov has no less than
eight, with more coming, ami conse