River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1892-03-03
WEST SUPERIOR.

The prospect for the construction
this year of the first section of the
Milwaukee & Superior Bee Line grows
road referred TO will run from Super
Tor to the 500 line.
Iron miners will soon become a
drug in the market at the rate which
they are now being discovered up on
the Mesaba range north of here.
The street railway company has
just appropriated the sum of two hun
dred thousand dollars for further i'm
pTovements and equipment. The
time is near when Tower Avenue will
have "A street car each way every
three minutes.
Senator Villas has sat down upon
the proposition TO attach Superior to a
projected Duluth customs district and
SO this city will not hold open the
sack TO enable the town over on the
cliff to bag our shipping statistics.
The Ashland people are getting
jealous of Superior. They ought to be
IN better business than standing in
with Duluth to secure legislation i'm
mical to the interest of city in their
own State which will within a few
years become the metropolis of Wis
cOnsin.
Plans have been perfected for an
extensive nickel. plating establish
ment here, such an industry having
become necessary for the better ac-
commodation of the stove and steel
range works. Chicago now sends to
Superior for stoves.
The West Superior Brick Company
are improving their facilities and will
this year turn out millions of pressed
sbrick.
a second association of Dakota far.
mers have put up two hundred thous.
and dollars for an elevator in this city
aud it now looks as though there will
he two big Dakota elevators built here
the coming season.
l.. Albenberg & Co. have opened a
dTy-gOods store here.
A. A. Freeman enjoys the distinc-
ton of having purchased the first
wheat offered for sale on the West
Superior Board of Trade. The con-
sigument consisted of fifteen cars of
North Dakota No. | hard which will
be converted into a Superior grade of
hOur at the Freeman mill, which will
soon be ready for business.
Should there be four or five candi
dates for mayer, as now seems proba-
BILE, dayOr Pattison will become a can
didate and be elected. lie is a shrewd
politician, an excellent organizer. and
always knows just what he is doing
when toying with the political buzz
saw.
Some of the boys want Prof. Thayer
for mayor, but j. 3. would rather
boom East Superior than be mayor9
and refuses to enter the race. lie is a
great hustler and as consequence
East Superior is blossoming out in a
way that promises luscious fruit.
Records at the National Capital
prove that the West Superior post.
Office shows greater increase in bust
ness than any other post-ofiice in the
country, the gain being l07 per cent.
The Touring mill already in opera.
ti0n here has been purchased by Du-
luth parties who will at once begin the
work of doubling its capacity.
The work being turned out by the
superior Stove Works will bear the
closest inspection, and range manu-.
featured there now on exhibition in
the window of prominent Tower
Avenue hardware dealer is a daisy.
Misses Bradley and Dexter Owen of
Trenton were here last week to look
over the city of destiny.
When the interests of Superior are
at stake Congressman Haugen never
gets ratified nor Stops over. He some.
/ times takes occasion to give our "laad.
ing citizens a little advice from the
Washington end of the line, and al.
/ ways talks sense.
TIE Chicago 81 North Western has
obtained control of the Milwaukee,