The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-04-08
The Rapid Growth
City of Eve1eth.

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Motion is life: stagna,ion is death.
l. seems nice to sit in the rdltoria!
rooms. sean the exchanges and thror.
izc about what things ought to be, but
there is nothing like getting out among
the people and seeing conditions as
they really are.
The citizens of a metropolis like Dr.
1uth, where hotels are fitted with all
the modern convenienccS, where water
is the best, where sewerage IS perfect
where the markets are we'll supplied
with catablcS. where rooms are event.:
and warmly heated by steam do not
know what privileges rhev enjoy I'M
til they get out among the pioneers
and see what the first Corners have
to contend with when they make their
beginnings in the new settlements.
And right here let us suggest thai
ii you. reader, want to spend most
profitable week, you cannot do better.
it you have never done so before, than
to purchase a. ticket over the Duluth
4. Iron Range railroad and go up 70
Ely, stopping at the principal towns
along the line.
You can spend a day very agreeably
at Two Harbors, while You will be
surprised at the extensive dockage a.
engagements for receiving iron ore,
from the up towns, as delivered here
in readiness to be shipped by boats to
the lower lake ports.
While here YOU will be interested
and instructed in the chemical labrd-
tory Of the Iron company where they
determine the character Of the ore,
the per cent OF iron in the same, and
the quality of IRON.
You will notice the continued a1'ri'
ais of fire ght trains bringing in iron
ore and cannot fail to observe the I'M
1!rense freight business being done by
this railway, their freight this year
reaching the millions Of tons.
Continue the journey northward.
See the improvements being made By
the railroad company, relaying track,
pntting down double tracks and pre-
pairing for the transportation of many
millions of tons of ore to be carried
from the mincs to the lake. See the
immense pine forests through which,
we pass, and the lumber camps, all
ncw and interesting to those never
here before.
Go on up to Tower, Il town of $500
people. A week is none too much TIM,
for you and your party to spend here.
You are now right on the edge of Yer.
million Lake, one CT the most beaut
full sheets of water in the state. The
fishing here is excellent. Take Il ride
some day ND the lake in one Of the
81 IL. hat
twenty miles up to the head of the
lake And while you are about it
Keep right on from \ermillion Lake
across the country by stage to Rainy
Lake, and thence to the gold regions
where they are taking out from thu
gold mines real gold quartz, are eN
tracing the gold from the stone ~
which it is imbeddetl-arc melting this
gold into bricks and shipping it away
as a commodity, as regularly as the
imperial is shipping flour except, Of
course, in not such large quantities.
The invest cation of the gold fields
and the processes for mining for gold
concluded. you return to Tower. .\ftrl
finishing you fishing expedition, the
week having passed all too quickly,
you 60 forward to Ely.
Good hotels here. Stop with Mr..
Glade. Fine table: best cook on the
Range. Call for porterhouse steak.
You can rest your case on that.
You may think YOU are Il good way
on, of the world here, but you will find
that YOU are in the midst Of civilian
ton. For proof go to the mines ami
see the modern appliances for bringing
iron ore to the surface OF the ground.
90 through the public school. 90 or
to the electric light plant, owned and
operated by The city, and don't forget
to get permission to go through tn"
hospital in charge OF Doctor Ship
man.
Your two days OF soiourn here fin
ishcd, return over he Iron Range rail
wa> TO Allen Junction, change cars
here and 90 to
ENELETll.
If i, be possible for YOU to gel here
i'm June YOU will he immensely inter-
t>;tu in what You see. This town u
500 buildings or more is to be moved ?
distance OF half Il mile on 10 All riv-
waited plateau where, from thi>; r't-
waited position. the inhabitants can lnni>
down upon all he surrounding r;Nln-
try.
The reason for this lrlnr>a! is prin
when it is ,lnNrrSt Dotl that Wit u twelve
million tons Of ore estimated to Ir'
lin,lrr tlr, present town site. the PAR
ties interested in the ore arc Wiling Ia
bear all the expense OF grating stree"
in the new town. put in lhr required
street improvements. move all tie
buildings, repair all the damages. III /
place the town in every way rs good
a. il is now.
The plan OF moving contemporaries i:
eating streets and blocks n i,rN II!
1,uN in the old town. stores. shops ana
residences to he 10 .nlrtl in the new
town as al present. corner stores
/, be corner shores is l'rfNrr. Ole o.
sens shop to he nest Ia Ora l'rtr''-
sons house, and Henry N:'!~.m'> OH, 9
l., nt u,'\i to John I.1ln~rn'> >tnrs'.
lust rs they are situated nnN.
In june they viii he rioh; il, The
midst OF he moving il. E,rp'~, as. i,r
Nlckul>rn> and the ltrn~pr~ tn,
houses COIN" NY so >mnohIy a> I"
runhlr f he families to remain >ttnliiN