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THE SUPERIOR TIMES,
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■SUPERIOR, DOUGLAS CO,, WISCONSIN
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SUPERIOR TIMES PRINTING CO.
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THE CANAL ILLEGALITY.
r The managers in the crafty scheme by
which Duluth is to be built up on the ruins
of Superior, are now constantly asserting
that the construction of a canal at the head
of Minnesota Point will hot divert the wa
ters of the St. Louis river. Thisjissertion
is made, of course, to keep ot
Superior, and the state authorities of Wis
consin perfectly quiet until the canal is tiu
ished, and the whole plot of which this ca
nal project is the pivot, has swung beyond
the point of danger.
Asa well known matter of fact, the lore
going assertion of the Duluth managers is
without the shadow of a foundation, and
they themselves would be ashamed to make
it, were it not that the acknowledging of
the truth would immediately put this canal
affair in jeopardy, and with it the whole
scheme ot artificial and exclusive Minneso
ta harborage, of which it is intended to be
the main artery, and in behalf of which it
is and •signed to act as the destroyer of the
natural entry and harbor in front ot Supe
rior, by diverting the waters of the St. Louis
river from their natural course.
Gentlemen at Duluth blandly assure*us
with a confidence that speaks well for their
ignorance, or w< 11 for their opinion of our
ignorance, that the current of the St. Louis
liver would be forced to run up hill in or
der to re ich the Lake through the proposed
canal.
Let u examine this up hill argument a
moment. It is certain at least that the St.
Louis river does not have to run up hill in
order to find the lake-level at the pres m
entrv, since according to the ofti dal report
of an officer of the U. S. Engineer Corps,
the current pours out “at the rate of five
miles per hour, on an average.”
Il is aNo quite apparent from the official
declarations of the same officer that a canal
through Minnesota Point, just opposite the
Pay of St. Louis, or just opposite the place
at which the St. Louis river enters the Pay
of Superior, would afford another path lor
its waters toward the Lake that would by
no means be up hill. In fact the Engineer
expre -dy says that if such a canal were ex
cavated “ the waters of the river and bay
St, Louis would disenarge themselves by
an entirely different course from that at
present followed."’ According to his state
ment it would need a guard lock in the ca
nal to prevent this “complete diversion of
the St. Louis waters.” Even the Duluth
logicians will probably admit that the Lake
is ■> rfecth/ level between the entry and any
canal thus excavated opposite the extremi
ty of Pice's point; and that if the St.
Louis docs not run up hill to reach the
Lake-level at the entry, it would not run
ii}) bid to reach the Lake-level opposite the
extremity of Rice's point.
Will the Duluth savaus then please in
form their admiring friends ou the \\ is
eons'm shore how it is that the Lake-level
slants np hill so badly in the two miles
above Usee's Point that the St. Louis river
would have to climb so much to reads the
Lake-level through that canal as to call for
the expression “ run up hill.” And it the
Lake surface is lower at the entry than
St. Louis bay, and higher at Duluth than
the same bay, and yet is the same kind of
eloni ait that is generally supposed to “find
sis level,” we respectfully ask t; how that is
as regards altitude?”
A id if the St. Louis river runs four miles
to the right to find the Lake-level at .the
cnirv, we ask in the name of ordinary com
mon sen c why it will not run two miles to
the eft through the same bay to find the
>aine Lake-level through an artificial entry
that is intended to be ot sufficient depth
for vess sol tue largest cla^s, J
The truth is that this talk about the im
pos.sibihty of diverting the current ot the
St. Loui> river has but one object, and that
is to deceive the people and the State most
inter s e l in the present situation until it
should be too late lo undo the mischief
wrought, without an amount of labor and
<1 file ul tv which the p rsons thus specula’-
ing at th • i x case of AN iseonsin interests
think would bo sufficient to discourage lc
proceedings altogether, or induce a
compromise and a compounding with com
mercial felony.
The statement of competent engineers
publicK arid privately, officially and unoffici
ally, is that the construction of a canal any
where through Minnesota Point would be
“higl.lv injurious’* to the present entry and
would at an early day destroy it altogether.
