The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-04
IT MAY RIVAL NIAGARA.
s.EAr MANUFACTURING CENTRE IN
YORTHERy WILDERNEsS

vntcr Power Canals at sauit ste. Marie
That viii Accommodate Two Miles Of
mills, with Lake Superior for n Mill Pond
Power Has Boen Already Parceilcd Out.
WASHINGTON, Nov 3.-Senator Mcmillan OF
Michigan has Just made a trip TO the upper
r,.insula OF his State. and has found that the
prs.ent great prosperity OF the United States
/, ,sout to result in making Sault Ste. Marie
ono OF the manufacturing centres OF the coun-
,ry. This place. situated on the st. Mary's
river. at a rather remote point OF the national
boundary has escaped attention very largely
,incs its boom fell fiat about ten years ngo.
put with the revival OF business now men have
,sten hold and the Senator declares that he is
.,tounded beyond measure at what he saw
vat,r.power canal one and quarter
rr,les long is being cut on tho American side.
and one half mil. long has already been con-
.,,ueted on the Canadian aide. whore II runs a
,v,od mi M iii for the company which Is devel-
opIng the water power. The same people are
constructing u railroad from snult Ste Marie
+, Hud.on's BAY. and by 1t rich deposits OF iron.
nick oil and copper will be tapped and vast areas
=, timber land made tributary. The whole
.rh.me. which Is In tho hands OF one com pany.
4. expected to transform the American 500"
.,d the Canadian 500" into one vast water
mill, having Lake Superior for mill pond and
ali the mineral and forest wealth OF upper
Michigan and Canada to draw upon for raw
material
The thing about It that pleased Senator
MACMILLAN more than anything else was the ap-
p,reut total absence OF the speculative incsn-
tive The com pany. which is composed mostly
O, Philadelphia men. IL Incorporated under a
.p.cIsl charter granted 10y tho legislature OF
Connecticut, and Is managed by man from
Maine. 1t paws spot cash for everything and
already has its great enterprise 80 well ad-
yspced that its com pstlon Is only matter OF
.,ev months The water-power canal on the
American side will accommodate row OF
mill. directly upon its banks about milo
long. giving each u fall OF water OF eighteen
feet and in ample quantity. Yet all this
power has already been parcelled out to
manufacturing concerns which will begin
building as soon as tho canal is completed
Six trains OF cars work night and day upon tho
excavation. which 10 being cut through n soft
.hals The work Ia proceeding along the whole
line. and has all been contracted for at cost
o, 100000. It appears TO tho unskiled OBJ
seryer to be at lenst two-thirds completed.
although the contractors say 1t Is only little
more than half done. The Hudson Bay Rail-
road Is ALREADY, so ar along that the rolling
side the pulp mill turns, out 100 tons OF wood
pulp per day. which IS all shipped TO Japan.
and IN manages the enterprise ia +. II. Ciersue.
already familiar figure to m lining and iron
men 10 this country; He has rebuilt an ancient
blockhouse on the Canadian side OF the river,
aud there he centres the, wires by which hs
reaches out to direct AMI control his work.
10 IL. paper mills Of japan, willis tame bear.
sport and dig In front OF his door and Saint
,ns ss ;Sn Stand rpy I'D, les BY s E, Ri:
book shelves. and in a laboratory big
enough for an ordinary college, llIteen
IN defining the value "T Of the nilnersi
grants the Hudson Bay Railroad has received
from the Canadian Goysrnment. One iron
ODER q s7GSootG Tor i. Mr. ciersSs IS de-.
III :hs information that comes 70 MIN from His
laboratory, and withall he is an inventor. hay
ine devised several Of the machines used in
power 10 ready he will erect an immense pulp
mill on that side, and commence to convert
people Of New, York. chicago and san Fran:
cisco may real the news on tho same morn ng.
, sen 2. .,J Esx S found peculiar
agt.st manufacturing centre in that northern
wilderness, because brings to realization a
MARIE 1tS L. TO pr 10 SsyS sGgt
i the direct result OF the railroad which the
The International railroad bridge there va.
also his enterprise. but the company which
frst end f,s 70 develop The water power
checked until the present national boom Sent
the man from Maine looking for water power
upon q transcontinentalr route. suitable t. the
manufacture OF wood pulp. And when h,
found one almost rlyalllnR Niagara. he proved
equal to the task Of developing IT,
Senator Mcmillan makes nc estimate OF the
sze Of the city he expects to see grow there
but he points to ths great extent Of the water
power soon to be available. to the mines and
timber almost without limit in adjacent terri.
tory on both sides OF the river. and to the fact
that by means OF electricity factories OF various
kinds can secure power over an area not les
than fifteen miles In diameter.