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Title: Magazine of western history
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Local history
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Pittsburgh Library System

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th of Duluth withinthe last half of the present decade is notan accident. Its causes are as clear asthe light of day. They are efficient andpermanent, not for a day, but for all time.What they have done they will continueto do, with a steadily increasing momentum. The census of 1S80 gave the then vil-lage of Duluth a population of 3,470.The state census of 1885 gave it in roundnumbers 18,000 people. Estimates basedupon carefully collected directory returnsin 18S6 indicated 22,000 inhabitants, in1887, 30,000, and during the presentyear, 37,406, the multiple employed beingless than three. Duluth became a cityunder a charter granted by the legislaturein 1887. The next National census, to betaken in 1890, will doubtless substantiallyverify these estimates. The growth of commerce and generalbusiness has kept even pace, if it has notexceeded, the increase in population.The aggregate receipts and shipments ofwheat, combined for the sake of brevity,were as follows for the years indicated: ^ w
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RISE AND PROGRESS OF A GREAT TRADE CENTER—DULUTH. 159 I BUSHELS. 1880 3,021,287 1883 9,294,711 1884 25,274,512 1885 28,934,450 1886 40,307,663 1887 37,114,321 The wheat receipts of Duluth for thepast two years have exceeded those ofChicago by from five to six million bushels.The first receipts here were in 1871, andamounted to only 556,783 bushels. The flour shipments for the past fiveyears show the following results : BARRELS. 1883 791,800 1884 814,300 1885 1,155,000 1886 1,357,000 1887 1,322,715 The increase in the elevator cajjacityfor the same period is exhibited by thesubjoined figures. BUSHELS. 1883 3,160,000 1884 9,410,000 1885 9,710,000 1886 11,150,000 1887 19,450,000 In 1885 two elevators, with a totalcapacityof 1,000,000 bushels, were burned,and 800,000 bushels of wheat were de-stroyed. The growth of the coal trade is a sig-nificant indication of the increasing im-portance of Duluth. For the past fiveyears the receipts at this port have beenconstantly augmenting, as shown

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