The Duluth gentlemen though shamea-ss
in their attempt to iuflm nee the I nited
St.it ' Kngiuecrs, and tno ugh backed by all
the high toned suavities ot Jay C ookc, ha\e
thus far failed utterly to extort any opinion
fro; that responsible corps that was not
udvt rs to the idea of the possibility of an
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open excavation through the Point that
should not divert the St. Louis, and des
troy' the common entry now used. Men
of their character and reputation cannot af
ford to do otherwise than render such a
verdict, and Capt. Cuyler who was on duty
it ‘l-.e head of the Lake in 1869, though as
friendly to Duluth as a man with his posi
tion and knowledge could permit himself
to be, yet staled in so many words that
‘•the conditions of the entry are such that
tl* full ;.iii cat re lit i*> os-- mth-l to
se air out and keep clear an effective and
permanent entrance way.' That a diver
sion of the St. Louis would “speedily cause
a destruction of the entry.”* That the “sed
iment ot a clayey kind would rapidly fill
up the space between Minnesota and \\ is
cotisin Points, blocking up entirely in a
few years the presenteutry.” “These conse
quences” he goes on to say “connected as
they are with the legal question ot diverting
a navigable stream from its natural course,
the St. L.uis belong mg jointly to the two
States of Wisconsin a id Minnesota, whose
ropective interests are thus brought into
antagonism by any change, might however
be avoided, I think, by building in the ca
ll 1 across the Point a guard-lock of ample
-with suitable arrangements at either
end to admit water merely to pars vessels
through.' And so indeed it might.
I>ut who supp *ses that tie projectors of
Duluth intend to build a lock in the art’fi
cial entry they design. It would not suit,
their plans at all. Imagine a vessel fleeing
before a gale and steering for the entry of
a lock! It won and not do.
No guard-lock will ever bo built in any
canal cut by Duluth between the Lake and
bay. It is true they talk about putting a
dike across the bay with a guard-lock in it,
but, g-.od realer, when do you suppose that
dike wdl 1' built ? Certainly not this sea
son for the mini} is not forthcoming. The
UnitjC i States Government has refused to
: countenance the scheme ; the Northern
Pacific will put no money into dikes and
._ru.iv-.1-locks to cut up our harbor system;
Mr. Cooke is already tired of paying out
money, and Duluth city bonds will not bear
many additional thousands for this purpose
or any other.
The National Government lias failed to
honor the unlawful drafts of speculation in
this matter, and the short, allowance which
has already produced such contusion and
conflict of plans at Duluth will to a dead
certainty prevent any dike building this
season, as the guard-lock, alone by a con
fessedly low estimate, would cost $32,000,
besides a mile of cribbing, or diking.
Put the canal advocates wish to finish
that excavation by August at farthest, and
will certainly' do so it permitted to carry on ;
the wholly illegal \rork, and then with the
St. Louis in full flow to the Lake through
this Minnesota outlet the speculators would
according to their custom, make vantage
ground and capital of the injury itself, and
demand in the name of what tiiey had done
that thev might be allowed and assisted to
gu on, carrying out all their p ans, cutting
a canal also through the head ot Lice’s
Point, (as they fully intend lo do, and have
secretly mapped and plotted out) and in
tue course ol two or three years succeed in
a complete and total diversion of the St.
Louis river from its present channel to a
line mx miles north ot us, to the lasting in
jury of Wisconsin interests in this import
ant quarter.
No -wonder we are desired to keep quiet
ti 1 the new order ot tilings is so tar ad
vanced that the Philadelphia speculators
can torce it through with all its enormous
frauds, and its flagrant injustice to the in
terests of the Slate of Wisconsin at the
head of L ike Superior.
