Year: 1871




Let railroad twenty-three miles in length be con
structed from Superior westwardy during the year
1871 and it will be found practical solvent of the
complicated problem being worked out at the
head of Lake Superior Until the present year such a
road worth building for the very proper rea
son that the country west of us was wilderness and
great thoroughfares had yet approached the Lake
enough to make the immediate building of SO
short line object But the effect of constructing
such road the present year would be give this i'm
portant site the inside track in every OF the
phrase.


Our only rival has many national state and local
obstacles to overcome to make it worth while for her
schemers continue their expensive and hazardous
warfare against truth, right and nature after the i'm
portant railway link which refer has been put in
to actual operation.


The immense natural advantages of Superior have
done and will yet do her good service BY these she
has stood almost alone against opposing influences of
great power. and maintained her ground. But these
need to be reinforced at this time by RAILROAD ter
mnating in our limits.


With all the unparalleled disadvantages of Duluth,
her situation the north shore of Lake Superior ust
ten miles out of the wayG her absolute lack of a nat
ural harbor, inside out her and limited po-
stion the steep slope of the north shore bluffs
and all the other patent nfecites of that absurd site
for metropolis; with all these disadvantages the mere
fact of railroad terminating that jumping off place
has had little influence in determining thither what
little capital and immigration has drfed up Lake Su
perior the past season. And if Superior and the in
terestS at stake here to remain quiet long enough
it would not be impossible that the immense advertis
ing, magnificent lying, and INSCRIPTIONS knavery
which has sprung up like her crazy restlework
support Duluth would be enabled to draw one railroad
after another along the tortuous, snaky insecure and
roundabout line that dracs its slow length along the
north shore of the St. Louis river


Railroads pressing from every quarter
to make connection with the head of Lake Superior
If we do not give them chance to come in on the
best line they will come in the worst And once
centerng Duluth it would be their interest to fall
n with Cookies plan Of closing entry thus destroy
ing our harbor commercial advantages, and ruin
ing the finest site for great city that can be found
between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.


But single line of railroad twenty three miles in
length built from Superior this year will be of
situation and those home and abroad interested
in this should that ii be allowed fail.
Railroads then to the head of Lake Superior
BY short and direct route They will find entry,
harb0r, and breakSater ready made for their
They will avoid trestework, and freshets and land
Slides and multiudinous curves and many accidents.
They make an eastern connection without siak-
ing four millions in breakwatcr in Lake Superior,
and fighting the State of Wisconsin and the United
States government for years in the vain attempt to
cross and national harbor way They will have
the chord of the are the straight line of the triangle
in short the inside track.


The time 10 build this road is while other roads
seeking it. and that is the present year 1t would be
insane and suicidal in the capitalists interested here
delay building shat road when they have such spen-
did chance checkmate the game of bluff and blind
fold Duluth The time to charge the enemy is while
their columns are forming, in disorder, and
now, while the speculative at Duluth is trembling
in the balance is the time TO make real move this
side that will settle the matter in our favor once


Let then stop talking and build that railroad.