Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1891-11-18
Duluth Correspondence.
DuLuTH, MINI, Nov. 16, 81.

ment her population that Will make
Duluth one of the great cities of the
country.
Duluth is today on more solid foot
ing than ever before, and even to
resident the great changes of few
years are continual wonder. When
the writer first saw Duluth in 1882 it
was an overgrown village, made up OF
multitude of poor frame houses, ono
or two elevators, decayed docks, mud
dy streets, a bare hill front that looked
as ugly and unpromising as the rocky
New Hampshire mountain farm IN
Sol Smith Russelrs new play of the
(" Peaceful Valley" where the cows
and the sheep were tied down to keep
them from slipping over into the
neighbours corntield below. The only
things of beauty were Chester creek
and Miller's creek, two lovely and pic
thresque streams which now form so
delightful part of the city's park
system, and then ran free in all their
mutual attractiveness.
How changed the place is today.
Here are now $4,000 people; then Du-
luth had population of 5000, nearly
all lumbermen and tradesmen, though
there was beard of trade of seven or
eight members who met half an hour
day and almost regularly adjourned
without a transaction. | remember
that the official circular of those days
had a uniform style of reporting the
markets Buyers and sellers apart
Then the grain receipts ran up to
| 100000 bushels for the year; for the
present year they will go to 35,OO,O0O,
and for the crop year from 4n,O0Gooo
| to 50G0C,000 bushels. For the past
ten weeks they have been 2O,OOO,OOO
bushels. Then there were two eleva-
tors, Zone uncompleted@ now the ca
pacity of elevators at the head of the
lake is 100000 bushels. Then there
were no -four mills; now Duluth mills
grind 5000 barrels daily. Then the
annual tonnage of the port was less
than 100000 tons; now it is 100000
tons, and the arrivals and departures
of great steamers this month will be
over 500. Then there were but two
railroads here; now there are eight
and this year they will bring here over
4,OOO,OOO,OO0 pounds of freight; three
passenger trains arrived daily and as
many departed; now, including short
line trains, over 100 come into and go
out of the union depot every twenty
four hours, carrying 1900 passengers.
There was no jobbing business then,
but this year it will amount to about
S25,OOO,OOO. No mines had resounded
to the stroke of the miners blow; now
capital of over 100000 is invest
ed in Duluth's iron ranges, 5000 men
are employed there and 100000 tons
Fof iron ore are taken out every year,
Duluth had no graded streets, scarcely
any sidewelks, no sewers, no gas, wa
ter works or electric lights; no street
car service, no great business blocks
and but few good residences. Now
there are u miles of graded streets,
II miles of paved streets, 81 miles of
sewers, 125 of sidewalks, IS of gas
and water mains, two electric light
plants, II miles Of the best system of
electric car service and a great eleva-
ted cable road; her streets are lined
with costly business blocks and beau
/ tiful and spacious homes dot her lovely
hillsides and pretty plains.
The large business of the grain men
this year has been spoken of above
The wheat arrivals here from Septem-
Der 1, the beginning of the crop year,
to the 18th inst; amounted to 2O,123,-
$40 bushels, or over $1,000 cars. In
the same time Minneapolis has re-
ceived less than 17,5OO,OOO bushels.
The shipments from here have been
about 100000 bushels less than the
receipts, but from this time out to the
end of navigation will be heavier than
the arrivals. Last weeks receipts at
both Minneapolis and Duluth were
4,5O5,607 bushels, against 2,625,OOC
bushels for the same week last year
Of the receipts this year Duluth got
2,779,367 bushels to 1,726,24O at the
city by the falls; while of those last
year we had only 624, 1902 bushels.
! While Duluth is paying much high,
er wheat rates to Buffalo than Chica,
go, hard coal is being brought Iere
from Buffalo for Is cents a ton, while
the rate to Chicago is 70 cents. 1t is
said that wheat shipments from here
this week will be near 100000 bush
els and that 100 steamers are under
charter to load this month.
There were 1905 cars of wheat on
track here yesterday morning, which
breaks the record here by 157 cars
and also the record for all markets.
The big Imperial mill made its
champion run last Wednesday, when
it turned out 1880 barrels. This was
on machinery intended fora maximum
run of $500 barrels. AS soon as the
immense new engine now building is