Now since t hese selfish schemers have left
their child’s play of building harbors in the
open Lake and have, in desperation, com
mei ced the opening of:* new entry whol’y
within Minnesota territory, and meant to
gi\e Minnesota the system of harbors at the
bead of Lake Superior that legally sh uni be
long to Wiseonsin in Comn on w ith Minneso
ta, it is quite time that our State should,
through her chief magistrate, assert her
ri' r ht' to the maiutainance ot the present
botindarv between iter domain and that ot
Minnesota at this p dnt, namely, the channel
of the fSt Louis river in lull volume anil torce
as a navigable stream; in its present direction
and entrance to the Lake, unswerved by a
hair’s breadth of diversion; uudiminished,
bv a drop of its accustomed waters, and
unchecked by so much as a Jot of its nat
ural mom. nlum and force. It is enough tor
all reasonable citizens of Minnesota that
their noble Slate has by nature her full sit are
of the hue commercial advantages at the
western extremity ot the chain ot Grout
SUPERIOR, WISCONSIN, SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 1871.
Lakes. More than this Minnesota has no
right to claim, and we are positively assured
that all illegal steps now threatened to be
taken by persons within her limits will be
resisted through the proper tribunals by the
constituted authorities of the state of Wis
consin, inch by inch and hour by hour. If
the past silence and forbearance of our
Stale has b< en mistaken for weakness or
indifference by the persons who have de
liberately planned this gigantic trespass
ca her maritime an 1 i rii.eri-fl interests,
thev will V>e advised ofTueTr mistakeTy the"
immediate legal consequences following
the overt act of uniting the waters of the
Lake and Bay of Sup ru*r by the surface
opening of an artificial entry through Min
nesota Point.
F .Offl TIL MiSTH SHiiaE SILVER MJE3.
TUB* SHOW AX TUB MIN II AS U OD AS KVER-DIFFI
CULTIES TUB AII.NEKS HAVE UAL) 10 CONTEND WITH.
We make the follow ini' extracts from an
interesting letter dated S Iver Islet .lan. 30,
from the pen ot C qit. A A m. B. fine, super
intendent of mining operaiious on Sdver
Island, pul.dished in the Houghton Minin'/
Gazette ot M arch 0:
A boarding-lions lias been erected on the island, in
which the men working on the is!a and live, and are now
comfortably mining, as it were, in the b .sum ol Lake
Superior, and as contentedly as it in tlie Calumet or
llecla mine, but at times when they emerge to the
surface a scene meets the vision which might well
make the blood run cold. Old Superior is now in its
maddest fury; the angry wave.- come rolling in as
though they w re determined to reclaim their lost ter
ritory—ami, in fact, they have several times neatly
accomplished this by submerging all the works inside
the colter dam, and that over a break-water twelve
feet high and twenty six feet in width; rocks which,
in still weather, are seven feet under w iter, are at such
times completely laid bare and exposed to vh w. come
of our heaviest cribs a e, during these Morins, handled
like- toys in the hands of a child, and timbers sixteen
inches square are snapped like pipe-stems. Some of
the cribs, llxl‘2xfo feet, have been torn from their
place and landed high and dry on the island, three
feet out of water.
Mining, under these circumstances, is anything but
plea-ant. You inav always < xpect a light with the
dements as described. Storms frequently occurring,
creating the liveliest apprehensions for the safety of
the woiks; carrying out supplies through channels of
broken ice, and lauding on an island literally covered
with ice, and looking more like ;l “berg" from Green
land than a place where men live and labor, is the la
bor of a w inter here.
For the last three weeks our mining operations have
gone on without, any interruption whatever, and the
1 show of silver continues as encouragnig ■>- .-.-hen opv
| aliens were first commenced, and the workings arc
j siime thirty feet under the level ol the lake without
anv increase of w ter. •
Should our operations continue through the winter
w ithout any unavoidable interruption, we shall be able
in the spring, to give a g > >d account of our labors, in
the shipment of a goodlv (plant.ty ot the white metal.
The result- of lubors here, together with those at
Thunder Bay. (Beck’s Mine) will no doubt awaken an
interest in this now dormant country which will peo
ple these now deserted woods with thousands, and the j
ring of the explorer’s hammer will be heard where now
you hear only the chirp of the squirrel. I have little
doubt, from what 1 have seen, that this will prove the
great El Dorado of the world.
