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Title: The official Northern Pacific Railway guide : for the use of tourists and travelers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railway and its branches : containing descriptions of states, cities, towns and scenery along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, industries, products and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railway Company Riley, W. C. (William C.)
Subjects: Railroad travel
Publisher: St. Paul : W.C. Riley
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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End.Along the Bay of St. Louis are the five grain elevators,the huge coal docks, the oil docks and the merchandisedocks, and there is ample room for the further march ofcommerce along the shore line up the bay towards thesteel works. The sawmills and lumber yards occupy boththe water fronts of Conners Point. On the Bay ofSuperior side of the city there is a great deal of unoc-cupied water front for future docks and factories betweenthe Point and the new flouring mills at the East End.The level ground of the plateau gives the numerous rail-ways ample space for their tracks, yards and freight ware-houses, and their spur tracks run out upon the docks andalongside the mills and factories. The great, notable andunique advantage of the site of Superior for the develop-ment of manufacturing and commercial movement lies inthe fact that every sort of concern requiring good shippingfacilities can build its plant where the lake steamers canload and unload on one side and the freight cars on the
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298 The Northern Pacific Railroad, other. It is this fact, supplemented by liberal and ener-getic management of town site interests, that has producedthe surprising growth of the past few years. Two manufacturing plants of very great importancewere located in West Superior at an early date in thehistory of the place. The first was Capt. McDougallsshipyard for the building of his peculiar craft known asthe whaleback, and the second was the steel plant wherethe ribs, beams and plates of these vessels are made. Theseconcerns alone employ workmen enough to make, withtheir families, a considerable town. The grain elevators,the coal docks and !he saw mills came about the same timeto employ another army of people, so that the new townsprang as if by miracle, under the magic touch of enter-prise, into vigorous life. As an economical carrier thewhaleback has made for itself a place in the face of allconservative scepticism and opposition. It is capacious,fast and seaworthy. Ugly in appearance

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