Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Hi.
September 17, 1887 Saturday

Chocolay Booms

Preparing to Annex the Sault, Gladstone, the Universe
and Part of Texas

Its Prospectus in Two Colors, and
Railroad Maps in Press

The Coming Metropolis

In order to keep up with the time the Mining Journal finds
that it must have a little town of its own to boom. Marquette
is growing rapidly in importance and prosperity each year and
needs no boom, so the Mining Journal has detided to adopt
Chacolay as its own. It desires to call attention this morn-
ing to the coming greatness of this-to-be-made famous town, the
jake port of the Harvey branch of the Chocolay river. It offers
cheap lots and no exclusive franchises for docks and rivers,
no water front monopoly, no single lumber interest, but all
welcome. Tt is destined to be the great metropolis of America,
situated as it is on one of the most beautiful sand beaches of
Lake Superior, and at the entrance of the projected ship canal
to Lake Michigan, which will make Chicago tributary to it by a
safe and direct water route. Its great trans-continental rail-
road, the Chocolay, South Shore and Atlantic* is being pushed
westward rapidly to the grain fields of Mn., and will make the
Pacific coast a direct feeder to its commerce and industries. ”
It also has the backing of immense forests of poor pine and
enough clear sand to supply the plasterers of both the Americas.
Its unrivalled clay beds are attracting wide attention while it
offers great inducements for the locating of wholesale houses
to supply the trade of the flourishing cities in the county
tributary to it, Marquette, Ishpeming, Gladstone, Sault Ste.
Marie, Duluth, Minneapolis, Houghton, Hau Claire, Ashland, 5t.
Paul, ete.

From time to time more will be said of its peerless prospects
and a true Gladstonian prospectus, in two colors, with a rail-
road map a la Sault Ste. Marie and 5t. Ignace, will soon be ready
for distribution. One thousand acres of corner lots are now
being platted. lor will this coming railroad and commercial cen-
ter long be denendert on the Mining Journal alone for newspaper
notice and encouragement. Mr. A. De Lacy Wood, who lately pub-
lished the Iron World at Bessemer, managing it successfully
during it career of two weeks, is about to move his entire news-
paper plant to this young giant among towns, together with the
experience which he has gained upon the ten papers, all now de-
funct, which he has at different times established and managed
within» the last two years. The Chocolay Clarion will be de-
voted to the culture of natural gas for the Chocolay boom and
will take the full Associated Press ani United Press reports,
besides having a special correspondent at each of the great
financial centers of the world.

 
pe 2 Chocolay Booms

Since the publication of the article upon the natural gas in
yesterday's Mining Journal a company has been formed to bore
for that great factor in industrical development, and at a called
meeting of the Chocolay board of trade yesterday, a local com-
pany was at once organized to pipe the gas to that city from
Newberry to melt the ores of the three great iron ranges of the
world, the Marquette, Gogebiec and Menomince, which are naturally
tributary to Chocolay, The coalfields of Pa., will then be dis-
counted. The gases produced in bygone ages will here meet’ the
crude ores just wrested from their subterranean hiding places,
and manufactured iron will be the product together with pros-
perity for countless thousands of Chocolay workingwen. Were the
great battle for the commercial suprenecy of the new world is to
be fought and won, and to the victorious Chocolayite will belong
the corner lots, By its canal made the short cut to Cape Horn,
and by its great railway system, joing the Atlantic and the Paci-
fic, made the mecca of Lue commerce of the east and west, well
may Chocolay lay aside here swaddling clothes and open her arms
to receive the riches of the whole solar system.

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