The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1894-11-24
Why not Something Practical?

! We venture the assertion that there
/ is not another city in the Union where
/ so much impractical talk is INDUCED in
( Dy its leading men as right here in Sn
/ perlor. \ deep waterway TO the ocean
/ would 10 doubt be a good thing for SUI
/ perior and ii viii no doubt be accom-
/ piished in due season, but not in the
/ days of those now doing business in
/ this CITY. Ii will not come for the eX-
/ elusive benefit Of Superior. but when
] the business of the country demands it
and that will not be until we have cities
larger than Superior, dotting the desert
prairies of the west, as does St. Paul
and Minneapolis the counties of Ram
J say and Hennepin
canal from Superior across the
country to the Mississippi river would
be grand good thing for contractors
and spectators, but like the Fox
River, it would be OF little service other
wise. Little political rings and rings
may be formed and so interlinked that
. this scheme may sometime be put
through, but this, too, is i creature of
the future
The scheme TO bringing into the coun-
ty several hundred impecunious fam
lies to open up farms which require
much time, labor and capital to make
them selt-sustalnin9, may be practical
IN counties where they have more capt.
tai than they know what to do with,
but why the Superior steerer should
waste time discussing the scheme is
more than we can understand Our de-
pendent list is already quite large
enough.
But there are things We might per-
haps help and encourage. Once more
is the Superior Red Wing and Southern
railway organizers making an effort to
get into Superior. Now every man III
Superior, every public organization III
the city, ought to take hold and work
with a will, in whatever way opens. to
encourage this enterprise, an institution
which would be Of immediate use and
benefit. 1t would open up miles of ter
rltorv now 4 tracklcSs wilderness, and
cause towns to spring up into exist
ence, put thousands OF men at work in
the woods and without local aid open
up more farms than any emigration
scheme we could devise. But in the
past We have placed Obstacles in the
way OF this road, in>ted of encouraging
and aiding it.
Then there is the Milwaukee and st.
Paul road. That company wants to get
to the lake; but what has our Board of
Trade or Chamber of Commerce ever
said or done to aid and encourage this
enterprise? OF course the daily papers
have made personal mention of these
railroad officials when they have visit
ed our city, and said it would be a good
thing to have them build their roads to
Superior, but we think it doubtful if so
much as depot grounds have been ten
dered them as an induccmcnt to come.
Several saw Mill enterprises have
been offered to us the last few years,
but for some cause unknown to man
kind in general, they have ali been de.
clined with or without thanks Our
standing pine is our wealth-our gold
mine-but comparatively speaking, not
a stick Of it is put into lumber within
the county limits, but it all gors out in
the rough, even escaping the tax gath
erer. The mills we ought to have are
located in Duluth and in the manufac-
ture of eur raw material that city reap@
great reward. It must be because on.
people 90 not Ike the noise Of a saw
mill that they VIII have none of them.
Let US drop the wild schemes of our
poetic fancy, and turn our attention to
the practical things of lie, the things
which VIII benefit Us today.