DULUTH 



1877 



DULUTH 



THE-STORY-OF-DULUTH 



ULUTH, MINN., county seat of Saint 

 Louis County, is one of the most impor- 

 tant -inland cities in the United States. The 

 population, which is one-third foreign-born, 

 including English, French, Canadians, Swedes, 

 Norwegians and Germans, was 78,466 in 1910, 

 and 94,495 in 1916. Duluth is the most west- 

 erly port on the Great Lakes, situated on Saint 

 Louis Bay, at the west end of Lake Superior, 

 156 miles northeast of Saint Paul, the state 

 capital, and 478 miles northwest of Chicago. 

 Duluth and Superior, Wis., are separated by the 

 Saint Louis River; between the cities is a 

 large interstate bridge. The vast commerce of 

 the city is handled by lines of lake freighters 

 and by the Northern Pacific; Chicago & North 

 Western ; Great Northern ; Chicago, Milwaukee 

 & Saint Paul; Duluth & Iron Range; Duluth, 

 Missabe & Northern; Duluth, South Shore & 

 Atlantic; Duluth, Winnipeg & Pacific, and the 

 Minneapolis, Saint Paul & Sault Sainte Marie 

 railroads. 



Location. Duluth has an area of more than 

 sixty square miles, and extends for a distance 

 of twenty-four miles along the river, bay and 

 lake, from Lakeside, on the north, to Fond du 

 Lac, on the south. It is finely situated on a 



DULUTH'S AERIAL BRIDGE 

 The car is run from shore to shore by electric 

 power. It is about twenty feet square, with 

 areas for wagons, automobiles and foot-passen- 

 gers. 



sloping bluff which rises gradually from the 

 water to a height of 600 feet, one mile inland. 

 The harbor is one of the finest in the United 



States. Saint Louis Bay, nine miles long and 

 two miles wide, is formed and protected by 

 narrow strips of land; Minnesota Point, seven 

 miles long, extends southward towards Wis- 

 consin Point, which projects northward. The 

 bay is entered between the points and through 

 a ship canal in Minnesota Point opposite Du- 

 luth. Across this canal is a curious aerial 

 bridge 400 feet long and 186 feet high. 



Parks and Drives. The principal residence 

 section occupies the higher part of the city's 

 area and overlooks the lake. Rogers Boule- 

 vard, lined with handsome residences, extends 

 for seven miles along an old terrace of the 

 lake and offers some of the finest views in the 

 world. The parked area of the city is 400 

 acres; it includes five city squares and 1. 

 Lincoln, Fairmount and Chester parks, and 

 several smaller ones. 



Buildings and Institutions. Prominent build- 

 ings include the Federal building, county court- 

 house, Carnegie Library, Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. 

 C. A. buildings, high school, Masonic Temple, 

 and a number of fine hotels, banks and 

 churches. On Minnesota Point is the United 

 States government life-saving station and a 

 fisheries building. Duluth is the seat of an 

 Episcopal and a Roman Catholic bishop. It 

 has a state normal school, Sacred Heart Insti- 

 tute, a technical school, and a qounty work 

 farm. 



Industries. Duluth is one of the principal 

 interior shipping points in the United .- 

 so located as to be the natural channel of the 

 vast agricultural and mineral wealth of the 

 Northwest. The principal exports are pnnn. 

 lumber and ore from the territory of the Red 

 River Valley, Manitoba ind the Dakotas and 

 the Vermilion and Mesaba mineral ranges. 

 The annual shipments leaving the combined 

 port of Duluth-Superior exceed 50,000,000 tons. 

 The iron ore shipments in 1915 amounted to 

 over 4,000,000 tons, a figure increased to over 

 7,000,000 tons for 1916. Duluth and Superior 

 have some of the most extensive coal docks in 

 the world. Other industrial establishments 