The . now of silver at Jarvis’ Island, some thirty-five
miles southwest from Ft William, is reported by some
to be equal to that at Silver Island, while others do
not hesitate to say that in their opinion the show
there exceeds that here, which is saying a good deal,
as •• ; ruble of the ore 1 ten 1 will yield 25
per cent. of silver, and that in blocks of from one to
three hundn and pounds.
The settlement here is made up mostly of people
from in or near Houghton, and to the friends left be
hind it will be pleasant to know that .the health of all
continues good, and that their numbers have not de
creased.
Ppou the same subject we fiml the fol
lowing in the Ontonagon Miner of March
lllb:
From letters received from the north shore up to
til of Feb. v, g rth following items :
Mr. Clark the proprietor ot the mine at which Mr.
Beck is now engag' and pas I Pigeon River on his way
to Toronto. The Mi It is and >wn 2. ft-, and the silver is
showing well at the bottom. They have taken out
about dU tons ot ore, but they are beginning to be
troubled with water.
At Silver Island they are doing w 11 ; on the 7th of
Feb. the\ took out hve tons of the inchest ore that has
been taken out vet, and which is estimated to be worth
s:;n ( o >O. Thev expect to take out at the rate of $20,•
ou(i pi-r week till tlie ice breaks up. Tney have been
doing considoratde work thl- winter on the main land
ad have made a road through the Mountain Cape to
Thunder tiape so as to procure timber lor th mine. Ihe
i winter has been reiuaraabls mild and in re is no ic
outside the bays.
But there has been more snow than before known,
over three f ■ ton the ground. -Mr. Fihiey and others
interested are looked lor ev ry day at tuc mine. Toe
health of ail the inhabitants is g >od, and all are look
‘ ing forward to the time w.mn navigation will relieve
them of their ice hound situation.
Later Still. — Mr. I. I Moore of this
place this week received from Peter Mc-
Kedur Es<|. a letter dated Fort William
Feb. ‘JO, from which we are permitted to
make the fdlowing extracts,
Mr. M K liar, who I rmer y resided at
Ontonagon, is well known upon this lake
as an experience 1 miner, and reliable gen
tleman, one who would rather understate
than ex .g ,r erate anv question, and w think
fu 1 reliance can be placed on his state
ments. lie has resided four years on the
Xorut Shore, was one ot the llrst lo discov
er the presence ot silver tiiere, and is inti
mately acquainted with that section. Here
is what he says of the mines:
“The mail has ju-t arrived fom Saver
Islet. It brings ns new- that limy are tak
in if out masses ot solid silver, one o; which
weighs IS lbs., ami that they are piling up
the ore, on account ot its richness, pi beg -
masses tor siiipaimit. liie same as they <!•
the native copper on the South Shore ; line
only the small pieces ot broken ore are bar
reled; and they expect > an to be oblig- S
to chisel it * ;t ut Luc mine.
“ Tlk- news from the Toledo or Capt.
Bet k;i mine, is that the bottom of the
last Saturday night was richer than
it.bj/l Leon at any .previous time since the
miijer-c -mmoneed. was at the
mine .'Font three weeks ago, ami was down
the .The vein looked well, showed a
eonsi jt -able sulphnret of silver, a portion
ofwl i occurs in thin leaves or sheets
1
tliyot the veinstone, which is principally
r* generally dark in color, approaching
k o .but? t'apt. Beek told me that he had a
Targe amoiMit of ore barrelled. The sample
of which be showed me in the assorting
house, was. well charged with the sulphnret
of silver, and hut little native.
“The shafts are down 25 to 30 feet in
each of the mines and the show improves
as they go down, especially in the Silver
Islam! mined’
Mr. MeKellar complains of the irregular
ity of tin* mails from the States, and says
they have h *ard that the last three mails
from Fort William are lying at Beaver Bay,
the Am li an mail carriers refusing to
cany them. This, if true, is a great injns
lice, and should be rem died at once by the
proper ai horit ies.
Th? Superior Land Grant.
