The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1892-01-02
Ten Years Ago.

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Superior and assumed the control and
management of the TINES. The old
town Was lust boomin'" then, and
we wandered UP and down the streets
three days, sleeping on cot in a store
at night, while we drew on the hospi-
tally of Mrs. H. w Shaw for provis-
| ions, before we could find place of
| permanent Judgment. Every wood
| shed, even, seemed to be inhabited.
/ and 1t was Tor t,,c lack of house room
that we had to lea.e our family back
IN Minnesota until a house could be
prepared for them
The Northern Pacific railroad had
reached the city ftarteen days before.
The Chicago and Superior Air Line
Railway company Was building its road
! straight through TO Chicago cross lots,
as fast as five hundred men and teams
could do it; While the Omaha company
was building its read toward the city
from st. Paul at the rate of a mile
day.
/ Everybody was hopeful, for it did
seem us though Gabriel had footed his
horn for keeps and that the resur-
ection morn for old Superior, the city
OF destiny which had been sleeping for
more than quarter of Il century, had
da"ned. But while man proposes God
dlsp0ses, and the fellows who were
proposing to build an air line railroad
to Chicago and beat the Omaha in the
grab for the big Land grant, went Into
the soup head over heels, one fine
frosty morning, and the road was not
built and the Omaha people got the
lands. The Omaha roatl came. passed
by and went TO Duluth, and the old
town settled back in The breeding com
pletclv exhausted with the excitement
of the past three months Since then
she has had spasmS of get-lhere active
/ ness, but for the most part has been
content to watch her ghbors-Du-
luth, West Duluth, New Duluth, West
Superior, South Superior. and East ST.
perlor-grow and prosper.
But there have been some legitimate
reasons for the inaction and compare
lively light growth. All or nearly all
. of the property had got int a terrible
condition as regarded titles, and II was
almost i'm possible to make a transfer;
then much of the property WAS owned
by wealthy non-residents who woul!
( neither sell nor improve; these and
! other things operated against us 10
such an extent that little progress III
city building has been done at the oil
stand. But while these obstacles were
being overcome, largely during the
past two or three years and through
the efforts of the Consolidated Land
Company, Il city has been growing IN
/ all about cur borders and al to our
benefit 10 a great degree, until to-day
we constitute a part of {. city Of 1900
people, as against the 600 people III the
entire county ten Years ago.
Ten years AGO we recorded i'll these
columns the bright outlook for the
! future then visible III the events pass
ing and projects planning, and once
more as we start out on eur second de
CAGE We can see Il bright future just
ahead, The most griGyo!5 obstacles iii
car way have been removed, Next
week, probably, the coHtractftr BALD
ing 800 barrel nouring mEsn Que
bee pier VIII be let. t. follow this is
/ Il coo,cvage which viii employ large
force of men, aud ut the start bring
taore tI;in sixty families to this part
Of the city. The Superior, Red Wing
! x southern road VII renew operations
in the early spring and give Us a new
ST. Paul connection by january /,
1898. The W innipeg read will be ran
ming It's car, to -iliouez bay before the
I mosquitoes leave rs next season, ana
/ the Omaha people who gave us the 90
/ by ten years ago. VIII come back and
make their terminal grounds on Al
! loncz bay, for which they are even now
drawing Huns fer improvements to
/ cost :s250,00O. Superior is all right,
1 ''bress de Lord" and the world do
move and we move with it, and Old
! Superior will, within five years, take
/ the cream from every pan III the whole
dairy. We have seen many changes
! around about us III the past ten years,
! but we are going to see greater changes
VI HOME in the next ten years, and
! lease remember we told you s."
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