The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-04-08
The Rapid Growth
City of Eve1eth.
"A Few Days in the Iron Range
Towns.

Motion is life; stagnatioi is death.
It seems nice to sit in the editorial!
rooms, scan the exchanges and theor"
jze 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 metropolis like Du-
l,:th, where hotels are fitted with all
the modern conveniences, where water
is the best, where sewerage is perfect,
where the markets are well supplied
with eatables, where rooms are evenl 3
and warmly heated by steam do not
know what privileges they enjoy un-
til they get out among the pioneers
and see what the first comers have
to contend with when they make their
beginnings in the new, settlements.
And right here let us suggest thai
If you, reader, want to spend most
profitable week, you cannot do better,
! il you have never done SO before, than
Ito purchase a ticket over the Duluth
& Iron Range railroad and go up. 70
Ely. stopping at the principal towns
along the line. s--- -.-..
You can spend day very agreeably
at Two Harbors, while you will be
surprised at the extensive dockage al
rangements for receiving iron ore,
from the up towns, as delivered here
IN readiness to be shipped by boats to
the lower lake ports. T.,
While here you will be interested
and instructed in the chemical labra-
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 arriv,
ais Of freight trains bringing in iron
ore and cannot fail to observe the i'm
1!.ense freight business being done by
this railway, their freight this year
reaching the millions of tons.
d Continue the journey northward.
See the Improvements being made By
the railroad company, relaying track,
putting down double tracks and pre-
pairing for the transportation of MANY
millions of tons of ore to be carried
from the mines to the lake. See the
immense pine forests through which
we pass, and the lumber camps, all
new and interesting to those never
here before. III. -,
go on up to Tower, town of 1850
people. A week is none too much time
for you and your party to spend here.
You are now right on the edge of Yer
million Lake, one of the most beauti
1 full sheets of water in the state. The
fishing here is excellent. Take ride
some; day up the lake in one Of the
little pleasure craft that goes some
4 twenty miles up to the head Of the
) lake. And while you are about it
keep right on from Vermillion Lake
across the country by stage to Rainy
Like, and thence to- the gold regions
where they are taking out from the
gold mines real; gold quartz, are eN
fracting the gold from the stone, il
which it is imbedded-4a1ie 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: Investigation of the gold fields
and the processes for mining for gold
concluded, you return to Tower. After
finishing you fishing expedition, the
week having passed all too quickly,
/ you go forward tOTEly. r
Good hotels here. Stop with Mr..
Glade. Fine table: best cook OIL the
Range. Call for porterhouse steak.
You can rest your case on that.
You may think you are !; good ways
out of the world here, but you will find
that you are in the midst of civiliza-
ton. For proof go to the mines and
see the modern appliances for bringing
iron ore to the surface of the ground,
go through the public school, go our
to the electric light plant, owned and
operated BY the city, and don't forget
to get permission to go through the
hospital in charge of Doctor Ship
man. -
Your. two days of sojourn here fin,
ished. return over the Iron Range rail
way to Allen Junction, change cars
here and so to
l. EVELETH.~
If it be possible for you to get here
in June you will be immensely inter
csted in what you see. This town Of
800 buildings or more is to be moved Il
distance of half a mile on to an ele-
waited plateau where, from this elr-
waited position. the inhabitants can look
down upon all the surrounding co,ln-
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The reason for this removal is plain
when itfis understood that with twelve
million tons of ore estimated to be
z,ntler the present town site, the par
ties interested in the ore are willing to
hear all the expense of grading streets
i'll the new town, put in the required
street improvements, move all the
buildings, repair all the damages AMI
place the town in every way as good
as it is now. ,.- e. .iz.r.
= The plan of moving contemplates ic
eating streets and blocks as they ara
now in the old town, stores, shops and
residences to be located i'll the new
town as ut present. corner stores
to be corner stores as before. Ole o.
sons shop to be next to Ora Peter
sons house, and Henry Nelson's office
TO be next to John ,Inhnson's store.
Just as they are situated now
Tn June they will be right in the
midst of the movin@-tlle Ericscns. he
Nickolsons and the Bensons-the
houses going up so smoothly rs to
enable the families to remain steadily