St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-18
Members Get an Inkling OF
the Wonderful Resources
OF Minnesota.
MADE A VISIT TO VIRGINIA
And Marveled at the Growth
Of Tower, Ely and Other
New Towns.

| Duluth road, a special train of seven
sleepers carrying the party. Though
dusty, travel stained and little
tired, the party was in the best of
spirits, and without a dissenting
voice voted it the most profitable
and enjoyable junket of the season.
Very few of the party had any con-
ception of the vast resources and
material wealth of that section of
the state, and as the train ratified
along over the ore-ballasted road,
through a rocky, barren and desert
looking waste, on the way up, the
members were disposed to doubt the
truth of the statement that it was a
rich country. A member from a
southern county expressed what was
the pretty general conviction of the
party when he said: Talk about
this land being taxed So an acre );
why, 1 wouldn't give three damns a
township for it, But before the
party started on the return trip he
had raised his estimate at least two
to one on his original valuation At
Ely he stood on the platform of the
coach and saw one forty-acre tract
that was worth more than any $10,-
900 acres in the county where he
lived.
Many of the members were simply
astounded at the magnitude of the
! iron industry. Here were mines
which had been opened up at an
expense of millions of dollars for
simply stripping them, mines where
the promoters had sunk hundreds of
thousands of dollars before they
saw a pound of iron. Standing on
the edge of one of these shafts
which had been opened under such
circumstances Jim -Boggs said to a
member: 'They put 100000 into this
mine before they took out enough
iron to make horseshoe"
| And what is it worth now?" asked
| the member
| well, you see. this is one of the cases
| where the prospector lost" said Boggs.
and the mine can be bought for S1O.-
| 0O0'
II did the same thing myself last
| night on a small scale,'' thoughtfully
remarked the member.
'How's that?" asked Boggs.
Stayed in a Jackpot with pair of
| deuces and didn't help
| 49, ST. LOUIS COUNTY. ri 5.rt
| is pretty large county. Starting from.
| st. Paul to go to the upper end of st.
Louis county, and arriving at Duluth,
| the county seat, the traveller is very
apt to begin gathering UP his traps
with the idea that he is near his desti-
T.llyn he e,+o e ID
land and chuck it into the center of
st. Louis county and it would never
be discovered unless some of the inhab-
itants voted the Populist ticket
| Duluth is, of course, the metropolis
of all this vast territory, besides being
the Zenith City of the unsalted seas.
the head of the lakes, and the home of
Jim Boggs and others. Duluth is des-
tined to be one of the greatest cities
on the continent. 1t was founded for
] that purpose. A city that is set upon
! hill cannot be hid, and city that
has Dan Moon pushing it along has
got to come out winner at the end
And he is not the only one It is, for
all practical purposes,a seaboard town,
and the fact that it is the depot and
entrepot of the grand empire that lies
between the Pacific coast and father
of waters Quoted from Dan Morgan 8
speech on HI. F. y makes it the city Of
destiny. Duluth has many natural adj
vantages. The site was selected on ac-
count of the location. The mere fact
that the lake happened to be there had
nothing to do with it. 1t has a shore
frontage extending from West Superior
to the very north limit of the city, sew
eral miles and a half, and every inch
of 1t abuts on the water. 1t has an
infinite variety of business interests,
and a climate that is 9S-proof Serious
ly, 1T is one Of the most enterprising
cities on the American continent, and
possesses some of the most enterpris-
ing citizens who ever wrested victory
from defeat and planted a garden OF
roses in a frozen frog pond. Talk is
cheap in Duluth, as it is everywhere
else on earth, except in the legislature
where it costs $3.50 an hour, but in Du-
luth talk amounts to something. The
talking is generally done in the office
OF some Eastern capitalist, and the
money is invested in Duluth. They
have several substantial ten-story
brick and stone evidences to contra.
dict the theory that talk is always
cheap.
Only a few years ago all that terri.
tory lying to the north and northwest
of Duluth, extending from Two Har-
bors to the Rainy Lake river and
the Red River Of the North, was con
sidered a barfeh waste, and was IN
habited only by Indians, lumbeTinsi1
hunters and other barbarians. 1t was
| considered practically worthless ex-
cept for the timber and it was es.
| teemed an objectionable breach Of eth
| quette to pay for the timber. Today II
will average up with the rest of thf
state on a basis of cash valuation, and
while there are stretches of country
miles in extent that are worthless
there are other localities rich enough Il
make UP for it. The discovery OF
| iron and copper In this region brought
to 1t about all the hustlers in the coun.
try, and it has been booming evei
since. There may not be so much
| money there, but they 10
/ KEEP IT IN CIRCULATION.
| Take Virginia City as an example
If there were only one f1ve-doliar note
in the city. and no way to get any more
into the town, every man in town
would have that note on an average at
least once week. Virginia was not
always city. In fact, when Dan Moon
took hold of it there wasn't much there
except the location and the climate.
Today it is the queen city of the range.
When the legislative party struck
Virginia they struck a surprise. They
expected to find a few scattering shan
ties and good many evidences of the
fire that swept the place of every yes
hge of improvements only a few
months ago. They were agreeably sur
| prised to find a well laid-out, electric-
| lighted substantial town with no WIS.,
ible evidences of the late catastrophe.
| They were escorted to a hotel, which
i would be a credit to a city of 10000 in
habitants. and found all the comforts