The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1915-09-17
DOWN THE LAKES
The Editor Sends Greetings from
Michigan to Herald-Advance
Readers

Readers
The editor of the Herald. .Ad-
vance has put in two weeks OF
sightseeing and enjoyed one OF
the most delightful boating ex-
cursions that it would be possible
to crowd into two and a half days
on water. That our ii liends, the
readers of the Harald-Advance
may not imagine they have got.
ten rid of US entirely we are
sending q short outline of our
trip. On leaving home Saturday
we spent Sunday in Minneapolis
as the guests Of Mrs. Sarah
Haight, who was one of the
young ladies of Big Stone short
ly after the place was first dis
covered by the whites, and that
we might not get into too much
mischief during the Sabbath our
hostess piloted the Dakotatians
to Simpson church for the morn
ing service, and in the evening
we continued our journey to
Morristown, Mimi, where we
were taken in hand by the broth
er of our better half and his fam
lily. The little town mentioned is
situated in one of the finest farm
ing sections of Minnesota, and
during our stay here we were
treated to several auto rides.
visiting the towns of Waseca,
Faribault, Albert Lea, Owatonna,
Waterville and Misunderstanding
$50 miles on one of these after
noon trips. Friday morning
found US in Duluth, and there
we were taken in charge by one
of our former Milbank boys,
Merritt Wiseman, who has had
his home in Duluth for number
of years past. Mr.. and Mrs.
Wiseman and little son are all in
good health and have a very COM
Portable home overlooking the
Duluth harbor and Lake Super.
ior. They piloted US about the
city to the different points of
interest, including the aerial
bridge, and Congdon Park, where
q little stream of water dashes
down the hills in rapids and falls,
several 0f which areas pictures
que at the celebrated Minnehaha
Falls near the Twin Cities. We
only had one days stop in Dull
nth as our boat, the Jumiata was
to leave in the evening, though
we could well have spent a couple
of days more looking over the
immense coal and iron ore docks.
During the day there we noticed
a half dozen of the great iron ore
boats come in or leave the harbor
loaded with ore. There can be
no question but that Duluth is
destined to be one of the great
cities of the northwest. It's ore
shipments last year amounted to
over II million tons, and it's grain
shipments were over "a million
bushels. The coal receipts were
nearly nine and a half million
tons and it's wheat receipts more
than 95 aud half million BUSH
els, and its lumber shipments
more than 218 million feet The
total tonnage of receipts and
shipments at this port for last
year amounted to 33, 535, 7O4.
With the growth and develop
ment of the great northwest this
commerce must continually in
crease, as it is a port of entry
for a thousand miles of water.
way to Buffalo, N. Y, affording
cheap transportation from the
east, and there are already pro.
jects for widening and deepen
ing canals that will eventually
permit the ocean steamers to
have clear way from the st.
Lawrence river and Atlantic
ocean, and there is no question
but that this will be accomplish.
ed within q few years. A great
steel plant, which will give en-
ployment to several thousand
men, is already under way. AS
we steamed away from the har-
Dor in the evening and out into
Lake Superior the innumerable
electric lights of the city, run
ming 600 feet up the bluffs from
the down town district, present
ed very pretty sight.
In times past the writer has
not proved a very good sailor in
rough seas, SO happily old Sup
.erior was in a very tranquil
state, as smooth and calm as Big
Stone lake at her best, and the
Jumiator glided through the
waters so easily that it was al
most impossible to realize that
the boat was moving. although