CAUSES OF ITS DEFEAT, AN"I) ITS FUTURE
PROSPECTS.
Mr. I (I. Wing, a prominent citizen of
Hudson, writes the follow ing letter to the
Hudson Star & 'Times under date of W ash
ino-ton, March oth. It throws considerable
lig’nt on the causes which led to the def at
of our land grant, and the future prospects
of the grant:
The Fortv-first Congress which has just adjourn-. 1,
failed to renew the St. Croix and Lake Superior Land
Grant, contrary to the sanguine expectations cheiish
od in the early part of the last session by the friends
here of that measure, one in which not only N’orilttrn
Wisconsin, but the entire state are so vitally interes
ted.
The opposition to its renewal have at no time been
able to defeat it by voting the bill down, but through
dilatory motions, such a- to postpon." and re-commit
have succeeded in preventing a direct vote on its pas
sage being taken. There is but little it any and mbtihat
there has been a majority of congress in favor of the
bill, could it have been brought to a direct vote, of
whom a few have been willing to vote for dilatory mo
• * 14 me’eb.'.s i. O ! tin* Smith .nil Wert,
friends ol the Southern Pacific Railroad who voted,
Feb. 2nd, to recommit the bill, would not have voted
against its passage.
The ! aders of the Democracy have howled so loudly
against the bill that many of that party, who have
thought the renewal manifestly due to Northwist Wis
consin, hav not dared to vote for it, yet a few of th m
have had the courage to do ju tieo to the m asurc.
Randall ot Pa. and Holman of la. have h on most per
sistent as well as effectual in their opposition. They j
have been constantly on the alert, whenever the bill
came up for consid> ration, to sound the war-c ry ot
“la . . . Is,” k ~ and : ■ 1
the deni eratic party to he, unqualified opposition to
land grants, which of course forced many ot that party
to vote against the bill, who really wanted to vote
for it.
Toe on’v opposition (excepting that of a political na
ture) to the renewal that has had any weight here, has
come from Stillwater and Duluth. The people of Still
water sent Mr. Randall (it was present and by him) a re
monstrance purporting :o come from “citizens and
! inhabitants of .Northwestern Wisconsin’’ having over
' three hundred signers, more than one hundred and
twenty of whom 1 personally know to be residents of
Stillwater, and among which were the names of J. N.
Castle, Horace Murdock, John McKusick and W in.
I McClure. Mr. Randall re dit and exhibited its great
: 1 'u<nh and numerous signatures to the House as evi
dence that the people, residents along the line of the
road did not want the grant renewed ! lie also had |
four oth r lemonstranc sof the same nature ( the print i
i ll matter being litora !y the same) having about forty |
signers each, which I believe to be genuine, as I found, i
when obtaining signers to petitions for a renewal of 1
the grant, in the fall of 18dd, i number of the resi
dents of Folk and Burm tf counties who told me they
had mod such remonstrance, but in;tier a misappre
1 1 • :io:i of facts; moreover Mr. AN in. .1. A incent of
St. Croix Falls, assure,; me at that time, that some of
the people of those counties had sLned such remon
strances, as he had himself circulated them. 1 hey
were however quite insignificant in appearance com- i
pared with the one signed by the citizens ot Stillwa
ter.
Although the remonstrance in the early part of t.ie
session undoubtedly influenced many members against
the renewal, yet the fraudul nt nature of the Stiilwa
t, r i monstrance was so clearly exposed by Hon. Eu
gene M Wilson, M. t‘. from Minnesota, that it and and no
p nil, .eat harm, after being so thoroughly ventilated.
; * Duluth was very active in her opposition to the re
newal. While I feel quite certain that Jay Cooke &
(’o have been sincere in tie ir professions that they
1 desired the grant renewed, lam equally certain that
•he propertn holde-rs of Duluth and the Western Fund
A-- !, nation have done all in tie ir power to del* at the
renewal. The tanall (small in comparison to what was
expected) appropriation lor her harbor, which Duluth
got last session, would sc cm to indicate tliat the na
ture of the wandering chicken is slid unchanged.
