The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1893-06-03
SUPERIOR.S GREAT FUTURE.

A. r. Smith, the able editor of The
Seaboard, published in New York, is
evidently a well posted friend of SUI
perior, and abiding to the Weeks fail
ure and it's effect upon Superior, he
says:
1.-The press of the country has lately
been largely devoted to discussion OF
| the assignment of Francis Ill. Weeks,
of this city. Mr. Weeks held large IN
terests in the city of Superior, the
great port of Wisconsin at the head of
Lake Superior, and as close to Duluth,
Num-, as Jersey City is to New York.
The papers say that Mr.. Weeks as
Segment is due to his carrying too
heavy a load and his inability to renew
a large amount of paper outstanding.
But little has been said, however, OF
Superior, and the public at large might
be misled into believing that it is a
town of mushroom growth, suffering
from an inflated BOOM" Nothing is
further from the truth than this.
The city of Superior IS situated at
the extreme western end of Lake Su-
peri0r. The ground is almost level,
but with just enough natural grade for
good drainage. Protecting its front
from the rayagcS OF the lake in storms
is a magnificent crescent shaped arm
Of land enclosing st. Louis Bay, the
latter being fed on the Minnesota side
by the powerful st. Louis river, which
possesses great natural advantages III
the way OF &daptability TO furnishing
water power. Moreover it stretches
back into the vast forest land covered
with the finest and most extensive
timber in the y Northwest. The Nemad
il river on the opposite side is also rich
in future Industrial possibilities.
Along its fine and extensive water
front Superior even now is able TO
show ship yard where thirty ships
have already been built and which viii
during the present year turn out q fin
ished ship every three weeks the well
known WhalebackS-a statement that
is enhanced by the fact that the iron
ore from which the plates are made is
found but thirty miles distant i'll the
richest and most easily worked depO5
its known III the world Blast furnaces
and rolling mills reduce this to pig and
convert it into steel, right on the spot.
In addition the most colossal coal docks
i'll existence are to be found, soon to
be dWarfed by even greater ones
These docks now receive about 1000
600 tons Of coal annually. Besides these
there are flour mills with a daily Ca
pacity of about 10000 barrels, and
grain elevators capable of storing IL,
OOO, 900 bushels of grain. Ore docks are
being rapidly built, and in a short time
they will probably surpaSS in capacity
and extent any others on the lakes, it
being expected that zoe, GOO tons OF
ore will be shipped from Superior this
season from a dock that was only com
pleted last winter, and the ore now
known to exceed 500, 900, 900 tons I'M
covered upon ranges that were not
known three years ago.
AS compared with her older and
rrouder but cliff embarrassed rival
across the st. Louis, Duluth, Superior
possesses Typographical advantages
which the former may meyer enjoy and
which are destined to make Superior
the great commercial port of the
Northwest. AS it taps the richest
grain belt in the world, the finest tim
Der land in the country and the most
colossal and easily worked iron mines
of the richest quality ever found on
American soil, the failure of any one
man or dozen of men will in no wise
retard her growth. This is the more
assured since the affairs of the great
shipbuilding plant, the s., coo 600 steel
plant, the blast furnaces, land cOmpa-
MES, and other enterprises, are Ill the
hands and under the personal direction
of the richest, the keeneSt, the ShreWd-
est and the ablest syndicates of men in
America