Sault Ste. Marie Democrat (Newspaper) - August 4, 1887, Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan STE MAI YOL TL SAULT STE MARIE CHIPPEWA COUNTY MICK THURSDAY AUG 4 1887 NO 14 CITY PRACTICAL DISPENSING CHEMIST Portage Avenue MARTIN Sault Ste HOUSE and LA LONDE BLOCK AGE AVE AND ST THE DEMOCRAT AUGUST 4 IsST Sorry For Minneapolis The Correspondent of the Chi cago Tribune so Expresses Himself capital of and is under bonds of to complete the canal with in two years and a half from the present date As scon as the ization took place a new policy THE SAULTS GREAT PROSPECTS Is hereby given THAT UNLESS LEWIS L METZGER CO Desist from selling their Tailor Fitting Clothing At Ruinous Figures And all kines of Gents Furnishing Goods At Reduced Prices They will Get All The Trade In This Town Of above notice hereby assert that it is our intention to continue sell incr our fine stock of at which we consider fair and just allowing only a small margin of profit At the same time we shall or to maintain the standard of quality which has served in the past to secure for us such a iarge proportion of the intelligent in this section The Giant LEWIS L METZER CO CORKER AND RIDGE STREETS looking through our GOODS STOCK Dont fail to give special attention to our o in Ladies Cloth at 490 Will be glad to send samplesto any person desiring them on receipt of their address Special attention to orders by mail KRAFFT The Popular New Dry Goods House Cor Spruce and Streets One evening late in the winter of three met by ruent in the lobby of the Sherman House where they had a conference One of the three was endeavoring to convince another a capitalist and shrewd operator in real estate that there was a fortune to be made at i Sault Ste Marie lie spoke of the I railroads that would soon enter the j place though the circumstance had not yet attracted much attention nor provoked a boom and of the that with a winter outlet for produc tions mills and manufactories must at once be established utilizing the enormous waterpower of the St Mary River His plan was to secure the strip of land necessary for to obtain a franchise from thevillage government to organize a company and to reap such as might SPECIAL To the people of Chip We wish to say tin t into the First National corner Ashmun and Port in the future as in the past many patrons in the best stock is the most complete NOTICE pe wa county and vicin we will move our store Bank block on Aug 1 age wil continue to serve ou possible manner O ol any in the county Our Repairing Department Is a of fine repairing of every description Do not fail to see our The best in the world for the money We are selling the only genuine Wm Rogers knives and forks 50 A large elegant dinner caster for 2 Genuine silver watches lady s full 6 00 fickle clocks of every description up Genuine watches i 1 Gold filled watches warrant ed for 20 lands of the Mission Society were bought and all litigations done away with About was expended in making titles sure and getting abundant land for reservoir and outlet purposes and for manufacturing sites Col Ed a brother of Gen Rager was engaged as the companys engineer i and began his work at once The i canal will be 100 feet in width and flf teen feet in depth About 250 acres of land where the canai empties into i the river will be made an odd city of j manufactories The plan is to enlarge the creek referred to into a ship canal and bring this canal back and forth between the blocks of buildings This canai wil receive the tailings from the power canal and each site will have a dock on one side and a track on the other All along the riverfront where the power will be conducted the river already affords the necessary wharfage There will be practically no limit to the number of manufactur ing sites available What it fs proposed to do at Sault Ste Marie is to grind into Hour the wheat now ground at this be done Will it pay to grind the wheat at such a stage in transit are the questions asked by the is The stockholders in the com pany are themselves chiefly and have no doubt as to the issue One man who expects to irom the sudden appreciation of build a mill here to do so ir Value he considered inevitable The capitalist was not dull but perhaps the man with plan was not impressive with ideas cannot always express them it may be the one with the money was too cautious for a daring venture at any rate he declined to go into the scheme and so the enterprise was not fathered in Chicago 11 was carried out though and earned out almost as to details even in the manner suggested at this conference and by the very men at Sault Ste Marie whom the man with the idea suggested as proper associates The reward of has been quite equal to what he prophesied j a mill pond hundreds ef feet in depth and covering an of square miles Imagine this pond restrained by a dam of solid rock sloping downwards threefourths of a mile with a fall of something over eighteen feet and with cubic feet of water tumbling over it every second That is the sort of mill pond Lake Superior is and that is the sort of dam existing at Sault Ste Marie This mill pond never runs dry There is never any lack of water as at Minneapolis where already the