The appropriation bills consumed so much of the
lime during the latter part of the session that tie iv
was no opportunity after the Southern Pacific hill was
reported by the committee to get to the hills on the
Speaker’s table in the regular order, therefore w hat
ever was taken from the tab! • had to come by a two
thirds vote. We had on the Speaker’s table a bill
(Senate Resolution ls 7) which was introduced in the
Senate, Mav 2nd 1870, by Senator Howe.
A hill for a grant of lands to the Central Branch of
the Union PacTtiu Railroad, was in the hands ol the
Commiiti e on Public Lands, and its Inends who bud
tailed a f* w weeks ago, by only a tew vote?, lo £-‘t
a two-third- vote to take it Iroui the committee a.i.i
place it on the Speakers table, demanded that we s
-iionld allow them lo attach their bill to ours as an
mendmeiit, claiming they could command a two
thirds vote. We, or more prop rly Speaking, t cy,
tried it, the Ist insl., ami wen beaten. On the .1 i
inst. Gen. Washburn made a motion to suspend th
rules and pa.-s our bill as a “ renewal wi ii no a i li
! lion .1 grant and. by tellers, more than two-thins
voted a e, but liar, dull demanded the ayes and no s,
and the motion was lost ; axes 1*• I, noes <’•* (the so tn
western members above r f rred to, voting with us) so
the bill expin 1 with Congress, on March 4th.
The friends of iciiewal do not propose to abandon
further i iVoris to secure it, but on the contrary Gen.
Uask will at once introduce a tit eo :taiuing tbe same
n stnetions and condition- as to building twenty mile.-
.•ach an i every year, that were in the bid bclore tn
last congress.
Among those outside of our cong-esvemul ‘ien*ga
tion, U.ne rendered efii. ;-nt rviee .n behalf ot
th renew,if, may !>• menu .ini, Him Legeiv* M. "d
-•n, Hon. M. S. W .in a on, mcmueis of Congress from
Minnesota, Senators Ramsey and Windom of Minne
sota. Judge Scofield, M. O. from Pa., friend of Chapin
Hall's, tlov. Fairchild, Hon. Chapin Hall, who came
here expressly for that purpose, and remained here
some weeks. Hon. 11 ,M. Rice of St. Paul, Judge
Barron and Gen. Caleb Cushing.
Gen. Rusk lias been heie about two weeks, and has
already made himself about as well acquainted with
the various departments as many members who have
been here a full term. 1 shall be disappointed, if with
his energy, good sense and earnest desire to serve his i
constituency, he shall not-be able to obtain all that
may reasonably be asked of Congress by his district.
He has labored zealously in behalf of our bill since he
came here.
Senator Carpenter has been very sick, but is so
much better as lo be able, to-duy, to leave his room.
Yours Truly, I. H. WING.
Home Patronage.— An exchange, in
dealing with this subject, puts the case thus
forcibly, and the remarks are not inapplica
ble to numerous localities:
*■ Every citizen should feel a personal
responsibility in building up the future in
terests, institutions and enterprises of bis
own town. He should not leave it for
others to do, but should take hold ol the
work as though he believed that the suc
cess of the town dep tided on his individ
ual effort. It you do not support home en
terprise, how do you expect to be support
ed in a home business? Some persons
have a perfect mama tor going out ol town
to procure that which they can get at home,
and in nine cases out ot ten just as cheap,
as though a foreign article was so much
better than that at home. This is decid
edly wrong and detrimeu al to the place in
which >ou live, L you have any mon< yto
spare, be sure and use it in your own com
munity, instead ot t foreign one. "Live and
1 l live,"’ should be your motto.
* Ihe only way to build up and keep a
town alive, is to spend your money at home.
Hire heme mechanics, patronize home man
ufactures, deal with home merchants. Build
up your own local inti rests, and al; will be
safe. Bv so doing, sou will not be com
pelled to sell out and go some when e se lo
liad a live town.”
