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Superior (LAKE cific the Great Northern)

LAKE cific, the Great Northern, the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Minneapolis, St. Paul and Sault Ste. Marie, the Chicago and Northwestern and the Duluth, South Shore, and Atlantic railroads; opposite Duluth, Minn. It shares with Duluth the commercial advantage of being the extreme W. port of the Great Lake system of the United States. It has three connecting harbors, well sheltered, and deep, making a combined length of 13 miles, with an extreme width of 3 miles. The city comprises the ports known as East, West, South, and Old Superior. Here are the Finnish University, high schools, street railroads, electric lights, a State Normal school, several hospitals, numerous churches, waterworks, National and State banks, and several newspapers. The industries include the manufacture of flour, lumber, lath, shingles, wagons, chairs, barrels, woolen goods, cement, furniture, bags, iron, steel, etc. There are also shipyards, sawmills, coal docks, many grain elevators, and dry docks. Pop. (1910) 40,384; (1920) 39,671.