power is not sufficient for the mills and where all the space beside the falls of St Antheny is taken up This is a water power worth talking There is It will pay you to look over before making your purchases Soliciting apart of your valuable orders I remain very H SHELLITO Watchmaker and At present in the Bee Hive Bazaar H J LaLonde NEw BLOCK Corner Ashmun and Cross streets and Portage Ave I am daily receiving NEW GOODS and my stock is about complete once more cordial invitation extended to all to drop in at the corner Some special bar agins in Shoes and Remnants I have added an elegant line of cheap for Men Youths and Boys which it will pay to look through if you intend purchasing H J LaLonde L uL CONLEY FirstClass BARBER AND HAIRDRESSER Opposite Superior Hotel nothing to equal it in the world for at Niagara there is no dam the water simply falls into a hole and whether or not the great power there can be cheaply utilized is a problem yet un solved At Sault Ste Marie the pro blem of utilization is as simple as one in the first part of the arithmetic Its solution is merely to cut a canal through the town from above the dam to the river The canal is a straight one for the river curves to the right as it leaves the rapids and just where the canal debouches are low lands and an entering creek as if nature had intended the great water power to be used some accomplished all she could to make the enterprise cheaply for those attempting it Just after the Chicago conference a few of the more enterprising citizens of Sault Ste Marie some of had been communicated with about the matter resolved to get of the waterpower themselves They had no great amount of had local political influence and secured a through the town 150 feet in width The site were the canals inlet had been considered desirable was held by a man who wanted to make money out of it and they either secured the refusal to or bought a strip of land adjoining where it was found the inlet would be quite as practicable They pursued about the same course with the Methodist Home Missionary societys holding Then they had franchise to sell the value of which wa great They sold it each retaining stock in the new company The Sault Ste Marie waterpower is now controlled by what is known as the La though the comes from the circumstance that a number of wealthy La Crosse men are in the company There are also one or two Chicago and men and others from McGregor la The company is organized with a Minneapolis but could not get the power he wanted Here it will be possible to empty a vessel of grain and fill it with flour detaining it but a trifling time upon its route and here the mills can run in the depth of winter or during the driest tirSe in summer without a fluctuation in the supply of water The Grand Trunk and Canadian Pacific wait to cam the flour to the seacoast when lake traffic is suspended and here is point where the incoming railroads from the West can deliver their freight of grain The citizen of Sault Ste Marie speaks of Minneapolis and her waterpower kindly but witl pity He regrets that the prestige of the great flour to be taken away but he says it is not his it had to Mature made it so So much for the milling which expected of course to be the great industry here There are others fields of enterprise however to is expected with conscience the opening of the waterpower canal will afford a richly paying field Among these is the manufacture of paper Requisite for this are power cleye water and an unfailing supply o poplar wood Here the water is like crystal and as for poplar wood there is too much of it Hundreds of thous ands of acres of it grow and it costs only the it sells in town for per cord mills in Lower Michigan buy it for 811 per cord We shall put such paper in Chicago as newspapers are printed to half a cent per pound less than the present asserted yesterday one man who is such an enterprise and we shall for the first time in the West manufacture the fine papers of which with their pure water East ern manufacturers have heretofore had a Of one other enterprise which the canal makes easy it is to speak because of the possibilities it suggests in lighting a city under conditions rer is light An electric light com pany has been organized and when the canal is done it has but to put in its plant lay its wires turn on the power and leter The falling water will attend to all the rest If Sault Ste Marie is not the most brilliantly illuminated place on all the continent it will be the fault or the people not of the situation Just how are the already pro industries in connection with the waterpowers utilization it is extremely difficult to tell The climate is not warm here but there is less no lack of oriental imaginations and of people who can lie like Scheher Those interested in the canal aenot likely to underestimate tie importance of such negotiations as have been entered into with them ncd the average citizens looks upon the undertaking as something for which he must prepare himself like a gen There is no doubt as to its magnitude or its enormous Tribune The Standard theater is being push ed Mr Firzgerald the enterprising proprietor expects to have it ready in less thas a wek