Fault Finding. —There ar persons in
every community, who, il someone happens
to be unfortunate enough to commit au er
ror in the walks of life, will continue to
harp about it. never mice taking into ac
count their own >hort-commgs. For the
benefit of thi-. class, Frank Daggett, of the
La Crosse Leader, digs out the following
pithy but pungent nugget:
“Henry Ward Beecher tells of a pomp
ous old house dog whose great ambition
was barking at a bole in a stone wail, wh re
many years previous he had seen a ground
squirrel run in ; the dog got in the habit of
barking at this hole, an l alter a long siege
would wag his tail in self-approval as ii'he
had been guarding the best interests of
society. We know of some people who
may have witnessed a single act in a man
jor woman’s life-way in the past, that was
not strictly in accordance with virtue, and
though they have not seen any other defic
iency, this one act will furnish a hole for
them to bark at for years to come.”
Ex-Coxgrkss.men.— The W;ishinton cor
respondent of the Chicago Tribune makes
the following statement respecting some re
tiring Congressmen:
Gen. Amasa Cohb, of Wi-eonsin, moves
to Nebraska to form a law-partnership there.
Cadwallad-T Waslibuni wil’ travel around
the world, going westward by the Pacific,
with liis daughter, who has completed her
education.
———
Thebe are strong indications that the
waters of L ike Superior wif be vexed the
' coming summer by a vast number ofsteam
' <>rs, all eager lor tile traffic of St Paul and
Northern Pacific railroad trade. Tin* mim
b -r ot steamboat lines will be six—two from
Chicago to Duluth, and three from the lower
!ak s, i • addition 10 the (’obingw >od and
Canada line— and about thirty steamers will
; compos • the fl “C : ot these great tranporta
tion companies.— St I*rut /Wsn.
Mantkino thk Clauden. —)' Iris •ome
u-fl! osmlmsheu licit ;!i wmtei :tjlie ition i
of mature lv -']tc.i'li '_X iifoaiicu-'t, f'pfC
i:o v to lioavv or r;i hor ■ ayr \ -o; >, i
lor than jioplv ng m -pring Th -oluGlc
parts ;r* into * 1 i<* soil hy ill" first,
in uv. ami rot uiK-'l there, and tic* dilFision
is more ini mat" by tiio ton ■ (hat vcgola
.ion commences. If ihoground s bare uul
frozen, the manure may oo ea>dy wlteilc I
over verv part Without mj -ny; t lo ro is
silow, spread it over the top. It may be
spaded o’- plowed ia as -ooa as the s>il i
li' in spri iuj-, ami ■>* 1 1 time md eooooui of
materials gained 1- esl m.mu; < r -U' li
a- eontatns course ,if. r may lie ■ my! yed
in this way. tin- iraw of eo o-e; pm ions
being readily raked orf i> fore idm g un
der. 1 OUntVy t,
Ho! For ti::j X -::i a v/est. —The Domin
ion (tov* rumen! owes I• >0 unv- tree t o eve
’• rv imm grant ;o M mi oba Bad aeivs lo eve
'fy Volunteer oi the E.\p ditmnary Force
who ......:b -ilt -r , airi otier- to car - ', inr.ui
ijraot.s f r >fu l'o! (i ito t > I* or; (Tarry t r -- so
p -r h, ad; <-.iiulrc i a ;lf-pru*e. Tms is about
; ta o)-> Ot ira -port by (!;•• Am -ru-an
• rollte. - - (sololt ID isisii XU i uU ~JJ V iSc- lf- b>.
Advertising Seale.
1 week. '2 week*. 4 weeks. G mo's, fi mo'se 1 year
1 square, $ 1.03 $1 50 $ 2.00 $ 4.00 $ 6.00” $10.1.0
2 - ’Hires 2.00 3to 4.0) 7.0) 10.00 15.00
3 Min,ires, GOO 4CO li.oo lo.tO 15.00 20 00
; * caiman, 5 00 7.5’) 10.00 15.00 22.00 30 00
)j column, S. ) 12.1 J IC.tO 24. t O SS.CO 50.00
Ic-.iiM.n, 12.00 IS.CO 22.00 GO.) () 60.00 80.00
A square w ill be couQtt l .be fjMO of tt'u Hues of Ihie kind i (
tjP".
llnsiue-s cards 5 lines or less f j.CO a year.
