| Show l rr jo c. c t J 2 f t J A New York Dally Daily Investigator Good judges say eay that one of the next localities to achieve distinction by Jumping from a Do substantial town to a a. thrivIng metropolis in a Do few tew years will willbo willbo bo bu the city of superior Wisconsin and this too without the tho effort and gle through which winch interior towns have havo pass passed d while effecting the same samo result Until a n. year or two ego ago the tho average man did not stop to think that Superior Supe Supe- nor as a monopolist of the tho water and aDd rail termini at nt otto ono end of the lakes is In the same position as os Buffalo is at n atthe the other end Figures ures are uninteresting uninteresting esting eating unless given briefly but comparisons corn com are aro always important This little Superior credited by its last census census cen cen- sus Bus with only 2000 people handled more coal last year than did Chicago of grain it shipped nineteen million bushels of flour sixteen hundred thousand barrels of wool four million pounds of merchandise to the value of ot thirteen million dollars Of nIl all lake lale this business was second only to Chicago in magnitude There is ia an economical reason for this condition of oL things It is that the tho rail rate on freight sent west of Lake Lako Michigan i la Is laone one ape per ton per mile while tho the water rate is one tenth one tenth of one cent per ton per mile T. T This is position at the western vestern end of Lake Lalo Superior is what gives the city of f Superior its prestige and is making it grow faster than Chicago ever did Besides one onehundred hundred and one ono one smaller industrial Superior has located t twenty twenty- enty- enty eight tight large arge manufacturing turing enterprises in iu the past eighteen months month including the American Steel Stee Barge Darge Company the builders of the famous Whale back vessel which is revolutionizing the lake and ocean freig freight carrying carrying hI-carrying trade The twenty-eight twenty institutions above mentioned include iron and steel plantS flour mills stow factories wagon factories pump makers alters ship shipbuilders shipbuilders shipbuilders builders and saw and shingle mills The Tue most conservative business men inca in inthe inthe the tho Northwest believe that Superior will vill grow laster faster in the next ten years than any other city in n that prosperous se section tion of th the country an and many of them claim that Chicago St. St Paul Minneapolis an d tl 1 aukee waukee ha have vo never neverseen neverseen neverseen seen the rapid growth that will come cometo cometo I to the head Ilen of tine the grea great chain n of lakes and the city of Superior po I |
