The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1891-08-15
Huron BAY.

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When the railroad owns the terminal,
with miles of water frontage and
thousands of acres inland, this only
fortifies certainty. When, also, sand
stone, slate, lumber OF all kinds, and
iron are near by, then certainty is ad-
vanced into actuality and absolute fact.
II there be added to all this the Huron
mountains with their known deposits
Of gold aud silver and lead. their mar
BILE, granite, kaolin and terra Gotta
clay. their silicon, quartzite, graphite,
asbestos and other minerals; their min
eralized and medicated waters, valua-
BILE timber, good land, suitable for farm
ing. and grand hunting grounds. why
then, there is no further use for argu-
ment or words. Such . terminal is al
ready great, and will only grow greater
as time goes by,
Now Huron Bay is just such termin-
al and the writer was there when these
thoughts struck him. The railroad
which at present runs into Huron Bay,
is from Champion to Michigamme, Re-
public, Ishpeming and Negaunee, thus
tapping al the mines of the Marquette
iron range. Upon these extensions la
Dor has already been begun. II is I'M
derstood that J. M. Longyear, of Mar
quette; p. Armour, of Chicago, and j.
+. Joy and @. H. Bull, of Detroit, are
all interested and it is thought that
Longyear will not rest easy until the
road reaches Bessemer, upon the Goge.
bic range, where he is largely interest
ed and from whence the entire Gogebic
range could easily be reached. j. A.
Hubbell and others of Copperdom. are
already anxious to see the line extended
to Houghton and Calumet which are
only one hour distant.
From Arvon to Huron Bay runs q
narrow gauge used to ship slate to the
lake and supplies back to Arvon. This
line has been utilized by being widened.
Il was over this line that your corros-
pondent rode into Huron Bay, seated
upon fiat Car of timber for new docks
ia company with Engineer Davis, Con-
tractor Parke and II. j. Waters, agent
Atlantic Dynamite Co. Coming back
to Arvon in the evening, during q rain
storm, the little narrow gauge engines
cab held fifteen passengers, three of
whom were ladies. The road was pref
ty rough and ono of the ladies got sea
sick and lost her last meal in regular
Atlantic ocean style.
Last winter work upon the ore docks
at Huron Bay was begun. At this writing
the merchandise pi-r Is already nearly
completed, enough 30 as to be useable;
can unload on it and the
approaches are graded and
spiles driven and rails could be laid
now ere there occasion to do so. The
ore dock, which will be an exact dupli-
cate of Marquette's latest and best
except in size. is ready for the super
Thousands of spiles have
been driven for this immense concern,
and thousands more for its approaches.
A dredge is deepening the water in the
slips between these docks, twenty-five
feet being allowed in the shallowest.
place. Out in the bay is from thirty
to one hundred feet of water, with
good sandy bottom and anchorage for
hundreds vessels. The bay is about
/ 900 feet wide, perfectly land locked,
never rough in any weather and per-
feet for barbor use.
Ship building and dry dockage will
be natural to this place, unlimited
forests of all kinds of timber being
near by.
The railroad company is laying out
one town site, the Michigan Slate Co.
another, and just across the bay Ed.
Ryan and other Hancock gentlemen are
laying out a third, so there will be no
n eed of any one going without lots mp
OH which to build. Next spring these lots
will probably be put upon the market.
At present the timber is being chopped
and burned, the stumps blasted out,
the land graded and preparations made
for future cities.
The pioneer business house, in fact
The only one, is o barber shop made of
boards and green timber furnished with
q rustic chair made from cracker box, I
and equipped with q clipper and two
razors, one whiskey bottle filed with
bay rum, another with sweet oil colored
with cochineel, and two yards OF calico,
but who knows but this will develop
into Palmer House shaving parlor,
flashing with mirrors and paved with
silver dollars? Anchored short dis
lance from shore is an old scow,
housed over and used for q bum boat,
from which the vilest whiskey is dis.
pensed to thirsty Finlanders, Italians
and others. Rows occur here nightly
and men are drowned occasionally,
What fools these mortals be-"
j. M. Turner rode into Arvon as your
rode out. He it is under
whom the road is being built. Rumor
said that be had arrived to inaugurate
the sale OF lots, but this cannot be so
for q dense forest covers the land. The
, ailroJd in approaching Huron Bay,
has an eieven hundred feet elevation TO
overcome. This is slightly greater
than the D, S. s. & A. grade into
1t enters the site upon hugo
@Y," the prongs Of which give ample
space for yard room and run over level
ground. Near the water front, back
about thousand feet, the ground
gradually rises and makes beautiful
TOW nni.c. Keep your eye on Huron
Bay it 40 one vi the "future greats" OF
Michigan.
All that is needed to at once establish
O city at Huron Bay il liberal land
policy. One need only go to L'Anse to
see grand opportunities for future great
ness thrown away by the act Of the
owner Of the water power and lake