Lejj.il advertisements charged t ibejV.iies preseiibed by stat
ute.
Special notices 10 rents per tine for each insertion.
Transient adtrer euionls must be paid for in advance; all
others qnui !e. ly.
Adverti (■!-.its not otherwise ordered continusd, will be con
tinued until o.Oered on,, and chained acrin'dingly.
No | i*vl of lex a! adxa iisotueu s furui-utd unti’ the adver
tisement is [ aid lor.
NO. 29.
ISuG. SUPERIOR IS7O.
LAND AGENCY.
OFFICE, NO 347, WEST 2ND SI.
E. W. iSiSTDERSQN, JR.,
Deal Estate bought and sold on commission.
Titles Examined and correct abstracts furnished.
Taxes paid for non-residents.
Laud Warrants Located, and all business in eon
■ _:-.l i> > i' ... , ottiuid.nl to.
Desirable Lots and Lands in and mound SFTE
KIOR, DULUTH, and FONDULAC, for sale.
Several Tracts of Choice Pine Lands on naviga
ble streams and very accessible, for stile.
Foreign and Domestic Exchange bough: and *
sold.
Passage Tickets to and from all parts of Europe
for sale.
With an experience of fourteen years in this sec
tion, I am thoroughly posted in all that pertains to
real estate, and parties desiring to invent in or around
Superior or Duluth, or having property to sell would
do well to confer either in person or by letter with
K. W. Anderson, Ji*.,
REAL ESTATE BROKER,
Sli'kkiou City, Wisconsin,
Peter E. Bradshaw. John W. Bradshaw.
P. E. Bradshaw & Cos.,
2nd St., Supekioii, Wis.,
We have recently received a large and well selected
stock of
which wo arc M-lling at the LO WEST M.! UK El'
AM TKS. We do not claim to sell goods at, or below
cost; but wc t/o claim to soil them at priced which
will give satisfaction to our customers.
DRY GOODS:
In this department will bo found a general assort
ment of DRESS GOODS , and trimmings of the
latest styles and patterns and also a largo variety o f
CLOTHS and CASSIMERES Ac.
CLOTHING:
Our stock of clothing has been purchased with spe
cial reference to the climate and to the
WANTS OF THE PEOPLE ,
and we think we can suit .all who may favor us with
a e dl. In this line will be found a good selection of
IHJRBKR GOODS, consisting of COATS, 77..1.V
RETS, LEGGIXS, Ac., and also, OIL CLOTHING
\ of various sizes.
Carpeting and Wall Paper :
Of CARPI TB, OIL CLOTHS , and WA LL PA
PER , wo 1 1 ive many handsome and excellent varie'
tits to which we invite attention.
GROCERIES k PROVISIONS:
If we are overstocked in anything, it is in Grocer
ies ami Provision s, of which we k- op a (load Storh ,
consisting of CHOICE and FANCY GROCER! ES,
as well as STAPLES. In this line we would call
special attention to our TEAS , which we think are
not excelled by anything in the market.
£§*?"When visiting our store, if you do not see what
you want, ASK FOR IT.
P Id It it V 9 M
Insurance Office*
I XT) K.MNITY UNO VEST I ON. I BL K.
/ICi na, of 11art
An<l<‘S of Cincinnati, and
TTIio \atioiKil I I<*ofl. S. A.
$ 8,000,00 a
Casli Capital Paid p.
Life. fliT. ;is.S ihihnitl.
R k ■ icci'picl ami Poiieies written on all in-undo
p • and Lives at rca- liialm- rates.
;jr/-‘(,ET THE BEST.”.®
WILLIAM R. PERRY, Aotsr.
iur, 'Via., October O h, IS7O.
KUGLEIi & SCHAFER,
S A & <i a
Second St., - - Superior,
[E- t Side of Codiington l>luck.]
WiNES, LIQUORS, BEER, &C.
TWO FIRST CLASS HILLIARD TABLE*,