Year: 1871




of the next Congress.


''sUPERIoR AND TEE ENTRY IMPROVEMENT"
The last Duluth Moanesotian has the
following:


We think speak for the whole people of Duluth
when the people of Superior, that we have
but the best wishes for their prosperity and only
sympathy for their disappointments and that, while
desirous and think it our right that Congress
should aid literally to improve harbor the Tef-
minus Of great Railroads and the Port of an ex
tensye lake commerce. are also in favor of nation
al appropriations fully test the experiment of max
ing the Entry success-though do confess
doubts Of that being assured If the plan adopt
ed for that purpose and partly prosecuted
in overcoming the natural obstacles of river current
lake storms and shifting sand bars that have hereto
fore frustrated the efforts of commerce that
entry in tempest well a calm, shall at least
feel the qualification arising from consciousness
that another and from the Inner Harbor of
Duluth has been established.


To all which we have simply to say:


First. We trust the people of Superior
are at least decently grateful for good
wishes by whomsoever manifested Sym
pathy for disappointments however is not
asked for. Honest and impartial disposi-
tions, on the part of the powers that be,





case requires.


Second The only harbor Duluth has
and it is an. exceptionally ample and mag
nihcent one-is the Bay of Superior, sup
plemented by the contiguous Bay of St.
Louis both, common domain of the States
of Minnesota and Wisconsin.


Third. The single railroad now coming
into Duluth, runs for miles right along side
ofthis harbor, and already owns, as We are
informed, a very extensive frontage thereon,
and can be vastly better accommodated
therein than in any "outside harbor' that
can be constructed.


Fourth. Duluth cannot afford to DO
without this grand natural harbor and does
not expect to, any more than Superior
does, and hence is interested with Superior
in securing perfect entry into the same.
The present natural entry, at the mouth of
the St. Louis river-the boundary between
the two States-is just as available for Du-
luth as for Superior True, the bay is
shoal at its northern end upon which Du-
luth borders, but the same necessity which
now exists for overcoming that difficulty
by dredging, would be in no, degree obyia-
ted by any new entry cut through Mime
sofa Point at that part of the bay. The
dredging would still have to be done, and
Duluth fully intends to provide for that
necessity in any event.


al -, ~, .Io
entry is a perfect one in its netural state !;
if it WERE our harbor, with this added to
its other advantages, would be almost a
prodigy-at least an anomaly among har-
bors on the Lakes. The entry channel, is
already an available one, but susceptible OF
and needing the ordinary improvements
applicable to such situations. Nature did
the work in the first instance, government
will finish and perfect it. Why this state
of the case is less felicitous than the status
at the other end of the Point, near Duluth,
where nature has done no part of the work,
and art would have to do all of it, if any.
we are utterly unable to perceive.


Sixth. The government engineers having
the entry works in charge, have no doubts
rs 10 the success of the ''experlment;" or
rather, as the conditions there, are in no res
pect novel to them, it is not an ''experl
ment" with them. Ifthey thought it tworth
their while, they could probab Y convince
even the editor of the Hnsnesotian that
thay not fools.


Seventh. Hence with good grounds
may Duluth join Superior in asking an ap
preparation for this Improvement, which
can be completed in 4 few weeks with {
sufficient sum allotted TO the purpose
far less sum than would be required for any
other Improvement which government ha:
been asked to undertake at the head o
Lake Superior And with good reason
and with happy results to the conscience
and reputation of her operators, may Du
luth cease to beseige Congress tor othe
improvements, upon the false pretenses
that she needs an outside harbor ant
breakwater, that the present entry Is no
available to her commerce, and that he
railroad is not amply accommodated by tn